🚨 BREAKING: Bessent Couldn't Name The Case.
Asked what ongoing litigation prevents him from discussing Trump's audit status, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the matter was tied up in court.
Then Rep. Linda Sánchez asked a simple follow-up:
Which case?
He couldn't name it.
Sánchez pointed out that the only litigation she was aware of involved the $1.8 billion DOJ fund and said that case doesn't address presidential audit immunity.
That's what made the exchange awkward.
The administration says litigation prevents answers.
Congress wants to know which litigation.
Analysis: When the Trump administration announced its controversial legal fund popular with Jan. 6 rioters, it also gave President Trump immunity from any potential tax crimes for any taxes filed up to now.
It’s “a legal absurdity,” said one expert. https://t.co/BG8ipZyMiv
This isn’t a “plea deal.” It’s a tornado siren for democracy.
John Bolton’s diaries were private & contained no classified docs.
Yet he might go to prison.
Trump stole actual classified docs, lied to investigators, and reportedly hid them.
Yet he’s in the Oval Office.
Rep. Angie Craig admonishes Brooke Rollins: "Joe Biden is no longer the president. Mr. Trump is. Your party controls Congress. You own these numbers at this point. I'm sick of hearing you blame an administration from a year and half ago. You own every single bit of this."
Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.
And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.
His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”
Not whether it works.
Not whether Congress authorized it.
Whether it pleases Trump.
This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?
Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.
Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.
Grow a spine.
This is not about left or right.
It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.
History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
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A flesh-eating parasite that had been kept out of U.S. livestock for decades has been detected in Texas, threatening the nation’s cattle industry and food supply at a time when prices are already high. https://t.co/p011Q4crOe
Melinda French Gates will expand her giving to improve women’s health globally, pledging another $215 million to support contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives aimed at middle-aged women, including further study of menopause. https://t.co/eG1616YmTc
I love this braindead narrative that Weiss is revamping CBS News to chase a younger demographic. Last November Weiss said that to win new viewers CBS ought to hire the “charismatic” Alan Dershowitz, an 87-year-old best known for defending Israel and pedophilia.
Blanche has been such a good, loyal soldier. But the addendum he signed, giving Trump the ability to slip out from under any investigation into or liability for unpaid taxes, appears to have been the icing on the cake.
SANCHEZ: I think it's safe to say this is probably the most corrupt Treasury Department in our nation's history
BESSENT: I AM GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE EXCEPTION WITH THAT! THAT IS SLANDEROUS