The proximity of that investment to a record federal loan, pushed by a White House adviser, is precisely the kind of sequence oversight is meant to examine.
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This is one of the single largest loans in the history of OSC, and a commitment of that scale warrants careful review on its own.
I think there’s $3.2 billion that came from funds here marked by Congress for global health and development programs.
The Constitution says that the appropriations process is the power of the purse. You are ignoring that. You flout the Constitution every single day and you have been doing it for the last year and a half … we’re not going to continue to…
It is your responsibility to get the money out of the door in a timely fashion, and if you can’t do this, we need to take a look, because Congress provides the authority for this.
Bold, people-powered candidates took on the Democratic establishment and won.
This is what happens when movements build power. People-powered movements win.
They ran on Medicare for All. On a public option for housing. On a foreign policy that centers human dignity over political convenience. And they won.
Sports have always evolved. Our tax code should keep up, and it should evolve in a way that supports communities, protects taxpayers, promotes fair competition, and gives young athletes every opportunity to succeed both on and off the…
While we won the case today, we also got a grave warning about the future.
The trick is, how do you persuade yourself to stand back up and fight again?
I think it was a huge mistake [to end the Presidential Fitness Test]. I mean, look at our kids, we literally have the sickest population in the world.
I mean, you know, I hope he (Vance) is. That’s what I’ll say.
One thing I was absolutely wrong on, is that in my cycle in ‘22, we were running to eliminate the filibuster. And we were so wrong, so wrong about that.
So you’re not making a commitment that you owe your soul to the company store, or basically to the parties, whether it be a D or an R, they’re going to have to earn your support, but the people will be much better off, and they’ll…
When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.
My observation, and recommendation from observation, would be, John, trust me, set yourself free and become an independent.