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A statement from President Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance:

The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.

Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney. The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee—which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures that happened that day. This bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.

Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch. If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now. And we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want.

Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is with a temporary funding bill WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS combined with an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a betrayal of our country.

Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.

THIS CHAOS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IF WE HAD A REAL PRESIDENT. WE WILL IN 32 DAYS!

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Sep 9
It has been 50 days since Kamala Harris became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party.

In the dead of night yesterday, she finally released her campaign policy page. Here's what I think of it 🧵
⁨⁨1) Kamala Harris claims she wants to cut taxes for middle class families, but here's what's in her plan:

IRS Audits for working families: Getting audited is a horrendous experience, even if you’ve done nothing wrong. Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to hire 87,000 IRS agents to audit more people. As recently as last summer, 63% of new audits fell taxpayers earning less than $200,000.

The IRS, like Kamala Harris, claims that it’s not going to increase audits on people making under $400K, but the Treasury Inspector General stated the agency’s strategic plan, “did not include specifics on how the IRS was going to ensure it met this commitment.” That’s because they have no intention of ensuring they’re not going to audit middle class families—that’s where they’re going to find the money to pay for their massive spending proposals.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, under questioning in the House, could not deny that 90 percent of new audits under the IRA would be on households earning less than $400,000. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that the majority of additional taxes the IRS recommended from audits from 2010-2021 came from taxpayers with income less than $200,000.

It’s even harder to pretend that taxing working men and women isn’t their focus when you think about the reporting requirement Biden-Harris signed into law to require businesses to fill out a 1099K form on transactions over $600 made using third-party payment platforms. The reporting threshold before their bill was $20,000.

There’s no minimum number of transactions in their bill, so a single transaction over $600 that triggers the reporting requirement creates more paperwork. Even Senate Democrats have backed different bills to blunt the impact of this enormously burdensome mandate.

The Government Accountability Office found this aspect of the Harris tax record would result in at least 30 million new 1099K forms getting sent out in 2024. The Joint Committee on Taxation found that over 90 percent of the tax burden will fall on middle class families and gig workers.

The Biden-Harris tax plan, as explicitly outlined in their formal budget request to Congress would increase taxes by $5 trillion. That’s going to stack on top of her inflationary climate spending bills and drag the economy down further. It’s been estimated that “the tax changes in the Biden-Harris budget would reduce long-run GDP by 1.6 percent…wages by 1.1 percent, and employment by about 666,000 full-time equivalent jobs.”

That’s nearly a million people out of work and lower wages for everyone in order to shift money towards the Harris Green New Deal—as she said to CNN in her first interview after nearly a month as the Democratic nominee, her values haven’t changed on that policy, which she supported enthusiastically when she was in the Senate.

All in all, the Biden-Harris record has been a massive wealth transfer from working people to the Green New Deal’s constituencies—the Harris tax plan is going to be more of the same, no matter what kind of claims she makes during the campaign.⁩Image
2) Kamala claims she wants to make rent more affordable and home ownership more attainable, but that's not what her plan would do at all.

Kamala wants to give every first time homebuyer a $25,000 check toward downpayment assistance. What she fails to leave out is that this would likely raise the average home price by the same amount, making her plan moot. We also haven't heard how the debt-burdened federal government would pay for such a plan.

There’s also no guarantee that this down payment assistance will be limited to citizens. The campaign has yet to lay out what requirements there will be, beyond being a first time homebuyer and having a two year history of rental payments. One reporter has indicated that only an SSN or taxpayer identification number will be required. If that’s true, then this would leave open the door for millions of illegal immigrants to get this assistance. And this wouldn’t be the first time housing assistance has gone to noncitizens—there are a number of federal housing subsidies that noncitizens are eligible for: including the HOME Investment Partnership Program and Treasury’s pandemic era Emergency rental assistance program.

But under Kamala, the potential for assistance to go to illegals isn’t the only issue. Couple that with Kamala’s CFPB and DOJ effectively forcing banks to lend to noncitizens. They’ve rewritten guidance mandating that banks cannot deny loan applications strictly on citizenship grounds, even though citizenship and residence status bear a large impact on loan repayment prospects.

Vice President Harris also mentions how she'll spur the construction of "3 million more rental units." While she outlines an admirable plan, it's tough to take it seriously. This Vice President has overseen an administration that has enacted new red tape for multi-family and single-family construction. We've seen her Housing and Urban Development Department enact green energy requirements for new rental units, mandatory strictly-cosmetic updates to public housing units, and more regulations that will make it harder to grow the rental supply.

