Yet another man who acted as a bodyguard for Roger Stone has been charged with entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, expanding the circle of militia group members who were spotted guarding Stone and then allegedly participated in the attack on Congress.
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Congressional Republicans are staunchly opposed to the COVID-19 relief package that is poised to pass the House early this afternoon. But they’re less unified as to why.
The judge and federal prosecutors in the criminal case against Freddie Klein, who has been charged after allegedly participating in the violent Capitol insurrection on January 6 while he was still working at the State Department as a Trump political appointee, slammed him for abandoning his duty to serve the country.
The Biden administration is set to announce a plan to secure 100 million more doses of J&J’s COVID vaccine, enough doses to cover the entire U.S. population, including children.
It gets us across the finish line in a big way, and tells an important story about what a starkly different response to the pandemic over the past year could have looked like.
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Wednesday took aim at a measure intended to simplify voter registration and make voting easier, suggesting that the House Democrats’ For The People Act was “written in hell by the devil himself.”
“Everything in this bill is rotten to the core.” Lee told “Fox & Friends” hosts in an interview earlier Wednesday about the HR 1 Bill. “This is a bill as if written in hell by the devil himself.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) forced a vote on a motion to adjourn Wednesday morning only minutes after the House had begun the session, delaying the final vote on the COVID-19 relief package.
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There’s some possible good news on the public sales pitch front coming from the White House. As I’ve discussed, for all the boldness and scope of the COVID relief act, it can all amount to very little in political and electoral terms if you do not aggressively sell it. And by sell it, we should understand a broad and consistent messaging operation that connects unfolding events over the next 18 months to the relief bill. That ranges from (we hope) rapider than expected vaccine roll-out and school reopenings to what one hopes will be a vibrant economy in 2022. It also means leaving no doubt about why people are receiving relief checks and cash assistance (which goes well beyond the $1400/$2000 checks), who passed the bill and who stood opposed. The White House is at least telling reporters (Axios most notably) that they’re about to start that kind of operation.
Done right this should involve putting all the resources of the federal government into the effort as well as administration-supporting outside groups.
The chairs of three Republican organizations issued a joint statement on Tuesday in an effort a reconciliation with former President Donald Trump who over the weekend hit them with legal notices demanding that they stop fundraising off his name.
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President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Wednesday his plan to order an additional 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine.
Manhattan prosecutors have issued a fresh round of subpoenas in their probe of former President Donald Trump and his company aimed at his Westchester County development in upstate New York known as Seven Springs.
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