Rumors began to spread around dinner time Monday evening. The House bill is scheduled to be debated Tuesday morning and aims to block the Trump administration’s 11th-hour bid to set building standards for federal buildings.
Although the bill was defeated at the last minute by a network of activists and sympathetic politicians, it represented a broader shift in political strategy in Washington, D.C. The White House and Democrats in Congress have been working on obstruction efforts amid growing concerns that President Joe Biden may lose re-election. And he interrupts the returning Donald Trump on issues ranging from immigration and foreign policy to spending and classic architecture.
Democrats’ top goal is a massive omnibus that would appropriate funding from the last three months of 2024 to the first nine months of 2025.
Most of the Democrats’ plans are clearly thwarted, but that means someone has to be up on the Republican political picket line to stop them. Additionally, Republicans need to be willing to fight when the picket alarm goes off.
The author of the stalled bill, Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), is a longtime advocate of the bill. modern architect, Taxpayers (and the poor people who are forced to work there) can’t stand the idea of using tax money to make a lot of money to build ugly buildings. Since the draft of President Trump’s end-of-term executive order, “Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” she has been hostile to any attempt to set rational, classical parameters for expensive civic architecture.
Her latest attempt would have required the next administration to compile a report on all public comments before reinstating beauty standards.
Wording It seemed innocuous enough, and leadership staff, unaccustomed to her repeated attempts to thwart Republican presidential candidates, apparently didn’t notice it. Had this bill passed, it would have crippled the system and delayed and thwarted any attempts to advance reform beyond the organized modernist lobbies.
And this bill might have passed, too, had it not been for a former senior House official who noticed it was on the schedule. Retired employee emailed
National Civic Arts Association President Justin Schubow immediately made phone calls, along with texts and emails, to the political network that helped shape and advance President Trump’s original executive order (and subsequent legislative efforts) to “beautify federal buildings.” We strived to revitalize the area. Also. ”
By 8:40 p.m., Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.)
I had posted By the next morning, Republican lawmakers were pursuing the bill. By 10:30 a.m., the Speaker’s Office withdrew the vote.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office did not provide details about how the Democrats planned to booby-trap the vote, but it is just one of many Democratic plans to try to tie the hands of the new Trump administration during its crucial first year in office.
“Democrats know Joe Biden’s days are numbered, so they’re sneakily trying to block Trump’s policies in the House,” Banks told Blaze News. “President Trump didn’t have Republican leaders willing to fight for his policies in 2016. I’m sure he’ll have the right people for a second term.”
The Democratic Party’s biggest goal is a large omnibus budget. Adequate funding from the last three months of 2024 to the first nine months of 2025. If successful, Democrats would preempt President Trump’s efforts to cut off or divert resources from the United Nations, the FBI, the Justice Department, the border, and more.
Republican war hawks are incentivized to agitate for Democratic plans to guarantee more funding for the stalled Ukraine war. Days after Congress passed $60 billion in transfers to Kiev in April, news broke that lawmakers were already considering sending more U.S. tax money this fall. If they’re serious, they need Democratic votes.
Republican Russia hawks also know that the money earmarked for the war will thwart the incoming administration’s efforts to cut funding and lock in Ukraine policy no matter who occupies the White House. Remember: Trump was once impeached for freezing funds appropriated by Congress to Ukraine. Beware of this and other impeachment traps in overstuffed spending bills.
Recently reintroduced The border bill is another attempt at sabotage. If it fails (as expected), it will be a message bill to vulnerable Democrats facing re-election. If successful, it would tie the hands of the next administration on aspects of border security and security, as well as sanctuary provisions. The effort has a Republican stamp, thanks to Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
The White House is also playing its part. In April, Biden issued an executive order making it harder to fire federal workers. What kind of national voters does this help, other than federal employees who work against the policies of a Republican president? Once Democratic and Republican hardliners get their hands on the omnibus, keep an eye out for Congressional seals on this order.
The obvious way out of this is “Clean Continuing Resolution” Or a six-month spending bill with no special riders or surcharges to keep the government functioning through March. That would give a potential Trump administration three months to set its agenda, but it also means Republicans have to start negotiating spending now so they can prepare in time. That’s a lot in Washington.
“All the work on spending should and can be done now in the coming months,” a senior Republican told Blaze News. “Just dust off the Republican bill and reintroduce it in January.”
“Over the next several months, you will hear nonstop about how important it is for President Trump to ‘clean the decks,'” said Russ Vought, director of the Center for American Renewal and former director of the Office of Management and Budget. speaks.
tweeted May 13th.
Vought warned that trying to finish the 2025 budget challenge before President Trump takes office will be difficult. “We have to give the cavalry time to arrive. This will be the central battle of the coming months, but at any stage clearing the decks means spoiling the cards. I want you to remember that.”
What happens next will ultimately depend on the will of Sen. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana).
A Republican official asked, “What is he going to do to stop the Democrats from pre-empting and overthrowing Donald J. Trump?”
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Trump’s trial is nearing an end
The next time jurors return to the Manhattan courtroom with Donald Trump, closing arguments will begin before the jury deliberates on its verdict. But Judge Juan Merchan may have already passed the case on to the prosecution.
In a conference Tuesday afternoon with prosecutors and defense attorneys, Marchan told jurors that the case should be decided essentially along the lines the Democratic attorney general’s office wants: He said he would instruct jurors that it was not necessary for all jurors to agree on the crime. In addition to forging documents, he also committed crimes.
In short, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg reinstated an overdue misdemeanor charge to a felony, alleging that President Trump falsified records to facilitate “further crimes.” But Mr. Bragg did not charge Mr. Trump with any additional crimes, and prosecutors did not say which of several theoretical additional crimes they accused Mr. Trump of committing. And now the judge may tell the jury they don’t even need to figure it out.
Pick a crime, any crime, and just find him guilty.
Trump won’t know exactly what instructions Marchan will give the jury until the judge makes a decision next Thursday on how to word them. But if Tuesday’s hearing is any indication, the judge, who has ruled against Trump’s defense at nearly every point in the trial, may be preparing to push Bragg over the finish line. Closing arguments begin Tuesday.
Fire starts: Blaze News: How the Washington Post, not Nixon, covered up Watergate
As the 50th anniversary of Watergate approaches, it is important to take what we now know about how secret Washington (and America’s media) works and apply a more sober eye to this story. Worth it. Then you will know how much money was granted and what else awaits you. Former federal prosecutor, “Deep Throat” lawyer and author John D. O’Connor wrote in Blaze News:
There was certainly a massive cover-up in Watergate, but it was a cover-up by the Washington Press of Record, not by the Nixon Administration, the real victims of Watergate.
Immediately after the arrest, the Post’s sensational reporting revealed that what initially appeared to be a theft plot by “rogues” was the work of a petty stooge, but was ultimately used to influence the election. It should be remembered that this was transformed into a deliberately planned election plan. presidential power.
This transformation was accomplished through the campaign’s seemingly credible accusations: Its chairman, former Attorney General John Mitchell, a longtime ally of President Nixon, himself had ordered the heist. His involvement was triumphantly touted by the paper, an earlier report inspired by Deep Throat, and that the intrusion was just part of an overall “campaign of espionage and sabotage” directed by the White House. This confirmed that. …on the other hand, if Mitchell had been innocent and Liddy had received Mitchell’s instructions from elsewhere, the entire story of the scandal would have been different.
