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Democrats in both chambers of Congress have long emphasized their $3.5 trillion budget bill’s climate policies as constituting a crucial element of the bill; however, moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) remains unconvinced on these, even as Democrats speed toward another legislative deadline at the end of October. For most Democrats in Congress, policies to reduce carbon emissions and to move away from fossil fuels have been a keystone of their policy priorities for months. When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who drafted the original budget framework, introduced the bill on the Senate floor, he promised an “extremely aggressive … [transformation...

The Producer Price Index (PPI) – which measures prices that businesses receive for their goods and services – surged 8.6 percent in September from the same period a year ago. That’s the biggest jump on records dating back to 2010.

With instability and political unrest roiling the world stage, it is more important than ever for America to have solid allies in the Middle East, a dangerous region historically rife with conflict and dysfunction. Americans know and understand almost innately that Israel's values are a mirror of our own: Israel champions democracy and the rule of law, has a strong judiciary and demonstrates freedom of religion and the press. However, our recent hurried withdrawal from Afghanistan and the ensuing chaos illustrates how quickly fortunes can change in this volatile region. The resulting pandemonium underscores how much we need a steady...

[PALESTINIAN POLICEMEN face off against demonstrators in Ramallah in June, during protests following the death of Nizar Banat, a critic of the Palestinian Authority.] Hamas sources said that the crackdown was one of the fruits of the ongoing security coordination between the PA and Israel. The Palestinian Authority is continuing its crackdown on political activists and rivals in the West Bank, notwithstanding protests by Palestinian and international human rights organizations, Palestinians said on Wednesday. The clampdown, which has targeted dozens of Palestinians over the past few weeks, is emboldening Hamas, the PA’s main rivals, and threatening to undermine security and...

Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations called on US Senator Rand Paul to end his opposition to a measure funding Israel’s missile defense system, as the Kentucky Republican remained the main obstacle to the bill’s swift passage. “We are dismayed by a third delay in as many weeks of a vote in the US Senate by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to provide $1 billion to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system,” said Conference Chair Dianne Lob, CEO William Daroff and Vice Chair Malcolm Hoenlein on Friday. “This critical legislation passed the US House by...

Booker was the impetus behind the joint statement and did not accept Sanders' Bob Cusack, editor-in-chief of The Hill, explains why 'the moderates don't like what they are hearing from the president.' video The Hill editor-in-chief on Sens. Manchin, Sinema hit over infrastructure holdout Bob Cusack, editor-in-chief of The Hill, explains why 'the moderates don't like what they are hearing from the president.' Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., refused to sign a letter to condemn the actions of left-wing activists who confronted Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., in a public restroom because the statement did not criticize her "political views," a report...

In media news today, left-leaning news outlets justify protestors harassing Krysten Sinema in a public bathroom, Anthony Fauci clarifies his remarks on Christmas gatherings, and GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown fires back at Twitter as tech giant admits his account was banned by 'mistake' CNN political commentator Ana Navarro suggested Monday that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., deserved to be harassed in the bathroom by left-wing activists at Arizona State University. Sinema has been publicly confronted multiple times since taking center stage by opposing aspects of Biden's 'Build Back Better' agenda

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said during a CBS News interview on Sunday that the problem with Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending bill is that people keeping talking about how expensive it is. “The head of your caucus, the progressive caucus, was on another network this morning and Rep. Jayapal said $1.5 trillion is just too small,” host Margaret Brennan said. “That’s the number that Senate moderates, Joe Manchin in particular, want to get down to. President Biden, according to our reporting from Ed O’Keefe, our correspondent, says you’re going to have to settle for about $2 trillion. Is that an...

