In the news today: A federal shutdown was avoided as Congress agreed to keep the government funded until December, but the debt ceiling fight still looms. Meanwhile, it's Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema versus Democrats (and global weather patterns), yet again. The House Select Committee on the January 6 insurrection blasted out nearly a dozen new subpoenas focused on how Trump's mob of violent deplorables assembled. Apparently frustrated at being so often left out of the Nation's Worst Governors competition, Alabama's Republican governor and state legislature have decided how they're going to spend nearly a half-billion in federal pandemic relief funding: build new prisons. Can't have a runaway pandemic without prisons, apparently.
Here's some of what you may have missed:
• Manchin throws a bomb filled with ego and dishonesty into negotiations over spending bill
• Promising to deliver the Build Back Better bill, Pelosi calls it a 'culmination' of her speakership
• House Select Committee issues 11 subpoenas, including for former Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson
• Police officers and Republican officials found to be members of 'vile' domestic terrorist group
• Alabama governor and GOP legislature want to spend $400M in COVID-19 relief money on prisons
Trending from the community:
• Oh noes! The beltway press agrees, the Dems are going to get clobbered
• Pre-Roe v. Wade: What abortion was really like
Here's some of what you may have missed:
• Manchin throws a bomb filled with ego and dishonesty into negotiations over spending bill
• Promising to deliver the Build Back Better bill, Pelosi calls it a 'culmination' of her speakership
• House Select Committee issues 11 subpoenas, including for former Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson
• Police officers and Republican officials found to be members of 'vile' domestic terrorist group
• Alabama governor and GOP legislature want to spend $400M in COVID-19 relief money on prisons
Trending from the community:
• Oh noes! The beltway press agrees, the Dems are going to get clobbered
• Pre-Roe v. Wade: What abortion was really like