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- Boebert Comes Out Swinging Against Trump Admin. Request for Iran War Money: ‘I...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said she will not support any supplemental funding bill to pay for the Iran war, no matter what the price tag is. The Department of Defense is seeking $200 billion in supplemental funds to keep paying for the war on Iran, which President Donald Trump launched on Feb 28. The war is costing American taxpayers about $1 billion a day, to say nothing of skyrocketing gas prices. On Thursday, CNN’s Manu Raju caught up with Boebert on Capitol Hill and asked about the additional funding the Trump administration is expected to seek from Congress. “I will not vote for a war supplemental,” she said. “No. I am a no. I’ve already told leadership. I am a no on any war supplementals. I am so tired of spending money elsewhere. I am tired of the industrial-war complex getting all of our hard-earned tax dollars. I have folks in Colorado who can’t afford to live. We need America First policies right now, and that? I’m not doing that.” Later in the day, Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) appeared on CNN, and said the $200 billion figure is likely just the administration’s starting number, and that the amount would probably be less. In a weird twist, he said Iran should pay for the bill. “I would actually like to see Iran pay for this, whether it’s $20 billion or $200 billion, whatever it is,” Perry said. He later clarified that the money from Iran would have to be paid out by a future regime that is friendlier to the U.S. For their part, some prominent Democrats have not ruled out voting to fund the war that they say they oppose. Watch above via CNN.The post Boebert Comes Out Swinging Against Trump Admin. Request for Iran War Money: ‘I’m Not Doing That’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - ‘I’m Not Jeffrey Epstein’: Florida Man Who Went Viral for Wrong Reasons Sp...
New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP/Instagram A Florida man who went viral for his uncanny resemblance to deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein spoke out on Thursday and addressed the kerfuffle. A video posted last Friday showed a man wearing a backwards baseball cap driving down a Florida highway in a convertible with the top down. The man who shot the video narrated it, stating, “Epstein is alive. Epstein is alive!” “Dude has to get this constantly,” one user replied. “Time to grow a beard.” On Thursday, the Epstein lookalike responded. “Hey everybody, this is Palm Beach Pete,” he said while driving. “And my video went viral because some dude randomly filmed me while I was driving on I-95, unbeknownst to me. And the next thing I know, I’m a viral sensation. I had my phone down for about four hours and didn’t know my phone was blowing up with all these comments from that video. So, it got a lot of traction. It’s pretty crazy. Thanks.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daily Brief Global (@dailybriefglobal) “So, you’re not Jeffrey Epstein?” a man off-camera asked. “I’m not Jeffrey Epstein,” he replied. “I’m Palm Beach Pete.” Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 in what authorities say was a suicide. He has been back in the news as the Department of Justice has released many – but not all of its files – on Epstein. Last year, Congress passed a law mandating the DOJ release all of its Epstein files with only the names of the victims redacted. However, the DOJ has not released all of the documents and has redacted material that was not the victims’ names.The post ‘I’m Not Jeffrey Epstein’: Florida Man Who Went Viral for Wrong Reasons Speaks Out first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Republican Congressman Says Iranians Should Pay U.S. to Wage War on Them: ‘We ...Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) concocted a novel funding mechanism for the $200 billion the White House says it is seeking to continue the war on Iran: having the Iranians pay for it. The Department of Defense is seeking $200 billion in supplemental funds to keep prosecuting President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, which began on Feb. 28. The cost of the war is about $1 billion a day. Perry appeared on Thursday’s edition of The Source on CNN, where Kaitlan Collins asked if he would support such an appropriation. The lawmaker responded by saying he wants to see details and that the high price tag is likely just a starting point for negotiations with Congress. He added that he wants Iran to foot the bill. “I support the president,” he said. “I support this action. But at the same time, we’ve got to pay for this. So, how is this going to be dealt with? I would actually like to see Iran pay for this, whether it’s $20 billion or $200 billion, whatever it is. Look, they’ve been at war with us for 47 years, and it’s finally being ended by the president, which is awesome, but it comes at a cost. And they have resources. They have been siphoning those resources away from their population for those four and a half, five decades.” Collins seemed taken aback by the idea. “You want to see whatever this costs the U.S. taxpayer, whatever the Pentagon does come to you and asks for, to be offset by Iran?” she asked. “Well, I think we gotta pay for this somehow, right?” Perry replied before insisting that Iran started the war. “I don’t see any reason why the people that started this war – it’s not the United States