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^^^ but not in New Hampshire...

Politico ran a freaky pre-Halloween story yesterday that you probably never heard about, headlined “Joe Biden’s Big New Hampshire Blunder.”

Like the famous Tennyson poem explained, somebody, somewhere had blundered.

The short version is, Biden — apparently personally — ordered Iowa and New Hampshire to stand down as the historic first two states holding democrat primaries, to make South Carolina first. The backstory is in 2020 Biden did poorly in Iowa and New Hampshire but South Carolina put him over the top. So it was supposed to be a little political reward, like a candy treat dropped into South Carolina’s bag.

The “trick” was, the DNC said it would strip Iowa and New Hampshire of delegates if they didn’t go along. But Biden’s plan backfired. I bet you never saw that plot twist coming.

In a cowardly fashion, Iowa backed down. But the Granite State remained immovable. Live Free or Die! New Hampshire is steaming ahead with its early primary anyway, delegates or no, and leaving Joe Biden off the ballot.

Ruh-roh.

It got even worse. Alert democrat from Minnesota, Representative Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), saw some kind of an opportunity and grabbed hold of it with both hands. He paid his $1,000 filing fee in New Hampshire, and is now running for the democrat nomination for President on New Hampshire’s ballot. He’s campaigning, too. Phillips has already held several town halls and intends to blanket the state.

Biden is mostly running another basement campaign.

Not one to leave a political weapon laying right in front of him, Phillips is campaigning on a razor-sharp political issue: returning New Hampshire to its place at the start of the democrat primary lineup. Needless to say, that’s an effective appeal to stoney Granite Staters.

According to Politico, at this point Biden — who’s not even running in New Hampshire — cannot afford to lose. “If he ignores New Hampshire or half-asses it, he loses,” said Steve Duprey, former chair of the N.H. GOP. Steve said at this point Biden has “got to win now.”

Politico says Democrat “insiders” are scrambling to organize a high-stakes write-in campaign. Good luck with that.

It’s fair to say the Biden campaign is off to a rocky start. Granite rocks.

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Texas scores major win as judge issues order blocking Biden from destroying state's border fence

https://justthenews.com/govern..._campaign=newsletter

A federal judge issued an extraordinary temporary restraining order Monday barring the Biden administration from destroying or tampering with a temporary concertina wire fence installed by Texas to protect its border with Mexico.

Chief U.S. District Judge Alia Moses, in Del Rio, ruled Texas had a likelihood of prevailing in its lawsuit and would suffer significant harm if federal officials were allowed to keep dismantling the fence.

The decision dealt a stinging rebuke to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and was a win for states seeking to enforce border security on their own in the absence of help from the federal government.

More than 10 million immigrants have illegally entered the United States under President Joe Biden's policies, federal data shows.

"The Plaintiff preliminarily establishes that it would face irreparable harm without a temporary restraining order," Moses declared in an 11-page decision.

"The Court shall grant the temporary relief requested, with one important exception for any medical emergency that mostly likely results in serious bodily injury or death to a person, absent any boats or other life-saving apparatus available to avoid such medical emergencies prior to reaching the concertina wire barrier," the court added.


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I ABSOLUTELY celebrate this victory!!!!

But legal question.....can "whomever" keep filing requests for "stays" of THIS ruling and around the legal merry-go-round we go???



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https://nypost.com/2023/10/29/...-corruption-coverup/

Bad as the evidence of Biden family sleaze is, the growing signs of Justice Department and FBI malfeasance in covering it up are far more disturbing.

In a bombshell letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sen. Chuck Grassley alleges that top Justice and FBI officials repeatedly, over the course of years, moved to shut down investigations into the Biden family.

Grassley says more than 40 confidential sources provided “criminal information” related to Hunter Biden and others in the clan to the FBI — with those cases rapidly closed, largely because of bogus findings that it was all “foreign disinformation.”

Per the senator, the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act squad began investigating Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings in January 2016 — when Joe Biden was still vice president.

In 2017, a source referred to Hunter Biden being on the board of Burisma, which “the handling agent deemed at the time non-relevant information to the ongoing criminal financial case,” Grassley notes.

The office then closed the case in December 2019 — at the very time Hunter Biden’s Burisma’s ties were all over the news thanks to then-President Donald Trump’s impeachment over his infamous phone call asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Joe Biden’s role in the firing of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who’d been investigating Burisma.

