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Powell Says He Will Stay On as Fed Governor After Term as Chair Ends

Jerome H. Powell said on Wednesday that he would stay on as a governor at the Federal Reserve…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #AppointmentsandExecutiveChanges #BankingandFinancialInstitutions #DonaldJ #Eccles #FederalReserveSystem #JeromeH #justicedepartment #MarrinerStoddard #powell #ThomasR #Tillis #Trump
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/614260/

Powell Says He Will Stay On as Fed Governor After Term as Chair Ends

Jerome H. Powell said on Wednesday that he would stay on as a governor at the Federal Reserve…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #AppointmentsandExecutiveChanges #BankingandFinancialInstitutions #DonaldJ #Eccles #FederalReserveSystem #JeromeH #justicedepartment #MarrinerStoddard #powell #ThomasR #Tillis #Trump
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/614260/

The marquee matchup for the open US Senate seat in North Carolina will begin to resolve into focus Tuesday,
with a well-known former Democratic governor and a Donald Trump-endorsed but untested Republican appearing to lead the field.

In the Democratic primary, former two-term governor Roy #Cooper is ahead in recent polling against the slate of other candidates who have never held elected office. Cooper is widely seen among North Carolina’s Democrats as their best chance at flipping a Republican-controlled seat, now held by retiring US senator Thom #Tillis, a conservative who has turned hard against the Trump administration on its handling of healthcare, defense and the Epstein file disclosures.
For Republicans, Michael #Whatley, the former Republican National Committee chair, leads the field in polling, with his closest competitor, representative Don #Brown, in the single digits.

Polling in both primaries has been relatively scant and may have masked softness in conservative support for Whatley. About half of the Republican electorate remains undecided heading to voting booths Tuesday.
Whatley has Trump’s endorsement, but that hasn’t stopped the grumbling on the right.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/north-carolina-democratic-republican-primaries-senate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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

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

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

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

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

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:

"#Uninvestible."

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

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:

"#Uninvestible."

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

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:

"#Uninvestible."

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

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:

"#Uninvestible."

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

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:

"#Uninvestible."

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

#Republican Senator #ThomTillis delivers a BLISTERING, history-filled takedown of #StephenMiller and the Trump administration’s RECKLESS talk about taking #Greenland. In this clip, #Tillis explains why #Denmark and #NATO are some of America’s MOST loyal allies! 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇺🇸 youtu.be/Gy3YF3Frwxc?...

Republicans Finally Push Back:...

U.S. Senator Thom #Tillis said Canada should repay $300B for decades of underspending on defense, despite now meeting NATO’s 2% target. Speaking at the Halifax Security Forum, he criticized Canada’s “shortfall” amid rising tensions over allied burden-sharing.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/22/gop-lawmaker-demands-300b-in-defense-dues-from-canada-00666112

#Ukraine #Russia #US #GOP #Canada #NATO

#BigBeautifulBill - "This is the worst piece of legislation in modern American history." - @sanders.senate.gov #TaxCutsForTheRich #CutsToMedicaid #SnapsUnderFire #DebtRocket #ICEFundingSurge #NoGreenEnergy #ICE #Sustainability #Trump #JDVance #Sanders #AOC #Tillis www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xmx...

This is the worst piece of leg...

“Republican Sen. Thom #Tillis announced Sunday that he won't seek reelection in 2026, opening up a key seat in #NorthCarolina. The announcement came hours after Trump posted on Truth Social criticizing Tillis for his opp to some provisions within the” #BigUglyBill www.cbsnews.com/news/thom-ti...

Sen. Thom Tillis announces he ...

Letter to a #Senator / 22 June: Mr. #Tillis, I oppose the provision in the #OBBBA that permits the sale of #federallands to offset the #taxbreaks included in the bill. Relying on the sale of assets to cover ongoing expenses is demonstrably poor fiscal policy. It’s not #sustainable. 1/5

Letter to a #Senator / 19 May:: Mr. #Tillis_ My first letter today is to register my opposition to the #parade being billed as for the #Army, but what we all recognize as in alignment with the #POTUSINO’s #birthday. Where has fiscal conservatism gone with the #GOP? 1/3

Letter to a #Senator #2 / 25 Mar:: Mr. #Tillis_ #Military operations over an insecure phone using #Signal? Really? You voted *for* these nominees? What were you thinking? 1/2

Mr. #Tillis_ I’m heartened by the news of the #SupremeCourt that #POTUSINO must unfreeze congressional allocations for foreign aid. I hope you are. It was a partial acceptance of the #impoundment, however, if I understand things correctly. 1/10

Senators are privately (and publicly) saying they hope Donald Trump
💥stays out of the internal election to replace #Mitch #McConnell as Senate GOP leader.

Why it matters:
None of them know — or it's a damn good secret — whether the felon-candidate will make an endorsement.

But senators and advisors fear a Trump intervention could turn the secret ballot leader election into a public feud.

