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Feb262021 by ShawnNo Comments

Democrats want extra senators like Joe Manchin

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Sen. Joe Manchin, the self-styled conservative Democrat from West Virginia, is using progressives loopy — and he doesn’t appear to thoughts. Manchin says President Joe Biden’s $1.9-trillion COVID aid invoice is simply too large, and he needs to chop it. He says he strongly opposes a $15 federal minimal salary, one in every of Biden’s best crusade guarantees. He introduced final week that he received’t vote to substantiate Biden’s nominee to move the Place of job of Control and Finances, Neera Tanden, as a result of her campaign-year tweets struck him as too partisan. He hasn’t made up our minds whether or not to fortify Biden’s selection for Internal secretary, Deb Haaland, as a result of she has advocated difficult legislation of coal and herbal fuel, two vital industries in West Virgi...

Feb242021 by ShawnNo Comments

Rachel Maddow Unloads On GOP Senators For Inventing New Requirements For Biden’s Cupboard Selections

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All through her program on Tuesday night time, Rachel Maddow ripped into the Republican double usual getting used to guage Joe Biden’s Cupboard alternatives. Maddow blasted Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Richard Burr (R-NC), specifically, for inventing new necessities for Cupboard nominees, just because it's now a Democratic president making the nominations.“So Senator Cruz is towards Xavier Becerra as a result of Becerra isn't a health care provider,” the MSNBC host stated. “Nonetheless, Senator Ted Cruz voted for the closing fitness secretary beneath President Trump, who was once a person named Alex Azar.” “You're going to be stunned to be informed, Alex Azar could also be no longer a health care provider,” Maddow stated. Sen. Burr additionally opposes Biden’s selec...

Feb242021 by ShawnNo Comments

68% of American citizens Reinforce Biden’s $1.9T Plan However Susan Collins Says 0% of Republican Senators Will Vote For It

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The Coronavirus pandemic has now not most effective killed over 500,000 American citizens, it has devastated tens of millions extra financially. This is the reason one in every of Joe Biden’s early hopes is to get cash out to those suffering other people. And the plan Biden has put ahead may be very common. Polling presentations that 68% of other people requested are at the back of the plan that Biden and his staff are proposing. In keeping with Susan Collins, regardless that, 0% of Republican senators might be supporting the package deal. The Maine senator defined her issues on Tuesday afternoon. “The management has now not indicated a willingness to come back down from its $1.9 trillion determine and that’s a significant impediment,” she said. “Now we have indi...

Feb162021 by ShawnNo Comments

Utah’s senators break up on Trump trial; birthday party backs them each

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Via Caroline Kelly and Terence Burlij | CNN The Utah Republican Birthday party launched a remark Monday accepting the other votes of the state’s Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee in closing week’s impeachment trial, marking a stark distinction with how every other state and county GOP birthday party operations have pursued censure in opposition to Republicans who voted to question or convict former President Donald Trump. “Our senators have each been criticized for his or her vote,” the Utah GOP wrote. “The variations between our personal Utah Republicans exhibit a variety of concept, by contrast to the risk of a birthday party fixated on ‘unanimity of concept.’ There may be energy in our variations as a political birthday party, and we stay up for each and every senator explaining their v...

Feb132021 by ShawnNo Comments

Chuck Todd Tells GOP Senators That Balloting To Acquit Trump Will Be Lengthy-Time period Political Suicide

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Balloting to acquit Donald Trump is also in the most productive temporary pursuits of Republican senators hoping to stay their jobs, however MSNBC’s Chuck Todd stated on Saturday that it's going to most probably come again to hang-out them. “They're principally going to let Donald Trump escape with one thing that the top of a PTA, a platoon, a company, a highschool, a information group – the place will have to I prevent? – would were fired by way of their board of administrators a very long time in the past,” Todd stated. “That’s why I believe long-term that is going to be a painful vote for those who voted to acquit,” he added. Video: Chuck Todd says that if Republicans vote to acquit Donald Trump, it's going to most probably come again to hang-out them. pic.tw...

