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Republicans don’t give a shit about ANYONE but themselves. All “No” votes are theater; there are no principled stands. We must remove them all!
#Collins #Murkowski #Cassisy #Tillis #Cornyn #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Republicans don’t give a shit about ANYONE but themselves. All “No” votes are theater; there are no principled stands. We must remove them all!
#Collins #Murkowski #Cassisy #Tillis #Cornyn #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Two pages stopped a teardown.
Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, and Lisa Murkowski, a Republican — which in this year is its own small miracle — wrote the Saving the OOI Act. It bars federal money from gutting a $368 million ocean-monitoring network mid-recovery. The NSF folded within days. Instruments going back in the water.
#OceanObservatories #ClimateScience #AMOC #Bipartisan #Senate #Merkley #Murkowski #ClimateAction #OceanScience #USPolitics #GoodNews #Resist
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Two pages stopped a teardown.
Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, and Lisa Murkowski, a Republican — which in this year is its own small miracle — wrote the Saving the OOI Act. It bars federal money from gutting a $368 million ocean-monitoring network mid-recovery. The NSF folded within days. Instruments going back in the water.
#OceanObservatories #ClimateScience #AMOC #Bipartisan #Senate #Merkley #Murkowski #ClimateAction #OceanScience #USPolitics #GoodNews #Resist
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GOP’s YOLO caucus could be trouble for Trump agenda
In a Republican-led Congress defined by deference to Donald Trump, there’s a small but steadily growing cohort who have found themselves more willing to break with the White House.
Although the president maintains a firm grip on Republican voters, the expanding club could hinder his agenda on everything from the Iran war to immigration funding at a moment when his party holds a tenuous majority on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Bill #Cassidy of Louisiana is the newest member of the club.
Just days after losing his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, Cassidy on Tuesday reversed himself on legislation involving the war in Iran and voted with Democrats to rein in U.S. military action.
“The way our Constitution is set up, Congress should hold the executive branch accountable,” he told reporters the day before.
Sen. John #Cornyn of Texas could be next after Trump endorsed Ken Paxton, Cornyn’s rival for the Republican nomination in next week’s runoff.
Rep. Thomas #Massie of Kentucky is perhaps a founding member of the YOLO caucus — slang for “you only live once,” used to punctuate unbothered or even foolhardy behavior.
He frustrated Trump since the president’s first term, and his status was solidified after losing his primary on Tuesday to a Trump-backed challenger.
Massie has enraged Trump by voting against his signature tax and spending bill and by pushing for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
He hinted there’s more to come before he leaves office.
“I got seven months left in Congress,” Massie said with a grin during his concession speech as the crowd erupted.
Other similarly situated Republicans include Sen. Thom #Tillis, who was a fierce critic of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and has more recently turned his attention to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
There’s also Sen. Lisa #Murkowski of Alaska, who joined Democrats last week in a bid to curb Trump’s war powers in Iran.
Sens. Susan #Collins of Maine and Mitch #McConnell of Kentucky have voted against some of Trump’s Cabinet picks.
And in the House, Rep. Don #Bacon of Nebraska has pushed to reclaim congressional power over tariffs.
“If the legislative branch always votes with the president, we do have a king,” Massie said in his concession speech Tuesday.
This hardly amounts to a revival of the Never Trump movement that some Republicans unsuccessfully hoped would curb the president’s excesses during his first term or block him from returning to office.
Many in the party, including Trump’s occasional detractors, have either stood by or been unable to block the president as he launched the war in Iran and presided over an aggressive immigration enforcement operation and the dismantling of the federal workforce.
Today’s unencumbered Republicans don’t fit into an ideological box.
But they are united by a sense of emboldening that can be attained in only a few ways in Trump’s Washington.
Many, like Tillis, McConnell and Bacon, have decided to retire and can cast votes knowing they’ll never again have to face Republican primary voters.
Others like Collins and Murkowski have more leeway because they represent states that tend to reward political independence.
