Rep Al Green (D-Texas) stands up and says "you don't have a mandate," points his cane at Trump, is now drowned out by Republicans chanting USA USA USA
"Sit down," "Sit your ass down," Republicans yell -- Green still standing and trying to be heard...
Trump trying to carry on with the speech
Green STILL GOING
"You have no mandate to cut Medicaid" Green says
"I’m willing to suffer whatever punishment is available to me,” Al Green said after getting thrown out of the House during Trump's speech huffpost.com/entry/al-green…
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"the uncertainty right now is creating chaos for local Meals on Wheels providers not knowing whether they should be serving meals today. Which unfortunately means seniors will panic not knowing where their next meals will come from."
A senior administration official stresses to me "no benefits to individuals are affected by this—funding specifically that violates the president’s EOs."
Meals on Wheels isn't a direct benefit to individuals tho -- it's grants that wind up at local charities
The OMB memo footnote says the pause "does not include assistance provided directly to individuals." An administration official says Meals on Wheels should be OK. Meals on Wheels is grants through states and nonprofits - not directly to individuals - they don't think they're OK.
Rep Clay Higgins (R-La) is asking FBI director Chris Wray about alleged "ghost buses" that perhaps brought undercover FBI assets to the Capitol on Jan 6.
"This buses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI agents dressed as Trump supporters"
correction: he said the buses were filled INFORMANTS from the FBI, not agents.
First I've heard about ghost buses on Jan 6
"These two buses were painted completely white," Higgins said, pointing to picture of buses allegedly at Union Station garage on Jan 6.
White buses are not actually unusual, I don't think.
Fed chair Jerome Powell on debt ceiling stalemate: don't look at us!
"No one should assume that the Fed can protect the economy from the potential, you know, short and long term effects of a failure to pay our bills on time."
I believe this is partly a rebuke of the Trillion Dollar Coin...
... the idea that Joe Biden could get us out of the debt ceiling drama by asking the Treasury Department to mint a coin and deposit it at the Fed.
Powell gently rebukes Congress for even having a debt ceiling drama.
"We shouldn't even be talking about a world in which the US doesn't pay its bills. It just -- It just shouldn't be a thing."
Inside the right-wing freakout over mortgage fees, which even the Mortgage Bankers Association calls "misinformation" huffpost.com/entry/loan-lev…
The FHFA announced new fees for govt-backed mortgages, some higher than before for borrowers w good credit, some lower for borrowers w worse credit.
Key fact: borrowers with worse credit still pay higher fees than borrowers with food credit.
Tucker Carlson twisted this in his final broadcast.
“We are incentivizing bad behavior. We’re hurting the good people,” Carlson said, before noting that “Black Americans are the only racial group in this country with average credit scores of under 680.”
If I were concerned that people could accurately construe my symbolic legislation as cutting funding to the VA, I would simply not write my bill that way
Trump spoke via video at a fundraiser last night where Jan 6 defendants accused of violent crimes also spoke from behind bars
Here are some of the "political prisoner" speakers, as seen in photos from charging documents
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke in-person at the event, said she had recently left a meeting about being on the Oversight Committee, where she said she brought up DC Jail