A group of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing President Joe Biden‘s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of significantly underestimating the amount of aid sent to Ukraine. In a letter to Biden’s budget agency, Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Mike Lee (R-UT) — along with several other lawmakers — detail evidence suggesting the previous Ukraine aid estimate of $111 billion is off by at least $14 billion. They contend the actual cost of aid is closer to $125 billion and could even exceed $129 billion.
Sen. Vance and his colleagues also allege the Biden government has stonewalled their transparency efforts, making it increasingly difficult to determine the cost of U.S. aid packages sent to the Eastern European country. They note that their initial request for OMB to provide the cost of Ukraine aid took nearly eight months to fulfill — and even then, the agency only provided an incomplete data set.
“The deficiencies in OMB’s response were numerous,” the Senators wrote to the agency’s director, Shalanda Young, on Tuesday. They noted the OMB data did not include “base appropriations for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative” and “omitted the administration’s ‘$6.2 billion in ‘freed-up’ authority’ to send weapons to Ukraine.”
In May of last year, The National Pulse reported that the Biden government had changed its method for determining the value of military equipment in an effort to allow them to claim they were spending less than initially claimed on Ukraine. The Pentagon originally valued weapons in terms of their replacement costs. By moving to an accounting system where they valued weapons in terms of cost when they were purchased and depreciated, they have been able to argue military aid to Ukraine has been overvalued.
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A group of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing President Joe Biden's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of significantly underestimating the amount of aid sent to Ukraine. In a letter to Biden's budget agency, Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Mike Lee (R-UT) — along with several other lawmakers — detail evidence suggesting the previous Ukraine aid estimate of $111 billion is off by at least $14 billion. They contend the actual cost of aid is closer to $125 billion and could even exceed $129 billion.
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has “clarified” that she was actually asking whether or not she could live on the sun, not the moon. Her comments came after she was widely lampooned for discussing whether or not human beings could live on the moon, which, she claimed, “is made up mostly of gases.”
Speaking at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston, the Texas Congressman told her audience, “sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is a complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases,” adding: “could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such that we could do that?”
Jackson Lee received significant mockery for the speech, as it is common knowledge the moon is not “made up mostly of gases” and is uninhabitable. Now, however, she insists she “[o]bviously misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters.”
“What can I say though, foolish thinkers lust for stupidity!” she added.
The sun, however, is still more uninhabitable than the moon, being a ball of gas and plasma with no solid surface, burning at around 10,000 Fahrenheit (5,600 Celsius) on its surface and 27,000,000 Fahrenheit (15,000,000 Celsius) at its center.
Any human attempting to approach the sun would be killed by its intense heat and radiation millions of miles before reaching it.
Obviously I misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters.
— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) April 9, 2024
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has "clarified" that she was actually asking whether or not she could live on the sun, not the moon. Her comments came after she was widely lampooned for discussing whether or not human beings could live on the moon, which, she claimed, "is made up mostly of gases."
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Kenny Meiselas, the father of the three brothers who founded the MeidasTouch group, was introduced to his current wife by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, a.k.a. Puff Daddy, the hip hop mogul now accused of sexual assault and sex trafficking.
Meiselas — whose sons Ben, Brett, and Jordy started the “bloodbath” hoax and are described by Joe Biden’s White House as the “front lines” of the campaign against Donald Trump — is a celebrity attorney and has worked with Combs for decades.
Combs reportedly played a highly active role in pairing him with Beth Katz Meiselas, a publicist to the likes of Jennifer Lopez. He took the attorney shopping for Cartier sunglasses and Versace suits to help make the match.
Combs also played a crucial role in paving the way for Ben Meiselas, Kenny’s son from a previous marriage, to enter politics. He took the younger Meiselas on as an intern, where he worked with Combs’s team on a voter registration drive in 2004 and attended the Democratic convention.
Ben eventually parlayed this nepotistic posting into an internship with then-Senator Hillary Clinton.
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Kenny Meiselas, the father of the three brothers who founded the MeidasTouch group, was introduced to his current wife by Sean 'Diddy' Combs, a.k.a. Puff Daddy, the hip hop mogul now accused of sexual assault and sex trafficking.
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Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is refusing to hand over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur to House Republicans. The DOJ explained its decision in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday.
“Indeed, by the Committees’ own measure, the Department has met your stated informational needs. The Department has produced the two classified documents you requested, the transcripts of the Special Counsel Office interviews of the President and of Mark Zwonitzer that you requested, and the correspondence regarding the Special Counsel’s report that you requested,” wrote Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte.
