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GovBrief Today #476 - What Happened Today

Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home Thursday rather than vote on Trump's war.

He didn't have the votes. Senate Republicans also walked away from Trump's $72 billion immigration enforcement bill, and Mitch McConnell called Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund "utterly stupid, morally wrong." The Senate went home too.

Tens of thousands of service members stuck in the Gulf war zone don't get a three-day weekend. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell Congress to end the war when they return from Memorial Day recess.

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u/georgebounacos — 8 hours ago

GovBrief Today #476 - What Happened Today

Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home Thursday rather than vote on Trump's war.

He didn't have the votes. Senate Republicans also walked away from Trump's $72 billion immigration enforcement bill, and Mitch McConnell called Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund "utterly stupid, morally wrong." The Senate went home too.

Tens of thousands of service members stuck in the Gulf war zone don't get a three-day weekend. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell Congress to end the war when they return from Memorial Day recess.

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u/georgebounacos — 9 hours ago

GovBrief Today #475 - What Happened Today

Two January 6 officers sued Donald Trump Wednesday to block his $1.776 billion fund for the rioters.

Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges say the Anti-Weaponization Fund violates the 14th Amendment. Ratified after the Civil War, Section 4 bars the federal government from paying debts "incurred in aid of insurrection." Their complaint calls the fund "the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century."

The Treasury that pays Hodges and Dunn for protecting the Capitol can also pay the people who beat them. Vice President Vance confirmed it Tuesday. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell Congress to back the officers who protected the country on January 6 and end the fund before the first check clears.

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u/georgebounacos — 1 day ago

GovBrief Today #474 - What Happened Today

Todd Blanche killed a $100 million IRS audit on the Trump family Tuesday with a one-page memo.

Blanche, Trump's former criminal defense attorney and now acting attorney general, settled the $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against his own IRS Monday. The Trump family would receive "a formal apology but no monetary payment." Tuesday's memo revealed the actual payment: the IRS is "FOREVER BARRED" from auditing the Trump family or its businesses. Senators grilling Blanche that day hadn't seen the memo.

Trump sued his own government for $10 billion. He walked away with permanent audit immunity for his past returns and a $1.8 billion fund he controls. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to demand Congress reverse both before Trump's allies line up for their cut.

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u/georgebounacos — 2 days ago

GovBrief Today #473 - What Happened Today

Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS Monday in exchange for a $1.776 billion fund he controls.

The move came 48 hours before a federal judge's deadline requiring Trump's side to explain whether a sitting president can legally sue agencies he runs. Now Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, will appoint the commission deciding who gets a piece of nearly $2 billion. Claims stay open through the end of his term.

Rep. Jamie Raskin called the fund unconstitutional. Treasury's top attorney quit hours after the announcement. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell Congress to stop the payoffs to Trump's allies before he starts cutting checks.

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GovBrief Today #472 - What Happened Today

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry landed in Greenland today for a conference he wasn't invited to.

Trump named Landry his Greenland envoy after Denmark and Greenland both refused to entertain a U.S. takeover of the island. Not a single Greenlandic politician is scheduled to meet with him. Two other governments contradicted him on the record today. China called the Beijing summit deals "preliminary," walking back his claims on tariffs, agriculture, and the sale of 200 Boeing jets. Meanwhile, Taiwan bristled at Trump floating a previously agreed arms sale as leverage with Beijing.

Trump announces wins even when there aren't any. After thousands of documented lies in office, Americans now have to wait for the other country to confirm what he says. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to demand Congress investigate what these governments actually agreed to, before the White House announces another one.

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u/georgebounacos — 4 days ago

GovBrief Today #471 - What Happened Today

Bill Cassidy finished third in his own Senate primary tonight for voting to convict Trump in the January 6 impeachment trial.

It's the second Trump-driven primary purge in twelve days, with a third already teed up. Five Indiana Republican state senators lost their seats May 5 for refusing to redistrict on Trump's timeline. Representative Thomas Massie will likely lose his Kentucky primary Tuesday, and tonight Trump threatened to do the same to Lauren Boebert for campaigning in Kentucky with Massie.

Pay no attention to the fact that the filing deadline for Boebert's seat has already passed. This administration finds a way around rules like that. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Boebert defined MAGA in the House. Trump still drove Greene out and turned her into a target. Boebert is next. The Bush, Cheney, and Romney families couldn't stop MAGA when they had the chance. Remind the Republicans in your life that to save what's left of their party, they need to step up now.