Meanwhile, the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office opened a “guardian” assessment of info Rudy Giuliani had provided on the Bidens, which came across the info the DC office had ignored on Hunter and Burisma. It had that source re-interviewed, producing in June 2020 the now-well-known claim that Zlochevsky had said he bribed Hunter and Joe $5 million apiece so Joe would get Shokin fired.

The Pittsburgh office recommended that the investigation continue; FBI HQ instead shut it down.

Crucially, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, per Grassley, engineered a finding “to improperly discredit” the bribe claim as merely “foreign disinformation.”

Grassley also cites whistleblower claims that FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault — the bureau’s “point man” on Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski — ordered that another 2020 probe into Hunter’s alleged “criminal financial and related activity” be closed after pressure from “an FBI HQ and FBI Baltimore element.”

All this, before the 2020 election.

On top of Grassley’s letter came news that Scott Brady, who as US Attorney oversaw that Pittsburgh FBI investigation, told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI hindered his Hunter Biden probe and that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss (the guy in charge of the main Justice investigation of Hunter) even skipped his team’s final briefing on the bribery allegations.

Instead, Weiss sent Assistant US attorney Lesley Wolf, now repeatedly fingered by other whistleblowers as shutting down any lines of investigation that might threaten Joe Biden.

“I think there was reluctance on the part of the FBI to really do any tasking related to our assignment,” Brady testified.

He also said he’d never been alerted to info from Hunter’s laptop, which the FBI had had for months.

Again, all this happened in the Trump years, meaning top FBI and Justice officials were working to protect the Bidens on their own initiative — with Team Trump utterly oblivious.

We have utmost regard for Grassley and the House investigators who are finally exposing these outrages, and we hope Republicans nominate a 2024 candidate who’s actually competent to root out this rot — not just rant about it.
 
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National Archives Sued, Reveals Existence Of 82,000 Pages Of Joe Biden Emails Using Pseudonym

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ails-using-pseudonym

Thanks to Hunter Biden's laptop, we learned in 2021 that while serving as vice president, Joe Biden used several private email accounts from which he would sometimes forward or receive government correspondence.

Now we know that three of them in particular, pseudonyms robinware456@gmail.com, JRBWare@gmail.com, and Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov, sent or received 82,000 pages worth of emails, according to the National Archives - far more than the 33,000 emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton illegally deleted from her private server.

The reason we know this is because the Archives refused to provide the information, and was sued via the Freedom of Information Act by the conservative nonprofit organization Southeastern Legal Foundation.

The emails themselves, which span an eight-year period, will purportedly take a considerable amount of time to produce due to the "scope" - and as such, "the volume of potentially responsive records is necessarily large."

"NARA has completed a search for potentially responsive documents and is currently processing those documents for the purpose of producing non-exempt portions of any responsive records on a monthly rolling basis," reads a Monday filing in the lawsuit.

That said, according to the filing, NARA and the plaintiffs are searching for ways to narrow the request for records in order to get copies of the emails out in a more timely manner (like, before the 2024 election?).

Government officials use of private email for official business is discouraged under the law, and officials like Biden are required to preserve all government-related emails conducted on their private accounts under the Federal Records Act. The fact that NARA has such a large collection suggests Biden gave those emails to the nation’s history-preserving agency.

The total revealed by the Archives, however, is stunning in size, even dwarfing the total from the most infamous private email scandal in American history involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which also involved government business on Obama’s watch. -Just the News

There is no indication thus far from the National Archives that any of Biden's emails contain classified information, however he is under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Hur related to the removal an improper storage of classified documents from his days as VP.

The stunning admission also comes as Republicans are seeking records related to the Biden family dealings in Ukraine and other countries, raising the specter of possibility that some, or many, of the 82,000 emails will bolster various Congressional corruption investigations.

Republicans have asked NARA for an un-redacted document that indicates that then-Vice President Biden took a call with the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, on May 27, 2016.

Republicans say the document was emailed to 'Robert L. Peters' with Hunter Biden copied.

At the time, top Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating oil company Burisma Holdings for corruption - the same company that Hunter was a sitting board member of.

Their demands come after Hunter Biden's ex-business partner Archer testified before the House Oversight Committee earlier this month that Joe Biden's 'brand' protected Burisma because 'people would be intimidated to mess with them.