That's not the end of it. The Vice President seems to think that the ongoing housing crisis is strictly due to a supply problem, but it's not. Her policies have also driven demand for housing through the roof, particularly when looking at the price and availability of rental units.

As I've outlined before, and as academic research supports, mass immigration drives up demand, threatens the American dream of homeownership, and makes housing less affordable for working Americans.

When a city’s immigrant population increases, the area’s home prices and rental costs rise by a comparable amount. But the effects vary by neighborhood: home values are negatively correlated with the immigrant concentration. The result: only current homeowners in non-immigrant, wealthy neighborhoods stand to benefit from mass immigration. Working-class residents see their rental costs soar, and their home values decline.

It's common sense, we can't fix our housing crisis until we address the crisis at the border.⁩Image
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May 13
At Trump trial today. Some observations:

1) we started in Trump Tower with a beautiful view of Central Park. Then you come to a dingy court house with people like Alvin Bragg. They prevent his supporters from getting too close to the court house, and they prevent his friends from standing too close to him. The president is expected to sit here for six weeks to listen to the Michael Cohens of the world.

I’m now convinced the main goal of this trial is psychological torture. But Trump is in great spirits.
2) we’ve seen a couple mask wearers. @TTuberville turns to me and says “looks like we forgot our masks.” 😂
3) I saw a media report a few days ago that Trump looked like he was falling asleep or bored or something. The obvious narrative they’re trying to sell is “yeah Biden is mentally unfit but this other guy is bad too.”

It’s an absurd narrative. I’m 39 years old and I’ve been here for 26 minutes and I’m about to fall asleep,
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Apr 16
If your bill rebuilds our defense industrial base at a slower pace than it sends weapons overseas, it's not about America's security. And it's not about our defense industrial base.

At this point, the entire Russia-Ukraine debate borders on fantasy. We need some realism.
Don't tell me the Europeans are doing more or will do more. This is too abstract. Tell me, in precise terms, what Ukraine needs to win (or have a chance at winning). And then tell me how much Europe and America together can reasonably provide, and by what date.
People tell me we must support Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. Even if I agreed with you, you're telling me what we should do when I'm arguing about what we *can* do. Tell me what we are capable of accomplishing before telling me what we should do. Let's deal with reality first.
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Feb 12


The obsession with funding endless war in Ukraine is, intentionally or not, an effort within the GOP establishment to stop the election of Donald Trump.

It is a plot against the president.theamericanconservative.com/how-congress-i…
The basic form this takes is simple: Republican leadership, desperate for Ukraine money, put their own members and Republican House members in a political bind.

Rather than accept responsibility, they blame, you guessed it, Donald Trump. Image
This is not a one-off thing. Every time their Ukraine-first plan hits a road bump, they will blame Trump and "MAGA Republicans."

They will create a narrative of chaos and extremism to undermine the nominee of their party.

Politically, they will make it harder for Trump to get elected. This is the first part of the plot.Image
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Jun 10, 2023
The question of whether Trump should have kept those documents is fundamentally a political question. Criticize it, attack it, vote against it. But prosecuting a president over his own government’s documents is turning a political issue into a legal one.
It’s insane to me that the people who shout from the rooftops about “OUR DEMOCRACY” have taken this position: unelected bureaucrats can throw the elected president in prison for “mishandling” documents. Does Article 2 mean anything? If so Trump did nothing wrong.
Maybe you disagree. Maybe you think he should have kept the documents in a safe. Fine. Then go vote against him. I try to understand the left’s perspective, but on this question—throwing Trump in prison over a political issue—they’ve passed the Rubicon. There is no going back.
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Apr 28, 2023
If Chris was an actual journalist, rather than a regime propagandist, he might note the incredible social and financial pressure to conform to the trans activist narrative. I'm shocked--shocked--that many parents are afraid of speaking openly on this topic.
During the campaign, I had about a dozen health care professionals approach me about the atrocious "gender affirming" care they saw in their hospitals and clinics. The stories were remarkably consistent: hasty procedures, lack of informed consent, and so on.
Every single person refused to go on the record, or talk to a reporter, or even allow me to personally keep some of the training and other materials they brought to events. All of them told me it would be professional suicide to speak openly.
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