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@BasedMikeLee
Oct 11 • 5 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
🧵 1. I’ve been on a conference call for the last 90 minutes with my colleagues and key Biden administration officials regarding the recent Hamas attacks on Israel. Heres what we learned:
2. The administration is mincing words and hiding behind classified-briefing doors, leading members to infer it is more to protect their own public image than as a means to actually giving the people’s representatives the truth. The only actor this helps is Iran.
3. This administration has treated Iran as a legitimate actor from day one, so much so that $6 billion REMAINS available for Iran to access. The Biden administration has not pulled this off the table. If we truly control the $6 billion, we should pull it off the table right now.
4. But instead of an actual plan of action to end Iran’s privileged treatment, this administration told us one of the best things we could do is hastily confirm more ambassadors and State Department nominees. Adding more unelected bureaucrats to the mix will not solve this administration’s colossal blunders of American statecraft.
5. One thing the briefers acknowledged was that none of the $6 billion sitting in escrow in Qatar can be given to Iran without the Biden administration giving the final sign-off. If that’s true, it would be reckless for the administration to approve even a single transaction.

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The Senate is being asked to vote in less than an hour on a spending measure that we still have not seen. This is nuts.
Finally got the bill text moments ago. Voting in 27 minutes.
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🧵1.The law firm of Schumer, McConnell, McCarthy, & Jeffries (“The Firm”) has learned that members of Congress (and voters) don’t like “omnibus” spending bills—that is, legislative proposals that fund all of the functions of the federal government in a single, consolidated bill.
2.This presents a challenge for The Firm, which has for years used omnibus spending bills to manipulate the legislative process. Before we address The Firm’s latest challenge and how it’s responding, let’s first review a few of the basic dynamics at play here.
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🧵We’re $33 trillion in debt because when Congress passes spending bills, each item is often tied to every other item—packaged together in one, gigantic bill. That bill is then presented to Congress on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, with no real chance to amend, improve, or cut.
The formula has been quite consistent for years: a tiny group of leaders — which I refer to as “The Law Firm of Schumer, McConnell, McCarthy & Jeffries” — privately negotiates a “draft” spending bill, some would say with more input from lobbyists than most members of Congress.
That bill is kept as if it were a highly classified secret until days (sometimes hours) before a spending deadline—that is, the moment the government will run out of money, resulting in a shutdown unless Congress passes another spending bill.
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Sep 10
“Emergencies” are vehicles that deliver tyranny.
The intolerant often want to use government to silence those who disagree with them. To that end, on occasion they identify an “emergency” that in their view somehow justifies the criminalization of non-criminal conduct — not just any such conduct, but conduct that is commonly engaged in by people who don’t agree with them. The action taken yesterday by the governor of New Mexico is an example of this approach. Another example can be found in The Salt Lake Tribune’s call — issued by its editorial board in 2022 — for Utah’s governor to “deploy the national guard” to impose house arrest on all Utahns “without proof of vaccination.” Through these and countless other examples, we can discern the importance of maintaining a degree of skepticism toward those wanting to restrict liberty on the basis of an “emergency.”
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Nobody loves an “emergency” more than a socialist.
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“Mitch Mc­Connell has been mak­ing daily floor speeches on the need for more Ukraine fund­ing, wor­ried Mr. Mc­Carthy can’t get this cru­cial aid past House GOP spend­ing hard-lin­ers. So Mr. Mc­Connell is … sign­ing up to help Mr. Schumer ram the whole pack­age down the House’s throat.”
With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?
We need new leadership.
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