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Comms director @HomelandGOP. Caleb, Lydia, and Lily’s dad. @usairforce veteran. Opinions my own unless wrong. Then they're someone else's. Phil. 1:6. #BattleATL
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Four straight minutes of “what can be, unburdened by what has been.” It’s incredible. I had no idea she used it this much.
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We got 18,000 stories about what flag was flying outside the Alito’s vacation home. Y’all refusing to cover this for 3.5 years was a choice.
Axios: "Hell has no fury like a press corps deceived. Reporters feel duped — and some probably embarrassed —and are scrambling to unearth new evidence of decline."
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All of you in the press tweeting that Pete Hegseth is Fox host without mentioning his long, distinguished military career and combat experience are part of the problem.
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And not 5 minutes later, Jean-Pierre says, without a hint of irony, "violence or threats of violence have absolutely no place in our society. It doesn't matter which side of the aisle that you're sitting on. We need to denounce that.".
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People should turn on Fox right now and watch the GA prosecutor's opening statement in the Laken Riley murder trial. Absolutely chilling reminder of what Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas did to our country over the last four years.
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🚨🚨FEMA personnel were advised to “avoid” homes affected by Hurricane Helene if they had Trump signs/flags, per FEMA whistleblower. Wow. Just truly unbelievable:
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Man, @Jim_Jordan is savage: "I now recognize the ranking member, the gentleman from New York, Mr. Nadler--once he completes his phone call--for his opening statement."
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The first assassination attempt of a current/former president in what, 40 years? . NBC White House correspondent: "the shooting incident.".
Late night duty here at the White House after the shooting incident at the Trump rally.
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CBS claims everyone is lying about their obvious edit. The easy way to prove it is to release the transcript. But they won’t.
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🚨🚨: Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz just told @RepMarkGreen that DHS *does not* have operational control of the southern border. This is huge, because Secretary Mayorkas recently said DHS did have operational control. Huge admission.
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Georgia's paper of record has gone from denying that Laken Riley's killer was an illegal alien from Venezuela to embracing the Norm Macdonald meme:
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Abandoning your brothers in arms to avoid a deployment is utterly disqualifying for someone who wants to be a heartbeat away from being Commander-in-Chief. Forget the politics. This is insulting to everyone who’s worn the uniform, including myself.
Tim Walz ‘embellished’ military career ‘for years,’ dropped from National Guard unit ahead of Iraq deployment
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Have we ever considered that many of us on this platform are more informed than the people paid to inform us?.
This is way worse than Candy Crowley. Both "fact-checks" so far have been false.
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👀A busload of illegal aliens was just dropped off outside Kamala Harris' residence. A Venezuelan man in the group tells @GriffJenkins, "Everybody believes that the border is open. we see it on the news that everybody comes in illegally, so we do the same." #BidenBorderCrisis
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While Gold Star parents who lost their kids in the botched Afghanistan pullout are posting videos asking why she hasn’t returned their calls, Kamala is posting this:.
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"The American Dream — well, that was real for generations past, but not so much within the reach of people right now.". Love how Kamala’s top messaging point is to remind everyone how much life sucks under her leadership:
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It’s actually well over 5 million released on her watch, plus another 2 million known gotaways.
Walz claims it's not true that Harris has brought in millions of illegal immigrants. Could someone get this man a basic briefing on the matter?.
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Funny how leftists pretend to care about illegal aliens going to the barren wasteland of…Martha’s Vineyard, but have nothing to say about them making the 1,000-mile journey through Central America in the hands of the cartels.
@GBHNews reporting that Texas Gov. Abbott has started flying immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, presumably because only "libs" and the Obamas live there and because sending people to a relatively vacated island with limited medical and social services is hilarious.
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The omnibus is 4,155 pages long, with another 2,670 pages of "explanatory materials" that instruct agencies on how to spend the money. That's 6,825 pages that Congress "has to" vote on in just 3 days. Oh, and it was released at 2:30 in the morning.
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Vindman is being purposefully obtuse. We would always call lieutenant colonels “colonel” as shorthand, not because the officer was a true O-6. He didn’t reach the rank of colonel, a truly elite rank, nor did he serve in combat—as he claims.
