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Aaron Fritschner
@Fritschner
House guy. DCoS @repdonbeyer | past: @jenniferwexton @KamalaHarris @deborahrossnc | he/him | Hendersonville, NC native | SciFi, RocknRoll fan | Tweets mine/dumb
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Oct 2 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Plenty of projects on Russ Vought's cancellation list in Republican districts, and not just ones in blue states.

In some cases he cancelled projects hosted or headquartered in a state on his list, but the project itself is elsewhere.

Two of these are in South Carolina Some award amounts are small to middling, but some are quite large.

This hydrogen project spanning much of Washington, Oregon, and western Montana is a *$1 Billion* award.

It spans 5 congressional districts, 3 of which are Republican-represented
Oct 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Your own fact check discredits the claim Republicans made on this, not to mention the other outlets who rightly called it "false," "misleading," and "a lie." What you are doing is helping Republicans erase millions of Americans on Medicaid whose healthcare they cut "Democrats are accusing the White House of lying, saying illegals can’t access programs like Medicare and Medicaid. While that’s technically true, some lawfully present immigrants were eligible for the federal health programs"

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Sep 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. reuters.com/world/us/fed-g… “The document, dated May 28, 2021, was issued to Cook by her credit union in the weeks before she completed the purchase and shows that she had told the lender that the Atlanta property wouldn’t be her primary residence. “ Image
Jul 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
So- the House.

The vote math is the same as the Senate: Republicans can only lose 3, a fourth kills it assuming all present/voting. As in the Senate there's one solid no via a libertarian contrarian from Kentucky.

I don't feel a lot of suspense, I think they'll pass this as is Here is how I see it going.

There are three publicly stated points of opposition remaining after various controversial bits (AI moratorium, public lands sale, etc) were removed, which was inevitable.

The three remaining issues with constituencies are: energy, Medicaid, debt.
May 16 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
One of the most significant moments of the 2026 cycle likely happened Tuesday night during the Ways and Means markup of the tax portion of Republicans' reconciliation bill.

It got no attention at the time and little since, but it is wildly important. Here's what happened-- Ways & Means Republicans released stub bill text Friday, then full text Monday afternoon. This gave Congress' nonpartisan tax scorekeeper, the Joint Committee on Taxation, little time to score the bill in time for the markup.

JCT is our source for numbers on what the bill does.
Apr 3 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Trump just opened up a procedural avenue for Dems to force votes on the tariffs he announced yesterday. A quick explainer- Each Trump tariff uses specific legal authorities.

Sector-specific tariffs (eg steel) use Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act.

Tariffs on all imports from X country use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) which requires declaration of a national emergency
Mar 14 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Ok folks it's time for Fritschner to play media critic again. There are exceptions but coverage of this funding showdown from much of the Capitol Hill press corps has been just awful, and it's very important that we analyze what we wrong here!

A quick review of how you blew it- Funding deadlines and shutdowns are an established quantity with choreography and tropes you're used to. One party has power but needs votes, the other wants stuff. They disagree. They negotiate. A bill happens. Maybe it's bipartisan. Maybe it has poison pills. You know all this
Mar 11 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
This just passed, party line vote with all Dems plus Massie opposed.

I will explain the details below, for those who want cliff notes version it's in the bottom of this press release:
beyer.house.gov/news/documents… x.com/Fritschner/sta…Image The Constitution enumerates powers for Congress in Article I, Section 8, including the "Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excise."

Congress delegated some authorities to impose tariffs for explicit national security reasons to POTUS: crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN…
Jan 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hi folks! Here to remind you that Executive Orders cannot lawfully undo laws passed by Congress.

FEMA is established in statute; the title of the bill that established it is worth knowing: The Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006
doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/… x.com/JenniferJJacob… *that established it with its current form and name within DHS, I should say. It has been kicked around a lot over the years between agencies and names
Jan 2 • 37 tweets • 14 min read
As the sun sets on the last full day of the 118th Congress, which was such a real one, here's a thread to reminisce about some of the moments that made this session unforgettable... I wrote some predictions (below) about the 118th months before it started, which proved more accurate than I thought possible. The Speaker fight, the mods v right dynamic, palace intrigue, policy fights and paralysis, Dems legislating- it all came to pass
Dec 12, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1) Trump runs on ridiculous promises he can't deliver
2) Much of the electorate believes him
3) Trump wins
4) Trump admits he can't deliver

