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  • Republicans Who Have Rarely Opposed Trump Raise Questions About His Drug War

    10/25/2025 3:00:42 AM PDT · by RandFan · 137 replies
    NEW YORK TIMES ^ | Oct 25 | By Robert Jimison and Megan Mineiro
    A growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill have raised concerns about President Trump’s expanding war against drug cartels carried out without consultation or authorization by Congress, and are pressing for more information and involvement in a campaign whose legal basis remains murky. Most in the group have not expressed explicit opposition to the strikes that have been carried out so far against boats in the Caribbean Sea and, this week, expanded to the Pacific. The vast majority of Republicans have enthusiastically rallied behind them, and this month, all but two of them voted to block a measure that would...
  • Senate Democrats Hold the Floor in Overnight Protest of Trump Nominee

    02/06/2025 9:23:26 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 28 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Feb. 6, 2025 Updated 11:22 a.m. ET | Robert Jimison
    Powerless to stop President Trump or Russell T. Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled an all-nighter to show their opposition. There was no nursery rhyme reciting nor phone book reading. No cots wheeled out for senators to catch naps in between speechifying. But one by one on Wednesday night and into Thursday, Senate Democrats flocked to the floor for an all-night talkathon to protest the confirmation of Russell T. Vought, President Trump’s nominee to lead the White House budget office and an architect of his ultraconservative Project 2025 policy agenda. Several senators swigged caffeinated...