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Erica Werner

5 Nov, 12 tweets, 2 min read

Spanberger on the Dem caucus call: We lost races we shouldn’t have lost.
Defund police almost cost me my race bc of an attack ad.
Don’t say socialism ever again.
Need to get back to basics.
(Is yelling.)

If we run this race again we will get fucking torn apart again in 2022, Spanberger says

Pelosi comes back on and says she disagrees, they won the House and presidency

We have a mandate! Pelosi says before getting off the call

Also earlier in the call Debbie Mucarsel-Powell who lost her race was crying , and mentioned how people can’t pronounce her name, and said stop being negative on Twitter

Jeffries comes back on to tell people to stop leaking and that reporters aren’t your friends! 😢

Jayapal is telling Jeffries to find the leakers! 🤐

It just keeps going as Pascrell now calling out Schumer.
Pelosi’s done an amazing job ... but where’s Schumer in all of this? Says Pelosi has one hand tied behind her back

Rashida Tlaib saying before we make painful statements we need to wait and see how the numbers come down, feels like I’m being asked to be quiet and we need to appeal to certain people, and that’s not right

Tlaib: They called Obama worse, they called him a Muslim, a socialist, you can blame these words but if it wasn’t on BLM would’ve been something else

The end is in sight for this Dem caucus call that started more than two hours ago. Jeffries said 7-8 mbrs in queue and then will wrap up.
Anyways I have to go help with kids zoom piano lessons so leaving it here

One more random detail is that Earl Blumenauer said marijuana was the big winner of the election citing successful ballot initiatives in various places

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Erica Werner

@ericawerner

4 Nov

MCCONNELL:
"We need another rescue package. ....
I think we need to do it and I think we need to do it *BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR* .. that's Job One."

Also says he and Pelosi have agreed they want to do an omnibus approps package (NOT a CR) ... and confirm some more judges.

McConnell: "It’s a possibility we will do more for state and local governments."

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Erica Werner

@ericawerner

13 Oct

Wolf Blitzer grilling Pelosi on why she won't take $1.8T deal. Reads Ro Khanna tweet..
Pelosi: "I don’t know why you’re always an apologist and many of your colleagues are apologists for the Republican position-- Ro Khanna, that’s nice. That isn’t what we’re going to do."

Wolf says he's also spoken with Andrew Yang who says take the deal.
Pelosi: "Honest to God, I really can’t get over it. Because Andrew Yang, he’s lovely. Ro Khanna, he’s lovely. They’re not negotiating this situation."

Yikes!
"With all due respect you really don't know what you're talking about" Pelosi tells Wolf Blitzer as he presses her on why she won't take Mnuchin deal.

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Erica Werner

@ericawerner

13 Oct

McConnell: “When the full Senate returns on Oct 19 our first order of business will be voting again on targeted relief.”

Trump: “Go big or go home!!!”

McConnell talking now in Ky. Says new bill will be roughly $500b in targeted relief.
(The one he put on floor last month was $650b - but only $300b was new spending)

McConnell says the new bill will have UI, PPP, and money for schools and hospitals.
"The choice is do you want to do something or nothing. So far they have said if we can’t do everything we want to do we won't do anything. That doesn’t solve the problem."

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Erica Werner

@ericawerner

12 Oct

KY Senate debate under way, immediately heated on coronavirus response.

McGrath accuses McConnell of "absolute dereliction of duty" in failing to pass new bill … "Instead of doing that he is trying to ram through a Supreme Court nominee.”

McConnell: "We’ve been negotiating trying to put something reasonable together. .. It’s pretty clear to me that her party doesn’t want to get a solution ... The speaker has been totally unreasonable and not interested in getting an outcome as we’ve tried and tried and tried."

McGrath: “The House passed a bill in May and the Senate went on vacation.”
McConnell (chuckles): “Nobody went on vacation. … The challenge here was the speaker was simply unwilling to cooperate.”
McConnell says Pelosi-Mnuchin talks “Went on and on and on for months.” (#truth)

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Erica Werner

@ericawerner

10 Oct

New Pelosi letter to colleagues on covid relief talks: "This proposal amounted to one step forward, two steps back. When the President talks about wanting a bigger relief package, his proposal appears to mean that he wants more money at his discretion to grant or withhold..."

"At this point, we still have disagreement on many priorities, and Democrats are awaiting language from the Administration on several provisions as the negotiations on the overall funding amount continue. ... the Trump proposal is insufficient in meeting families’ needs."

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Erica Werner

@ericawerner

7 Oct

Pelosi is about to be appearing on The View, where it is Joy's bday! Per the teaser, Joy will be unwrapping a "very special president"!

*present
Pelosi has not come on yet but meanwhile I am enjoying the banter with Whoopi announcing we are living in "cuckoo-crazy time"

Pelosi on latest Trump tweets
"It’s hard to see any clear sane path on what he’s doing but the fact is he saw the political downside of his statement of walking away from the negotiations ... He’s rebounding from a terrible mistake he made yesterday."

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