THIS IS RIDICULOUS: Taxpayers just got stuck with a $93,000 hotel bill so Secret Service agents could stay at two five-star resorts in Marrakech while Ivanka Trump celebrated her 45th birthday in Morocco.
And that’s just the rooms. It doesn’t include the agents’ flights, meals, cars or salaries.
Federal contracting records dug up by the Daily Mail show a $59,543 contract for the five-star Sofitel Marrakech ahead of a “VVIP” arrival. The next day came a $33,457 contract for a Secret Service team at La Mamounia, a palace hotel where private villas can run more than $8,600 a night.
The records don’t name her. But she was the only Secret Service protectee known to be in Morocco at the time, and she was photographed strolling through the old city the day before her birthday.
She doesn’t have a government job. She’s the president’s adult daughter on a private birthday getaway, and you’re picking up the tab.
Her camp’s defense? A source close to the family said Iran had threatened to kill her, so wouldn’t you want the best protection possible?
Nobody’s saying her agents should sleep in a hostel. But nobody made her fly to Marrakech for her birthday either.
This family has always treated the Secret Service like a revenue stream. During his first term, Don the Con’s own resorts billed the Secret Service for the rooms its agents stayed in. Now he serves them $30 hotdogs paid for by you.
Working families are cutting back at the grocery store, and the Grifter-in-Chief’s daughter is celebrating in a palace on your dime.
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We are outraged by the Supreme Court’s decision allowing Trump’s border wall construction to resume in @BigBendNPS. This destructive project threatens irreplaceable wildlife habitat, sacred cultural sites, and one of America’s most treasured landscapes. Big Bend deserves protection, not destruction!
AOC is completely disconnected from the elctorate. She thinks we want a tutorial on how a Speaker gets elected and what their job is - instead of having her speak out against Israel First Hakeem Jeffries? Voters want to move beyond Jeffries and politicians like him. Instead of siding with us, she does this.
Unbelievable.
La cría estaba atrapada en un pozo y el mono no dejaba de intentar sacarla. Bajaba, la abrazaba, buscaba cómo subir. Cuando acercaron una ayuda, por fin pudieron salir. Después de tantos intentos, los dos quedaron del lado seguro.
McDonalds USA
Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
Big mac: $5.79
McDonalds DENMARK
Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension.
Big mac: $5.49
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
It hasn’t even been a week since the American people delivered a historic repudiation of MAGA’s politics of cruelty, and this administration is already doubling down on its heartlessness toward families struggling to get by in Trump’s economy.
Republicans kicked more than 5 million Americans off nutrition assistance in their Big Ugly Bill—and the worst cuts haven’t even hit yet. Now, Trump wants to rip food assistance away from ANOTHER 6.3 million people.
More children will go to bed hungry in the richest country in history. It’s morally unconscionable. And I’ll fight like hell to stop it.
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the House floor Monday, forcing a vote within two legislative days.
Three articles charge Hegseth with waging war on Iran without congressional authorization. Others cover the boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the Pentagon's targeting of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).
Another article cites the Feb. 28 US strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, which killed at least 156 people, including 120 children. It accuses Hegseth of dismantling the Pentagon's civilian-harm safeguards before the strike. Hegseth called the articles a "sham."
🔗 Drop Site's Jeremy Scahill reported that Tomahawk missiles hit the school at least twice and more strikes came hours later as parents and rescuers arrived. Read the full investigation: "Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave." Link in reply.
Saudi Arabia committed another massacre in Yemen today, for the third day in a row.
The day before yesterday in Taiz, yesterday in Sana'a, today in Hodeidah.
I just called Chris Van Hollen's office asking him to challenge Chuck Schumer for Senate Majority Leader.
You should call too. It's very simple. The Senate switchboard number is (202) 224-3121.
Call and then Pass it on!
Those who criticized @DrJillStein for seemingly "disappearing" after elections don't realize that she routinely has to deal with government persecution due to her political engagement. This time she's being politically persecuted for opposing the #GazaGenocide👇
Chuck Schumer gifts $95 Billion for wars led by Israel as Americans were saddled with over $200 billion in medical debt legislated by Congress.
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