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Connor O'Brien
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Connor O'Brien
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Defense reporter covering Congress for @politico. Markup enthusiast. Self-described Huguenot. Send me your tips and sage grouse gifs: [email protected]
- JUST IN: Sen. Tim Kaine says he’ll offer an amendment to NDAA to bar the use of military force against Americans.
- Trump tweeting about Bette Midler after midnight in London wasn’t on my bingo sheet.
- To recap: 1. Trump witch hunt tweet 2. Roger Ailes died 3. Jason Chaffetz is resigning 4. Mike Flynn won't honor a subpoena 5. It's 11:56 am
- “Let me go off the record for just a second,” Mark Meadows tells a scrum of reporters, apparently not realizing he’s being broadcast live on C-SPAN3.
00:00 - Rep. Seth Moulton, an Iraq War veteran, pulls no punches on Trump: "I am ashamed that he is our president."
- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says DoD is examining the decision to overturn Roe and “evaluating our policies to ensure we continue to provide seamless access to reproductive health care as permitted by federal law.”
- BREAKING: It's done. The Senate just confirmed Lloyd Austin to be Biden's Defense Secretary, 93 to 2
- After McCarthy’s speech railing against the omnibus, Jim McGovern rolls his eyes and says: “After listening to that, it’s clear he doesn’t have the votes yet.”
00:00 - Next week on Game of Thrones: the Targaryen administration announces Infrastructure Week.
- Next week’s Game of Thrones: The disaster supplemental to rebuild Winterfell stalls in the Senate.
- Sure but the Star Wars prequels start with a *checks notes* trade war.Star Wars prequels all about trumping up a crisis to get senators to agree with emergency powers.
- The NDAA just passed 300 votes — ten more than needed to override a veto in the House with all 435 members voting. This bill is gonna be veto-proof and then some.
- BREAKING: The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved Lloyd Austin's nomination to be Defense Secretary by voice vote as well as a waiver (vote tally is TBD).