WATCH: @wusa9 presses @YVindman over and over on why he is continues to misrepresent his rank and lie about using weapons on the battlefield. He can't give a straight answer because he is lying. This is not who #VA07 needs representing us in Congress.
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When you know that Trump was going to check on a woman who fainted, you realize that many in the media are, in fact, pathologically incapable of telling the truth.
Donald Trump suddenly stops rally and asks for "a doctor, please!"
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Whenever I see him on stage, I think, “Yep, this is exactly the kinda guy who’d retire early to avoid a combat deployment.”.
This spastic leg kick from Tim Walz is one of many reasons they’re not letting him out anymore .
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This video should insult every American. They think you’re a bunch of idiots who will simply vote for them on…this, and not actual substance. Kamala’s website doesn’t even have a policy page. They’re spitting in our eyes with this stuff.
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Utterly bizarre that Jake Tapper doesn’t think it’s stolen valor to claim to have served in combat zones and make them part of your political persona when you…didn’t serve in combat zones.
CNN’s Jake Tapper DEFENDS Tim Walz, calling it “crazy” for anyone to say Walz engaged in “stolen valor” regarding his service record. Tapper: “He retired as an E8 not as an E9. These tend to be very internal military —”. Tom Foreman: “Yeah.”. Tapper: “— debates and
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"But I did notice there was no call for lowering the temperature. ". Absolutely unreal. A former president is shot in the head, and TV news hosts are hall-monitoring about his (pretty restrained) response.
Trump's just been shot, and CBS anchor Margaret Brennan disparages him for not telling his followers to lower the temperature. Unbelievable.
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Chris Hayes, meet Chris Hayes:
Deeply deeply sick and dehumanizing to fling human beings somewhere vindictively.
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Democrats being so defensive about Kamala being called “border czar” is mighty instructive as to how they see the border crisis as a major liability for her.
CNN's Dana Bash attempted to rebut claims that Kamala Harris is now, or ever has been, the "Border Czar." Regardless of the title, she was tasked with "stemming the flow" of illegal crossings and she failed spectacularly. Receipts 👇
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Wow: @JennieSTaer just confirmed to @DanaPerino that many of these single adults who assaulted National Guardsmen and rushed the wall were later processed and released into the interior.
This is the moment when TX National Guard became overrun by migrants rioting to get across the border here in El Paso today. We were there and saw it all happen. Absolute chaos here.
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Man, follow-up questions from reporters are to Kamala and Walz what water was to the Wicked Witch of the West.
ABC: You said you think the Electoral College should be abolished. WALZ: "Well it's not the campaign's position.". ABC: So. that's something you and Kamala disagree on?. WALZ: "Umm. the campaign and my position is the campaign position.". 🤔
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Two years ago today, history was made.
A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter
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Pete Buttigieg recently complained that he can't live off a $221,000 salary in D.C., so it's entertaining watching him call others "East Coast elites". BTW, your average scheduler on Capitol Hill makes like $30,000 a year.
Non sequitur department: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg addresses criticism of his job performance by asking the crucial question: 'You think Tucker Carlson knows the difference between a T.J. Maxx and a Kohl’s?' From CNN:
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In the last 24 hours, a 3-year-old drowned in the Rio Grande, and Border Patrol agents had to perform CPR on an infant after she was rescued from the river. What's happening at the border is horrific and inhumane. It's killing the most innocent people of all. #BidenBorderCrisis
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Last week, California announced a ban on sale of gas-powered cars by 2035. This week, they're telling people not to charge their electric vehicles.
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Today is a great day to call the PA Senate race for Dave McCormick. Casey has no path. It’s done.
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Vice President Harris says to expect a policy platform from her “next week,” telling reporters “it'll be focused on the economy and what we need to do to bring down costs.”.
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“He and his supporters are giving no grace to a gaffe by President Biden” was a line uttered by a “journalist” in 2024.
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Really funny watching Kamala, Inc. complain about a staged McDonald’s event when a few weeks back, they literally kicked patrons outta Primanti Bros. and brought in a few dozen people they’d bussed in for a photo op.
For security reasons Trump's McDonalds visit was carefully staged ahead of time, with drive-through customers selected and screened by Secret Service, etc:.