And some like Massie banked on the idea that voters could support both Trump and someone who occasionally crossed him.
It’s a paradox for Trump.
As he demands total loyalty and pushes out Republican dissenters, he’s left with a growing cohort who, for one reason or another, owe Trump nothing.
That could be a problem for Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson,
who are already governing with threadbare majorities.
Shifting loyalties of even a few Republican lawmakers could dramatically complicate the ability for either chamber to pass substantial legislation ahead of the November midterm elections.
Thune called Cornyn a “principled conservative” and “very effective senator” on Tuesday.
“None of us control what the president does,” he said.
The next tests could come later this week as Thune pushes a funding package for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection designed to pass on a party line basis.
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?guid=4018a46d-2bd5-4f4e-ad82-a07a2a3ee630&v=sdk -
GOP’s YOLO caucus could be trouble for Trump agenda
In a Republican-led Congress defined by deference to Donald Trump, there’s a small but steadily growing cohort who have found themselves more willing to break with the White House.
Although the president maintains a firm grip on Republican voters, the expanding club could hinder his agenda on everything from the Iran war to immigration funding at a moment when his party holds a tenuous majority on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Bill #Cassidy of Louisiana is the newest member of the club.
Just days after losing his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, Cassidy on Tuesday reversed himself on legislation involving the war in Iran and voted with Democrats to rein in U.S. military action.
“The way our Constitution is set up, Congress should hold the executive branch accountable,” he told reporters the day before.
Sen. John #Cornyn of Texas could be next after Trump endorsed Ken Paxton, Cornyn’s rival for the Republican nomination in next week’s runoff.
Rep. Thomas #Massie of Kentucky is perhaps a founding member of the YOLO caucus — slang for “you only live once,” used to punctuate unbothered or even foolhardy behavior.
He frustrated Trump since the president’s first term, and his status was solidified after losing his primary on Tuesday to a Trump-backed challenger.
Massie has enraged Trump by voting against his signature tax and spending bill and by pushing for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
He hinted there’s more to come before he leaves office.
“I got seven months left in Congress,” Massie said with a grin during his concession speech as the crowd erupted.
Other similarly situated Republicans include Sen. Thom #Tillis, who was a fierce critic of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and has more recently turned his attention to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
There’s also Sen. Lisa #Murkowski of Alaska, who joined Democrats last week in a bid to curb Trump’s war powers in Iran.
Sens. Susan #Collins of Maine and Mitch #McConnell of Kentucky have voted against some of Trump’s Cabinet picks.
And in the House, Rep. Don #Bacon of Nebraska has pushed to reclaim congressional power over tariffs.
“If the legislative branch always votes with the president, we do have a king,” Massie said in his concession speech Tuesday.
This hardly amounts to a revival of the Never Trump movement that some Republicans unsuccessfully hoped would curb the president’s excesses during his first term or block him from returning to office.
Many in the party, including Trump’s occasional detractors, have either stood by or been unable to block the president as he launched the war in Iran and presided over an aggressive immigration enforcement operation and the dismantling of the federal workforce.
Today’s unencumbered Republicans don’t fit into an ideological box.
But they are united by a sense of emboldening that can be attained in only a few ways in Trump’s Washington.
Many, like Tillis, McConnell and Bacon, have decided to retire and can cast votes knowing they’ll never again have to face Republican primary voters.
Others like Collins and Murkowski have more leeway because they represent states that tend to reward political independence.
And some like Massie banked on the idea that voters could support both Trump and someone who occasionally crossed him.
It’s a paradox for Trump.
As he demands total loyalty and pushes out Republican dissenters, he’s left with a growing cohort who, for one reason or another, owe Trump nothing.
That could be a problem for Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson,
who are already governing with threadbare majorities.
Shifting loyalties of even a few Republican lawmakers could dramatically complicate the ability for either chamber to pass substantial legislation ahead of the November midterm elections.
