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  • THE HILL: Democrats dive into GOP districts, accusing Republicans of avoiding constituents

    04/20/2025 10:26:13 AM PDT · by RandFan · 31 replies
    The Hill ^ | 04/20/25 12:00 PM ET | by Mike Lillis
    House Democrats are diving back into GOP districts to conduct town halls during the long spring recess, escalating an unusual tactic they’re hoping will help them win over battleground voters. The gambit — aimed at districts held by Republicans facing tough reelection contests — was initiated after House GOP leaders advised Republican lawmakers not to meet face-to-face with voters in large, public forums amid the outcry over President Trump’s efforts to remake Washington. In March, a handful of Democrats ventured into GOP districts to stage town halls put on by grassroots activists and local party affiliates. They’ve expanded the effort...
  • TEXAS: Why the GOP is nervous about Ken Paxton's Senate run

    04/19/2025 12:56:12 PM PDT · by RandFan · 65 replies
    The Week ^ | Aoril 17 | By Joel Mathis
    Sen. John Cornyn has long been a reliable conservative in Congress. But that may not be enough to get the Texas Republican reelected... The Cornyn-Paxton primary fight is a "proxy war" in the GOP, said Axios. "Top MAGA luminaries" are skeptical of Cornyn because of his pro-Ukraine stance and work on a bipartisan gun bill after the 2022 Uvalde school massacre. The senator is the "epitome of the establishment," said Steve Bannon, an ally of President Donald Trump, to Axios. Paxton, meanwhile, carries a reputation as a "pro-Donald Trump knife fighter," said Axios. His candidacy is a "warning shot," said...
  • Biden says Trump administration has ‘done so much damage’ since taking office

    04/16/2025 2:37:41 AM PDT · by Libloather · 47 replies
    The Hill ^ | 4/15/25 | Julia Mueller
    Former President Biden said the Trump administration has “done so much damage and so much destruction” since taking office, accusing the White House of having “taken a hatchet” to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and “breaking things” as he delivered his first remarks since leaving the Oval Office earlier this year. “Fewer than 100 days, this new administration has made so much — done so much damage and so much destruction. It’s kind of breathtaking it could happen that soon,” Biden said at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) in Chicago. “They’ve taken a...
  • Republicans fear Trump’s trade war could lead to political wipeout

    04/14/2025 1:43:57 AM PDT · by RandFan · 83 replies
    The Hill ^ | Apr 14 | by Alexander Bolton
    Republican lawmakers say there’s a good chance that President Trump’s trade war will boomerang on Republicans politically in 2026, as rising prices and shrinking growth could offset other accomplishments by the GOP. Republican senators are pointing to the 1932 and 1982 elections as historical examples of when trade wars and resulting price inflation hurt their party at the ballot box, and they are worried that history could repeat itself. Many Republican lawmakers view tariffs as a tax hike on American consumers, and some note that the last two times Congress enacted tax hikes on the scale of Trump’s recent tariffs,...
  • GOP senator on Trump tariffs: ‘What’s the endgame here?’

    04/13/2025 2:31:45 PM PDT · by RandFan · 72 replies
    thehill ^ | 04/13/25 3:04 PM ET | by Sarah Fortinsky
    Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said on Sunday said he’s questioning President Trump’s “endgame” in his approach to tariffs, saying the ongoing “volatility” isn’t good for businesses. “One thing I learned in the private sector is unpredictability can work pretty well in the negotiation, but the private sector — businesses want certainty. They want stability. They don’t like to see volatility,” Johnson said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.” “And, so, I’ve just been questioning exactly what’s the endgame here? What’s the strategy?” he continued. Johnson called himself an “unabashed free trader” and touted what he sees as the...
  • Barack Obama ‘destroyed’ the Democratic Party by competing for ‘power and money’ with his own organization: new book

    04/05/2025 2:43:01 AM PDT · by Libloather · 23 replies
    Fox News via NY Post ^ | 4/04/25 | Diana Stancy
    Former President Barack Obama sought to distance himself from the Democratic Party after leaving it in shambles following his departure from the White House, according to a new book. The book, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” published by William Morrow and Company, claims that Obama was never a Democratic Party loyalist. Instead, the authors allege, Obama curried favor from a group of “black professionals” for his campaigns, unlike former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and former President Joe Biden. Additionally, Obama’s creation of Organizing for Action — a...
  • Brace yourself: Trump’s trade war is about to make Americans poorer

