Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went after “pathetic Republican men” after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) implored people to ignore her, arguing that such directives were misogynistic, The Wrap reports.
Sid Greene: “Sorry I’m not sorry I don’t obey Republican men’s demands that I, as a woman, don’t remain seen but not heard.”
President Trump sat down with Norah O’Donnell on Friday for an exclusive interview airing Sunday on 60 Minutes, CBS News reports.
“The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee said on Friday that the Pentagon had refused for weeks to share with Congress key information about its strikes on marine vessels that the Trump administration says are carrying drugs, despite repeated requests that it divulge the directives initiating the operation as well as its legal justification,” the New York Times reports.
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The United Nations said Friday that U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean violate international human rights law and must stop, ABC News reports.
Said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk: “These attacks – and their mounting human cost – are unacceptable. The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them.”
“It’s one of the most thorough legal rebukes in recent memory,” Politico reports.
“More than 100 federal judges have now ruled at least 200 times that the Trump administration’s effort to systematically detain immigrants facing possible deportation appeared to violate their rights or was just flatly illegal.”
“The rulings come from judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan, including 12 appointed by President Donald Trump. One of those appointees took the bench just last month.”
At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, Wired reports.
So far, just 15% of weekly news quiz takers have gotten every question right.
“President Donald Trump returned from an action-packed and trade-focused swing through Asia to the U.S. government still stuck in shutdown mode,” Bloomberg reports.
“But negotiating an end to the standoff, now in its 31st day, wasn’t on the agenda. The president left this morning for a weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, where he will attend a Halloween event tonight and a MAGA Inc. dinner tomorrow at his Mar-a-Lago estate.”
“The Pentagon has deliberately shifted its strategy in recent weeks to striking suspected narcotraffickers in the eastern Pacific Ocean, rather than the Caribbean Sea, because administration officials believe they have stronger evidence linking cocaine transport to the US from those western routes,” CNN reports.
‘The intelligence suggests that cocaine is far more likely to be trafficked from Colombia or Mexico, rather than Venezuela, the sources said, raising more questions about the true purpose of the US military buildup in the Caribbean Sea.”
Vice President JD Vance, who drew scrutiny this week by saying he hopes his Hindu wife converts to Christianity, pushed back against critics, accusing them of “anti-Christian bigotry,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Vance: “Most Sundays, Usha will come with me to church. Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah, I honestly do wish that. Because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.”
“U.S. air travel is beginning to show real signs of strain as the government shutdown drags on, with traffic controller shortages snarling thousands of flights running into the weekend,” Bloomberg reports.
Russell Berman: “Government shutdowns are a relatively modern phenomenon. For most of America’s nearly 250-year history, a lapse in congressional appropriations forced federal agencies to limit their spending, but not to close entirely. That changed only under Carter. In 1980, his attorney general, Benjamin Civiletti, wrote a memo in which he argued that according to federal law, the government could not operate once funding bills expired.”
“The era of shutdowns had begun, and from that point on, legislative impasses over spending have put hundreds of thousands of federal employees out of work and reduced government services for millions more.”
President Trump posted side-by-side photos of the before and after of the rehab of the bathroom attached to one of the most famous rooms in the White House.
“Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown,” the AP reports.
“The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.”
“The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net.”
Overlooked in today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution poll: 20% of Republican voters in Georgia either “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA).
He’s also got $21 million in the bank.
DNC Chair Ken Martin projected confidence about next week’s elections, telling Semafor that he sees a solid path forward for the Democrats.
He also dismissed the prospect of Republicans making an issue of Democrats for calling Trump a fascist: “This not only has the hallmarks of a fascist regime, it is a fascist regime.”
“The moment of truth for SNAP is drawing near, as federal rulings could come at any moment on whether the Agriculture Department legally has to tap emergency money to fund the program ahead of tomorrow’s shutdown-induced cliff,” Politico reports.
“Food aid for tens of millions of low-income Americans hangs in the balance, though many states have plans to step in with funding temporarily.”
“Senior Justice Department and FBI officials expressed frustration Friday that FBI Director Kash Patel publicly disclosed an investigation into what he called a ‘potential’ Halloween weekend terrorist plot near Detroit — before investigators had a chance to flesh out key details, including whether the attack actually was imminent,” MSNBC reports.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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