Tag: GOP

Senate Republicans to introduce smaller Covid package that includes billions for Postal Service

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Senate Republicans to introduce smaller Covid package that includes billions for Postal Service

The latest GOP coronavirus relief bill is expected to include an additional $10 billion for the U.S. Postal Service, $300 in boosted weekly federal unemployment benefits until December 27, another round of money for the Paycheck Protection Program and liability protections. The proposal is also expected to include money for education and testing.

McCarthy faces QAnon squeeze

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

McCarthy faces QAnon squeeze
One Republican called QAnon, which Marjorie Taylor Greene has embraced, the equivalent of “mental gonorrhea.”

The rise of Greene — an unapologetic QAnon conspiracy theorist who has made disparaging remarks about Jews, Blacks, and Muslims — is threatening to hurt the entire party as Republicans seek to stanch their bleeding in suburbia and expand their base of support amid a national reckoning over racial inequality. Greene won a GOP primary runoff in a deep red northwest Georgia seat, all but guaranteeing her a spot in Congress next year.

The week that shook the Trump campaign

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The week that shook the Trump campaign

When Donald Trump had dinner with Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus at the White House on Saturday, word of the get-together quickly reverberated across the president’s political sphere.

The 91-year-old billionaire is a longtime backer of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Trump operatives were suspicious that a move was afoot to bring the smashmouth populist back into the fold.

Few seriously believe Bannon will return — while Trump has praised his recent TV appearances, there is still deep anger within the president’s inner circle over Bannon’s post-White House mocking of first daughter Ivanka Trump. But the post-meeting jitters illustrate how Trump’s political team is suddenly gripped by uncertainty: With the election just four months away and Trump conceding privately that he’s behind, his advisers have spent the past week racing to get on track.

I’ll never understand how he’s a populist, if he wants to overthrow the Chinese government?!

A GOP senator’s cowardice shows how Republicans let Trump become a monster

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A GOP senator’s cowardice shows how Republicans let Trump become a monster

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been trying to get Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify about his department’s annual budget for nearly a handful of months. But securing Pompeo’s testimony took on even greater significance after allegations recently surfaced that the department’s longtime inspector general had been axed by Donald Trump amid a probe he was conducting into potential Pompeo malfeasance. In fact, Trump himself made it crystal clear that he had fired department watchdog Steve Linick at Pompeo’s urging.