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Wow: Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz just made an amazing statement--a key CBP mission under Biden's leadership is now "the processing enterprise.". It's not just detaining illegal aliens and securing the border. It's processing and releasing them into the U.S. #BidenBorderCrisis
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WATCH: Karine Jean-Pierre says food prices are "moderating.". The food index increased 11.4% over the past year, the highest increase since 1979. #inflation
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Unreal: Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden inherited an economy "at the beginning of a pandemic.". COVID shutdowns started in March 2020, almost a year before Biden was inaugurated! He ran on "shutting down the virus!"
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Around 160 Democrats voted against arresting and detaining illegal aliens who commit crimes.
House passes Laken Riley Act, 264-159. 48 Dems voted yea.
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If you’re not hammering the economy, the border, and crime relentlessly over the next 95 days, and Kamala’s flip-flops on all of them, what are you even doing?.
“Kamala Harris is the MOST LIBERAL nominee in history. She supported banning fracking, eliminating private health insurance, legalizing illegal immigration, and mandatory buybacks of guns. That may work in California; that DOESN’T work in Pennsylvania.”.
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They look like HOA reps at your door telling you your grass is a quarter-inch too long.
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🚨 Fox's @GriffJenkins reporting that a National Guardsman has been shot at the border, massive law enforcement response currently ongoing:
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"You talk about welcoming those crossing our border, seeking protection. You're welcoming drug dealers across our border. You're giving them protection. You're not protecting our children.". Powerful testimony from Rebecca Kiessling, who lost both her sons to fentanyl.
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Now that the media’s blatant lie about “cheap fakes” has blown up in their faces, they’re turning to the false “but Trump just lied” framing. They’re incapable of learning. Because it’s not about journalism. It’s activism.
At this year's first presidential debate, one candidate stumbled, the other repeatedly lied. CBS News correspondent @jdickerson, anchor of "The Daily Report," considers the next steps in an election in which President Biden has declared democracy itself is on the ballot.
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Wow if only she’d been in a position the last four years to do something about this!.
🚨🇺🇸KAMALA: WHEN I AM PRESIDENT, I WILL BRING DOWN PRICES…. “While our economy is doing well by many measures, prices for every day things like groceries are still too high. You know it, and I know it. When I am president, it will be a day one priority to fight to bring
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The SEIU just sent around a press release opposing the "Laken Riley Act," because they don't want young or poor illegal aliens being arrested and detained for shoplifting, or something. So glad this side lost decisively in November.
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Whooooooops.
BREAKING: The Biden administration has temporarily paused its controversial CHNV mass parole program that allows migrants to fly into the U.S. after an internal report unearthed large amounts of fraud in the program. Big scoop by colleague @AdamShawNY .
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Biden slammed energy companies on Monday for not producing enough oil. John Kerry on Wednesday says we're going to eliminate oil.
Biden "Climate Envoy" John Kerry says it's Biden's plan to "accelerate" eliminating fossil fuels
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WATCH: Secretary Mayorkas has been falsely claiming since day one that the border is secure, and that DHS has operational control. He's wrong. The border is wide open. We don’t have operational control. And his own Border Patrol chief just admitted it.
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In which a Democrat strategist admits that the media is almost exclusively giving Kamala Harris positive, uncritical coverage:
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🚨🚨 Wow: New docs House Homeland obtained from DHS under threat of subpoena show that Mayorkas’ department is releasing 96 PERCENT of inadmissible aliens who schedule appointments through the CBP One app—including almost 20,000 Russians just this year.
🚨NEW: Documents obtained by @HomelandGOP detail the Biden administration's shocking abuse of the CBP One app.
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The first tweet from the White House account after the release of disastrous new inflation numbers was about "battery storage.".
Under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, more folks will benefit from battery storage – so that we can use clean, cheap, and reliable American made energy any time, day or night.
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DHS claims Ibarra was released due to "lack of bed space." . That's false. He illegally entered on September 8, 2022. ICE's own data shows that on September 10, more than 8,000 detention beds were available. #LakenRiley
Video of the judge in the Laken Riley trial announcing Jose Ibarra is guilty on all charges.
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Kamala’s account runners don’t know that Glock is a brand and should be capitalized.
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👀 from @mirandadevine: “There were more journalists in Martha’s Vineyard last week than ever have gone to the southern border to report on the humanitarian catastrophe of Joe Biden’s open border.” #BidenBorderCrisis.
