6. We are reopening now. 7. Governors were not ready for the pandemic. 8. The federal stockpile had been reduced before me. 9. You soon will see vaccines pouring out, more than you would have. "V V soon." 10. We respected NC and came. Democrats didn't go to WI.
11. CSPAN gets a plug! POTUS says it was only place he could see and hear the roll call. (That or OAN.) 12. We are not taking "God" out of the pledge. 13. My poll numbers went up during Dem convention. (Daily approval, Rasmussen, went up 4 pts to 51%.)
PRES. TRUMP:
14. Democrats' use of mail-in ballots is one of greatest scandals ever. (Note: POTUS at times was clear, at others seemed to confuse and combine the idea of mailed-out ballots w/ absentee request forms.) 15. Democrats are trying to steal the election.
PRES. TRUMP:
16. Democrats' voters don't have any enthusiasm. 17. Bobby Knight and Coach Holtz are great. (Indiana riff.) 18. Implies it's unfair to send ballots to voters who aren't enthusiastic.
19.The Dem base is more enthusiastic about Bernie than Biden. Bc trade.
PRES. TRUMP:
20. Whoever wins in November may get as many as 5 Supreme Court openings. 21. We fixed NAFTA and blocked the TransPacific Partnership. 22. We stood up to China. 23. We got the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipeline's approved. 24. We "knocked out" Obamacare
PRES. TRUMP:
25. Nobody gives to politicians more than big Pharma. 26. We are going to fully fund police. 27. We are going to do school choice. 28. I funded HBCU's, criminal justice reform - no president has done as much for Af-Americans since Abraham Lincoln.
PRES. TRUMP:
29. We will be the first on Mars. Let's see if that happens. 30. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 31. We have the greatest base of support anytime, anywhere. 32. This will be the most important election. 33. NC, I love you very much! Thank you!
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BREAKING: MN Gov. Tim Walz confirms state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in what he said appears to be politcally motivated assassination.
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Officials confirm Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were also shot and have not finished surgery. They are optimistic, but both are in difficult situations.
The area where this happened is under a "shelter at home" order, as law enforcement searches for the perpetrator.
Finally have a chance to look through the Trump proposal. Here's what's in it.
Overall: $9.4 billion in approved spending that Trump wants clawed back, or rescinded.
Foreign aid: $8.3 billion
Public broadcasting: $1.1 billion
Foreign aid highlights. Trump would like to cut:
- $203 million from U.S. contribs to UN, World Health Org and other intl orgs.
- $361 million from intl peacekeeping activities
- $900 million from global health, incl. HIV/AIDs treatment
- $1.7 billion from econ. support fund
More Trump proposed rescissions:
- $2.5 billion for development assistance
- $460 million for Europe + Central Asia
- $496 million for disaster assistance
- $125 million for USAID operating expenses
- $64 milllion for Instte. for Peace, African Devel Fndtn, Inter-American Fndtn
A thread on new directives for federal workers and hiring from OPM ... as Musk exits and the Trump administration enters next phase for federal workforce.
I'll write this as I read...
NEW today. The Trump administration posted its final federal hiring plan.
It is a 30 page memo.
Title: Merit Hiring Plan
To: Agency + department heads and acting heads
The Trump hiring plan begins w DEI programs, which it calls "immoral".
Agencies must:
- Cease using statistics on race, sex, ethnicity or national origin, or the broader concept of “underrepresentation” in hiring
- Cease sharing info about agency's composition in those areas
NEW. Statement from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which is a @NewsHour funder) on Lawsuit to Block Firing of CPB Board Members:
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is not a government entity, and its board members are not government officers. …
… Because CPB is not a federal agency subject to the President’s authority, but rather a private corporation, we have filed a lawsuit to block these firings.“
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“In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’.”
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