Thursday, December 19, 2019
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard upstages Justin Amash by being the only House member to vote Present on articles of impeachment
Amash voted Yea on both articles of impeachment as the sole independent.
Gabbard was late to favor an impeachment inquiry, supporting it only after Trump's Ukraine phone call in July.
NDAA creating Trump's Space Force and paid family leave for The Swamp will also give immigration amnesty to 4,000 Liberians
Many Liberians fleeing
civil war in the 1990s were given temporary protected status to stay in
the U.S. — with no path to citizenship — and became part of the DED
program in 2007. They faced the prospect of deportation under
administrations of both parties, with continual extensions.
Trump
twice moved to end the program, saying Liberians could return to their
homeland because conditions in the country had improved: It was no
longer experiencing armed conflicts and had recovered from a 2014
outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. But as Liberians' DED status was set
to expire on March 31 this year, the administration approved a one-year
reprieve.
When you imagine Republicans did what Joe Biden did
Career civil servant Mark Sandy testified on Nov. 16, 2019 that he was told that military assistance to Ukraine was put on hold by Trump because Trump was concerned other countries were not contributing more to Ukraine:
Mr. Sandy: I recall in early September an email that attributed the hold to the President's concern about other countries not contributing more to Ukraine. ... Mr. Meadows: And, all of a sudden, we get some additional information that's provided in terms of what other countries contribute to Ukraine aid, and then the aid was released. Is that a fair characterization? Mr. Sandy: In terms of the sequencing, yes.
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