Aaron Rupar
Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter publicnotice.co/subscribe
- Senate Republicans today are holding a hearing titled "Somali Scammers"
- life comes at you fast
- TORRES: Does the president have the constitutional authority to remove the chair of the Fed or a member of the board solely because of a policy disagreement? BESSENT: I'm not a lawyer and don't have an opinion TORRES: You have no opinion on whether the president can remove a board member at will?
- BASH: Do you agree the state is 'an agent for the federal govt' in elections? HUSTED: I understand the president's frustration. We can instill confidence that elections are run well through the SAVE Act B: He wasn't talking about the SAVE Act, though HUSTED: I don't know exactly what he means
- an underrated hilarious thing about Trump 2.0 is how everyone just does whatever they want regardless of what their jobs are actually supposed to be. Transpo Secretary Sean Duffy doing TV hits about ICE? Sure. Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler railing against Dems over wildfires? Why not!
- SORKIN: President Trump called you a 'loser' because of your comments about Noem and Miller TILLIS: That obviously qualifies me to be the DHS secretary and senior adviser to the president. These are the people who are losing.
- "ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."
- Homan says that 2,000+ DHS immigration enforcement agents will be left in Minnesota even after the drawdown he announced this morning
- This Homan presser is completely incoherent. He started by announcing a drawdown of 700 agents (good!) but then pivoted to whining about "rhetoric" (bad) and suggested there will be more bloodshed if it doesn't stop (grim). Not clear to me that anything is actually changing on the ground here in MN.
- Homan: "I said back in March of this year [sic] that if the hateful rhetoric didn't stop I was afraid there would be bloodshed. And there has been."
