They backed off and are allowing a roll call re-vote. Wish they wouldn't have but it's still a really fucking embarrassing moment for House GOP leadership.
Could see the whole landscape shifting progressively and as we age, our ideologies may not shift to as progressive a platform as someone 2 generations from now may have. In 100 years, we may be ostracized for our current views as we really haven’t been presented the options to go more progressive. What I’m saying is when the folks after Gen Z are fucking robots and we’re kind of riding the fence on the subject, we will be the conservatives of their day.
from The Hill Watchdog group: Trump had over 1400 conflicts of interest in first two years By Morgan Gstalter - 01/17/19 02:06 PM EST 0 A government watchdog group estimates that President Trump had more than 1,400 conflicts of interests during his first two years in office. Spoiler Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a report on Thursday claiming that the president tried to promote his businesses as extensions of his presidency and administration. During Trump’s second year in office, CREW reported more than 900 interactions between the Trump administration and the Trump Organization. Trump made 118 visits to Trump properties that he still profits from during his second year in office and mentioned or referred to his company 68 times, according to the report. At least 119 federal officials, 53 members of Congress and 33 state officials also visited Trump properties during 2018. More than 150 political committees, campaigns and party committees spent an estimated $5 million at Trump businesses since his inauguration in January 2017, according to CREW. CREW identified 12 foreign governments that made payments to Trump properties during his first two years in office, including three foreign entities which held events in 2018. "To be clear, this amounts to the president of the United States receiving a direct and significant financial benefit from special interests, foreign and domestic, that have chosen to spend money on events at his properties to curry favor with his administration," CREW states in the report. Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit from the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. The case, which is making its way through the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, alleges that Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution by receiving payments from foreign and domestic governments through the hotel — which is just blocks from the White House. The Hill has reached out to the White House and Trump Organization for comment about the CREW report. Trump has faced constant scrutiny about his business ties since the early days of his presidential campaign. The president announced before he took office that he would not sell his businesses upon entering the White House, instead handing control over to his two adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. “It is hard to imagine that the President of the United States could rack up a staggering 1,400 conflicts of interest, yet here we are,” CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said in a statement. “Not only has President Trump still refused to divest from his businesses, he seems to have doubled down by reinforcing the idea that the Trump Organization is an extension of the Trump Administration.” “This report shows that as special interests, foreign governments and political allies continue to pour money into Trump’s coffers, the American public is left in the dark about whether presidential decisions and policy are being made in the best interest of the country or in the best interest of the president’s own bottom line,” Bookbinder said.
Fuck John Morgan. Fuck Ron DeSantis. Especially fuck Matt Gaetz because he’ll have taken those last 2 statements literally.
I'm just saying again, he's pleasently surprised me. I'm aware he will piss me off plenty of times as well. He's far and away better than Scott was his whole tenure in three weeks
So she'll just fly commercial and he'll look like an idiot again? If he even has the power to do that? Got it
I don't know what her business is on her "excursion" (Afghanistan is a terrible place, no one takes fun excursions there), but her job here in DC is complete. She and the House passed the bill that will fund the government. Waiting on Mitch like
Has the Senate even voted on a bill for funding that includes the $5 billion or is McConnell too chickenshit to let any appropriations action to the floor?
Yeah but none of those include the $5 billion. They could take up one of the bills and amend it with $5 billion, but that would be filibustered and if it wasn’t, would just go back to the house where they would strip $5 billion back out.
It was really good. Basically I am not the pos I’ve been called. I’d attempt translate but it would take me forever. It obviously won’t rhyme when translated. “What am I supposed to do when I live such a hard life here in Honduras. You guys treat my culture like trash. Every culture has good and bad not just those that vote for (. ) a couple of lines I assume about his home town. That we need to fix the issues that force people leave their countries in their infancy. That he is painted as a delinquent as a criminal but he is neither that his only crime is being “illegal”. That under god we are all the same” Beginning I tried to translate the end is paraphrased.
Uh? https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...isaster-relief-bill-to-fund-gov-through-feb-8 I know your position. I know it's tough being the hostage.
He’s 8 years old in the head so will think this is a big win and I’m sure it will get coverage for the rest of the day, and so for him it will actually be a big win, but you know he’s boxed in with no way out when he’s resorting to this in an attempt to punch his way out. Pelosi must be over the moon.
Apparently it is a huge security risk as their trip was not announced in order to protect bad actors from knowing.
In fairness, I think the optics of them traveling during the shutdown was not a very strategic decision on her part. Granted, I don't have all of the facts, but it would be used against her.