The White House is focused on a budget plan from the conservative Freedom Caucus that would cap overall discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for 10 years while allowing for 1 percent growth per year, which would be a $131 billion cut from current levels.
In Virginia, Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin’s pro-parents campaign allowed the first-time candidate to take out former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who’s been involved in politics for decades.
‘But the only reason I mention this judge, you’re reluctant to talk about it because it’s uncomfortable. Just imagine what would happen if people on late night television called you an effin nut, speaking in tongues because you practice the Catholic faith in a way they couldn’t relate to or found uncomfortable?’
Kremlin troops launched two attacks on Kyiv late Wednesday and earlier today – one via the besieged western city of Irpin and another through the eastern district of Brovary, with video showing the moment Russian tanks and armoured vehicles were bombarded with artillery in a devastating ambush and forced to turn back.
‘I am reluctant to talk about my faith in this way, just because I want to be mindful of the need for the public to have confidence in my ability to separate out my personal views,’ the nominee reiterated.
As she has aged, Ms Stout has noticed that the attention from others was less physical and more intrusive as strangers would approach her and ask her personal questions about her skin, making her feel as though they were treating her as less-than-human.
Keisha Lance Bottoms says a stray bullet nearly hit her nephew after it penetrated his bedroom wall and landed beside his bed in Atlanta – just years after another nephew was tragically shot and killed.
The White House accuses Republicans of ‘endangering public safety, raising costs for families, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and undermining American workers, weakening national security, and hurting seniors.’
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said today that Ukraine’s capital city has been ‘turned into a fortress’ ahead of the Russian assault, with about 2 million people – half the residents of the metro area of the capital – having fled as Putin’s troops draw ever closer.
The battle for Kyiv is now underway as Russian tanks this morning pushed to within just a few miles of the city outskirts, analysts and witnesses said, though initial assaults to the west and east were repelled as Putin’s forces face a long and bloody campaign to try and take the capital.
‘It’s the debt ceiling negotiations that oftentimes force the biggest budget reforms, which have been really important for our country,’ Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, a member of GOP leadership, said to Punchbowl News on Monday.
Bottoms, who served as mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022, previously blamed the 50 percent increase in homicides in 2021 on lax gun laws, teenagers having too much free time on their hands and the state lifting its COVID-19.
‘I’m suggesting the system has failed miserably and advocates to change the system, like she was advocating, would destroy our ability to protect this country. We’re at war, we’re not fighting a crime. This is not some passage of time event.
‘Until we deal with the systemic issues of gun violence in this country – how easily young people with mental illness can access guns in this country, I’m afraid that this will not be the last summer that we are having this conversation,’ Bottoms told .
‘As MAGA House Republicans go to Florida for their retreat, the White House and Congressional Democrats are going on offense, slamming the Freedom Caucus’s MAGA Budget Proposal as a Five-Alarm Fire for hardworking families.
‘They tired of people pretending the way to end racism is by categorizing everybody by their race,’ she continued. ‘They’re tired of politicians who tell parents they should sit down, be silent and let government control their kids education and future.’
‘North Korea is testing missiles again at an alarming rate, the Speaker of the House recently warned our Olympic athletes not to speak out against China, and now Russia has launched an unprovoked full-scale military invasion of Ukraine – an attack on democracy, freedom, and the rule of law,’ Reynolds said.
The former mayor also said the pandemic ‘left a lot of people battered and bruised, not just physically, but also emotionally,’ which led to an increase in personal disputes that could easily be exacerbated by guns.
Jackson said Tuesday that she wouldn’t comment on court packing – the process of adding extra seats to the Supreme Court in order to sway the majority leaning by the current president in power, who would be able to nominate the additions to the bench.
Senator Graham pointed to the difference in treatment of Biden’s nominee versus how Democrats acted toward Trump’s three picks – specifically pointing in his first line of questioning with Jackson on Tuesday to Justice Barrett’s faith.