“The Department is concerned that the Committees’ particular focus on continuing to demand information that is cumulative of information we already gave you—what the President and Mr. Hur’s team said in the interview—indicates that the Committees’ interests may not be in receiving information in service of legitimate oversight or investigatory functions, but to serve political purposes that should have no role in the treatment of law enforcement files,” the letter says.
Uriarte claimed that the Judiciary and Oversight Committees do not need the audio recording, expressing his concern that turning over the audio could dissuade other witnesses from cooperating in similar investigations in the future. House Republicans had subpoenaed the DOJ for the recording, threatening Attorney General Merrick Garland with contempt of Congress proceedings if the audio was not provided.
Hur’s report regarding his interview with Biden — which explained his decision not to bring charges against the octogenarian President — described his as an “elderly man with poor memory.” Biden “couldn’t recall” specific information almost 150 times throughout the interview, forgetting things at a rate of once every two minutes.
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Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) is refusing to hand over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur to House Republicans. The DOJ explained its decision in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday.
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Norfolk Southern has agreed to a $600 million settlement arrangement to conclude a class-action lawsuit following the derailment of a train in East Palestine, Ohio in February 2023. The settlement awaits court approval before being finalized.
The train derailment, which resulted in a giant plume of black smoke due to the burning of five tankers carrying vinyl chloride, compelled the evacuation of hundreds of residents due to health concerns related to the potential presence of dioxins. The evacuation order was declared after fears of an explosion at the fiery site and was lifted on February 9, with the assurance of the EPA that air quality reverted back to safe levels.
“If approved by the court, the agreement will resolve all class action claims within a 20-mile radius from the derailment and, for those residents who choose to participate, personal injury claims within a 10-mile radius from the derailment,” Norfolk Southern said in an official statement.
In the agreement, Norfolk Southern has itemized the allocation of the settlement fund: $104 million for community aid, inclusive of $25 million for a regional safety center and direct payments to residents; $4.3 million towards bettering water infrastructure; $2 million for ‘community-directed projects’; and $500,000 assigned for local economic growth.
Despite no immediate injuries reported during the derailment, residents reported ongoing health issues in the aftermath of the event. In a preliminary report, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) cited a wheel bearing overheat failure as the cause of the derailment, framing it as entirely preventable.
The Biden government was heavily criticized for its response to the disaster. Following the chemical spillage, it failed to declare a public emergency in East Palestine despite the obvious risks posed to area residents. Moreover, Biden himself didn’t visit the community until nearly 400 days after the disaster occurred. A report earlier this year found that train derailments had increased by 13 percent under Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg.
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Norfolk Southern has agreed to a $600 million settlement arrangement to conclude a class-action lawsuit following the derailment of a train in East Palestine, Ohio in February 2023. The settlement awaits court approval before being finalized.
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A federal judge sentenced Florida woman Aimee Harris to one month in prison and three month’s home detention for stealing and selling a diary that belonged to Ashley Biden, Joe Biden’s daughter. Harris turned the diary over to Project Veritas in return for $20,000 out of the total $40,000 payout. The President’s daughter had left her diary at a friend’s residence in Delray Beach, Florida, trusting it to be secure.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain pronounced the sentence in a Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, calling Harris’s actions “despicable.” Before turning to Project Veritas, Harris, along with Robert Kurlander, attempted to sell the diary to President Trump’s 2020 campaign.
A SOFTER SENTENCE.
Harris expressed remorse for her actions, appealing to her life experience marked by domestic abuse and her responsibility as a single parent as extenuating factors. “I do not believe I am above the law,” Harris said. “I’m a survivor of long-term domestic abuse and sexual trauma,” she told the judge.
Although Harris received a one-month prison sentence, the Justice Department was seeking a sentence of four to 10 months in prison. It sought a harsher sentence after Harris failed to appear at numerous sentencing dates. Her defense argued she missed the court appearances as she was caring for her children, aged 8 and 6.
However, the prosecutor countered that Harris consistently displayed disrespect for the law, asserting that Ashley Biden was the true victim in this situation. Harris is expected to begin her prison term in July.
DISTURBING REVELATIONS.
The diary in question contained numerous troubling entries, including one suggesting Ashley Biden may have had an inappropriate relationship with her father, Joe Biden, with whom she apparently took showers.
“Was I molested? I think so — I can’t remember specifics but I do remember trauma. Hyper-sexualized @ a young age . . . I remember being somewhat sexualized with Caroline; I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/my dad (probably not appropriate),” Biden wrote.
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A federal judge sentenced Florida woman Aimee Harris to one month in prison and three month's home detention for stealing and selling a diary that belonged to Ashley Biden, Joe Biden's daughter. Harris turned the diary over to Project Veritas in return for $20,000 out of the total $40,000 payout. The President's daughter had left her diary at a friend’s residence in Delray Beach, Florida, trusting it to be secure.
