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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Kentucky) indicated disapproval of former President Donald Trump‘s decision to entertain rapper Kanye West, who goes by the name Ye now, and white supremacist Nick Fuentes for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate last week. “First, let me just say that there is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy. And anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States,” McConnell said at his weekly press conference. Trump formally launched his campaign...
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) has become a frontrunner to challengeSen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) for Senate majority leader should the Republicans win back the majority in the upper chamber in the midterm elections. On Sunday, Scott avoided denying that he would run against McConnell. “I’m not focused on anything except getting a majority Tuesday night,” Scott said during an appearance on NBC News’ Meet the Press. “Everybody wants to ask me about a bunch of things that going to happen after Tuesday night. My whole focus is on Tuesday night.” Moderator Chuck Todd called Scott out, saying tha...
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Former President Donald Trump named Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) as his choice to oust GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) should he win back the White House in 2024. “People are very upset with Mitch McConnell — I’ll tell you who is upset with him — the public,” Trump told Fox News. “I think we’ll probably have to live with him for two years. And if I run and if I win, I will say, don’t send me any legislation if he’s the leader, and he’ll be out in two minutes.” “I think Rick Scott is a likely candidate — he hates the guy,” Trump added. “He’s tough — he’s tough, and I think he woul...
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After a massive push from veteran groups, the PACT Act, a legislation that would increase funding for veteran healthcare, passed the U.S. Senate on Tuesday evening. The legislation primarily provides health coverage for those affected by burn pits. The pits were created mainly by the military in Afghanistan and parts of the middle east to dispose of rubber or metal. Often, service members were forced to inhale toxic fumes released by the burning piles of metals. The news comes after Republicans blocked a veterans health bill last week and fist bumped afterward. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ...
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) wants to eliminate waivers that that give students free lunches. This program is part of the omnibus appropriations bill, which is a Democrats-backed plan that extends nutrition waivers allowing schools to serve free meals to students during the pandemic. The program was extended recently by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Now many Republicans including McConnell are opposing the renewal of the plan. The waivers will remain until the end of the school year and if the waivers are dropped, schools will see a 40% reductio...
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Senate Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling on Monday, blocking a spending bill, which could have potentially prevented the government shutdown this week. The U.S. is now facing what could be a catastrophic shutdown and debt-limit breach. The vote failed 48 to 50, with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also voting “no.” Schumer himself commented on the failure of the bill. “The Republican Party has now become the party of default, the party that says America doesn’t pay its debts,” he said. “This isn’t your typical Washington fracas, it’s one of the most reckless, one of the most irrespons...
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Sen. Joe Manchin met with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday afternoon in a last-ditch effort to push for the Democrats’ compromise election reform bill. McConnell called the bill “a solution in search of a problem” on Tuesday morning and declared that Republicans “will not be supporting it.” But Manchin remains optimistic. “I work with everybody, I want to find out where they are at, what we can do,” he said. “I’m working on the voting thing very hard and I’m out there talking to every Republican I can. I was seeing if there was a pathway forward.” The legislation still has zer...
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William Barr, former President Donald Trump‘s attorney general, was known for his unquestioning loyalty to Trump. But things broke down between Barr and Trump on December 1, 2020, about a month after the election was over. What he told Michael Balsamo, a Justice Department beat reporter at the Associated Press over lunch in a private dining room in Barr’s office, angered Trump. Along with Barr at that dinner were Justice Department Chief of Staff Will Levi and spokesperson Kerri Kupec. Barr reiterated multiple times to Balsamo: “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effect...
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This week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) told corporations not to speak out on political issues. The Kentucky senator warned “corporate America to stay out of politics.” McConnell who has a long history to collecting millions from U.S. firms, quickly added, “I’m not talking about political contributions.” McConnell’s comments came at a Tuesday news conference in Louisville, Kentucky, in which the senator was discussing the MLB’s decision to move their All-Star game out of Georgia in protest of the state’s new restrictive voting law. Since Georgia passed the law, several c...
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On Wednesday, the Senate held its first debate on the voting rights reform bill S.1 which passed in the House as H.R. 1 earlier in March. By a final vote of 220-210, the House of Representatives approved the voter rights reform bill aimed at reducing gerrymandering, adding transparency requirements for political advertisements and creating an automatic national voter registration system. The Senate debate, however, showed a partisan divide that could kill the progressive bill. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) slammed Republicans for denying a bill that would strengthen democra...
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