GOP senators clash over conditioning Ukraine aid on border results Senate Republicans tangled on Tuesday over how far to push their border security priorities, with conservatives raising the idea of conditioning money for Ukraine on the United States meeting certain border security metrics, according to attendees of a conference lunch. Negotiations linking immigration restrictions and…
Gallery owner reveals new details about Hunter Biden art sales Gallery owner Georges Bergès told the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday that Hunter Biden knows the identities of the individuals “who purchased roughly 70% of the value of his art,” according to Oversight Republicans. But that percent, a person familiar with the meeting cautioned, represents…
Waste of the Day: VA Pre-Paid $68 Million To Energy Contractors This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire By Adam Andrzejewski Real Clear Wire The Veterans Health Administration gave energy vendors $68 million in prepayments that didn’t comply with federal law, a new audit found. The prepayments totaled $10 million in FY 2020…
JUST IN: Senator Roger Marshall Introduces Vote of No Confidence Resolution Against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (VIDEO) Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) on Tuesday introduced a vote of no confidence resolution against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for helping Biden create “the worst border crisis we’ve ever seen,” said Marshall in a speech on the Senate Floor….
Unpopular Chancellor Scholz Berates EU Leaders for Insufficient Ukraine Aid, as Germany Sees a Spike of 51% in Asylum Seekers Olaf Scholz is the most unpopular German Chancellor of the century. He has with polls heavily favoring replacing him with Defense Minister Pistorius, and in the recent regional elections his liberal/Globalist coalition was xxxxx defeated…
Schumer pulls vote to advance Labor nominee The Senate axed a planned procedural vote on the nomination of José Javier Rodríguez, a former member of the Florida state Senate, for a senior Labor Department position. It’s not the first time Rodríguez has seen trouble. His nomination previously failed to clear a procedural vote in late…
Thune: Congress may need short-term funding patch until March Senate Minority Whip John Thune said Congress may need a continuing resolution into March to keep the government open as lawmakers negotiate longer-term spending legislation. Thune, the chamber’s number two Republican, called it “unrealistic” to think lawmakers could complete their work by Jan. 19 on the…
Menendez: Government trying to convict me in ‘court of public opinion’ Sen. Bob Menendez addressed the multiple indictments against him in a Tuesday floor speech, claiming the government has conspired against him to poison public opinion and a potential jury pool. Menendez (D-N.J.) has maintained his innocence in all of the indictments against him, the…
DEVELOPING: Appeals Court Skeptical of Trump Immunity: Biden Judge Asks Trump Lawyer if President Can Order SEAL Team 6 to Assassinate Rivals President Trump’s attorney John Sauer appeared before a three-judge panel for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday morning to argue Trump’s immunity claims in Jack Smith’s DC case. The three-judge panel…
The Root Cause of Academic Groupthink Cparks, Wikimedia Commons This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire By Bruce Abramson Real Clear Wire The shroud is coming off elite academia and America is not pleased with what it’s seeing. Its leaders have told us that genocidal antisemitism is too complex to recognize and that…