The government will likely run out of borrowing authority sometime in October or November unless Congress takes action to raise or suspend the debt limit (debt ceiling), the Congressional Budget Office warned Wednesday. Debt limit deadline likely October or November, CBO says: The new forecast sets the stage for a fall showdown over the debt … Read more
Donald Trump’s attempt to manipulate census data to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional reapportionment, and rushing the census deadline last fall during a coronavirus pandemic produced a deeply flawed census, resulting in his administration’s missing the January deadline to get that census data to Congress. Data snags cause Trump to miss giving Congress census data: … Read more
A justifiably angry House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ruled out censure after Trump acquittal: After the Senate voted to acquit former President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Saturday ruled out censuring the former president — an idea that several Republicans had floated in recent days. “Censure is a slap in the face of the Constitution. … Read more
If chickenshit cowardly GQP senators are too afraid of their own radicalized and violent base voters, the domestic terrorists who sieged the Capitol on January 6, to do their constitutional duty and vote to convict Donald Trump for inciting sedition and insurrection against the United States government in this impeachment trial, then there needs to … Read more
Next Monday, the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump will begin at the scene of the crime, the U.S. Senate. The senators are not just the jurors, but also the victims of the crime and witnesses to the crime. In some cases, they may also have been coconspirators and accessories to the crime. For 45 … Read more