🧵Just two months into the 118th Congress, Republicans have introduced dozens of bills to push their extreme agenda.
Here is what you need to know about the GOP’s attack on the future of reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, gun safety, and MORE:
Since the overturn of Roe, Republicans have rushed to file over 30 bills to restrict reproductive choice.
In their first year, the Biden-Harris Administration has acquired a long list of accomplishments. 🧵
While there’s more work to do, we’re here to report on how our current administration has already improved our economy, climate, pandemic response, LGBTQ rights, and more. (1/7)
First, Biden’s American Rescue Plan has spurred massive job growth – adding 807,000 private-sector jobs in December alone — and the largest real GDP growth rate in the century.
Pressed by reporters, Marjorie Taylor Greene won't apologize for supporting a post calling for Speaker Pelosi's assassination, and instead lashes out at reporters -- despite claiming earlier in the press conference she supports free speech and journalism.
Marjorie Taylor Greene blames Democrats - and a few Republicans - who voted to strip her of her committee assignments of depriving voters in her district of a voice. But the action was based on Greene's own words.
Feb 4, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Defending herself as the House debates removing her from committees for promoting violence and conspiracy theories, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asserts, "I've never been arrested, I've never done drugs."
Not taking responsibility for her actions, Greene claims she fell into QAnon because she didn't trust what she saw on CNN or Fox News so she turned to Facebook: "I was allowed to believe things that weren't true."
Jan 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Press secretary Jen Psaki says Biden is issuing executive orders because he was elected to address American pain and suffering. She says that "includes overturning some of the detrimental, harmful and at times immoral, policies and actions" of Trump.
Press secretary Jen Psaki calls out Rob Crilly, a reporter for the conservative Washington Examiner, for taking President Biden out of context while asking about his executive orders.
Jan 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
President Biden: "We have recently discovered, in the final days of the transition ... that once we arrived the vaccine program was in worse shape than we anticipated, or expected."
President Biden announces that "we will increase overall weekly vaccine distributions to states, tribes, and territories, from 8.6 million doses to a minimum of 10 million doses."
Biden: "Starting next week, that's an increase of 1.4 million doses per week."
Nov 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
President-elect Joe Biden notes the COVID-19 death toll hitting 250,000: "To those families and friends that are left behind, Jill and I send our love and our prayers."
President-elect Biden notes he discussed a national mask mandate with governors and that many have recognized the need for universal masking: "It's not a political statement. It's a patriotic duty."
Nov 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mary Turner, ICU Nurse, in a roundtable with President-elect Biden: "Our hospitals are overflowing with COVID patients, and we aren't prepared. We know the right way to battle this virus, but our employers and our government are not supporting us."
Mary Turner, ICU Nurse, in roundtable w Biden talks about nurses who have COVID because "the hospital or their government hasn't protected them."
She adds: "Throughout this pandemic we've had to reuse N95s so many times ... sometimes a mask literally falls off our faces."
Nov 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
After meeting with union and business leaders, President-elect Joe Biden says they all agreed "the sooner we have access to the administration's [vaccine] distribution plan, the sooner this transition would smoothly move forward."
Trump and his team continue to deny he lost.
President-elect Biden says "more people may die" as a result of the Trump administration's refusal to initiate a transfer of power. He notes that getting 300 million vaccinated is a "huge undertaking" and it is necessary to start planning before January 20th.
Nov 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
President-elect Biden on Trump's refusal to acknowledge his win: "We are already beginning the transition. We're well underway. ... The fact that they're not willing to acknowledge we won, at this point, is not of much consequence in our planning and what we're able to do."
President-elect Biden on what he's telling world leaders that he has spoken to: "I'm letting them know that America is back. We're gonna be back in the game, it's not America alone."
Sep 18, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Trump says of the vaccine, which does not yet exist and hasn't been subjected to an approval process: "We'll have manufactured at least 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year"
There have been multiple reports of pressure for a vaccine to coincide with the election.
Previously: Biden: 'I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don't trust Donald Trump' americanindependent.com/donald-trump-j…
Sep 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Praising his own virus response as deaths near 200,000, Trump says, "if you take the blue states out, we're at a level I don't think anybody in the world would be at."
On the same day Joe Biden and others raise concerns about Trump using political pressure for a vaccine, Trump says the CDC head was "confused" in his congressional testimony about when a vaccine would be available and said he called him to set him straight.
Sep 15, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Trump announces he's going to be a regular contributor to Fox & Friends, appearing once a week. The announcement surprised the hosts, who probably thought he has better things to do.
Trump used to contribute to Fox before he ran for office, pushing birther conspiracies.
Trump says reporters give Joe Biden the answers to questions and put them on a teleprompter for him. This is completely made up and false.
Jun 24, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
In a hearing discussing AG William Barr's attempts to politically interfere in cases on behalf of Trump, GOP Rep @Jim_Jordan recites a series of conspiracies about the Obama administration then proclaims, "Bill Barr is doing the Lord's work."
Previously: Former prosecutor to testify Barr intervened in case of Trump pal to please Trump americanindependent.com/aaron-zelinsky…
Jun 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Trump first describes reports that he went down to the White House bunker as a "false report," then he admits that he did go but "it was much more for an inspection," rather than out of fear of protesters. "I've gone down two or three times all for inspection."
Trump goes on to say he went down to the bunker "for a very short period of time" as "an inspecting factor."
May 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"We don't want them to do mail-in ballots," says Trump, who has previously said he opposes such voting because it would hurt Republicans.
He goes on to falsely claim "fraud" is associated with mail-in votes and excuses himself from mail voting due to his position.
Previously: White House just lied about why Trump didn't vote in person americanindependent.com/donald-trump-l…
May 14, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Trump says doctors and nurses are "running into death just like soldiers running into bullets" and that "it's a beautiful thing to see."
Trump, who tweets incessantly, compares his work ethic to the employees making PPE at the facility where he is speaking: "I work those hours too, we're all working hard."
Apr 13, 2020 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Trump begins his press conference by having Dr Anthony Fauci argue that his contradiction with Trump on when they should have acted on coronavirus came about from a poor response to a "hypothetical" question.
White House: 'Ridiculous' to think Trump would fire Fauci after he hinted he would americanindependent.com/anthony-fauci-…
Apr 7, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Trump says, "I will protect you if your governor fails." But he has been under fire from multiple governors for failing to provide states with the necessary equipment to deal with coronavirus.
Previously: Trump says governors 'have to treat us well' as they struggle to save their citizens americanindependent.com/donald-trump-c…
Apr 6, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Apparently referring to the coronavirus, Trump says, "Wherever that monster goes, we're able to move with it. Great flexibility, we have tremendous flexibility."
Trump claims that when the governors speak to the media, they say "oh we're not happy" but "they're very happy on the phone." This isn't true, and teleconference recordings have come out showing that this is false.
Apr 2, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
After announcing he is finally utilizing the Defense Production Act to make ventilators, Trump says, "C-O-V-I-D 19. You know what that is. Right? Become a very famous term. C-O-V-I-D. COVID."
Previously: Trump finally invokes Defense Production Act — 15 days after he said he would americanindependent.com/donald-trump-d…
