On CNN SOTU, Sen. John Fetterman pushes back on GOP transgender ads blanketing the state. "It doesn't make you a man to pick on trans or gay kids. It just makes you an asshole."
Liz Goodwin
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Liz Goodwin
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National political reporter for the Washington Post. Previously @BostonGlobe @dailybeast @yahoonews signal: lizgoodwin.05 email: [email protected]
- Just remembering when Kevin McCarthy told Senate Republicans last month he was capable of funding the government in January so they should hold off on the omnibus
- Schumer calls on House Republicans to make their debt ceiling demands public: "Show the American people precisely the kinds of cuts they want to make" & whether they include Social Security/Medicare cuts
- Sen Menendez on the reports of missiles striking Poland: “I have to believe that it was a mistake by Russia. And I think if it is, Russia should come out very quickly and say that.” If not a mistake, article 5 requires us to support nato ally of Poland, he says.
- On Fox News, Rick Scott blames Republican leadership for bad midterms performance, saying they "caved in on the debt ceiling, caved in on the gun deal, caved in on a fake infrastructure deal," which made things harder for R candidates
- Replying to @lizcgoodwinSen Manchin said senators are talking about the gabbard and Gaetz picks on the senate floor right now. “No one could believe it.”
- News: The Judiciary Committee is asking Harlan Crow for a full accounting of gifts to Clarence Thomas & any other justice in a new letter (w/ @marianne_levine)
- Sen. Kevin Cramer to me on McCarthy’s threat to block Senate R bills if they back omnibus. “Statements like that and statements coming from House Republicans is the very reason that some Senate Republicans feel they probably should spare them from the burden of having to govern.”
- Replying to @lizcgoodwinHe also blamed Mitch McConnell for not releasing a Republican agenda. (Scott released a GOP agenda that included reauthorization votes for Social Security and Medicare that Gov. Sununu said was part of what made it hard for R candidates to win in NH.)
- Replying to @lizcgoodwinSen Murkowski when asked about Gaetz’s nomination said: “do you think he’s a serious candidate?” She then shook her head no and walked onto the senate floor.
- Megyn Kelly questions why Tim Sheehy can’t release medical records from his 2015 hospital visit that would show he was not treated for an accidental gunshot wound that day. He says there are no “extensive” records from the visit. youtu.be/s7ED3YF3xJM?si…
- Replying to @lizcgoodwinalso amazing in retrospect given there is no house right now is the threat to block the priorities of any Senate R who voted for the omnibus
- Replying to @lizcgoodwinSen Collins says there will be “many many questions” for Gaetz at his hearing and was “shocked” by the news of his pick.
- Replying to @lizcgoodwinThats a new response from him. In May, Sheehy told Montana Public radio that it’s “insulting and ridiculous” that he would need to provide medical records from the incident after “serving my country and being wounded overseas.”
