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YOUTUBE (The Hill) - GOP Senators clash with Trump over $1.8B DOJ fund

Senate Republicans blasted acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday over the Trump administration’s proposal to set up a $1.8 billion fund to compensate MAGA allies prosecuted by the Justice Department and made it clear that a budget reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement won’t move until their concerns are resolved. GOP senators pressed Blanche during a tense meeting in the Capitol’s Mansfield Room to accept guardrails to limit who could get paid by the fund and vented their anger over the attorney general’s refusal during a hearing Tuesday to rule out the possibility that people convicted of crimes related to Jan. 6, 2021, could receive payouts, according to several people familiar with the meeting. Read…

YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Kevin Warsh honored by Trump before being sworn in as new Fed chair

In a White House ceremony Friday, President Trump offered words of praise for incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh.  “He’s got abilities that very few people have,” Trump said, predicting Warsh would be remembered as one of the best chairs in Fed history.  Following the president's remarks, Warsh was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.  #Fed #FederalReserve #Economy #Banking #Warsh #Trump  READ MORE:  https://thehill.com/business/5891464-warsh-sworn-in-federal-reserve/

YOUTUBE (Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov) - JUST IN: $1 BILLION Medicare Scam Using Foreign Call Centers

Try The Epoch Times https://ept.ms/ReadEpochTimes The Department of Justice just released a statement, announcing the conviction of a man at the center of a giant, billion-dollar medicaid fraud scheme. Specifically, Mr. Brett Blackman, the CEO and owner of a software company called HealthSplash was just convicted in federal court for his part in a sprawling fraud scheme. This scheme involved using foreign telemarketers to aggressively call elderly Americans, get their medicaid beneficiary numbers, push medical devices onto them that they did not really need (random things like orthotic braces), then he would generate fraudulent doctors orders for those devices. Then, he would pass on the scripts in return for illegal kickbacks to both…

YOUTUBE (The Hill) - 'You guys don't have the guts or the b---s': Rep. McGovern on GOP pulling Iran war powers vote

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) railed against House Republican leaders in a challenge on the chamber floor Thursday, saying that a vote on a war powers resolution was cancelled out of fear that it would pass. The resolution would limit President Trump's authority to wage war against Iran.  Asked about the cancellation, Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) asserted that Congress should be allowed to vote on the military action, stating that a decision on the war "belongs in the hands of the people."  Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), however, said that pulling the vote was only because of an "obvious attendance issue" at the day's session.  #Iran #War #Resolution #HouseofRepresentatives #Vote