    04/04/2025 9:31:41 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 115 replies
    The Hill ^ | 4/4/26 | Will Marshall, opinion contributor
    Move over, Smoot and Hawley. President Trump has anointed himself America’s greatest protectionist, and he’s launching a global trade war to prove it. On Wednesday, Trump slapped a minimum 10 percent tariff on all imports, plus additional “reciprocal” tariffs on 60 other countries that have the temerity to sell us things we want to buy. He dubbed it “Liberation Day” to mark the freeing of Americans from the supposedly oppressive burden of trading with others.
  • Rand Paul: ‘Fallacy’ to think tariffs will help country

    04/03/2025 8:47:37 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 146 replies
    The Hill ^ | 4/2/25 | Tara Suter
    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that it is a “fallacy” to think tariffs will help the country’s economy as President Trump gears up to impose massive reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners. Paul, who has spoken out against tariffs previously, joined The Hill’s “Rising” on Wednesday, where he discussed his disagreement with tariffs, calling them “a tax.” “On tariffs, I think it’s just economically — it’s a fallacy to think that it’ll help the country,” the Kentucky senator said. “Tariffs are a tax, and if you tax trade or if you tax anything, you’ll get less of it.”
  • Gabbard, Ratcliffe ‘lied repeatedly’ about Signal chat messages, Bennet says

    03/30/2025 5:18:08 PM PDT · by Mariner · 125 replies
    The Hill via Yahoo ^ | March 30th, 2025 | Tara Suter
    Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said on Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe “lied repeatedly” about messages in a Signal group chat in which top members of the Trump administration discussed an attack on Yemen.“Intelligence officials told your committee this week that no classified information was shared. Do you believe that directors Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked Bennet on “Meet the Press.”“No, I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee. Kristen, let me try to make this as...
  • Republicans look to avert humiliation in Florida special election

    03/30/2025 3:40:14 PM PDT · by lasereye · 59 replies
    The Hill ^ | Julia Manchester
    Republicans are pulling out all the stops ahead of the special election in Florida’s 6th Congressional District as worries of a narrower-than-expected margin grow in the district President Trump won by more than 30 points in November. Trump called into two tele-town halls for state Sen. Randy Fine (R) in an effort to drive out the Republican base ahead of Tuesday. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s America PAC spent roughly $10,200 in the race earlier this week and dropped another $66,000 into the race on Thursday. The efforts come as Democratic candidate Josh Weil has outraised Fine, while an internal poll from...
  • Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach

    03/24/2025 6:33:43 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 136 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/24/25 7:32 PM ET | Tara Suter
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday that “nobody was texting war plans” following news breaking that Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, gained access to a Signal group chat featuring Trump administration officials talking about plans for an attack against Houthi rebels in Yemen. “Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that,” Hegseth said outside a plane in Hawaii after being asked about Goldberg’s access to the chat.Hegseth also called Goldberg “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.”Goldberg gained access to...
  • The Republican plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act

    03/24/2025 11:59:19 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/24/2025 | Tiffany D. Joseph
    Everyone is talking about Republicans’ proposed Medicaid cuts, but hardly anyone is calling this what it really is: the strategy by Elon Musk, President Trump, and the Republican Party to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, one piece at a time. The ACA, a historic piece of legislation that extended health coverage to millions of Americans, celebrated its 15th anniversary on March 23. Signed by President Barack Obama in 2010, the ACA expanded Medicaid and provided subsidies so that more working and middle-class Americans could have access to our expensive and complicated health care system. The law also made it illegal...
  • Evangelical mission doctor says ‘many will die’ if PEPFAR dismantled; Amy Grant, country artists speak out

    03/24/2025 10:24:26 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 53 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 03/24/2025 | Anugrah Kumar
    An Evangelical mission doctor has warned that millions of lives are at stake surrounding the potential dismantling of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), as country music artists led by Amy Grant have called for the program's reauthorization. PEPFAR, launched in 2003 under President George W. Bush, is the largest global health initiative focused on a single disease, HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR has sent over $100 billion to more than 50 countries in the last two decades, providing antiretroviral therapy (ARVs) life-saving treatment and infrastructure support to regions most affected by the epidemic, particularly in Africa. However, recent aid...
  • US Media: “Leading Star” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for President