Thune called Cornyn a “principled conservative” and “very effective senator” on Tuesday.
“None of us control what the president does,” he said.
The next tests could come later this week as Thune pushes a funding package for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection designed to pass on a party line basis.
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Senate Votes to Take Up Measure to Force Trump to End Iran War
The Senate on Tuesday agreed to take up a measure that would force President Trump to end the…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #CharlesE #Collins #democratic-party #DonaldJ #fetterman #Headlines #Iran #John(1969-) #Kaine #Lisa #Murkowski #Paul #Rand #republicanparty #Schumer #Senate #SusanM #TimothyM #TopStories #Trump #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #WarandEmergencyPowers(US) #WarPowersAct(1973)
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Republican resistance to Iran war grows in the Senate as Murkowski flips
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Wednesday again blocked Democratic legislation that would halt President Trump’s war with Iran, but the…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #approval #breakingnews #Conflict #Congress #congressionalauthorization #house #Iran #iranwar #Murkowski #otherrepublicans #PresidentTrump #republicanleadership #Senate #Trump #u.s. #vote #wednesday
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Corruption doesn’t defeat itself! The real playbook is finally here. What happens when you follow the money all the way to Washington and back home? 👉🏿 https://shorturl.at/yZgLI
#Politics #Corruption #Alaska #Accountability #News #Murkowski #Begich #Sullivan #Lobbyists #Ethics 🗳️🔥 -
Corruption doesn’t defeat itself! The real playbook is finally here. What happens when you follow the money all the way to Washington and back home? 👉🏿 https://shorturl.at/yZgLI
#Politics #Corruption #Alaska #Accountability #News #Murkowski #Begich #Sullivan #Lobbyists #Ethics 🗳️🔥 -
#ICYMI, Sen. Lisa #Murkowski (R-Alaska) is the ONLY #Republican who opposes the #GOP's #SAVEAct Voter Disenfranchisement law.
(UPDATE: Departing Sen. Tom Tillis is also a "No".)She's a bit wordy and took forever to get to the point, so I clipped the relevant portion on CSPAN.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-senate/user-clip-sen-lisa-murkowski-points-out-some-of-the-unnecessary-expense-hardships-that-would-be-imposed-upon-alaskian-voters-by-the-save-act/5197328 -
#ICYMI, Sen. Lisa #Murkowski (R-Alaska) is the ONLY #Republican who opposes the #GOP's #SAVEAct Voter Disenfranchisement law.
(UPDATE: Departing Sen. Tom Tillis is also a "No".)She's a bit wordy and took forever to get to the point, so I clipped the relevant portion on CSPAN.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-senate/user-clip-sen-lisa-murkowski-points-out-some-of-the-unnecessary-expense-hardships-that-would-be-imposed-upon-alaskian-voters-by-the-save-act/5197328 -
🚨 Tsunami Risk: 50ft waves could hit Alaska coasts FAST. Senators Murkowski + Sullivan push critical warning upgrades, vital after Kipnuk's flood crisis. Will it protect coastal homes?
👉 Tsunami Shield Story
#Tsunami #CoastalSafety #Alaska #PublicSafety #ClimateChange #Murkowski #Sullivan 🛡️🌊
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🚨 Tsunami Risk: 50ft waves could hit Alaska coasts FAST. Senators Murkowski + Sullivan push critical warning upgrades, vital after Kipnuk's flood crisis. Will it protect coastal homes?