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Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA), who sits on the Congressional Subcommittee for Homeland Security, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) embedded itself into online veteran communities months ahead of the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The explosive details came out during an appearance on the Louisiana-based Implicit Biaspodcast.
JAN 6 WAS PRE-PLANNED.
“The FBI started embedding themselves in those groups — by the time you were four, five, six months into 2020, the FBI was monitoring and embedded into hundreds of online discussion groups,” Higgins asserted. According to Congressman, the evidence of the FBI’s pre-riot operations has been hidden from the public by court orders — though some Members of Congress have been able to view the details.
He continued: “The original seeds of riotous or illegal or occupation-type behavior amongst these groups were planted by the FBI agents embedded in those groups.”
FBI SHOWED “NEFARIOUS INTENT.”
In another segment, Rep. Higgins says he believes the FBI’s actions constitute illegal entrapment — arguing the agents embedded among online groups in the lead-up to the Capitol riots had “nefarious intent.”
He contends that because the agency appears to have set out to instigate violence, the federal government’s January 6 investigations are “the fruit of that poisonous tree.”
AGENTS WERE IN THE CAPITOL.
Higgins goes on to reveal that federal law enforcement also had undercover agents placed inside the Capitol, disguised as Trump supporters. According to the Louisiana Republican, these agents directed the January 6 protestors once the U.S. Capitol Police had allowed them access to the building’s interior.
The Congressman said it is unlikely average Americans would be able to navigate the building easily: “For a group of Americans to just come in a random door and be able to get specifically to the House floor or somebody’s office… no way. They had to be guided.”
‘GHOST BUSES’.
The Congressman also addressed the lingering questions regarding the presence of several unmarked buses that were seen transporting individuals — alleged to have been government-backed agents provocateurs — to the protest. According to witnesses, these busses lacked identifying markings and placards that would have allowed them access to government parking facilities.
“What was revealed to me through a whistleblower was that two buses… had been digitally documented, and we had access to that initial digital evidence,” Higgins said before continuing: “It showed two buses that were brought into the bus parking basement of [Union Station].”
The Congressman said the evidence showed the two buses in question were the first to arrive at the parking facility and “had been painted over white” to hide any identifying details, including the bus company’s telephone number. He noted that the vehicles are legally required to display identifying information.
Higgins went on to state that evidence suggests there were at least 30 to 40 occupants on each of the buses. “They were all dressed as Trump supporters. They were all military-age young men… [and] were all geared similarly in that they were wearing tactical gear,” the Congressman said.
WHO OWNED THE BUSES?
The Congressman said his office could identify a segment of the buses’ ID numbers and a telephone number using forensic analysis.”We got a hit on the bus… we were able to identify the owner that belonged to that telephone number that we positively identified,” Higgins said, revealing the buses had, at least at one point, been owned by a charter service based in New York.
According to the Congressman, however, the buses were subsequently abandoned at Union Station after the riots and have since disappeared.
When asked why federal law enforcement has attempted to hide evidence surrounding the January 6 riots — including the origin of the two ghost buses at Union Station — Higgins bluntly said, “It’s because it won’t be a good reflection on their involvement.”
Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA), who sits on the Congressional Subcommittee for Homeland Security, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) embedded itself into online veteran communities months ahead of the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The explosive details came out during an appearance on the Louisiana-based Implicit Biaspodcast.show more
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House Republicans have delayed submitting the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate until next week. The decision comes amidst concerns about the timing of an impeachmenttrial that Senate Democrats are expected to move to dismiss.
“To ensure the Senate has adequate time to perform its constitutional duty, the House will transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate next week,” said Speaker Mike Johnson’s spokesman in a statement.
Speaker Johnson and the 11 impeachment managers originally told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer they intended to present the impeachment articles on Wednesday, April 10.
The Republicans’ hesitation appears to stem from potential GOP absences for what could be a late vote on Thursday. Senate Democrats control 51 seats, including Democratic-leaning independents, and may dismiss or delay the proceedings with a simple majority vote.
Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee revealed that the articles will travel from the House to the Senate on Monday. “We don’t want this to come over on the eve of the moment when members might be operating under the influence of jet-fume intoxication,” Lee said. GOP Senate Whip John Thune told journalists that Republicans wish for a “more fulsome discussion” once the articles arrive from the House.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer, however, expressed his desire to resolve the matter swiftly, saying, “We’re going to try and resolve this issue as quickly as possible.”
