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To a large extent, a handful of Democrats in the Senate voted to strengthen the decision of Republicans in the House of Representatives until Friday – which could not be done by Republicans without democratic support.
The vote ended a turbulent week, as Democrats extend and amazed because they fought severe battles, about what to do. Many described the option as honor: Either they oppose the Republican Party and allow the government to close it, risking that President Trump and Elon Musk may not reopen large areas of it, or vote in favor of the right -wing legislation, which will lead to a reduction in local spending and giving musk what many described as a “behavior box.”
In the end, 10 Democrats-including the leader of the minority Chuck Shomer (N-NY) and members of his leadership team-to help pass the GoP CR.
The rule is Jepletic, with some prominent Democrats calling for a change in driving. The Speaker of the House of Parliament will not answer Jeffrols (D-Ny), who kept all his members from voting in favor of Gop Cr in the House of Representatives, when he was asked about his confidence in the leadership of Schumer.
In a sudden development, the Senate managed to pass a unanimously independent draft law on an audio vote for the Washington DC of the huge clip of the budget written in the Gop CR. The house will also need to pass the bill upon its return.
Democrats in the Senate are now preparing for reaction. Even this episode threw a dark luster in September, when CR and Democrats ended at least, at least they benefited again.
“Many of us are concerned that once you surrender the first time, it is difficult to fight the second time.”
Kate Riga
Here’s what TPM has this week:
- Kate Riga describes small details, but it is important that TPM was the first to be identified during Friday’s chaos.
- Josh Kovinski is reflected in a strange parallel between the current United States and after Ukraine and Russia.
- Khaya Hemilman wrote about the democratic actor who is trying to restrain the American lawyer to act to Ed Martin.
- Hunter Walker describes the icon of a long era of Washington, which he knew, and who passed away this week.
Let’s dig.
TPM script
In the feverish hours that preceded a package of government financing legislation, a late vote yesterday afternoon, TPM obtained a scoop: Democrats in the Senate are no longer demanding a continuous clean decision for four weeks as an amendment to the Republican Party.
The Senator Pate Murray was calling for CR to finance the government for an additional 28 days. Some Democrats, including the leader of the minority in the Senate, D-Nyr, demanded a vote on the draft law as an amendment to the presence of the Republican Party-but, according to a familiar source, Murray wanted to cancel the vote because he would fail, only to serve a theatrical purpose and does not affect the results of voting on the GoP CR.
Murray continued to pressure separately for CR in the short term as a stand -alone, as the source told us.
In other words, Murray, who voted “no” on the progress of the draft financing law written on the Republican Party, was not interested in participating in Gambit’s Gambit, where Democrats voted in favor of CR CR as a pure messenger step on its way to the passage of the Republican. If the Democrats hope that the amendment vote will give them a discussion point to return to their angry voters, they will be disappointed.
Kate Riga
Satirical feelings
The ghost of grants came to America.
In the original Russian, it is Grantoyedy: Grants, grants, grants, depending on the negative of your negative. Either way, it is a term existing to ventilate the persons involved in political life who have never been a few or governmental money. Instead of being outlets or a group of indirect news advocates on Kremlin salaries or on the salary schedule of some commercial benefits, Russian and Ukrainian contestants accused these relatively independent people of living on “grants”.
This sandy shooting below the moral scene in which an important question develops in politics: Who works for who belongs to whom? This may sometimes lead to a coup: combating illegal gain made you the bad man – or at least a kind of compassion. I remember that I was talking to a lawyer in Kiev, who was in line with the administration at the time, the government that preceded Volodimir Zellinsky. This government has lost popularity after a series of corruption scandals, and in the face of daily illegal gain, which has become more clear and more disturbing in people’s lives. But this lawyer expressed a point of view for me that may now appear in the Elon Musk summary on Twitter: The most profitable job in Kiev these days, she said, she was a corruption fighter.
It is a trademark of widespread irony mixed with explicit nihilism that, to direct the man himself, you see and hear more and more these days in the United States. The idea was on the right for a while: this participation in political life must mean that you are either to take or naive that goes beyond belief. But it appeared on the left, recently, also. Some of the characters who have once expressed a vision of a more aggressive democratic party and perhaps progressive may have abandoned this in recent years in favor of a similar brand of “realism”: that trying to respect others is “virtue signs”; Any belief that things are unique or corrupt now is either naive or separate from reality, or just another attempt to confuse.