👉 Tsunami Shield Story
#Tsunami #CoastalSafety #Alaska #PublicSafety #ClimateChange #Murkowski #Sullivan 🛡️🌊
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🗳️ Alaska leaders oppose federal mandates on voting. See what it means for your ballot this election: https://tinyurl.com/f943kdmu #AKGov #ElectionIntegrity #Democracy #FederalOverreach #AKVotes #politics #Alaska #AlaskaPolitics #Politics #AKpol #TomBegich #murkowski #LisaMurkowski #FederalElections #SAVE #MEGA
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🗳️ Alaska leaders oppose federal mandates on voting. See what it means for your ballot this election: https://tinyurl.com/f943kdmu #AKGov #ElectionIntegrity #Democracy #FederalOverreach #AKVotes #politics #Alaska #AlaskaPolitics #Politics #AKpol #TomBegich #murkowski #LisaMurkowski #FederalElections #SAVE #MEGA
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At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,”
Nebraska Representative Don #Bacon told the Omaha-World Herald.
“If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.
And he needs to know:
The off-ramp is realizing Republicans aren’t going to tolerate this and he’s going to have to back off.
He hates being told no, but in this case, I think Republicans need to be firm.”It’s the “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Bacon later told Politico.
“If there was any sort of action that looked like the goal was actually landing in Greenland and doing an illegal taking …
there’d be sufficient numbers here to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto,”
Senator Thom @Tillis threatened.Senator Lisa #Murkowski argued that Greenland
“needs to be viewed as our ally, not as an asset,”
and even Senator Mitch #McConnell stated that any incursion on Greenland would be
“an unprecedented act of strategic self-harm” that risks “incinerating” NATO diplomacy.Even so, the Trump administration still seems to be committed to seizing Greenland.
On Friday, the president threatened countries who oppose his Greenland takeover with tariffs.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205381/republicans-trump-greenland-opposition?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_sf_post_ref=654679485&utm_sf_cserv_ref=did%3Aplc%3Ag6zrpwmibpkb6nkfweuns3mr&utm_source=Bluesky -
At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,”
Nebraska Representative Don #Bacon told the Omaha-World Herald.
“If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.
And he needs to know:
The off-ramp is realizing Republicans aren’t going to tolerate this and he’s going to have to back off.
He hates being told no, but in this case, I think Republicans need to be firm.”It’s the “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Bacon later told Politico.
“If there was any sort of action that looked like the goal was actually landing in Greenland and doing an illegal taking …
there’d be sufficient numbers here to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto,”
Senator Thom @Tillis threatened.Senator Lisa #Murkowski argued that Greenland
“needs to be viewed as our ally, not as an asset,”
and even Senator Mitch #McConnell stated that any incursion on Greenland would be
“an unprecedented act of strategic self-harm” that risks “incinerating” NATO diplomacy.Even so, the Trump administration still seems to be committed to seizing Greenland.
On Friday, the president threatened countries who oppose his Greenland takeover with tariffs.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205381/republicans-trump-greenland-opposition?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_sf_post_ref=654679485&utm_sf_cserv_ref=did%3Aplc%3Ag6zrpwmibpkb6nkfweuns3mr&utm_source=Bluesky -
🦭🔥 Politics, peril, and Papita! Alaska’s biggest headlines are all in one place. Don’t scroll past! Click 👉🏿 Full roundup: https://tinyurl.com/4heatv4a
#AlaskaNews #WildlifeWednesday #AlaskaStrong #SenateRace #BreakingAKNews #News #Roundup #Murkowski #MaryPeltola #DanSullivan #Juneau #Greenland #Politics #JeanneShaheen #Alaska #AlaskaHeadlineLiving -
Trump can only afford to lose the support of four Republican senators in a vote for a new #Fed chair
-- which means #Tillis and #Murkowski’s vows not to support any nominee until the case against Powell is resolved carry significant weight.
A bipartisan group of economists who have served under US presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan
—including former Federal Reserve Chairs Alan #Greenspan, Ben #Bernanke, and Janet #Yellin
—released a joint statement on Monday denouncing what they described as an effort to strong-arm the Federal Reserve into doing the president’s bidding.https://www.commondreams.org/news/jerome-powell-investigation-backlash
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Trump can only afford to lose the support of four Republican senators in a vote for a new #Fed chair
-- which means #Tillis and #Murkowski’s vows not to support any nominee until the case against Powell is resolved carry significant weight.
