🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.
When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm
NEW: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility statement on Trump's repainting of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool
"Different sections of the Pool floor display visibly different shades of blue.
The patchy paint job has some parts of the pool appear American Flag Blue, but others show different shades of blue or even gray, depending on how the light hits them
The ends of the Reflecting Pool have not yet been painted at all, and are still their gray cement color, coated with unsightly tarps
Most significantly, the central problem with the Reflecting Pool – water leakage – has not been
addressed at all"
BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!
Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined
Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group
This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption
SCOOP: Trump admin is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf.
The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects
https://t.co/iCgnL1sFon
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the DHS Inspector General just opened an audit into a $38 billion warehouse-to-detention scheme that Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski rammed through.
ICE bought 11 vacant warehouses in a matter of months, paying 11 to 13 percent above market value.
The properties weren’t even zoned for detention. No working plumbing for thousands of detainees. But Noem and Lewandowski pressured ICE to open them by year’s end anyway.
The result? At least $1 billion already spent on nine facilities. Nearly 50 contractors paid $1.7 billion since Trump took office.
Companies with zero immigration detention experience suddenly winning massive federal contracts.
One firm that didn’t even exist until June 2024 got a $6 million DHS contract this January.
Noem is gone.
Lewandowski is gone.
But the bill is still landing on the taxpayer, and the IG investigation is just getting started.
Accountability cannot end when the perpetrators walk out the door.
Every contract needs scrutiny.
Every dollar needs to be traced.
Every official who steered money to inexperienced contractors needs to answer under oath.
https://t.co/GGvxSniGqM
BREAKING: After 80 long days, four Republicans voted with Democrats and helped advance our War Powers Resolution that would rein in Trump's illegal war.
Our troops and the American people have paid enough.
BREAKING: The Senate advances a bill aimed at ending the Iran war after GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, defeated in primary, switches to support it. https://t.co/sRLPCN3bpq
Every word.
Chris Van Hollen tells the plain, honest truth about the Department of Justice under Trump.
The symbol of this era: That stupid, huge banner of Trump on the DOJ building.
It’s a Declaration of Corruption.
DOJ is now a national disgrace.
NEW: Brian Morrissey, the Treasury’s general counsel, resigned over Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that could soon make payments his political allies.