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Breitbart News Network BREAKING NEWSOctober 31, 2023

National Archives Discovers 82K Pages of ‘Shady’ Joe Biden Alias Emails
NARA found 82,000 pages of emails from private alias accounts that President Joe Biden sent or received during his vice presidency.

The use of alias email accounts by Joe Biden raises concerns because it is unusual, suspicious, and “shady,” experts and lawmakers previously told Breitbart News. The use of a private email for official business is discouraged by law.

The email aliases — “Robert Peters,” “Robin Ware,” and “JRB Ware” — were used to share government information and discuss business with Hunter Biden and associates. Breitbart News reported in September that Joe Biden used a fourth alias (“auks”) in 2010 to communicate with his family.

The 82,000 pages of emails appear to match the previous trove of 5,400 emails and records linked to Joe Biden’s email aliases that NARA revealed in August.

The contents of the emails are unknown. NARA released the total of the pages due to a status report regarding the Southeastern Legal Foundation’s FOIA request.

The Federal Records Act compels NARA to preserve all government-related emails from private email accounts. It appears Joe Biden followed the law to provide NARA the documents from his tenure as vice president during the Obama administration.

The “Robert Peters” alias received an email in 2016 that cc’d Hunter Biden about Ukraine. The email includes an attachment with the vice president’s schedule, indicating that he had spoken by phone to then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Poroshenko is a notable figure in the Biden family business scandal. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released an FD-1023 file in July that alleges Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings, paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each after then-Vice President Biden withheld $1 billion worth of aid to Ukraine until Poroshenko fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma.

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I can’t help but think sleepy joes woes started picking up problems about the time he announced he was in the 2024 race. The useful idiot not so useful anymore?




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House Oversight: Joe Biden Received $40,000 ‘Loan Repayment’ After Hunter Shook Down CCP-Linked Business Partner

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Committee released more evidence Wednesday showing that Joe Biden personally profited from the family’s influence-peddling operation.

Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) released a video and a bank records memorandum revealing how “the Big Guy” received a cut of a Chinese Communist Party-linked payment to Hunter Biden after it was laundered through several of the family’s business entities.

“Remember when Joe Biden told the American people that his son didn’t make money in China?” Comer asked in the new Oversight video. “Well, not only did he lie about his son Hunter making money in China, but it also turns out that $40,000 in laundered China money landed in Joe Biden’s bank account in the form of a personal check,” he added. “And the Oversight Committee has it.”

The money trail begins in July 2017, when Hunter Biden sent his infamous “shake-down” WhatsApp message to CEFC associate Raymond Zhao demanding a $10 million dollar capital payment. At the time, the Biden clan was working with CCP-linked Chinese energy company CEFC. The partnership began while Joe Biden was Vice President.

“I’m sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment has not been fulfilled. You will regret not following my direction. I am waiting for the call with my father,” Hunter allegedly wrote on July 30, 2017.

About a week later, a Chinese company affiliated with CEFC sent half the amount to one of Hunter Biden’s shell companies, the Oversight Committee said.

On August 8, 2017, Northern International Capital, a Chinese company affiliated with CEFC, sent $5 million to Hudson West III, a joint venture established by Hunter Biden and CEFC associate Gongwen Dong.

That same day, Hudson West III sent $400,000 to Owasco, P.C., an entity owned and controlled by Hunter Biden. On August 14, 2017, Hunter Biden wired $150,000 to Lion Hall Group, a company owned by President Biden’s brother James and sister-in-law Sara Biden. On August 28, 2017, Sara Biden withdrew $50,000 in cash from Lion Hall Group.

Later the same day, she deposited it into her and James Biden’s personal checking account. On September 3, 2017, Sara Biden cut a check to Joe Biden for $40,000 for a “loan repayment.”

The $40,000 check to “the Big Guy” amounts to a 10 percent cut of the $400,000 payment to Hunter’s shell company Owasco.

Last month, the committee released bank records revealing another shady $200,000 direct payment to Joe Biden from James Biden. According to Comer, James Biden received a total of $600,000 in loans from the financially distressed rural hospital operator Americore Health in 2018.

On March 1, 2018, James Biden received a $200,000 loan from the now bankrupt healthcare company and wrote a $200,000 check from this personal bank account to his brother Joe Biden that very same day, bank records show.

