Congress takes first step to avert a government shutdown
Congress took its first step toward making sure the government’s lights don’t go out when the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, but no one on Capitol Hill was declaring victory. The House approved government funding for six months into the 2013 fiscal year on Thursday afternoon through what’s known…
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On CNN Monday, former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter suggested Republicans are "paralyzed" by the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump — whatever their personal feelings.
"It's so interesting because you have the sense that if this was a secret vote, I mean, it's pretty clear how a lot of these Republican senators would vote," said anchor Anderson Cooper. "For so many of them, I mean, this is a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself, to distance itself, from the former president and try to kind of, you know, reinvent itself if it wants to. It seems like that would be a pretty strong motivation if in fact there were enough Republicans in the party who really did want to return to where the Republican Party once was."
The far-right conspiracy theory QAnon was defended on Fox News on Monday.
The QAnon cult argues, without evidence, that Democrats are part of a Satanic, pedophile cabal that runs the world. Multiple supporters of the conspiracy theory took part in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
On Monday, The New York Times reported that one of the many ways former President Donald Trump plans to re-enter politics over the next two years is working to oust Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA), a one-time ally who had a falling out.
"Advisers to the president say he has just over $70 million in his PAC, Save America, with few restrictions on what he can do with it," reported Maggie Haberman and Reid Epstein. "For now, most of his staff is on a government payroll afforded to former presidents for a period of time after they leave office."
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