"I said, 'Sir, if I was you, I would stay out of the race, because there's no win for you in this,'" Sen. #Markwayne #Mullin (R-Okla.) told us about a recent call with Trump.

"I hope not," said Sen. #Thom #Tillis, when asked if he thinks Trump will weigh in. "I think outside influence could be problematic."

"He's offered some views on it to me,"Sen. #Josh #Hawley (R-Mo.) told us. "It's safe to say he has a pretty consistent prediction of who he thinks it'll be." -- Hawley said he did not know if Trump would weigh in.

Between the lines:
This the first real competitive Senate GOP leadership race of the Trump-era,
and his endorsement still carries a lot of weight with a segment of the conference.

McConnell has had a tumultuous relationship with the pussy-grabber.

The top two candidates
— Sens. John #Thune and John #Cornyn
— each have had rocky relationships with Trump.
However, they have worked to make amends.

After Jan. 6, Thune denounced Trump and initially endorsed Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) for president.

Cornyn has said the GOP needed to move on from Trump.

Senate sources do not talk about Sen. Rick #Scott's (R-Fla.) bid as seriously as Thune's or Cornyn's, though he has a good relationship with Trump.
"Sen. Scott is focused on dramatically changing the way the Senate operates and creating a member-driven process," according to spokesperson McKinley Lewis.

Sources often describe Thune as the likely favorite,
though they say not to discount how much Cornyn's long history of hard-dollar fundraising for Senate campaigns means to people.

Cornyn told us it's been a few weeks since he spoke with Trump about the leadership race.

But he visited Mar-a-Lago a couple months ago "to talk about planning for the future,"
adding they've been "visiting with some of the transition folks."

Mullin said Trump "likes" Thune despite their rocky past.

The Oklahoma Republican has publicly backed Thune.

Some sources suspect there could be a late entry:
NRSC Chair Steve #Daines (R-Mont.) is the most-floated name.

The bottom line:
There's not a lot of incentive for senators benefiting from both Thune and Cornyn's aggressive fundraising efforts to commit too early.

"If one of them felt that they really had a majority, I think they would not be shy about saying that,
but I don't think anybody does," Hawley said.

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/03/trump-senate-republicans-mcconnell-thune-cornyn

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Members on both sides are upset with #Trump’s attempt to kill #borderDeal to deny President #Biden a legislative win.

Sen. Thom #Tillis said it is “#immoral” for Republicans to reject border deal to help Trump.

Sen. Mitt #Romney called effort to kill bill “#appalling.” Romney argued that there is an issue at the southern border and anyone running for president should be attempting to solve it now — instead of solving it later and taking credit for it down the road.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4432079-thom-tillis-immoral-kill-border-deal-trump/

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Members on both sides are upset with #Trump’s attempt to kill #borderDeal to deny President #Biden a legislative win.

Sen. Thom #Tillis said it is “#immoral” for Republicans to reject border deal to help Trump.

Sen. Mitt #Romney called effort to kill bill “#appalling.” Romney argued that there is an issue at the southern border and anyone running for president should be attempting to solve it now — instead of solving it later and taking credit for it down the road.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4432079-thom-tillis-immoral-kill-border-deal-trump/

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Members on both sides are upset with #Trump’s attempt to kill #borderDeal to deny President #Biden a legislative win.

Sen. Thom #Tillis said it is “#immoral” for Republicans to reject border deal to help Trump.

Sen. Mitt #Romney called effort to kill bill “#appalling.” Romney argued that there is an issue at the southern border and anyone running for president should be attempting to solve it now — instead of solving it later and taking credit for it down the road.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4432079-thom-tillis-immoral-kill-border-deal-trump/

Tucker Carlson lost. The Jan. 6 committee won.

On Monday, Tucker Carlson used his popular primetime program in an effort to undermine the work of last year’s House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack by presenting footage that, he claimed, would cast its conclusions into serious doubt.

It was a flop.

House Speaker Kevin #McCarthy gave #Carlson more than 40,000 hours of footage from that day, and the Fox News host used it to make the case that the vast majority of rioters were, in fact, peaceful “#sightseers” smeared through guilt by association with a few #bad #apples.

But to all but the most committed (or deluded) MAGA devotees, Carlson’s effort failed.

A growing number of Republican lawmakers — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch #McConnell, Sens. Mitt #Romney, Thom #Tillis, Mike #Rounds, Kevin #Cramer, Lindsey #Graham, Chuck #Grassley, and Joni #Ernst — have #condemned the push to rewrite history.

The episode quickly became a subject of widespread #mockery and #scorn, apparently failing to gain even an iota of traction among the Trump-skeptical conservatives it was designed to entice.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/tucker-carlson-lost-jan-6-committee-won.html

Judge slams senators' letter against FTX lawyers as 'inappropriate' - Bankruptcy judge John Dorsey called the bipartisan letter “inapp... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/judge-slams-senators-letter-against-ftx-lawyers-as-inappropriate #hickenlooper #examiner #senators #delaware #terrett #winter #tillis #warren #lummis #dorsey #law360