of America – it’s Iran.” “Yeah, I understand your argument,” Collins replied. “But I don’t think anyone thinks that Iran’s actually gonna pay $200 billion to offset the cost.” “Yeah, right now, Iran’s not gonna pay for it,” Perry clarified. “But under a different paradigm where the ayatollah’s not in charge, and we have a different system of governance.” Watch above via CNN.The post Republican Congressman Says Iranians Should Pay U.S. to Wage War on Them: ‘We Gotta Pay for This Somehow’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- Republican Senator Explains, ‘I’m Married to a Married Woman’ Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) confessed on Thursday that he is married to a woman who is married to him. Senate Republicans held a press conference on Thursday at the Capitol, where they touted the SAVE Act, which has already passed the House. The legislation would require proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a birth certificate or a passport, to register to vote. Opponents of the bill say millions of U.S. citizens do not have those documents readily available, and some do not have the documents at all. “They want fraud,” Scott said of congressional Democrats. “They wanna allow illegal aliens to vote. That’s the only answer. So, think about what you show more than anything else. It’s not your credit card for most people. It’s your driver’s license. You show ID for everything.” The senator dismissed concerns that the citizenship requirement could be an obstacle for women who have changed their surname’s “They say, ‘Married women, it’s gonna disenfranchise married women,'” Scott said. “I’m married to a married woman. I have two daughters that are married. And I think they could figure out how to get whatever ID they want, how to vote, all those things. They don’t need anybody telling them what to do. They can figure this out. So, any Democrat that says that women can’t figure this out, they’re stupid.” Scott is indeed “married to a married woman,” having wed Ann Holland in 1972. The senator himself was born Richard Myers, but became Richard Scott after his mother married his stepfather. The SAVE Act faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where 60 votes are needed to overcome the filibuster. Republicans control the chamber 53-47, and there is little appetite among Democrats to provide the seven additional votes. President Donald Trump has urged Sen. Majority Leader John Thune (R-SC) to eliminate the filibuster so the bill casn pass. In his State of the Union address last month, Trump urged the Senate to pass the legislation and claimed the only way Democrats can win elections “is to cheat.” Watch above via C-SPAN.The post Republican Senator Explains, ‘I’m Married to a Married Woman’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
- U.S. Says 3 Tied to Silicon Valley Server Maker Broke Export Laws
Prosecutors said the men, including a co-founder of the company, Super Micro, had diverted servers containing Nvidia A.I. chips to China. [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago - ‘Have You Ever Seen Anything Like That in Your Life?’ Chris Hayes Can’t Be...MS NOW’s Chris Hayes repeatedly called President Donald Trump a “sociopath” during his monologue on Thursday’s All In, and homed in on a wild moment from Monday. Rumors had swirled around Capitol Hill about the health of 73-year-old Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL), who announced earlier this year that he will not seek reelection. On Monday, Trump hosted a Kennedy Center board meeting at the White House, where things went totally off the rails. “On Monday, he had this insane back and forth with House Speaker Mike Johnson,” Hayes said, “where Trump just gleefully revealed, in front of the cameras, a Republican congressman’s terminal medical condition. Just listen to this.” Here is that exchange: TRUMP: Death is very bad when you’re the speaker and you have a majority of two or three. But we had a death, and then we had another death. And we had some things. And it’s– but we’re looking very strong. We had one man who was very ill. It looked like he wasn’t gonna make it. I don’t know. I won’t mention his name. Should I? Do other people know his name? Do you want to mention it? He’ll be proud. Go ahead, tell him. Tell him the story. [laughs] JOHNSON: Ok, well, thank you, Mr. President. Congressman Neal Dunn of Florida had had some real health challenges, and it was very serious and had had a pretty grim diagnosis. And I mentioned it to the president. And I said, “Congressman Dunn is a real champion and a patriot because he’s still coming to work. And if others got this diagnosis, they would be apt to go home and retire. TRUMP: What was the diagnosis? JOHNSON: It was uh, I mean, I think it was a terminal diagnosis. TRUMP: He would be dead by June. JOHNSON: Ok, that wasn’t public, but yeah, ok. That’s– it was grim. That’s what I was going to say. I don’t think– TRUMP: With a heart problem, by the way. This was a heart problem. JOHNSON: So, long story short, the president called him to encourage him and thank him. And they had a conversation. Hayes was in disbelief. “Have you ever seen anything like that in your life?” he asked viewers. The host went on to note that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was at the meeting, just hours after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Watch above… [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
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