Elizabeth Warren Just Sent a Scathing Letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin About His Tax Bill Charade
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during a Senate Banking Committee hearing earlier this year. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Update: On Thursday night, the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s office launched an inquiry into whether the department performed an analysis of the Senate tax bill. The Inspector General’s office counsel…
JCT: Even With Dynamic Scoring, Republican Tax Bill Will Still Cost $1 Trillion
Republicans in Congress were desperately hoping that the Joint Committee on Taxation wouldn’t have time to perform a dynamic estimate of their tax bill before they passed it. But the JCT wonks put in some overtime and got the job done. Yay wonks! Here’s the result: Over ten years, the tax bill will increase the…
White House Press Secretary: Trump “Elevated the Conversation” by Sharing Anti-Muslim Videos
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday refused to back down from her defense of President Donald Trump’s decision to share a string of inflammatory videos that purported to show Muslims attacking people and, in one case, destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary. Promoting such content, she insisted, serves to “elevate the…
Official Analysis Finds Republicans Are Completely Wrong About Their Tax Bill Paying for Itself
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is surrounded by reporters on Thursday as Republicans move to pass their tax bill. J. Scott Applewhite/AP On Thursday, Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation found that the Senate tax bill will add $1 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. Thursday’s report is the first official congressional…
This Guy Says He’s the Person Who Suspended Donald Trump’s Twitter Account This Month
BrianAJackson/iStock/Getty Images Plus For 11 minutes in November, President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was deactivated. Twitter said it was an accident, and they blamed a contractor. TechCrunch claims to have found the man behind the act: Bahtiyar Duysak, who says he was working with the customer support team at Twitter’s Trust and Safety Division. Duysak told TechCrunch that it was all a…
How Chuck Grassley Made it Easier for Trump to Confirm More Federal Judges
Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, right, speaks with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, before the start of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on several nominees on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017.Bill Clark/Associated Press President Trump has already experienced great success filling court vacancies during his first year in office, but on Wednesday his quest to wholly reshape the federal judiciary took…