The 2022 campaign season has already kicked off for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Republican Desi Cuellar — who, like AOC, is an ex-bartender — formed a campaign committee in June to challenge the congresswoman, and this week launched his first attack ad. "AOC is running and propagating so many leftist policies and it has forced me to feel like I have to do something because I don’t see anyone else doing anything about it in my area," Cuellar, 34, told The Post. Despite being just months into the race, the candidate says he’s already banked about $60,000 and held meetings with...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received a booster dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine Friday. The congresswoman revealed the news in an Instagram story that same evening. [cut] The congresswoman also shared a smiling photo of herself highlighting a bandaid over where she received the injection. [cut] The coronavirus booster has proved popular among Washington’s gerontocratic class with President Biden, 78, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 79, both taking the extra jab in recent days. It’s unclear why AOC — who is 31 years old and not known to be in a high-risk group — wanted the vaccine booster. A rep...

Despite claiming that officials in her administration don’t support defunding police, Gov. Kathy Hochul has tapped a second person who does to a key post — a failed New York City Council candidate who wants to slash the NYPD budget by $3 billion. On Friday, Hochul appointed Amit Bagga to be her deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs. He lost the City Council primary in June for Queens’ District 26 seat despite support from Democratic socialist and defund proponent Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s political action committee. Bagga’s archived campaign website, which was taken down last week, says he wants to cut...

Epigraph: "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." George Orwell, "Animal Farm" What were we to make of multimillionaire Barack Obama's 60th birthday bash at his Martha's Vineyard estate, and the throng of the woke wealthy and their masked helot attendants? Was socialist Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suffering for the people when she wore a...

Deborah Lyons, the head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, met with Sirajuddin Haqqani, a wanted terrorist with the Haqqani Network, a Taliban component with close ties to Al-Qaeda. Lyons had served as Canada’s ambassador in Kabul when the Taliban carried out a suicide bombing against a Canadian embassy convoy. Lyons put up a monument to the security contractors who were wounded and killed, but they sued after being abandoned afterwards.

Despite graduating from Boston University cum laude, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eternally sophomoric, always confident in the wisdom of her views notwithstanding serious limitations to her knowledge base.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whom the former head of the DNC once anointed as the future of the Democrat Party, faced widespread condemnation across the political spectrum on Friday after she attempted to explain why she voted “present” for a bill that would have provided Israel with funding for a missile defense system that protects them for Palestinian terrorist attacks. In a roughly 900-word statement, AOC explicitly stated that she wanted “to be clear” that she was “opposed to this bill.” After explaining over the course of several hundred words why she really opposed helping one of America’s top allies defend...

For Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, there is no act of political cowardice or self-preservation so craven the New York Times will not defend. On Thursday, after days of criticizing a budget proposal to fund Israel’s defensive “Iron Dome” anti-missile system, the congresswoman voted “present” on the stand-alone bill. Not a “nay” vote, which would’ve at least been consistent with her attempts to strip the “Iron Dome” funding from a larger spending bill, but a meek, worthless “present” vote.... ...The tableau underscored how wrenching the vote was for even outspoken progressives, who have been caught between their principles...

Few areas of public policy lend themselves less easily to big-picture doctrinal sorting and various "-ism" labeling than does foreign policy. That is perhaps now truer than ever, as America's two major political parties continue their already ascendant realignment, with Democrats abandoning their working-class roots in favor of a professional-managerial ruling class and Republicans ditching the libertarian-inspired corporatism of yesteryear in favor of a "deplorable"-inspired populism. Foreign policy is an inherently nuanced subject, and speaking in broad strokes about it during a once-in-a-generation political realignment can risk analytical error. Those caveats aside, we should still feel comfortable making what may,...

The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to replenish Israel's life-saving Iron Dome despite best efforts by the Democrats' Hamas caucus to defund the missile defense system. JUST IN: House passes $1B bill to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, two days after a progressive revolt forced the money out of a gov’t funding package.Vote was 420-9-2.8 Dems & 1 Republican voted no.2 Dems voted present.— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) September 23, 2021House now voting on bill to reload Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system with $1 billion. Needs a 2/3 vote for passage— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 23, 2021At the last...

The House approved sending Israel $1 billion for its Iron Dome defense system by an overwhelming 420 to 9 majority after Progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib was accused of anti-semitism by a member of her own party in a stunning rebuke on the House floor Thursday. AOC, who abstained on the vote, made sure she was in camera shot and burst into tears as the result was read... [video at link]