Capitol rioter sentenced to 20 years:
“Don’t celebrate too hard, man, because that sentence is only gonna last like six months…
“And then we’re going to have four years of dragging our nuts across your forehead because Donald Trump is gonna win.”
I asked Tim Walz about IVF politics in February.
"My wife and I used Mayo Clinic reproductive services, and my daughter Hope was named Hope for a reason," he said.
"Because married for eight years, no children, wanting children. We got Hope because of this type of stuff."
After the Sandy Hook massacre Obama did a small background check measure through executive action and undoing it was one of Trump’s first moves as president
The president has told the White House counsel to explore whether he can do some kind of background checks measure through executive action, though he has made clear internally he wants a political concession in exchange from his critics
Trump refusing to sign the bill immediately screwed millions of workers out of $300.
From a bartender in NOLA:
“His little delay routine locked me out of the LA unemployment system because I lapsed in the system yesterday and so will have to reapply with a brand new claim”
Chuck Grassley said he got ACORN's tax returns for "legislative purposes," but Dems want Trump's for "political purposes."
"It’s black and white."
Former ACORN exec Bertha Lewis agrees: “We were black and they were white."
Almost forgot about this, but yesterday, Matt Gaetz burst into the Speaker’s Lobby all upset and demanded to know which reporter is asking all his colleagues if they hate him.
I asked Ted Cruz about his campaign claim that Beto O'Rourke was literally funding the migrant caravan in Mexico.
He said "the election is over" and didn't want to talk about it.
JD Vance said Tim Walz dodged the Iraq War by retiring from the National Guard before deployment.
National Guard says the initial alert order for his unit's mobilization went out 2 months after he retired.
Ken Buck (R-Col) told me he wouldn’t vote for either Jordan or Scalise because they dodged his question about who won in 2020.
“Is we don't have the moral clarity to decide whether President Biden won or not, we don't have the moral clarity to rule in this country, period.”
I will absolutely never forget that after a Trump caravan nearly ran a Biden campaign bus off the road in November Marco Rubio said “we love what they did.”
"In the days before the attack that appalled the world and resulted in five deaths,
@marcorubio
made no public effort to counter what he now calls a lie pushed by politicians he didn’t name."
The federal government would pay most parents of young children $350 per child every month under a groundbreaking new proposal from
@MittRomney
that would put a serious dent in child poverty.
Josh
@HawleyMO
is upset Democrats have filed an ethics complaint against him for lying about the election, raising his fist to a mob, sending out a fundraising email while the mob trashed Capitol, and then continuing to tell the same lie that motivated the mob in the first place
NEW — Hawley Responds to Dems' Ethics Complaint
"Joe Biden and the Democrats talk about unity but are brazenly trying to silence dissent. This latest effort is a flagrant abuse of the Senate ethics process and a flagrant attempt to exact partisan revenge"
The only threat to the First Amendment that we should be talking about right now is an actual death threat from actual killers who are an actual constituency of a major political party
This is slipping by in many accounts of the attack on the Capitol.
147 Republicans voted to throw out the election AFTER rioters ransacked the Capitol for no reason other than to throw out the election.
Important story by
@jbendery
New: CBO says Republicans’ $21 billion IRS cut will result in $40 billion in lost revenue, increasing the deficit by $19 billion, per Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
A whistleblower says someone tried to interfere with the president's IRS audit.
Instead of shouting to reporters, a month ago Dems brought it to a judge, offering a private briefing.
So far the judge has shown no interest.
Senator John Thune (R-SD) tells Janet Yellen he is concerned about the "massive amount of debt that we continue to rack up" and says "we seem to have no concern" about it
🤔
AFL-CIO has an aggressive statement about today's big interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve:
"Increasing interest rates signals to working people that the government thinks we have too much money and we should have less money to spend."
Americans are twice as likely to have seen news stories about bonuses than stock buybacks because of the tax bill.
Bonuses: $3 billion
Buybacks: $200 billion
Former president calls “for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” so that he can be president.
Rep Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla) usually wears sneakers but today has on funereal attire, he says, for the death of the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry.
