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Away from Trump’s Twitter tirade – he’s tweeted or retweeted over 40 things in the last 35 minutes – the Senate is back in action today. Marianne Levine and John Bresnahan have previewed that over at Politico this morning, and this bit caught my beady eye:
Republicans may feel like some of the pressure has lifted to reach a quick agreement after a decent set of jobs numbers on Friday along with executive actions taken by President Donald Trump and administration officials. The actions include diverting tens of billions of dollars in disaster aid to go toward federal unemployment payments while also extending an eviction moratorium through the end of the year. While both sides insist they want a compromise, neither is making any real concessions that would be needed to get there.
Talking of Trump’s appeals to culture wars, the president is on his usual early morning tweeting frenzy. One tweet had an obvious appeal to the QAnon constituency of his base, quote-tweeting Curt Schilling praising Trump and the Attorney General over action on child traffic rings. The former Red Sox pitcher is one of those who has helped promote the antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Trump has also returned to the theme that he disparaged the military, retweeting a two-day old suggestion that Republicans believe the story was “planted” by the Biden campaign.
….And because of weak and pathetic Democrat leadership, this thuggery is happening in other Democrat run cities and states. Must shut them down fast. Biden and his most Liberal in Senate running mate, Kamala, won’t even talk about it. They won’t utter the words, LAW & ORDER!
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