CBS is reporting that Susie Wiles's old lobbying firm has made $186 million under the Trump administration. Tell me again how food stamps that help a single mother feed her child while she works a full time job are the problem.
This new Reuters report is stunning.
A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.
Both men deny the meeting.
Flight records show their planes parked together that day.
Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.
Congress has a duty to act.
We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.
If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
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@knnoxfiles@BlantonSteve Because he understands it’a not his. All her effort that made it possible for him to get there matters. The money is hers as much as his, regardless of relationship status or paperwork.
@StarPlatinum_ Tale as old as time, these brilliant and capable women help make these men successful and prominent, sacrificing their own careers and ambitions in the process, and these poor excuses for men spectacularly disrespect them by following their dicks.
For anyone who hasn't heard about this yet: ICE showed up at the front door of Dr. Ann Lawani in Lodi, California, while she was still in her pajamas, shackled her at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and shipped her all the way to a detention center in Louisiana.
She’s a frontline nurse who worked through the worst of COVID, directs the master's nursing program at the University of San Francisco (overseeing 230+ nursing students), and takes care of her 83-year-old dad.
When her family and lawyer tried to find out where she was taken, ICE’s online locator came back with "0 results." It turns out ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.
DHS put out a statement claiming she had a 2013 removal order, but they conveniently left out that on the *exact same day* in 2013, an immigration judge granted her Withholding of Removal blocking her deportation to Nigeria because she faced persecution there.
She has zero criminal record, has checked in with ICE for 13 years, and has a valid federal work permit through 2029. Because they legally can't send her to Nigeria, Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has been trying to quietly deport her to an undisclosed third country behind her lawyer's back.
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@DefunctWebs@MajorityDems And all of that is just premiums to which actual costs - deductible, copay, coinsurance, etc need to be added. And with all that money currently spent, vast swats of population still aren’t getting the care they need.
@keithchaput@MajorityDems Because they are the uber wealthy who benefit from the status quo. Look who owns this entity pretending to speak for Democrats writ large.
Medicare for All would save $1 trillion & 114,000 lives each & every year, per Yale.
“Majority Democrats” is funded by billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Mandel, Michael Bloomberg & Rupert Murdoch’s son.
They should change their name to Billionaires for the Status Quo.
To restore democracy here’s a better idea. Pass what the American people want:
66% want Medicare for All
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
78% want to expand Social Security
63% want a data center moratorium
58% want to end military aid to Israel
@FmrRepMTG Tax billionaires. Increase corporate tax rates. Have employers send their share of healthcare coverage to fund M4A instead of predatory private insurers.
Sanders just laid out the first 100 days of health policy:
- Medicare at 55, not 65
- Dental, vision and hearing covered
- Every kid insured from birth to 19
All of it fits through reconciliation with 51 votes. No filibuster excuse.
Democrats ran on fixing healthcare costs. This is the test of whether they meant it.
@JBKSchlossberg Are you for real right now? No one (sane) wants to erode black political power (see GA), we don’t want a woefully ineffective person in such an important position. There are plenty of Black female politicians who would make outstanding speakers.