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GovBrief Today #470 - What Happened Today

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis freed Tina Peters today and called it sentencing reform.

He may even have believed it. Peters is an election denier who helped Mike Lindell's people copy a Colorado county's voting machines. She is part of the coup attempt that ran for weeks after Trump lost the 2020 election. Trump couldn't pardon her because she was convicted of state, not federal, crimes. So he spent more than a year punishing Colorado instead.

Calling Polis a "scumbag" who should "rot in hell," Trump denied disaster aid to the state and moved U.S. Space Command out of Colorado. Polis folded. Within minutes Trump posted "FREE TINA!" Other governors are watching. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell your governor to refuse to cave in when Trump pressures them.

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GovBrief Today #470

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis freed Tina Peters today and called it sentencing reform.

He may even have believed it. Peters is an election denier who helped Mike Lindell's people copy a Colorado county's voting machines. She is part of the coup attempt that ran for weeks after Trump lost the 2020 election. Trump couldn't pardon her because she was convicted of state, not federal, crimes. So he spent more than a year punishing Colorado instead.

Calling Polis a "scumbag" who should "rot in hell," Trump denied disaster aid to the state and moved U.S. Space Command out of Colorado. Polis folded. Within minutes Trump posted "FREE TINA!" Other governors are watching. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell your governor to refuse to cave in when Trump pressures them.

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u/georgebounacos — 6 days ago

GovBrief Today #469 - What Happened Today

A federal judge stopped the Justice Department from making a list of every trans kid treated at Rhode Island Hospital and their parents.

Eight federal judges have now blocked these subpoenas nationwide.

The judge wrote that the administration "publicly characterized gender-affirming care for minors as abuse, directed the DOJ to bring its practice to an end, and celebrated when hospitals curtailed such programs as a result of this subpoena campaign." What could they possibly want with that list? Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to demand Congress shut the subpoena campaign down.

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u/georgebounacos — 7 days ago

GovBrief Today #468 - What Happened Today

Pete Hegseth will preach on the National Mall this Sunday at a nine-hour festival to rededicate the country to the Christian God.

Taxpayer money set aside for America's 250th birthday will help pay for it. The First Amendment forbids exactly this.

Freedom 250 is already under congressional investigation for misusing federal funds. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell your representatives that trampling the Bill of Rights belongs in the same investigation.

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u/georgebounacos — 8 days ago

GovBrief Today #467 - What Happened Today

ICE agents are walking around with a target list of 20 million people on their phones.

Palantir compiled the list, which is roughly the number of undocumented people living in the United States. When agents conduct an immigration raid, the app displays the names of other people who may be nearby, so one arrest can turn into several. That kind of power doesn't disappear when a new president takes office. It just changes hands.

In a country where being on ICE's list is enough to get detained without cause, this list cannot exist. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell your representatives to kill the Palantir contract.

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u/georgebounacos — 9 days ago

GovBrief Today #466 - What Happened Today

The Cultural Landscape Foundation sued today to stop the $13.1 million paint job on the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The original quote was $1.5 million. The Trump administration skipped competitive bidding, the normal process for federal contracts this size. They handed the work to a Virginia company that painted the swimming pool at Trump's golf club. Trump wanted turquoise, "like in the Bahamas." The owner talked him down to "American flag blue."

Trump's motorcade drove him across the drained pool last Thursday so he could inspect the paint. For over a century, architect Henry Bacon's Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool have mirrored the grandeur of the National Mall. Trump decided it should instead look like a three-star hotel in Nassau, with a job that will pay one of his vendors more than eight times what he told the American people. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell your representatives to open an investigation into Trump's latest grift.

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u/georgebounacos — 10 days ago

GovBrief Today #465 - What Happened Today

Some drivers in downtown Chicago paid $5.78 a gallon for regular today.

That price is the cost of 72 days of war Trump initially told the New York Times would take "four to five weeks." The 60-day War Powers Resolution clock expired May 1, and Hegseth told Congress the ceasefire pauses it, even though drones hit four countries this weekend. The Energy Secretary's response to a 50% gas price jump was to float a suspension of the 18-cent federal gas tax.

Eighteen cents will not touch what 72 days of war is doing to Americans at the pump. Trump's Republican enablers in the Senate keep voting down war powers resolutions, but the votes are getting closer. The last one failed by only three. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to push your senators to vote yes on the next one.