A bipartisan group of economists who have served under US presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan
—including former Federal Reserve Chairs Alan #Greenspan, Ben #Bernanke, and Janet #Yellin
—released a joint statement on Monday denouncing what they described as an effort to strong-arm the Federal Reserve into doing the president’s bidding.https://www.commondreams.org/news/jerome-powell-investigation-backlash
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Darren Woods is known mostly as the chairman of ExxonMobil,
the largest U.S. oil company.On Friday, however, he made noise in a different sphere by placing an obscure financial term into the political lexicon:
That's how Woods described Venezuela
—more specifically, Venezuela's oil industry.His remark came during a meeting of some two dozen oil executives convened at the White House by President Trump,
whose goal was to collect their praise for his capture and arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro to face U.S. drug trafficking charges.Trump opened the session with a lengthy spiel suggesting that the spigots of Venezuelan oil would soon be open,
flooding the market with cheap petroleum for the benefit of American taxpayers, Venezuelan citizens
and big oil companies.He spoke with the confidence of a self-appointed Venezuelan Shogun
—indeed, over the weekend he amended his biography on his TruthSocial online platform to give himself the title of
"Acting President of Venezuela."Trump told the gathered executives that the U.S. would somehow control which oil companies would be permitted to invest in Venezuela
—"We're going to be making the decision as to which oil companies are going to go in—that are we're going to allow to go in....
You're dealing with us directly, you're not dealing with Venezuela at all, we don't want you to deal with Venezuela."Leaving aside that Trump's authority to make those judgments is questionable in the extreme,
so is the oil industry's interest in piling into Venezuela.
At current world oil prices hovering around $60 per barrel or less,
large investments in the Venezuelan oil fields would be marginally profitable at best.The addition of a large new supply from Venezuela, which is thought to have the largest untapped reserves in the world, would only drive the price lower.
At Friday's roundtable, Woods was the most outspokenly pessimistic about reinvesting in Venezuela,
but his remarks corresponded to a new atmosphere in Trump's relationships with American institutions:
#resistance.Most recently, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome #Powell responded forcefully to the disclosure that Trump's hand-picked U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, served subpoenas pointing to a criminal investigation of Powell and the the Fed
—ostensibly over the cost of renovations of the Fed's Washington headquarters.On Sunday, Powell issued a written and video statement pushing back:
"This new threat is not about my testimony last June
or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings," he said."The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public,
rather than following the preferences of the President."Remarkably, Powell received support from Sen. Thom #Tillis
(R-N.C.)
who sits on both the Senate Banking and Judiciary committees, which oversee the Fed and the Dept. of Justice, respectively."If there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve,
there should now be none,”
said Tillis, who is not running for reelection.“It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question.”
He said he would oppose confirmation of any nominee to the Fed board
—including a looming nomination to succeed Powell
—"until this legal matter is fully resolved."Powell's term as Fed chair ends in May, though his term as a Fed board member won't expire until 2028.
Tillis' concern was echoed Monday by another Republican senator,
Lisa #Murkowski of Alaska,
who labeled the Fed investigation Monday morning and called the administration's investigation
"nothing more than an attempt at coercion."She said Tillis "is right in blocking any Federal Reserve nominees until this is resolved."
#Venezuela was one subject on which some Republican lawmakers have voted to thwart Trump:
♦️Five Republican senators joined Democrats to advance a measure that would require Trump to obtain congressional approval for any further military action in the country.