“Like the payment to Joe from Americore funds, it’s certainly plausible that this payment where James and Sara used funds from China was indeed a loan repayment to Joe,” Comer said. “But even if this $40,000 check was a loan repayment from James Biden, it still shows how Joe benefited from his family cashing in on his name – with money from China no less.”

Without his family peddling his name and his son threatening a CEFC associate with consequences that he said Joe Biden knew about, James wouldn’t have had the money to write the $40,000 check to his brother Joe.

It’s also worth remembering that Biden family efforts to secure millions from this Chinese company began when Joe Biden was still Vice President.

In taking funds sourced to a CCP-linked company that wanted to advance China’s interests, Joe Biden exposed himself to future blackmail and put America’s interests behind his own desire for money.

The House Oversight Committee, along with the House Judiciary and Ways and Means committees launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden in September, alleging he financially benefited from his son’s shady foreign business schemes.

Oversight Committee member Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) said Tuesday that the investigation has reached “a tipping point” because now they are able to go to court to obtain the Biden clan’s bank records.

“Once we have those bank records, I think we’re going to find a lot more,” Burlison said. “At that point, if there is evidence, their goose is cooked,” he added.

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Subpoena Update: James Comer Captures Nearly All Hunter Biden’s Bank Records

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...bidens-bank-records/

The near conclusion of the subpoena process signals the committee’s next step of requesting the Bidens appear before the committee under oath.
Comer subpoenaed the personal and business bank records of Hunter and James Biden on September 28 to investigate the link between Joe Biden and his family’s foreign deals.

Speaking with Lou Dobbs on the The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs, Comer confirmed the committee subpoenaed Hunter Biden’s bank records. “We’ve gotten almost all the bank records in,” he said.

“It’s been a long process because, Lou, he [Hunter Biden] has so many bank accounts,” Comer said, explaining the complexity of the process. “He would have one shell company with a dozen bank accounts.”

Comer, a former bank board member, accused the Bidens of running a scam. “They laundered money,” he said.

“Because we got these bank accounts, we’re very close to bringing in the Bidens,” Comer said about demanding their testimony. “I would say it’s a matter of days before they get served.”

Comer said the outstanding bank records are relevant to the questions he hopes to ask the Bidens under oath. “I think that we’ve just about got enough bank records to where we can bring them in and ask them specific questions with specific hard evidence in the form of bank statements,” he said.

On Wednesday, Comer alleged Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered CEFC China Energy Co. money in 2017 from the account of his brother, James Biden, and sister-in-law, Sara Biden, once again in the form of a personal check labeled as a “loan repayment.”

Comer’s revelation is the second instance where Joe Biden accepted a personal check from his brother James Biden, who was involved in the Biden family’s business ventures.

Comer told Dobbs the checks are “direct evidence” that Joe Biden “benefited financially” from the Biden business.

Ian Sams, a White House spokesperson, claimed Wednesday that Comer’s claims are “lies and conspiracy theories.”

Comer pledged to continue the investigation into Joe Biden. “We continue — on at least a weekly basis — to come up with more evidence, more checks, more wires,” Comer told Dobbs.



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Hunter Biden's ex-partner Bobulinski calls on Bidens to join him for testimony after claim he lied to FBI

Hunter's lawyer requested the US attorney for DC investigate Bobulinski for making false statements about business to FBI

Hunter Biden’s ex-business associate, Tony Bobulinski, suggested he and the Biden family appear together for public testimony before Congress after lawyers for the president's son alleged Bobulinski lied to the FBI about the nature of his business relationship.

Fox News obtained a copy of a 10-page letter Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, sent to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, claiming Bobulinski lied to the FBI during an interview Oct. 23, 2020, about his business dealings with the president’s son.

Lowell called for Graves to investigate Bobulinski for "false" statements regarding his work. Bobulinski worked with Hunter Biden to create the joint venture SinoHawk Holdings with Chinese energy company CEFC.

An attorney for Bobulinski provided Fox News Digital a statement on behalf of his client, denying Lowell’s allegations.

"All of the allegations contained in Mr. Lowell’s 10-page letter to U.S. Attorney Graves are patently false, and I look forward to exposing these lies and laying out the facts in a public forum in short order," Bobulinski said in the statement.

"The sad thing for our country is that Hunter, Jim and Joe Biden along with Abbe Lowell know they are all false and are trying to weaponize the DOJ against me.

