Sally Smith

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

A NYT analysis found that despite Trump’s promises that private donors would cover all his self – aggrandizing projects in DC, in reality these projects will cost of billions for taxpayers. At a time when most Americans are struggling with affordability.
I gifted this so you can read it.

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[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.

His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.

📸: @MSNOWNews @Morning_Joe

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has funneled $1.6 billion in taxpayer funds to a Kazakhstani mining company partly owned by Don Jr and Eric Trump.

Donald Trump made a personal call to Kazakhstan's president to secure mining approval for his sons' investment.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Sucks to be @NRSC right now. You guys wanted Cornyn, now Trump has you stuck with a bozo and his mistress on a trip to Iceland during peak campaign time. Good luck raising the tens of millions you're gonna need to keep that Texas seat!

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton was impeached for taking bribes from donors.

He became a multi-millionaire on a government salary.

He takes lavish vacations in Iceland while Texans can’t afford the basics.

Ken Paxton doesn’t serve us — he serves himself.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Why can't Trump clean a pool, or throw a real 250th party?

It's not (just) incompetence. It's also corruption.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @DrOz: If you lie about something as stupid as crowd size, how can the American people trust you on more important issues?

The American people are not dumb. (Did you know dumb is spelled with a “b”)? You don’t need to keep saying the Emperor has clothes when he doesn’t.

[Sally Smith @riffrandalt]

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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Why is @KenPaxtonTX spending the week before the 4th of July in Iceland? He's in one of the most competitive races in the country, and he's not campaigning. Does this sound or look like someone willing to fight for the job or taking the campaign seriously?

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Why is @KenPaxtonTX spending the week before the 4th of July in Iceland? He's in one of the most competitive races in the country, and he's not campaigning. Does this sound or look like someone willing to fight for the job or taking the campaign seriously?

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Hey @KenPaxtonTX that's not your wife

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

Makes me feel like this whole FIFA World Peace Prize was a scam.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Here’s an in-depth New York Times article on how Trump, his family, and his cronies are abusing their government power to line their pockets and using billions of your tax dollars to facilitate their grifting. Note that the $8.9 billion in federal money going to the 14 Trump and Lutnick companies is equal to the entire amount of federal assistance Western North Carolina has received for Hurricane Helene recovery.

Rampant corruption in plain sight . . . and Republicans see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.

Here’s an excerpt from the article and a free link to the entire piece:

“Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.

It was not only Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick who saw an opportunity.

Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history.”

. . . . .

“One or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies that are actively working with the federal government on critical mining deals, including the Kazakhstan project, according to federal filings examined by The New York Times.

All 14 of these companies have either benefited directly from offers of financial assistance from the Trump administration, or have pending permit applications before the Commerce Department, which Mr. Lutnick oversees, The Times found. The total amount of federal funding that the Trump administration has provided or is considering providing to the companies exceeds $8.9 billion, according to public statements by the companies and federal government.”

https://t.co/HvoK9qva0H

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The numbers are in, and they are devastating.

5,000,000 Americans have dropped their Affordable Care Act coverage.

Here’s why.

Premiums on these plans doubled, on average, from last year to this one.

Deductibles hit a record high.

And families who were getting by suddenly found a monthly bill they simply could not pay. 

So they did the only thing they could. They gave up the coverage they needed. And it did not have to be this way.

The reason costs exploded is that Trump and Republicans in Congress let the tax credits that kept these plans affordable expire. We fought to extend them.

We warned, for months, exactly what would happen if those credits went away.

Republicans pushed their agenda through anyway, in their Big Ugly Bill, and chose tax breaks for billionaires over keeping a working family’s doctor visit within reach.

Now look at how they’re trying to spin it.

The administration wants you to believe this drop is about fraud. That’s nonsense and they know it. Independent health policy experts have looked at the data and reached the same conclusion. People did not disappear because of some crackdown. They disappeared because they could not afford the bill anymore.

When you double someone’s premium, they drop the plan.

This is not complicated.

It is as cruel and cynical as it gets. And the people who did this are going to answer for it.
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[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

200 years ago, my ancestor signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. He wrote:

“Any duty that would advance the cause of Texas I feel anxious and ever ready to perform…”

As I accept your nomination for the US Senate, I make that same commitment to you.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

I proudly accept your nomination for the United States Senate.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer https://t.co/7l2bkD0MIH

[Acyn @Acyn]

Talarico: Every bar has that one guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking.

That’s Ken Paxton.

And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

It’s time to take back Texas. Let’s win this.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@jamestalarico: This election shouldn't be about the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. It should be about chasing a vision of what our state can be: Texas schools that are the envy of the nation, a Texas economy that is second to none, and Texas families that are stronger and healthier than ever before. It won't happen overnight. But a giant state deserves giant dreams.

We are bigger than extremism, we're bigger than partisanship, we're bigger than corruption. Texas is bigger than all of those things. Because it's not just a state. It's a state of mind. It’s a cause. Texans don't like tyrants, and we don't surrender easily.

Tonight, standing before you to accept your nomination for the United States Senate, I make the same commitment to you that my ancestor made 200 years ago: "Any duty that my bodily strength would enable me to perform, either in public or private, that would advance the cause of Texas, I feel anxious and ever ready to perform."