“Minutes after voting for $300 MILLION for private school vouchers, Senate Republicans voted to cut $43 MILLION for diapers for needy families.”😳
Welcome to @GovBillLee & the @TNGOP supermajority’s Tennessee, folks. A budget is a moral document.
HIRONO: The rising prices of energy -- is that something you didn't contemplate happening before the president declared his illegal war?
CHRIS WRIGHT: No. We knew exactly what would happen
HIRONO: It doesn't seem like it, because the president doesn't understand how to open the strait
KIM: Are you concerned there could be real long-term effects of this war in Iran with fuel and fertilizer?
WARSH: If my reform agenda stands for anything, it's for the central bank to stay in his lane
KIM: But you're also charged with forecasting
“Ready for some bullshit? You paid the the higher prices… They raised prices on you to cover the tariffs, kept prices high, and now they get the refund.
Also: 88 of the largest US corporations paid zero income tax in 2025.”
(From @attorneyryan.bsky.social )
GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?
WARSH: That is, senator.
GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.
CHRIS WRIGHT: Energy prices are still well lower than they were in middle of the Biden adminis--
CANTWELL: I want to stop you right there. There is nobody in the Northwest who thinks that. Not when they wake up & airline flights are being canceled because of high fuel costs. No one thinks it's okay
“Do you realize how ridiculous this is? Taxpayers will pay companies $166 BILLION in refunds because the orange man in the White House taxed them unconstitutionally. They don’t even have to drop their prices… Yet Trump says there's no💰for Medicaid/childcare.”
(H/T @evanjmez.bsky.social )
Chris Wright insists that collapsing snow pack in Colorado is the result of "the path of the jet stream last year," not climate change
Kevin Warsh won't commit to defending Lisa Cook's position on the Fed
Conservative Washington Examiner column confirms it: "TRUMP IS LOSING HIS MIND"
whY iS evERyONe aROunD TRUmP tiEd To EPstEiN?
Washington Examiner: Imagine it was someone other than President Donald Trump. Suppose a different leader were posting deranged rants in the small hours, insulting the spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics, threatening entire civilizations with annihilation, and comparing himself to God. What would be the reaction?
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HIRONO: Does anybody have the kind of expertise that Secretary Moniz had when he participated in the JCPOA?
CHRIS WRIGHT: Absolutely. Absolutely
HIRONO: Who?
WRIGHT: Our whole team
HIRONO: Can you see I have some major skepticism?
VAN HOLLEN: If the central bank were to cut rates, that would typically push prices up, right?
WARSH: Unlike many of my colleagues, I don't believe I should be previewing what a future decision might be
VAN HOLLEN: I'm not asking you that. Most economists would agree that would dive up prices
“Guns surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in 2020, and the number of gun deaths among this demographic has increased since then.”
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Sen. Kennedy to Warsh: "My worry is that a lot of this stuff about artificial intelligence making us more productive is a bunch of hype by people who want to sell stock and an IPO. I'd be careful there."
Cortez Masto to Warsh: In 2007, you said 'subprime mortgages have gotten a bad name.' You said you have no regrets. How can we trust that you're accurate now when you were wrong then?
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "I'm pretty confident coal will lead the world in global electricity production when I die"
I feel like it's poorly understood that Trumpism is *explicitly* about Trump and his allies getting to play by their own set of rules literally wherever possible
WARSH: The broad contours of the economy are improving. The potential of the economy, the real results of the economy are improving.
TINA SMITH: The reality is there was almost 0 job growth in 2025. That looks to me like not a roaring economy, but a weak economy.
WARNOCK: What grade would you give the American economy?
WARSH: Well, if i gave a student anything other than an A, the dean would summon me because I would've hurt his self-image
WARNOCK: Consumer confidence is at a record low. That's Americans' grade on the economy
This guy was installed by president trump
CHRIS WRIGHT: What happens when the wind blows right now? We turn down natural gas plants and we save 2 cents in reduced natural gas price. We pay a 4 cent subsidy and save 2 cents
WYDEN: What you are describing is fiction
Thom Tillis still refuses to blame Trump for anything: "The problem I have is that some US attorney or assistant US attorney with a dream thought it would be cute to bring Chair Powell under an investigation ... the boss said he didn't know anything about it"
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin refers to Democratic members of Congress as "kamikaze Democrats"
Trump: "Never allow the Traitor Democrats like Low IQ person Hakeem Jeffries, or Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, or the totally corrupt Fake News Media such as the phony and decaying Wall Street Journal, the Failing New York Times (Subscriptions way down!), or dying '60 Minutes,' to demean or criticize Operation Midnight Hammer, which totally obliterated the Nuclear Dust locations to the point where bloodthirsty Iran has been unable to get to it, or dig it out. Space Force has cameras on every inch of the 3 sites that were so brilliantly hit last June! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT"
Trump: "Never allow the Traitor Democrats like Low IQ person Hakeem Jeffries, or Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, or totally corrupt Fake News Media such as phony & decaying Wall Street Journal, the Failing New York Times (Subscriptions way down!), or dying '60 Minutes,' to criticize Operation Midnight Hammer"
Crucial from @davidsirota.com: If Dems win House, they must use power of the purse to stop Trump. Dems can't fear the politics of defunding. Trump is weak and this is an opening to reassert "congressional authority in a real way."
On the pod David explains this well:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The SPLC was founded in 1971 and used civil litigation to fight white supremacist groups. apnews.com/article/sout...
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: "What the Democrats need to do is explain to the American people why they want open border and why they don't want to deport these illegals that are truly running our cities and strait--- our, our, our streets. At some point they need to be held accountable."
But he had bone spurs so he was forced to miss it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