Mayorkas faces impeachment for his role in the Biden government’s willful mishandling of the border crisis. Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the impeachment proceedings against him.
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House Republicans have delayed submitting the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate until next week. The decision comes amidst concerns about the timing of an impeachment trial that Senate Democrats are expected to move to dismiss.
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A New York appeals court is set to weigh in on Judge Juan Merchan‘s broad gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump. The former President’s motion to appeal the order was advanced to the full judicial panel following the ruling of an appellate judge earlier on Tuesday.
Despite granting a hearing before the full appellate court, the judge denied an additional motion by Trump’s attorneys to delay the start of the ‘hush money’ pending the gag order appeal. The full appellate panel, however, could reconsider the motion and decide to stay the trial while they weigh whether Judge Merchan’s order violates the former President’s constitutional rights. The ‘hush money’ trial is set to begin on Monday with jury selection.
Merchan’s far-reaching gag order prevents Trump from expressing public remarks on the trial’s participants and court members, including potential jurors. Merchan imposed the order after Trump began posting on social media revelations linking the judge’s daughter to numerous Democrat Party leaders, including New York’s Attorney General Letitia James.
Early on Tuesday, the former President’s defense attorney, Emil Bove, argued that the gag order prevents Trump from fending off attacks from expected witnesses Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, as well as prosecutor Alvin Bragg. In his appeal, Trump contended the gag order’s prohibition on public comments caused “irreparable harm.”
The full appellate court will hear written arguments from both parties by April 29. It is also expected to rule on whether to move the trial from its current venue in Manhattan. Trump‘s defense team has argued that the local jury pool is overwhelmingly biased toward the prosecution.
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A New York appeals court is set to weigh in on Judge Juan Merchan's broad gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump. The former President's motion to appeal the order was advanced to the full judicial panel following the ruling of an appellate judge earlier on Tuesday.
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A senior editor at National Public Radio (NPR) says the outlet’s response to the election of then-President Donald Trump and the death of George Floyd — and subsequent riots — transformed the news organization for the worse. Uri Berliner, a senior business editor, admits NPR has always been liberal, but contends it used to foster an “open-minded, curious culture.” In contrast, its reaction to Trump and the post-Floyd panic regarding “systemic racism” caused its tone to become “knee-jerk, activist, [and] scolding.”
HOOKED ON SCHIFF.
Berliner claims NPR initially began its descent into extreme ideological bias after becoming one of the primary outlets pushing Rep. Adam Schiff‘s (D-CA) conspiracy theory that the 2016 Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to rig the U.S. presidential election. “By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion,” Berliner writes, adding: “The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.”
Despite investing a lot of time in coverage of Rep. Schiff’s claims, the outlet gave little attention to the fact that multiple investigations exonerated Trump of the California Democrat’s charges. “But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming,” the business editor says.
THE LAPTOP FROM HELL.
In another instance of editorial malpractice, Berliner details how NPR failed to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. At the time, the news organization stated, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.” Further, NPR said stories covering the laptop were “pure distractions.” Berliner, however, admits that “Its contents revealed [Hunter Biden’s] connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father.”
Berliner described an editorial meeting as follows: “I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.”
COVID-19 PROPAGANDISTS.
Taking on NPR’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Berliner says its editorial staff quickly decided that the ‘natural origin’ theory was correct and that the ‘lab leak’ theory was either “racist or a right-wing conspiracy theory.” According to Berliner, the internal stance on COVID-19 was partly prompted by the outlet implicitly trusting the word of Anthony Fauci and former NIH head Francis Collins.
‘ENDING SYSTEMIC RACISM.’
The business editor says former CEO John Lansing enabled the internal cultural changes and editorial bias. Following the death of George Floyd, Berliner recounts how Lansing, rather than challenging staff to explore whether systemic racism was prevalent in America, tasked the news organization with “identifying and ending systemic racism.” Following Lansing’s “systemic racism” challenge, the organization was overtaken by racial affinity groups who pushed for tailored, niche coverage — increasingly alienated listeners and readers alike.
While Berliner insists that he believes NPR can be saved from itself, he does lament that “[w]ith declining ratings, sorry levels of trust, and an audience that has become less diverse over time, the trajectory for NPR is not promising.”
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A senior editor at National Public Radio (NPR) says the outlet's response to the election of then-President Donald Trump and the death of George Floyd — and subsequent riots — transformed the news organization for the worse. Uri Berliner, a senior business editor, admits NPR has always been liberal, but contends it used to foster an "open-minded, curious culture." In contrast, its reaction to Trump and the post-Floyd panic regarding "systemic racism" caused its tone to become "knee-jerk, activist, [and] scolding."
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