I just don't see how this happening (a second time!) isn't a damning indictment of American media. Like, it definitely is one! How much more airtime and ink did "wHaT aRe KAmAla'S PoLiCIeS" get than interrogation of Trump's obviously impossible promises to magically reduce prices? Just in mainstream press, not even touching the black hole of the right wing information environment. 20 times as much? More?
Oct 16, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
"Donald Trump is campaigning on the most significant increase in tariffs in close to a century, preparing an attack on the international trade order that would likely raise prices, hurt the stock market and spark economic feuds with much of the world."
washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…Image "Gas prices would increase by as much as 75 cents per gallon... the Yale Budget Lab said in an estimate released Wednesday that the annual cost could be as high as $7,600 for a typical household. As a share of their income, the poorest Americans would pay 6 percent more" Image
Sep 27, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
We had hurricanes and floods in Western North Carolina growing up, but the devastation today is so much worse than anything I've ever seen or could have imagined there. Truly awful and heartbreaking Chimney Rock is just like, gone. It's impossible to process
Jul 31, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
People should note what @rachelvscott said to Trump at the end of the exchange when he attacked her: “I repeated your statements.”

Every part of Scott’s question referred to specific public statements Donald Trump previously made.

Here’s a thread documenting each one: 1: SCOTT: "You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were born in the United States, which is not true"

NPR, 1/23/24: "Trump is spreading birtherism falsehoods again — this time about Nikki Haley" Image
Jul 12, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Per the CSPAN archive, the last time Donald Trump took questions from reporters in a press conference was on February 8th. National and campaign reporters made an issue of the lack of press conferences with Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. To date, they have not done so with Trump. If you google this you'll turn up a speech Trump (and some journalists who adopted his framing) called a "press conference" on May 31 after he was convicted, but as the expert on presidential press conferences noted at the time, he did not take questions
Jul 5, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Wade through endless paragraphs of vibes and you’ll find there isn’t even a thin attempt to support the “conspiracy of silence” headline with any factual reporting in the story. Compare dates and you’ll see that if there was such a conspiracy, the author was a participant in it But of course, none of that matters right now because we don’t care about stuff like facts and sourcing! We don’t have time for things like that, this is a feeding frenzy and the sharks must have their flesh and blood
Jul 4, 2024 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
Something important, subtle, and largely un-discussed is shaping the way all of us perceive what's happening now. Shifts in editorial standards and a series of biases in reporting and especially amplification are herding the news in one direction.

I'll explain with examples– 1/ There are reasons why pretty much everything you see now describes panic, chaos, and backbiting. Reporters are looking for those things, they are getting print and headlines, and the other stuff is getting twisted, downplayed or cut. This works many ways in practice– 2/
Jul 2, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
3 bad criticisms of Biden’s speech on the Supreme Court immunity ruling-

1) “Waited hours”
He spoke in prime time. Audience >>> impatience

2) “Words, no action”
Can’t fix SCOTUS rulings with presidential announcements

3) “Didn’t take questions”
They would’ve been insanely dumb A frequent mistake politicians make (including in debates, where it is very harmful) is chasing what someone else said to argue with their point rather than strongly hitting your own message. You make YOUR point, not theirs. Arguing with press after a speech like that looks small
Jun 5, 2024 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
Stunningly bad. The purported news:

1) Biden spoke “softly” in a meeting in five months ago, sometimes referred to notes, and briefly closed his eyes
2) Republicans say he is old
3) Biden accurately described his LNG pause in ways Mike Johnson disagreed with

It’s just a hit job You can’t make this up, literally the next phrase in the story after the quote below is “including administration officials and other Democrats who found no fault in the president’s handling of the meetings. Most of those who said Biden performed poorly were Republicans.”
May 28, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Bob Good got here by defeating Denver Riggleman in a closed party convention that required in-person voting at the height of the pandemic at one location in a district that was 225 miles long. The location was Lynchburg, home to both Bob Good and his employer, Liberty University. Riggleman lived 70 miles away in Charlottesville, the most populous area in VA-5 at the time. Just 2,517 people made the drive to vote in the convention that elected Good. Over 400,000 people voted in the general election that year in VA-5, and Good ran behind Donald Trump
May 17, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Justice Alito says his wife Martha-Ann Alito had an altercation with neighbors about a "'Fuck Trump' sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21."

Except... FCPS and ACPS were all remote in January of 2021. No children were waiting for buses:



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Image That detail doesn't make the story better for Justice Alito. If it were true, it's still a huge problem, a violation of ethics standards, a conflict of interest that should have triggered recusal, etc. But if this isn't true, what else in his story isn't true?