"If Hunter Biden and the Biden family are so determined to ensure that the full truth is put before the American people, Hunter, Jim, Joe and I should all appear together before Congress, publicly and under oath," he continued. "They can name the date, time and place, and I would certainly be willing to do that for the American people."

Lowell, in the letter, claimed Bobulinski "lied about the business discussions among the partners involved" in the joint venture.

"All of the allegations contained in Mr. Lowell’s 10-page letter to U.S. Attorney Graves are patently false, and I look forward to exposing these lies and laying out the facts in a public forum in short order," Bobulinski said in the statement.

"The sad thing for our country is that Hunter, Jim and Joe Biden along with Abbe Lowell know they are all false and are trying to weaponize the DOJ against me.

"If Hunter Biden and the Biden family are so determined to ensure that the full truth is put before the American people, Hunter, Jim, Joe and I should all appear together before Congress, publicly and under oath," he continued. "They can name the date, time and place, and I would certainly be willing to do that for the American people."

Lowell, in the letter, claimed Bobulinski "lied about the business discussions among the partners involved" in the joint venture.

Lowell also alleged Bobulinski was never in Miami in 2017 for initial discussions with Hunter Biden, CEFC chairman Ye Jianming and other associates.

Lowell references an infamous May 13, 2017, email that includes a breakdown of the "financial capitalization of the joint venture with CEFC."

The email, first reported by Fox News Digital in October 2020, shows a proposed equity split with references "20" for "H" and "10 held by H for the big guy?" with no further details.

Bobulinski has repeatedly said "the big guy" was Joe Biden. IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who claimed politics influenced the years-long federal investigation into Hunter Biden, also said "the big guy" was known to be Joe Biden.

Lowell, in the letter, claimed Bobulinski was "making things up" and claimed Bobulinski "has no basis in fact by which to assert that there was a reference to the ‘big guy’ or that it was not his own musing or that it was a reference to Vice President Joe Biden."

Lowell said Bobulinski’s "false statements are obviously made to greatly exaggerate Mr. Bobulinski’s short-lived business relationship" with Hunter Biden "in order to create a false narrative that Mr. Biden and Jim Biden were somehow involved in off-the-books business with CEFC Chairman Ye while Joseph Biden was still Vice President."

Lowell said Bobulinski’s "lie" is the "same false narrative that serves as the improper and illusory basis of an impeachment inquiry by House Republicans and the justification for Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony."

The House Oversight Committee, which is jointly leading the investigation with the House Judiciary and House Ways & Means Committees, reacted to Lowell’s request on "X," formerly Twitter, Friday afternoon.

"Hunter Biden and his legal team are once again attacking anyone who speaks out against the Bidens," the Oversight Committee wrote. "This time, their target is Tony Bobulinski, a potential witness in our investigation.

"We will not tolerate witness intimidation. The truth will come out soon enough despite the Biden team’s threatening tactics. We will give Hunter the opportunity to clear the air and speak with us soon."
 
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Re: “Hunter's lawyer [Lowell] requested the US attorney for DC [Graves] investigate Bobulinski for making false statements about business to FBI”

Sounds as though Hunter and the Biden clan are feeling the heat. But Graves, appointed by Biden, is certainly Biden-friendly.



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Biden Wants Another $56 Billion in 'Emergency' Spending

Congress is being asked to borrow more money to fund broadband access and other pet projects. Only about $9 billion would be spent on natural disaster recovery efforts.

https://reason.com/2023/10/30/...-emergency-spending/

Under the guise of responding to natural disasters, the White House is pushing Congress to approve $56 billion in additional borrowing to fund a wide range of nonemergency spending like broadband internet and humanitarian aid.

Less than half of the $56 billion requested by the Biden administration would be directed toward disaster relief—and only $9 billion would "address ongoing disaster response and recovery efforts," according to a breakdown published by the White House. The majority of the new spending would be aimed at what the White House calls "critical domestic priorities" like welfare programs, the war on drugs, and government-funded broadband internet.

In other words: nonemergency line items that could—and should—be decided as part of the regular budget process, not as a supplemental funding bill.

That would be true even if the federal government weren't already $33 trillion in debt and coming off a year in which it ran a $2 trillion deficit. Yes, another $56 billion in new borrowing and spending is less than 1 percent of the roughly $6.3 trillion the government spent last fiscal year, but we've reached the point where every little bit absolutely matters.

