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Jul 9, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
When Doug Steinhardt, the NJ Republican chairman, tweeted this, he knew it was a lie. Because on that very day, his own law firm in Warren County got $1-2 million of that $2T in COVID19 stimulus money.
There's nothing wrong with a law firm getting a PPP loan if it's needed to save jobs. And normally I wouldn't waste time caring that the NJ GOP chair is a raging hypocrite.

But here is why this does matter.
A while back, a Hunterdon County resident called my office angry because, she said, "everyone knows that no one in Hunterdon is getting any COVID 19 $." We had to convince her to let us track down her stimulus check.
At that time, this propaganda put out by the NJ GOP was spreading like wildfire via social media. I had to reassure several local mayors it wasn't true. I wonder how many people didn't apply for aid to which they were entitled because they believed it.
In fact, money from the $2T CARES Act went to St. Lukes Hospital and Hunterdon Medical Center; to school districts & non-profits in all our rural counties; to 2,700 small businesses in Hunterdon and my section of Warren Co (including Steinhardt's firm), supporting 21,000 jobs.
Our smaller counties and municipalities will get even more when Senator McConnell stops blocking the HEROES Act, which includes my bill to provide direct municipal aid.
Steinhardt's lie is part of a pattern of GOP politicians deliberately spreading misinformation that harms people: whether promoting quack cures, downplaying the risks of opening the economy, denigrating vote-by-mail, or telling their constituents they're not getting stimulus aid.
Meanwhile, the president telling you to vote in person votes by mail himself; the FOX News hosts telling you to party in bars broadcast from the safety of their homes; and the guy telling you to be angry you're not getting gov't aid is cashing gov't checks. Image
So: Doug Steinhardt can say what he wants about me and @JoshGottheimer - we'll thrash him in November anyway. But I'm not going to stand for misinformation that misleads and hurts my constituents.

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May 13
Persian Gulf countries like the UAE and Qatar don't gift planes to a US president or buy his worthless crypto coins for nothing. So what are they getting for their investment? Here are a few immediate examples. 1/
One - Trump is lifting a ban on exports of advanced chips to the Saudi & UAE AI industry. The ban aimed to keep this technology from leaking to China, and ensure that democracies, not mass surveillance dictatorships, lead global development of AI. 2/ finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-rew…
Two - Trump just decided to blow past Congressional objections and approve a helicopter and fighter jet maintenance deal with the UAE. Members of Congress had held the deal up because of the UAE's support for militias committing mass murder in Sudan.
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May 12
Spare a thought for the small business owners who had to beg and borrow to pay a $145,000 tax on that $100K shipment of product that happened to arrive while the most extreme China tariff was in place, only to see their president back down with zero Chinese concessions. 1/
It could have been worse, so it's good Trump is caving again. But what now? Aggregate tariffs on China stay around 55%. China could repackage some promises on fentanyl to get that down a bit more but not by much. And we seem stuck with a 10% tariff/tax on all foreign imports. 2/
That's a permanent inflationary tax on us all - including on stuff like bananas and rubber for tires that can't be made in the US. It's a double tax on companies that manufacture in the USA - increasing the cost of parts & materials they import and tariffs on what they export. 3/
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May 10
ICE's leaders seem drunk on the idea that the president can give them unrestrained power. But they work for the people of a pluralistic country, not for one man. The legitimacy this agency will need to continue to exist in a democratic society depends on them remembering that. 1/
When DHS was proposed, critics argued a democracy like ours should not have a single, big, powerful internal security ministry. I was less worried then - until the first Trump term, when we started seeing armed DHS elements with no insignia showing up at political protests. 2/
Democrats in Congress should say now how they'll bring DHS back within the rule of law once they have the power. Anyone with arrest authority should identify themselves, wear uniforms, no masks, and have the same duty to refuse unlawful orders as members of the military. 3/
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Apr 19
When I ran the State Department's human rights bureau, few Senators were more interested in our work than Marco Rubio.

If I'd purged from our annual reporting references to stolen elections in Venezuela or unjust imprisonment in China, he'd have called for my resignation. 1/
The State Department is required by law to issue these annual public reports on human rights violations for every country. They are supposed to be "full and complete," covering every major category of human rights abuse, including "prolonged detention without charges." 2/
The point is to force us to be honest about the foreign governments we're dealing with - so that if the president wants to sell arms to a foreign country, or have a chummy relationship with its leader, he can't deny it's torturing prisoners or refusing to hold free elections. 3/
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Mar 4
Democrats should take immediate action to force a vote in Congress on Trump's Canada/Mexico tariffs.

Make every House and Senate Republican either break with the president or own the economic consequences.

Can Democrats do this in the minority? Yes, they can. 1/
Trump used his emergency economic powers to impose the tariffs. Under the law, when presidents declare an "emergency," any member of Congress can move to terminate that emergency, and that motion is "privileged," meaning it must get an up or down vote. 2/sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/R46…
My guess is a handful of Republicans would vote against these inflationary tariffs if the choice were forced on them. Trump could still veto a successful resolution to terminate the emergency. But that would just further highlight how alone he is in taking us off a cliff.
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Feb 25
Not surprising JD would echo the arguments of the original "America First" fascist sympathizer Charles Lindbergh who tried to keep us from stopping Hitler.

Lindbergh similarly accused Jewish & British Americans of putting their original homelands' interests ahead of America.1 / Image
That Ukrainian-American man JD is scolding wasn't even asking us to fight Russia - just to arm Ukrainians so they could protect themselves, and our allies, from a Chinese backed Russian invasion of Europe.

He had a clearer sense of America's interests and values than our VP. 2/
I think it's wonderful that Americans of Polish, Jewish, Indian, Irish, Arab and other heritage have long urged us to care about the places their families came from. Every past president told them America is a friend to freedom everywhere. Too bad this one disagrees.
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