♦️And 17 GOP House members joined Democrats to pass a bill extending Affordable Care Act premium subsidies for three years,
despite Trump's explicit opposition to the extension.♦️The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has drawn bipartisan criticism.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hiltzik-trumps-venezuelan-oil-adventure-202328739.html
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Darren Woods is known mostly as the chairman of ExxonMobil,
the largest U.S. oil company.On Friday, however, he made noise in a different sphere by placing an obscure financial term into the political lexicon:
That's how Woods described Venezuela
—more specifically, Venezuela's oil industry.His remark came during a meeting of some two dozen oil executives convened at the White House by President Trump,
whose goal was to collect their praise for his capture and arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro to face U.S. drug trafficking charges.Trump opened the session with a lengthy spiel suggesting that the spigots of Venezuelan oil would soon be open,
flooding the market with cheap petroleum for the benefit of American taxpayers, Venezuelan citizens
and big oil companies.He spoke with the confidence of a self-appointed Venezuelan Shogun
—indeed, over the weekend he amended his biography on his TruthSocial online platform to give himself the title of
"Acting President of Venezuela."Trump told the gathered executives that the U.S. would somehow control which oil companies would be permitted to invest in Venezuela
—"We're going to be making the decision as to which oil companies are going to go in—that are we're going to allow to go in....
You're dealing with us directly, you're not dealing with Venezuela at all, we don't want you to deal with Venezuela."Leaving aside that Trump's authority to make those judgments is questionable in the extreme,
so is the oil industry's interest in piling into Venezuela.
At current world oil prices hovering around $60 per barrel or less,
large investments in the Venezuelan oil fields would be marginally profitable at best.The addition of a large new supply from Venezuela, which is thought to have the largest untapped reserves in the world, would only drive the price lower.
At Friday's roundtable, Woods was the most outspokenly pessimistic about reinvesting in Venezuela,
but his remarks corresponded to a new atmosphere in Trump's relationships with American institutions:
#resistance.Most recently, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome #Powell responded forcefully to the disclosure that Trump's hand-picked U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, served subpoenas pointing to a criminal investigation of Powell and the the Fed
—ostensibly over the cost of renovations of the Fed's Washington headquarters.On Sunday, Powell issued a written and video statement pushing back:
"This new threat is not about my testimony last June
or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings," he said."The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public,
rather than following the preferences of the President."Remarkably, Powell received support from Sen. Thom #Tillis
(R-N.C.)
who sits on both the Senate Banking and Judiciary committees, which oversee the Fed and the Dept. of Justice, respectively."If there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve,
there should now be none,”
said Tillis, who is not running for reelection.“It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question.”
He said he would oppose confirmation of any nominee to the Fed board
—including a looming nomination to succeed Powell
—"until this legal matter is fully resolved."Powell's term as Fed chair ends in May, though his term as a Fed board member won't expire until 2028.
Tillis' concern was echoed Monday by another Republican senator,
Lisa #Murkowski of Alaska,
who labeled the Fed investigation Monday morning and called the administration's investigation
"nothing more than an attempt at coercion."She said Tillis "is right in blocking any Federal Reserve nominees until this is resolved."
#Venezuela was one subject on which some Republican lawmakers have voted to thwart Trump:
♦️Five Republican senators joined Democrats to advance a measure that would require Trump to obtain congressional approval for any further military action in the country.
♦️And 17 GOP House members joined Democrats to pass a bill extending Affordable Care Act premium subsidies for three years,
despite Trump's explicit opposition to the extension.♦️The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has drawn bipartisan criticism.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hiltzik-trumps-venezuelan-oil-adventure-202328739.html
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📦 Settler’s Bay HOA is urging residents to contact Senator Murkowski.
Why? USPS still will not deliver to the neighborhood.
Learn how this ties into the bigger Amazon and USPS talks shaping our whole state.
Read more ⬇️
https://alaskaheadlineliving.com/inside-the-amazon-usps-talks-shaping-alaskas-mail-future/ #news #amazon #usps #Murkowski #Alaska #AlaskaHeadlineLiving #mail #remote #rural #AlaskaLife -
Cheney’s invitation-only funeral (with Murkowski attending), tightening fishery restrictions, Anchorage street dangers, and a major fraud case dominate Alaska’s afternoon.
