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Thursday, April 18, 2024

House Freedom Caucus members are signing up to take shifts to guard the House floor in order to prevent resolutions they'd consider unsavory from slipping through that could curb their power, per two R sources. This Floor Action Response Team ("FART") aims to guard against a voice vote or unanimous consent vote where action could be stealthily taken against them and their members.


Thursday, March 28, 2024

With Americans living longer and spending more years in retirement, the nation's changing demographics are "putting the U.S. retirement system under immense strain," according to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in his annual shareholder letter. One way to fix it, he suggests, is for Americans to work longer before they head into retirement. read more


Thursday, February 29, 2024

Westword reports that police have released more information about 18-year-old Tyler Boebert's alleged actions, and they include robbing a woman with a brain tumor who said that she only had $75 "left to her name." Overall, police say that Boebert and three underage friends were caught on surveillance camera breaking into people's cars, taking any credit cards they had inside, and using them to go on a shopping spree. read more


Tuesday, February 27, 2024

As if it wasn't bad enough already, a new Justice Department memo says ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov confessed that he has ties to Russian intelligence. read more


Monday, February 26, 2024

Trump claimed that Black people like him because he has faced discrimination in the legal system, which is something they can relate to. "I got indicted a second time and a third time and a fourth time, and a lot of people said that that's why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I'm being discriminated against," he said. read more


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www.politico.com

Freedom Caucus on alert for possible moves against it by GOP leaders

The Floor Action Response Team, shorthanded as "FART," aims to guard against an unannounced request to pass resolutions that would limit the group's leverage.

Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus are signing up to take shifts to monitor the chamber floor in order to prevent their own party leaders from making unilateral moves that could curb their power.

The Freedom Caucus' Floor Action Response Team, shorthanded as "FART," aims to guard against an unannounced request to pass resolutions that would stealthily limit their leverage against leadership, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly.

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