    03/24/2025 4:43:27 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 123 replies
    Independent Sentinel ^ | March 24, 2025 | Staff
    According to Jason Lemon, senior politics editor at Newsweek, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is increasingly being discussed as a leading star within the Democrat Party. He writes, “with some suggesting she could be a 2028 contender for the party’s presidential nomination. Lemon suggests this is their response to their defeat in the 2024 election. Ocasio-Cortez “has emerged as one of the Democrats many see to be pushing back in a way that resonates with the party’s base,” the editor writes. He notes she has held massive rallies with [fellow communist] Bernie Sanders. He doesn’t mention that the same thousands appear at every...
  • Burchett calls for government transparency on UAPs, spending: ‘We deserve to know’

    03/22/2025 5:12:07 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 14 replies
    The Hill ^ | Sarah Polus
    Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) called for the government to reveal what it’s spending taxpayer money on relating to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) amid growing calls from lawmakers for increased transparency on the issue. “They’re spending tens of millions of dollars on this subject. And then they turn around tell us they don’t exist,” the Tennessee Republican told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill” Friday. Burchett stressed the need for greater government transparency on extraterrestrial life while discussing the recent hiring of former intelligence officer and UFO whistleblower David Grusch by Rep. Burlison (R-Mo.). “I think he can help us ask...
  • [Senate] Republicans want Musk to shut up about Social Security

    03/20/2025 7:26:15 AM PDT · by RandFan · 17 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/20/25 6:00 AM ET | by Alexander Bolton
    Senate Republicans want Elon Musk to stop talking about Social Security, and the Department of Government Efficiency to leave it alone. Musk’s statement that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme,” and his plans to cut up to 12 percent of the Social Security Administration’s workforce, are giving GOP lawmakers heartburn. They warn that Social Security reform is known as the “third rail” of politics for a reason: Any party that touches it is likely to get zapped come Election Day. And Republicans fear that reductions in staff and field offices will boomerang on them, predicting constituents will grow frustrated if...
  • Schumer apologizes for calling Republicans ‘^&^^&&&&’

    03/14/2025 7:51:23 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 70 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/14/2025 | Elizabeth Crisp
    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) referred to Republicans as “*&**&^&^” on live television before quickly apologizing during a heated discussion on MSNBC over his decision to vote in favor of the GOP’s stopgap funding plan to avert a federal shutdown. Schumer has faced intense pushback on the left this week, with progressives accusing him of capitulating to Republicans — who hold slim majorities in the Senate and House — on a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through September. “It’s much, much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which could divert people from the...
  • Heritage Foundation report calls to wind down military aid to Israel

    03/12/2025 6:30:51 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 68 replies
    The Hill ^ | March 12, 2025 | Emily Brooks
    The Heritage Foundation is proposing that the U.S. wind down military aid to Israel as part of a strategy to “re-orient its relationship” with the country over the next two decades, a notable stance for the prominent conservative think tank given the long and deep support for Israel among conservatives and Republicans. The Heritage report on moving the U.S.-Israel strategy, “From Special Relationship to Strategic Partnership,” was crafted by its defense experts and released on Wednesday. “Just as Israel once advanced from a financial assistance recipient to an economic partner of the United States, so, too, should it move from...
  • Why ‘excessive heat warnings’ won’t be part of the forecast

    03/11/2025 12:00:49 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 7 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/11/2025 | Addy Bink -
    (NEXSTAR) — It may be hard to think about sweltering temperatures in early March, but the National Weather Service (NWS) is already rolling out changes to the weather alerts used to inform the public of the dangers of impending heat. Americans may be familiar with “Excessive Heat Watches” and “Excessive Heat Warnings,” issued when potentially dangerous heat conditions are in the forecast. Starting this month, those alerts will be no more — sort of. Like it did with wind chill alerts in fall, the NWS is adjusting the names of its heat watch and warning alert. Instead, dangerous heat conditions...
  • Dow plunges 890 points after Trump declines to rule out recession

    03/10/2025 3:16:48 PM PDT · by RandFan · 58 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/10/25 4:10 PM ET | by Sylvan Lane -
    The stock market kicked off the week with steep losses Monday after President Trump declined Sunday to rule out the U.S. economy slowing into recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with a loss of 890 points Monday, falling 2.1 percent. The Nasdaq composite closed with a loss of 4 percent, and the S&P 500 index closed down 2.7 percent. Stocks have fallen steadily since the start of March in response to a string of underwhelming economic data and whipsaw tariff announcements from the Trump administration. But the selloff intensified Monday after Trump demurred on his outlook for the U.S....