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u/georgebounacos — 11 days ago

GovBrief Today #464 - What Happened Today

A Mississippi county prosecutor put up a billboard near the Tennessee line, advertising death by firing squad.

It greets drivers leaving Memphis: "Welcome to Mississippi. Where the firing squad is legal. Think twice." Memphis is 64% Black. The prosecutor paid for the billboard and called it deterrence.

He didn't invent the genre. In 1989, Donald Trump spent $85,000 of his own money on full-page ads in four New York papers calling for five Black and Latino teenagers to be executed for a rape DNA later proved they didn't commit. Trump has never apologized.

He has been advocating for killing people in print, on stages, and from podiums for thirty-six years, and the country keeps electing him. He's threatened a retired four-star general and sitting members of Congress with execution for crossing him. On day one of this second term he ordered the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty whenever possible. The Mississippi billboard is downstream.

Public support for the death penalty just hit a 50-year low, and a majority of Americans under 55 oppose it. Executions nearly doubled last year anyway. The country has moved past this. The officials have not. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell your state legislators this is not the country you want to live in.

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u/georgebounacos — 13 days ago

GovBrief Today #463 - What Happened Today

Twelve naturalized Americans learned today that the Justice Department began the process of stripping their citizenship.

The twelve are indefensible. The lead case is a Colombian priest accused of sexually abusing a child. They were picked on purpose, because the public face of a new program needs to look impossible to argue with.

For 27 years the federal government filed fewer than one of these cases per month. The internal directive USCIS got in December asks field offices to send 100 to 200 referrals per month to federal prosecutors. Today's twelve are the rollout. The administration is finding out whether it can strip citizenship from naturalized Americans by the thousand.

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u/georgebounacos — 13 days ago

GovBrief Today #462 - What Happened Today

Kathy Hochul didn't blink when it came to protecting New Yorkers, especially the kids.

She wasn't guessing. Today, ProPublica documented 79 children harmed by federal agents using tear gas and pepper spray. Those are only the ones reporters could find and confirm. Tom Homan threatened twice this week to flood New York with more agents than the state had ever seen. That's the same kind of surge that hit Minneapolis a couple of months ago, where federal agents shot three people, killed two of them, and lied about all three.

Hochul announced the budget framework anyway. The mask comes off in New York, and ICE can't walk into a school or hospital without a judge's warrant. Then she dared Homan to come ahead.

Don't wait for the federal government to stop hurting kids. Use Resistbot and 5 Calls to contact your governor and demand protections from anonymous federal agents swarming your cities.

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u/georgebounacos — 14 days ago

Protesters filled the Tennessee and Alabama capitols this week before either state could finish redrawing congressional maps.

Last Wednesday the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's map for relying too heavily on race, and three Southern states walked through that door within seven days. In Tennessee, Republicans refused to hold a hearing in Memphis where the targeted district sits, and called in state troopers when protesters filled the Nashville hearing room. Alabama is trying to throw out a court-ordered map that federal judges said had to stay until 2030. Trump posted Sunday that Republicans could pick up twenty House seats.

The fight to undo this won't be won in six months, but the midterms in November can help answer it. Make the margin so big the new lines can't save the people who drew them.

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u/georgebounacos — 15 days ago

Attorney and politician Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ignored established medical practice today and discouraged Americans from taking antidepressants.

He and Donald Trump ran the same play when they said taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. And while no serious doctor will tell you flavored vapes are safe, Kennedy's FDA also approved four fruit flavored vapes today after Trump pressured the commissioner. Then the very same agency killed safety research on shingles and COVID vaccines, not for the first time, because the findings didn't fit their politics.

Kennedy's so-called Make America Healthy Again movement keeps doing the harm it promised to stop. Talk to your doctor before you change any medication, no matter what Kennedy said today. And don't give these charlatans more power in November.

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u/georgebounacos — 16 days ago

Donald Trump's Justice Department is building a list of nearly 3,000 Americans who volunteered to help run the 2020 election in the Atlanta metro area.

The Trump administration is demanding their home addresses, personal emails, and personal phone numbers, all the way down to individual precinct volunteers. The statute of limitations on 2020 federal election crimes expired last year.

This is the kind of list McCarthy built and dictators around the world build. Don't let them scare you. Call your county elections office and volunteer for this year's election.

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u/georgebounacos — 17 days ago