Despite the name, budget reconciliation is a route to getting the bill passed without Republican support, just like the COVID relief bill was.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday pledged to wage a brutal, partisan fight over President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, the latest sign that Democrats will likely have to resort to reconciliation in order to get it through Congress.
Dismissing the accusations as a conspiracy by his political opponents to take him down, Rep. Matt Gaetz reportedly claimed Friday that allegations of sex trafficking levied against him stemmed from powerful enemies in Ms. Bassman’s geometry class. “These spurious and completely false rumors are clearly the work of Madison and Brianna,” said Gaetz (R-FL), adding that the text messages and payment receipts supposedly tying him to sex trafficking suggested that the conspiracy against him went all the way to the area near the window where the popular kids sat. “I’ll bet Caroline helped spread it, and all because I didn’t invite her to that rager last weekend. All that FBI stuff is obviously Caroline’s work, although I wouldn’t be surprised if her Spanish study group is in on it as well. They’re devious and super petty. That whole sophomore crowd is nothing but trouble, and Lucas and Haley have always had it out for me. Jessica too, even though it’s been over a year and I already apologized.
Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, one of former US president Donald Trump's strongest supporters, says he has no plans to resign, amid an ongoing investigation into whether he violated US laws against sex trafficking.
In the latest setbacks for the 38-year-old congressman, his communications director abruptly resigned and prominent Republicans stayed silent, refusing to be drawn into a deepening scandal.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday called vaccine passports “Biden’s mark of the beast” during a Facebook livestream.
In the almost 20-minute video posted to the social media platform, Greene claimed that the Biden administration was seeking to require that all Americans who receive vaccination be documented.
“Is this something like Biden’s mark of the beast because that is really disturbing and not good,” the Georgia representative said.
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Greene alleged that a coronavirus passport was a form of "corporate communism" that would ruin patients' HIPAA rights.
“It’s still fascism, or communism, whatever you want to call it, but it’s coming from private companies,” Greene added on the Facebook stream. “So, I have a term for that. I call it ‘corporate communism.’ ”
If it involves underage girls, then it becomes something of public (and perhaps legal) interest.
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