Feb122021 by ShawnNo Comments

Trump’s Attorney Threatens Republican Senators With Number one Demanding situations

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In a second that gave the impression to be designed to stay Republican Senators in line, Trump legal professional Bruce Castor raised the possibility of Senate number one demanding situations. Video: Trump's legal professional threatens Republican Senators with number one demanding situations in an obvious effort to make certain that there is not any likelihood of conviction. pic.twitter.com/amIKommi2S — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 12, 2021 Castor mentioned, “If individuals of Congress wouldn’t struggle for the foundations they held pricey, what was once it that the president in particular advised his supporters at that rally he sought after them to do? He sought after them to enhance number one demanding situations. Now, no person on this cham...

Feb122021 by ShawnNo Comments

Rachel Maddow Tells GOP Senators That Balloting To Acquit Trump Will Invite Extra MAGA Terrorism

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Rachel Maddow warned Republican senators on Thursday that in the event that they vote to acquit Donald Trump within the Senate impeachment trial, they're most effective inviting extra MAGA terrorism. The MSNBC host mentioned it’s transparent that Trump has no regret for inciting the Jan. 6 MAGA assault on the U.S. Capitol, and if the Senate doesn’t convict him, it’ll nearly ensure that the ex-president will do it once more. “There’s truly no explanation why to suppose the danger is over, specifically if senators vote to acquit the previous president and thereby guarantee there aren't any penalties for him from having carried out this,” Maddow mentioned.“In fact he’ll check out it once more,” she added. “I imply, why wouldn’t he?” Video: “There’s truly no explana...

Feb122021 by ShawnNo Comments

GOP Senators Are Brazenly Colluding With Trump’s Protection Crew To Get Republican Acquittal Votes

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Republican senators will have taken an oath to be independent jurors in Donald Trump’s 2nd impeachment trial, however they positive aren’t appearing find it irresistible. MSNBC’s Garrett Haake reported on Thursday night time {that a} handful of GOP senators met privately with Trump’s protection workforce to “talk about felony technique” forward of Friday’s presentation. “Senators Graham, Cruz and Lee met with the Trump protection workforce for moderately some time after the arguments had wrapped up these days to speak about felony technique for day after today,” Haake reported. “They’re running hand in glove – the Trump protection workforce and a few of his maximum carefully aligned senators – to get a hold of a controversy that can permit their fellow Republican...

Feb122021 by ShawnNo Comments

3 GOP senators meet with Trump’s protection crew

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Via Manu Raju and Alex Rogers | CNN A trio of Republican senators allied with former President Donald Trump met along with his protection crew Thursday night time, in the course of an impeachment trial during which they are going to vote on whether or not to convict Trump and probably bar him from retaining public administrative center once more. Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah had been noticed going right into a room in the United States Capitol that Trump’s attorneys had been the use of to organize for his or her arguments. Trump legal professional David Schoen stated that the senators had been “very pleasant guys” who simply sought after to verify they had been “accustomed to process” at the eve in their rebuttal to the Area impeachment ...

Feb122021 by ShawnNo Comments

Extra Than A Dozen GOP Senators Did not Hassle To Display Up For Impeachment Trial Final Arguments

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A handful of Republican senators on Thursday brazenly refused to uphold the oath they took to be unbiased jurors in the second one impeachment trial of disgraced ex-President Donald J. Trump. For starters, as Forbes pointed out, “As many as 15 seats of Republican senators have been empty all through the primary few hours of the trial Thursday, in comparison to only a handful of Democrats who have been outdoor of the chamber, consistent with pool experiences.” The document notes that Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Jim Risch (R-ID) have been amongst those that weren’t in attendance because the impeachment trial were given underway on Thursday. Some Republicans who did trouble appearing up made it beautiful transparent that they weren’t all that k...