The similarity between this new nihilistic atmosphere in the United States of America and what I saw in Russia and Ukraine has disturbed me during the past year or two. this article By the writer Evjnia Kevda helped me think a little. It is complicated, and I am still completely sure of what is shared by the American and post -Soviet mockery in their reasons: in both cases, it seems that there is a deep feeling of disappointment in the core. In the former Soviet Union, the answer is more clear, because it was more clearly lost: the future was replaced by the communist revolution that reaches decades, and later, independence from communism, instead, was replaced by brutal tyranny and decades of the horrific mismanagement.
We have serious problems in the United States, but nothing on this range. People sometimes attribute this nihilism to disappointment from the strikes with which the invasion of Iraq or the financial crisis of 2008, and the failure of political elites at the age of a positive change or providing a sense of hope, in the full deaths caused. But I do not think any of these interpretations approaches the mark. Instead, the similarity may lie in a deeper and more disturbing thing: in these previous Soviet countries, the entire political systems collapsed. Here, it’s possible. This is what people worried frankly, and what has produced a deep feeling of disappointment in many: that American democracy institutions can produce the situation we are today.
Josh Kovinski
Raskin Doj IG asks Trump’s lawyer
Representative Jimmy Raskin, the largest Democrat in the Supervisory Committee in the House of Representatives, calls for an inspector of the Ministry of Public Justice in the lawyer of the disposal of the transport units, who in its first few weeks in this position, the existence of a certain point of achieving the enemies of President Donald Trump.
The nine -page message, obtained for the first time before Washington PostDetails of a series of modern measures taken by Martin that Raskin argues “it seems to violate the constitution, federal laws, the regulations of the Ministry of Justice, and the rules of legal ethics.”
In particular, it is noted that Martin tried to freeze climate financing worth 20 billion dollars illegally, linked to the greenhouse gas reducing fund, which was allocated to the non -profit organizations for the environment for various climate projects during the Biden administration.
“… since he took office, Mr. Martin has used his office to attack critics illegally and the enemies of the Trump administration, while exposing the public safety of citizens and visitors to the capital of our nation,” Raskin wrote on March 12. letter To the Inspector of the Ministry of Justice Michael Horowitz.
Read more here.
– Himelman’s betrayal
Goodbye to all of that
Ron Nissen, who held the position of press secretary of President Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977, Pass Wednesday at the age of 90 years.
I had an honor Lunch sharing In 2017 in 2017 in the first months after President Trump took office. Nissen was incredibly generous with his time and showed his visions to the White House and his relationship with the press. His stories were a reminder of the missing in recent years.
Nissen lived one of Washington’s exceptional life. Before arriving at the White House, he had a lengthy profession as a journalist, including a task for NBC, as he had five rounds covering the Vietnam war and hit a hand bomb.
During his conversation with me, he was reflected on how the media changed itself. The numbers of full war correspondents such as Nissen were diminished. Like the journalism, it also faced an unprecedented attack by the president and his allies.
White House spokesman Nissen has become a dangerous moment. His predecessor, Gerald Terrest, resigned in protest against Ford’s decision to pardon President Nixon for Watergate crimes. Nissen pledged to restore confidence.
In his conversation with me, which occurred during the period of Sean Spicer in the job, Nissen I confess He sometimes tried to avoid questions about the things that the White House felt “should not be published yet.” However, he stressed that he believed that the press secretary needs to possess any realistic mistakes or mistakes, and he insisted that Ford had never asked him to lie.
“I have no remembrance of him asking me to say anything that was not true,” Nissen said. “Part of that was fair, this was Jerry Ford.”
Nessen pressed Ford to allow himself to journalists and also joined the president in recording a self -condemned appearance on “Saturday Night Live”. Despite this participation, the White House press, who felt that he was sometimes shown, was spinning from the White House platform.
All this seems far beyond wandering now, as Trump and his team lies an unprecedented rate. In his second term, the White House also owns Trump Control of the White House press pool The main news organizations were replaced by HyperPartisan operations.
It seems that Nissen, who greatly predicted Trump (like Ford) will face an assassination attempt, sees some of this in Trump’s first state. He told me that the White House’s relationship with the press was reaching the levels of Nixoni. I only deteriorated from there.
His death is a reminder that, besides losing the previous generation of political figures, we lose the rules that Washington once identified. The expectation that the press secretary will not lie or that the legitimate press will be able to reach the president from among the many things that Trump tramples.
Nissen seems to have started imitating the White House press office, as journalistic secretaries left behind a gunfire and observation jacket. In his case, after Ford was voted for President Carter, Nissen left the jacket in his office along with a note saying: “I hope you do not need it. Good luck, Ron.”
This type of cheerful party is another one of those things that appear to be lost. TPM dropped a line to the last press secretary of President Biden, Karen Jean -Pierre, to see if she continues to imitate and left anything behind the next Trump team earlier this year. Jean Pierre did not respond.
Hunter Walker