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Lol not only is this revisionist nonsense, but it’s from some no-name campaign staffer, not Kamala herself. She’s scared to even put her name to something on paper!.
The Harris campaign just released a statement blaming Donald Trump for the Afghanistan withdrawal that was conducted seven months after he left office.
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Dave McCormick is up more than 30,000 votes again. It’s time to end the games and call this thing.
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WOW: Joe Biden, when asked why he won't visit the border during a visit to Arizona today, says, "Because there's more important things going on.". Tell that to the Border Patrol. #BidenBorderCrisis
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Others have pointed out how Axios itself has reported on her as the border czar. Here's what *Joe Biden* said about her.
The Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the "border czar" title — which she never actually had.
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Joe Biden has "done more to secure the border" than "anybody else." -- Karine Jean-Pierre, August 31, 2023.
Right now in Ajo AZ Sector for the Border Patrol. Hundreds in custody on top of what was caught last night. Already getting reports of large numbers crossing and Border Patrol trying to respond. They are overwhelmed and this administration. is letting this happen with no support!
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Shooting down a Chinese spy asset after it’s completed surveillance of your country is a bit like putting on your seat belt after a car crash.
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Absolutely silent when Chuck Schumer and Democrats attack the Supreme Court every other week.
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Karine Jean-Pierre: Americans are saving $420 million every day at the gas pump!
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The White House is using taxpayer dollars to pay for James Taylor to play at its "Inflation Reduction Act" party on the same day we get another disastrous inflation number.
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Just. watch this 15 seconds of border czar Kamala Harris trying to answer when asked why she supports decriminalizing illegal border crossings.
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To be clear, no alternative date was offered, just a nebulous "we're happy to work with you to schedule something else in the future," despite the Committee working since August to do just that.
New: House Republicans are asking for written testimony from Mayorkas for Thursday's impeachment hearing, after the secretary offered to appear on a different date
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👀"Everybody here on this panel agreed months ago that one of the reasons inflation was high was all the government spending. After we agreed on that, what did the government do? They spent more." . 💯 from Rick Santelli. That's why #inflation increased from July to August.
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Important to point out that Texas DPS, not Border Patrol, was responsible for catching this guy. With up to 80% of Border Patrol agents pulled off the line, the burden's falling to local law enforcement. Big scoop from @AdamShawNY @BillFOXLA:.
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#BREAKING Multiple DHS sources confirm the suspect in UGA student, Laken Riley’s murder—José Antonio Ibarra is here illegally from Venezuela. CBP documents show he crossed in September of 2022 into El Paso, Texas and was released due to lack of detention space. The 26 year old.
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WATCH Tom Homan: "What’s inhumane is you’ve got over 1,300 migrants that have died on U.S. soil since Joe Biden became president. We have over 100,000 Americans that have died from fentanyl overdoses because of the open border. We got children drowning in the river."
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Great question from a reporter to Karine Jean-Pierre: If you're bragging about "falling gas prices," why are you announcing more releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?.
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This you?
I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution six times: As vice president, as a U.S. senator, and as the top law enforcement officer of the largest state in our country. I have never wavered in upholding that oath.
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A CHNV parolee rapes a disabled 15-year-old girl and the open-borders lobby response is, “Hey, it’s just going to happen with a massive parole program like this, what are you gonna do?”
BREAKING: Per DHS sources to me & @GriffJenkins, the Haitian man arrested for raping a 15 y/o disabled girl at a migrant hotel in Massachusetts Wednesday night came to the U.S. via the Biden admin’s parole program for Haitians, which allowed him to fly into JFK airport in NYC
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Yeah, okay.
Katie Porter, who voted no on Schiff censure, reacts to the scenes on House floor: “There wasn’t much decorum on the floor from either side. I think it’s a bad message to the people of this country that there's chaos and shouting on the House floor rather than serious business”.
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This is spectacularly bad messaging. He manages to downplay the significance of the disaster in Ohio, while also pointing out that more than 3 trains derail every day under his leadership.
Pete Buttigieg on the Ohio train derailment disaster: "While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing."
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Lol "journalist" Jon Karl telling us what Kamala's positions are when Kamala hasn't told us what her current positions are. They are in the tank for her. It's so obvious.