“You have to pay respects,” he told me.
Democrats applauded after the song (performed via video) concluded and Pelosi said it was important to have the arts as part of this.
I was not expecting the arts today!
big flex by the Congressional Progressive Caucus today.
“I am so proud of our caucus,” CPC chair Pramila Jayapal said. “I have never seen our caucus so strong.”
Me either!
Earlier this evening I told an unemployed source in FL that it looked like Trump might finally cave.
“There’s a little hope then,” she said. “Tonight’s the night I fill my pill box and was going to try to cut them in 1/2’s to try to make them last longer.”
So there are videos of Lauren Boebert telling different versions of this story, pretty much proving Omar right that Boebert made up the version with a police officer frantically rushing toward the elevator
NEW: Another video shows Lauren Boebert suggesting Ilhan Omar was a terrorist at an event in September.
"I said, well, lookey there, it's the Jihad Squad...She doesn't have a backpack, she wasn't dropping it and running so we're good," Boebert said.
In 2011. Florida Republicans lead by now-senator Rick Scott endeavored to create the worst, most unresponsive and least generous unemployment insurance system in the country.
They succeeded.
James O'Keefe has captured Beto O'Rourke staffers talking about using campaign resources to bring blankets, water, and food to Honduran asylum seekers who had a sick child
I had asked if it was true he wanted CTC out of BBB.
“I've always been for child tax credits,” he said.
So I asked if he wants it to continue paying parents $300 a month, and he said he was not going to "negotiate" with me and that I'm bullshit
Brian Mast R-Fla says McCarthy told the restive right-wingers in his conference just now, “If you want to file a motion to vacate, then file a fucking motion.”
We had a story mostly ready for this, the most plausible outcome, because the president is not clever and was clearly throwing a childish tantrum with little chance of success
Moderate Rep Don Bacon (R-Neb) says Republicans can’t coalesce.
“A lot of folks are in denial but you're never gonna get eight or 10 folks on board. And so I think the bipartisan path is going to be the only way out.”
McCarthy keeps repeating this detail from the Senate report about how police riot gear was on a bus that was locked, saying Dems don't want to investigate this.
But that's -- that's FROM the investigation that Amy Klobuchar was running!
Mnuchin today: “We proposed a one-week extension at $600 so that while we negotiate a longer-term solution”
This proposal is basically a sham to get reporters to say “both sides” blew it on unemployment.
They proposed it after it was too late to prevent a benefits lapse.
They're saying Joe Biden got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired in order to benefit his son.
State Dept officials testified in 2019 and 2020 that firing the prosecutor was THEIR policy, not Biden's.
So I asked: Did they commit perjury? Will you bring them back for more questions?
A reporter pokes holes in the Republican impeachment narrative by pointing out witnesses in the Trump impeachment said having the Ukrainian prosecutor removed was state department policy. Johnson falls back to his list of bullet points and ends the press conference
Jim Jordan has not been answering reporter questions this morning about the 2020 election.
Two Republicans have been trying in party meetings to get Jordan to disavow Donald Trump’s lies. He won’t.
“The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,"
@GOPLeader
said two weeks ago.
“He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding."
Today:
“Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass,” this Republican congressman yelled to rile up the mob that stormed the Capitol
Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick murdered in illegal assault on Capitol interior. Officer Sicknick was a hero defending America.
I hope all Americans agree that Officer Sicknick’s murderer deserves the death penalty and should be so prosecuted.
“There’s nothing new here, for me, at the end of the day,” Josh
@HawleyMO
said, at the middle of the day, a few hours before Democrats played surveillance video nobody had ever seen
Mitch McConnell last night said Congress coulda done this bill in July:
“Republicans were advocating for a package just like this one, all along, in real time.”
No, they weren’t.
The House Oversight Committee will conduct a deposition with Joe Biden’s great-great grandfather via seance in the O’Neil House Office Building this week, per a source
The Hill is out with my column in a recent discovery of the criminal history of the great-great-grandfather of Joe Biden. It turns out that the evasion of accountability may be something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection.
Trump didn’t extend unemployment benefits yesterday.