Full digest: https://alaskaheadlineliving.com/afternoon-alaska-washington-mourns-cheney-fishery-tensions-courtroom-flashpoints-city-streets-under-fire/ #news #alaska #alaskaheadlineliving #DickCheney #funeral #fishing #Murkowski #Trump -
Trump is too weak to kill the #filibuster.
There are a few Republican members who NEED to blame a Democratic filibuster when something can't get through the Senate. Without the filibuster, swing Republicans like #Collins and #Murkowski have to take the blame for blocking something, or take the blame for letting it through. -
U.S. Senators #Shaheen and #Murkowski introduced a $54.6 billion bipartisan aid package for Ukraine over two years, covering weapons and stockpile replenishment. Despite Trump’s shift on Ukraine aid, the bill faces tough odds in Congress due to GOP opposition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/senators-new-aid-ukraine.html
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U.S. Senators #Shaheen and #Murkowski introduced a $54.6 billion bipartisan aid package for Ukraine over two years, covering weapons and stockpile replenishment. Despite Trump’s shift on Ukraine aid, the bill faces tough odds in Congress due to GOP opposition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/senators-new-aid-ukraine.html
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Quick lunchtime cartoon.
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Quick lunchtime cartoon.
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On May 20, 2025, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, and Lisa McClain celebrated a narrow victory as Trump's significant budget bill passed with a 218-214 vote. Despite the success, dissent arose from two Republicans and critics claiming the bill favors the affluent while leaving vulnerable populations behind. This development stirs internal party conflict and concerns for future implications. Explore more about this pivotal legislation here: https://www.alternet.org/gop-moderates-big-bill/ #Trump #BudgetBill #Republicans #Legislation #Congress #Murkowski #GOP #DomesticAgenda
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Sure 17 million Americans will lose health insurance but at least a few whalers will get cheaper harpoons 🐳 #Murkowski
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Sure 17 million Americans will lose health insurance but at least a few whalers will get cheaper harpoons 🐳 #Murkowski
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"Having sold out hungry children in Louisiana, sick children in Oklahoma, and elderly nursing-home patients and their families in Vermont, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, Oregon, and 45 other states, Murkowski now is looking for someone—anyone—to bail her out. Make Lisa Murkowski remember this as the worst day of her career."
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations #Murkowski
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"Having sold out hungry children in Louisiana, sick children in Oklahoma, and elderly nursing-home patients and their families in Vermont, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, Oregon, and 45 other states, Murkowski now is looking for someone—anyone—to bail her out. Make Lisa Murkowski remember this as the worst day of her career."
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations #Murkowski
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That face when you sell your soul to the devil:
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That face when you sell your soul to the devil:
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“It was such a hardship for me to vote for this awful bill, when I could have yanked the plug and killed it all by myself.”
Fuck you, Lisa #Murkowski , you craven Republican #fascism enabler. May all the children who die as a result of this bill haunt you day and night for the rest of your useless life.
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#Murkowski the #Coward refuses to stand up and be counted.
Even Susie was concerned enough (but if Murkowski had flipped, wanna bet Susie would have flipped, too?)
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#politics #murkowski #LisaMurkowski #BBB #JohnMcCain #Alaska #Alaskans #Vote
ALASKANS, CALL LISA MURKOWSKI AND TELL HER TO A JOHN MCCAIN. BE THE REPUBLICAN THAT STOPS THE BILL.
Phone: (202)-224-6665
SPREAD THE WORD
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[Financial Times]: Trump’s fiscal policy and attacks on Fed put US safe haven status at risk, economists say. By Claire Jones in Washington and Eva Xiao in New York
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[Politico]: Senate rulekeeper deals blows to revised ‘Big, beautiful bill’
A Medicaid carveout for Alaska was among the “Byrd bath casualties. By Katherine Tully-Mcmanus, June 29,2025
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/29/megabill-byrd-alaska-megabill-parliamentarian-00431730