On #ThisWeek, @JonKarl unaware of Harris’s stance against private health insurance. When @SenTomCotton notes it, Karl: “What do you mean taking away health insurance? What are talking about?” Then: “That is not her position now. clearly making an effort to move to the middle.”
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👀 New numbers from @FAIRImmigration show that illegal immigration is costing Americans $182 billion a year. Just another massive cost of Biden and Mayorkas' border crisis.
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"It's all policy-driven. If we had the proper policies, operations, and programs in place, we could stop this tomorrow. This administration just won’t give us what’s necessary.". @BPUnion's Brandon Judd nails it. Biden ended the policies that worked, sparking this border crisis.
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Doocy: What is Biden doing about the increasing amount of "rainbow fentanyl" coming across the border and into our communities? . Karine Jean-Pierre: We just declared today "Overdose Awareness Day."
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More than 3,400 known gotaways in 72 hours. Unreal.
Past 72 Hours. - 2 Agents Assaulted. - 8,750 Apprehensions. - 3,441 Approx. Gotaways. - 1,000 lbs. Liquid Meth. - 97 lbs. Marijuana. - 36 lb. Cocaine. - 7 lbs. Fentanyl. - 5 Firearms. - 3 Sex Offenders. - 2 Warrants. - 1 Gang Member. We also performed 112 rescues!.Great Work!
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“A random act of journalism,” as Rush used to say:.
Jake Tapper confronts Cory Booker: “A new chapter? I mean, she’s the incumbent Vice President. Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. How can Democrats talk about a new chapter—turning the page—you guys are the ones writing the book!”
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More: “Several addresses were marked “not able to access property” with listed explanations such as: “Trump sign no entry per leadership,” “Per leadership no stop Trump flag,” “Trump sign,” and “Trump sign, no contact per leadership.” @realDailyWire.
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To be honest, I've really been splurging on gas and groceries lately.
Don't blame the Biden Admin printing trillions of dollars: @SecYellen tells @StephenAtHome the real reason inflation is out of control is because Americans are "splurging" on goods; "and, remember, Russia has conducted a brutal war against Ukraine"
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Wow: Remember when 15,000 Haitians were under the bridge in Del Rio, Texas last year? . @HARRISFAULKNER reporting from the border spoke with the @BPUnion, who said that *DHS and the White House* were calling them asking "is this real?" #BidenBorderCrisis
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Media often won’t take statements from Hill comms folks on background unless there’s a “compelling reason.”. They’re perfectly happy to cite “Harris aides” until November 6, though.
HARRIS BELIEVES FED SHOULD MAKE DECISIONS INDEPENDENT OF THE PRESIDENT - CNBC, CITING HARRIS AIDE.
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🚨: @Heritage's Oversight Project just obtained more emails from DHS which show Mayorkas' comms staff maneuvering behind the scenes to respond to his contentious January trip to Yuma. Scoop from @BillFOXLA @AdamShawNY:
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Some super-liberal DOD SES and GS-15s schemed this up to make it look like Trump’s fault, when in reality they know reporters will swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
Obeying Trump order, Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen
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Brandon Dunn, who lost his son Noah to fentanyl poisoning, testifies before @JudiciaryGOP that the pill that took Noah's life contained 4x the lethal amount of fentanyl. What's happening at the border has tragic consequences.
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"What happens in my backyard today will be in your front yard tomorrow, no matter what state you're in.". @sherifflamb1 explains how the Biden administration's border policies have made every American town a border town.
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Still in awe of this. Karl didn’t know what Cotton was talking about, but knew enough to know Kamala’s supposed position on it.
On #ThisWeek, @JonKarl unaware of Harris’s stance against private health insurance. When @SenTomCotton notes it, Karl: “What do you mean taking away health insurance? What are talking about?” Then: “That is not her position now. clearly making an effort to move to the middle.”
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Remember: Obama's former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson once said 30,000 apprehensions at the border in a month was a "crisis" for the administration. Every month under Joe Biden, there have been at least 100,000, and for 10 months in a row now, more than 200,000. #BidenBorderCrisis.
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🚨🚨: New Penn-Wharton analysis shows that Biden's student loan bailout could cost *more than $1 trillion!*
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