Showing posts with label The Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Hill. Show all posts
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Hakeem Jeffries has finished his speech in the US House, which took 8 hours and 44 minutes, a new record

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

House GOP can't agree to proceed to debating Senate reconciliation bill, vote stands at 206 Yea, 216 Nay (4 GOP against), with 10 GOP not voting

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Yikes.  Even if all not voting GOP vote Yea, there's a tie. Not good enough. And moments ago Thomas Massie changed his Yea to Nay lol.  ...

Deane Waldman argues Medicaid cuts of 20 million new Biden enrollees who don't belong there would save lives by shortening wait times for care which have swelled to 132 days

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 Medicaid cuts could save thousands of lives   ... Reduced enrollment and cuts to nonclinical spending could shorten wait times, make care ...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Trump is threatening to throttle Elon Musk's opposition to the bill in the US Senate, which still hasn't been voted on after 24 hours of debate, by deporting him

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Monday, June 30, 2025

The current policy baseline helps Republicans hide the fact that they are spending like drunken sailors

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Phony Republican current policy baseline says Trump tax cuts will cost $0 going forward, Congressional Budget Office says $3.5 trillion

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 Graham claims sole authority to decide if GOP megabill complies with budget laws ... Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the ranking member of the...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Republicans are doing an end-run around the Senate parliamentarian to make novel use of the current policy baseline instead of current law, asserting a Democrat precedent from 2022

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 Senate GOP declines to meet with parliamentarian on whether Trump tax cuts add to deficit ... Republicans, however, say that the parliamen...

Republican Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina will not run again in 2026 after voting to stop Trump's reconciliation bill

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  Tillis won’t run for reelection in North Carolina  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday announced he will not seek reelection to the Senat...

Good morning to all, except to those who cannot spell yesses and noes

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 Alexander Bolton at The Hill here : ... The vote to proceed to the sprawling budget reconciliation package remained open on the Senate floo...

Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin folds like a house of cards, switches his Nay vote to Yea to advance reconciliation bill to the Senate floor for debate

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 Trump megabill narrowly advances in Senate despite two GOP defections Senate Republicans on Saturday narrowly voted to advance a sprawling ...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Republican critic of Donald Trump Don Bacon of purple district NE-2 will not run for re-election

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  Bacon not running for reelection    Update Monday Jun 30:   Don Bacon won’t seek reelection in competitive Nebraska ...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The consensus estimate for today's GDP report was indeed for -0.2, instead it surprised at -0.5

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  First-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth was revised lower Thursday in light of reduced consumer spending, surprising economists...

Blowhard Tommy Tuberville isn't running for re-election to the U.S. Senate, so he'll say anything now

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  GOP senator calls for Senate parliamentarian to be fired after ruling against Medicaid cuts

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which said Iran possessed 400kg of highly enriched uranium on June 12, says they'd have to go to the bomb sites to really know the extent of the damage caused by the U.S. attacks

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  Iran’s nuclear facilities “suffered enormous damage” from the U.S. airstrikes Saturday, but more extensive evaluation is needed, the head...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

What they lack in intelligence they make up for in bad manners

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  Trump calls Fed chief Powell ‘numbskull’ as he urges interest rate cut   ... Trump claimed at the White House that lowering rates by 2 per...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The White House's Stephen Miller attacks libertarians for opposing the reconciliation bill's immigration enforcement spending

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 ... the White House deputy chief of staff — and chief architect of Trump’s immigration agenda — is taking a sledgehammer to what remains of...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Mad King Ludwig's soul is in chaos, full of conflicting desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy: Trump now calls for letting Congress spend without limit weeks after touting tax increases on the rich to pay the bills

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 Trump calls for scrapping debt limit  (June 4) Trump pushes Republicans to have rich pay more taxes (May 8) Trump pivots, says GOP should...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

The chutzpah: Democrats literally pushed Biden out of office three months before the election and they want him to take the blame for losing to Trump

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 After covering for the guy from the beginning for his 2020 campaign conducted from a basement. They have no one to blame but themselves.  D...
Friday, May 16, 2025

The GOP runs the House but fails to get Trump's bill out of the budget committee, vote fails 16-21

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  GOP fiscal hawks sink key vote on Trump ‘big, beautiful bill’   Budget Package Remains Bottled Up in House Committee, for Now House...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Resolution by Senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul to scrap Trump's craziest tariffs fails 49-49

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 Senate resolution to scrap Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs fails despite some GOP support  A Senate vote to scrap President Trump’s wide-r...