The latest request comes on top of the $16 billion in emergency spending Congress approved in September as part of the short-term continuing resolution (the one keeping the government open through mid-November). It's also in addition to $106 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and other countries that the Biden administration has requested.

If all that gets approved, the $162 billion in "supplemental" new spending will wipe out all the projected savings from the Fiscal Responsibility Act for fiscal year 2024, note Cato Institute budget experts Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett. "Congress should reject phony emergency spending and consider Biden's 'critical needs' request as part of the regular appropriations process, subject to existing spending caps," they write.

Indeed, one has to stretch the term "critical domestic priorities" pretty far to include all the things the White House is asking for.

For example, the Biden administration wants $6 billion in new funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program, which was created as part of the 2021 infrastructure bill and subsidizes low-income Americans' internet bills. However, much of the existing broadband spending in the infrastructure bill has been poorly allocated—wealthy Washington, D.C., got a greater share of the money than any other part of the country, despite the broadband spending being sold as a way to bring faster internet to rural America. And how is it that ongoing subsidies for an existing program count as an emergency—or, for that matter, something that the government should be doing at all?

The same question can be asked of most of the other line items in the White House's supplemental funding request. That includes the $16 billion for child care programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, the $2.2 billion meant to improve the Department of Energy's uranium enrichment program, and the $1.6 billion aimed at a program that helps low-income Americans pay their heating bills. There's no reason that these things can't be part of the regular budget process.

The same is true for the proposed $1.55 billion grant program that would help local law enforcement fund anti-fentanyl efforts and the $1.05 billion for foreign food aid. In fact, lawmakers might ask why that last item is included in a list of "domestic" priorities in the first place. (The answer is that foreign food aid programs mostly serve as a way to provide backdoor subsidies to American farmers but are costly and ineffective at actually delivering aid to starving foreigners.)

Certainly, it's possible to make a case for providing funding for each and every one of these line items. But budgeting is about setting priorities, and Congress has done a poor job of that for many years.

With deficits rising and borrowing growing more expensive, lawmakers should be extremely skeptical about hiking spending for the White House's pet projects outside the official budget process.


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All this spending on stuff, don't want to hear about Social Security running out of money...
 
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Bringing out the long knives.

Former Obama adviser recommends Biden drop out of 2024 race

David Axelrod, former White House official, recommends US Pres. Biden announce he won't run in for re-election in 2024.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/379813

Former White House official David Axelrod on Sunday recommended that US President Joe Biden rethink his decision to run in the 2024 US presidential elections.

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Axelrod said, "It's very late to change horses; a lot will happen in the next year that no one can predict & Biden's team says his resolve to run is firm."

"The POTUS is justly proud of his accomplishments," Axelrod, who served as a senior adviser to former US President Barack Obama, added. "Trump is a dangerous, unhinged demagogue whose brazen disdain for the rules, norms, laws and institutions or democracy should be disqualifying. But the stakes of miscalculation here are too dramatic to ignore."

"Only JoeBiden can make this decision. If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it's in HIS best interest or the country's?"


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The Dems will find a reason to dump Joe off the 2024 ticket. It could be health reasons, (real or invented), or the puppet masters could get rid of him because of the Biden Crime Family investigations. But one way or another, they'll find someone else to run, and they're running out of time.


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The useful idiot has outlived his usefulness. The fact that the Biden Crime Syndicate facts are being reported on should be all the proof anyone needs that the DNC is trying to dump Biden. He’s toxic to the cause and they want him gone.




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The useful idiot has outlived his usefulness. The fact that the Biden Crime Syndicate facts are being reported on should be all the proof anyone needs that the DNC is trying to dump Biden. He’s toxic to the cause and they want him gone.

Yep. He was never more than a disposable puppet anyway. Jill is the problem for the Dems now. If she cared about the man, she never would have allowed him to run in the first place. But she likes being 'first lady' so she wants him to run again. So if he can't be nudged off the ticket, eventually the long knives will come out for him.



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DEMs are definitely worried

recent polls:

Nevada Trump 52, Biden 41
Gerogia T 49, B 43
Michigan T 48, B 43
Pennsylvania T 48, B 44
Arizona T 49, B 44

Wisconsin T 45, B 47

73% says things are going badly in America

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