Republicans are angry that Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the bureau’s lackluster jobs report showed a weak economy on Friday. Trump accused commissioner Erika McEntarfer, who was appointed by Joe Biden, of fabricating statistics now as well as before the 2024 election. Friday’s …
Read More »Senate Report on Trump Assassination Attempt Lists 'Preventable Failures' by Secret Service
A Senate report on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump cited “a cascade of preventable failures” by the Secret Service that allowed a would-be assassin to target him. The report, released Sunday by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, accused the Secret Service of denying several requests …
Read More »Senate Republicans Are Struggling to Contain Their Tariff Angst
President Donald Trump’s tariff regime goes into effect at midnight on Tuesday, and some Republican lawmakers can barely contain how much they hate it. As markets crater, and tensions escalate between the United States and its most important trade partners, elected Republicans must be realizing that they will be among …
Read More »Trump Threatens to Block Congress From Taking Control of Tariffs
Donald Trump made clear today that he is not pulling the reins on his potentially recession-inducing tariff plans — or giving up control of implementing them. As markets went on a roller coaster, the president threatened to veto proposed bipartisan legislation that would seek to limit his tariff authority. In …
Read More »Meet The TikTok Billionaire Whose Campaign Cash Is Fueling the GOP's Abortion Fights
If you ask advocates for abortion rights where the most critical elections will be this November, they’re likely to name four states: Ohio, the site of a high-stakes referendum; Virginia, the last state in the South where abortion remains widely accessible (and where the governor has promised to “gleefully” ban …
Read More »'Turd Sandwich': MAGA Members of Congress Hate on Debt Deal
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is making the rounds touting his debt ceiling agreement with the Biden administration, but the die-hard Trump wing of the party is very unhappy with the deal. Even though the final text of the agreement has yet to be released, GOP Rep. Chip Roy called the …
Read More »Republicans Promise Endless Stupid Bullshit if They Retake Senate
Republicans have plans for after the midterm elections if they retake the Senate: endless bullshit investigations into the Biden administration. When The Hill asked GOP Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) what issues he would scrutinize, Johnson replied, “Like everything? It’s like a mosquito in a nudist colony. It’s a target-rich environment.” …
Read More »Rand Paul Comes Out as Pro-Omicron
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has failed to follow the science for much of the pandemic, on Wednesday called Omicron, the Covid-19 variant responsible for record-setting number of positive cases, “nature’s vaccine” during an interview with Fox & Friends. “We’ve got 150 million people in our country that have already …
Read More »Rand Paul Refuses to Say Election Wasn't Stolen: 'I Won't Be Cowed by Liberals'
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) made a fool of himself on national television. Asked countless times by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday if he would admit that the presidential election was not stolen from Donald Trump, the Republican senator refused to tell the truth and blamed the courts, liberal politicians …
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