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Washington Faltered as Fentanyl Gripped the Country

December 12, 2022 at 2:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “During the past seven years, as soaring quantities of fentanyl flooded into the United States, strategic blunders and cascading mistakes by successive U.S. administrations allowed the most lethal drug crisis in American history to become significantly worse.”

“Presidents from both parties failed to take effective action in the face of one of the most urgent threats to the nation’s security, one that claims more lives each year than car accidents, suicides or gun violence. Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 49.”

Second Oath Keepers Trial Gets Underway

December 12, 2022 at 2:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“After securing seditious conspiracy convictions against two leaders of the Oath Keepers, the Justice Department will begin Monday to try to make its Capitol riot case against four others affiliated with the far-right extremist group,” the AP reports.

Biden Is Bringing Africa’s Leaders to Washington

December 12, 2022 at 2:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “White House officials say the three-day gathering will include top-level meetings, new initiatives and business deals, and a gala dinner at the White House.”

“But African leaders have grown accustomed to being courted by foreign suitors, and Washington is one stop on what has become a global circuit of Africa summits held by China, Russia, Turkey, France, Japan and the European Union.”

Greene Says Her Comments on January 6 Were Sarcasm

December 12, 2022 at 2:21 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Monday said her recent comment that the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack would have been armed and successful if she planned it was “sarcasm,” after she drew rebukes from the White House and Democratic leaders, The Hill reports.

Said Greene: “The White House needs to learn how sarcasm works. My comments were making fun of Joe Biden and the Democrats, who have continuously made me a political target since January 6.”

How Did the Housing Market Get So Unaffordable?

December 12, 2022 at 2:19 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Pew Research survey “showed a 10-percentage-point increase since 2018 in the share of Americans — now one in two — who see the availability of affordable housing in their area as a serious problem.”

Hopes Fade for Year-End Tax Deal

December 12, 2022 at 2:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “Barring a last-minute breakthrough, many businesses will face higher taxes because of changes to how they can deduct research costs and interest expenses. For families, the child tax credit would remain at its current levels, without reinstating temporary expansions that Democrats implemented in 2021. Those changes expired at the end of last year.”

Justices Will Hear Case on Biden Student Debt Plan

December 12, 2022 at 1:16 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a second legal clash over President Biden’s ambitious student debt relief plan that is currently blocked by lower courts,” The Hill reports.

“The two cases involve an effort by the Biden administration to reinstate a loan forgiveness program that would give federal borrowers making less than $125,000 a year up to $10,000 debt relief.”

Sam Bankman-Fried to Testify Before Congress Remotely

December 12, 2022 at 1:07 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said Monday he will testify remotely rather than in person before Congress because he’s ‘quite overbooked’ and has security concerns about ‘paparazzi’ if he were to travel to Washington, DC,” the New York Post reports.

“Lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee are preparing to grill Bankman-Fried on Tuesday over the swift collapse of the digital currency exchange that was once worth tens of billions of dollars.”

Americans Split Over Confidence in House GOP or Biden

December 12, 2022 at 12:35 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new CNN poll finds Americans divide almost evenly over whether they have more confidence in the newly empowered Republicans in the US House of Representatives (51%) or in President Joe Biden (49%) to deal with the major issues facing the country today.

Putin Cancels Annual Press Conference

December 12, 2022 at 12:31 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Vladimir Putin has cancelled his annual press conference, as the Russian president faces growing unease over his military’s sputtering campaign in Ukraine,” the Financial Times reports.

“The annual press conference is usually a large-scale event lasting for several hours and attended by hundreds of journalists.”

Elon Musk Goes Full QAnon

December 12, 2022 at 12:14 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Elon Musk escalated his battle of words with previous managers of Twitter into risky new territory over the weekend, allying himself with far-right crusaders against a purported epidemic of child sex abuse and implying that the company’s former head of trust and safety had a permissive view of sexual activity by minors,” the Washington Post reports.

Ducey Stacks Containers on Arizona’s Southern Border

December 12, 2022 at 12:13 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Under orders from Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R), “work crews have steadily erected hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona’s remote eastern boundary with Mexico,” the AP reports.

Judge Tosses Trump’s Lawsuit Over Mar-a-Lago Documents

December 12, 2022 at 11:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former president Donald Trump’s legal effort to thwart a Justice Department investigation into classified documents seized from his palatial Palm Beach estate was officially tossed out Monday,” the Miami Herald reports.

How Harry Reid Would Have Handled Kyrsten Sinema

December 12, 2022 at 10:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Semafor asked Jim Manley, a former top aide to the late Sen. Harry Reid, how the legendary Senate leader would have dealt with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema going independent.

Said Manley: “He would have handled it the exact same way as Senator Schumer has, in that as leaders you have to keep your eye on the prize. And that means realizing that despite her incredibly selfish move to bolt from the party a day or so after the special election in Georgia, she will still allow the Democrats to keep control of the Senate. And in the end that’s all that matters.”

He added: “There’s no room here for LBJ- style threats or retaliation. As long as she votes to make Senator Schumer the next majority leader of the Senate that’s the whole game. Senator Reid defended then-Senator Lieberman when the left demanded that he be stripped of his committee chairmanship after viciously attacking then candidate Obama during the 2008 election.”

Iran Publicly Executes Protester

December 12, 2022 at 10:44 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Iran executed a second prisoner on Monday convicted over crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country’s theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others,” the AP reports.

Elon Musk Is Ruining Trump’s Presidential Campaign

December 12, 2022 at 10:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Joshua Green: “For years, Donald Trump has survived scandal, scorn and defeat and still managed to keep his warlord grip on the Republican Party. Even this month’s epic string of disasters, from his candidates’ losses in the midterms and his dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and professed Hitler-fan Ye (Kanye West) to the tax fraud convictions of two of his companies, might not derail him.”

“But irrelevance might. In the critical weeks since his Nov. 16 campaign launch, the person who has dominated the right-wing attention economy isn’t Trump. It’s Elon Musk.”

“Musk didn’t just take over Trump’s favorite medium, Twitter. He seems to have done so for the explicit Trumpian purposes of striking back at his critics, ‘owning the libs,’ and stoking the sort of generalized chaos that was once Trump’s calling card, before he was banished from Twitter and took up exile in the empty wilderness of Truth Social. He’s succeeded on all fronts.”

White House Ready to Compromise for Child Tax Credit

December 12, 2022 at 10:28 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The White House has privately signaled to Democrats that it would support a compromise deal to revive the expanded Child Tax Credit, even if it includes work requirements it once opposed,” Politico reports.

“A remarkable shift for an administration that has resisted applying such conditions to anti-poverty programs, it comes amid a recent push in Congress to include an expansion in a year-end legislative package while Democrats still control both chambers. And it reflects the growing urgency within the administration to salvage a policy that ranks among President Joe Biden’s signature achievements.”

Mike Pence Returns to New Hampshire

December 12, 2022 at 10:28 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Vice President Mike Pence will return to the crucial early voting presidential nominating state of New Hampshire today, Fox News reports.

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