He told states to set up a “lost wages assistance program” in coordination with FEMA, DHS and DOL and it’s gonna be a dang mess
Hey, whatever happened to kicking Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley out of Congress? Or censuring them? Or them resigning?
Nothing. It was all discussed for a few days last year before being sent to a farm upstate (the ethics committee)
Ralph Norman (R-SC) on Biden impeachment, with a little modification on the presumption of innocence in our criminal system:
"You cannot just not... say you are innocent and not have to prove it."
Karl Rove is an expert on fake voter fraud scandals. He was involved in firing US Attorneys for not prosecuting bogus voter fraud cases, a disgrace that led to the resignation of the Attorney General.
The Jan 6 Committee subpoena for Alex Jones doesn't mention that he actually addressed the mob from the Capitol steps. Here's a screengrab from a video of it:
A little-noticed big policy change from Joe Biden's first term: permanently increasing SNAP benefits.
It was obscured by the lapsing of temporary pandemic benefits, but Republicans want to make sure no future president can do what Biden did
Janet Yellen did not belittle Republican concerns about the national debt.
She just said it's a problem for later and a bad reason not to mitigate pointless human suffering today.
amazing - during a Fox News interview w/ Brian Kilmeade, former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko denounces Victor Shokin, who plays as a leading role in Kilmeade's conspiracy theories, as a "completely crazy person" & says "there's something wrong with him" as Kilmeade melts
Republicans say 3 million workers have benefited from tax reform bonuses or raises.
2 million of those work at Walmart, Home Depot & Lowe's, which announced $1,000 bonuses.
You only get the full $1k if you've worked there for... 20 years.
"You’re gonna bring a fucking pistol, I’m gonna bring a fucking cannon. You wait! You wait! You wait! Stay there like a fucking sheep!”
Here’s body worn camera footage of Capitol defendant Christopher Joseph Quaglin, who was wearing a MAGA sweatshirt.
Everyone around here is "for" the child tax credit. It's a question of whether you want it to keep paying parents as much as $300 per month.
If the advance monthly payments and extra $1,600 expire at the end of the month, there will still be a $2,000 partially refundable credit
In his Senate floor speech and his statement yesterday Josh Hawley did not use the word “mob” to describe the violence he helped incite at the Capitol — but now he uses it to describe a publisher canceling his book.
The judge's indifference so far may merely reflect the slow pace of civil procedure. Federal judges are aloof from partisan politics.
(This particular one happens to be a Trump appointee who donated to the Trump campaign and volunteered for the Trump transition.)
Vance: The American media has been lying and saying that Trump and I are inciting bomb threats when in reality the American media has been laundering foreign disinformation. It is disgusting and every single one of them owes the the residents of Springfield an apology
NEW: The moderate New Dem faction calls on leadership to bring back the monthly child tax credit as part of a year-end spending deal.
"The enhanced CTC lifted millions of children out
of poverty, gave parents the flexibility to return to work..."
"Especially now, as a global pandemic poses widespread health risks, guaranteeing that government officials at both the federal and state levels have flexibility to address the nutritional needs of residents and ensure their well-being through programs like SNAP, is essential."
it is legal for political campaigns to donate to charity, which is what appears to have happened here.
As is often the case, you can’t go by O’Keefe’s descriptions of his own videos
It is interesting that Josh Hawley has decried "the police with their tactics of brutality and oppression" in Hong Kong but in his NBA letter dismissed Black Lives Matter as simply "anti-police protests"
If
@NBA
is going to put social cause statements on uniforms, why not “Support our Troops” or “Back the Blue”? Or given how much $$
@nba
makes in
#China
, how about “Free Hong Kong”! Today I wrote to Adam Silver to ask for answers
Ken Buck tells me won’t vote for Jim Jordan. Cites his refusal to disavow false statements about election fraud and his involvement in or knowledge of what would happen on Jan 6
Romney's child benefit is actually BOLDER than what Democrats have proposed with the child tax credit.
He's pitching an actual child allowance rather than reverse engineering one through the tax code. Payments by SSA instead of IRS.