Jared Kusher Gets TORCHED By House Dems For 15+ Minutes

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REP. ROBERT GARCIA (D-CA)

REP. GREG CASAR (D-TX) 

JARED KUSHNER WAS NOT INITIALLY GRANTED SECURITY CLEARANCE...TRUMP'S 

INTERCESSION PROVIDED THAT SECURITY CLEARANCE....WHAT DID JARED KUSHNER SHARE WITH OTHER NATIONS? 

DON'T IGNORE the BAILOUT of the KUSHNER PROPERTY at 666 FIFTH AVENUE for which they over paid $1.8 BILLION and couldn't make it work - AFTER SAUDI ARABIA blockade of QATAR during TRUMP presidency - as soon as QATAR provided financing, BLOCKAID was lifted - TRUMP KNEW & commented! TRUMP KNEW! This Little Weasel needs to be revealed publicly for his corruption.

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JEWISH LASER QUEEN INTRODUCED ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT ON PRESIDENT BIDEN'S FIRST DAY IN OFFICE....DUH? WHAT EVIDENCE?

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Trump administration conflicts of interest were back in the news this week. The New York Times broke that Jared Kushner’s private equity firm secured $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, despite objections from advisers to the Saudi fund. The advisers were concerned about the lack of experienced management at Kushner’s fund and the amount of risk the Saudi government would take on with the deal, and yet the fund led by the Saudi crown prince went through with it anyway. We have no way of knowing why the deal ultimately went through, but it sure gives the appearance that Kushner benefitted from the relationship he built with a foreign government while serving as a high-level presidential adviser. As POGO’s Walter Shaub told Bloomberg News, the news raises questions about what we don’t know. “The real concern here is that the public has no way of knowing exactly what favors someone like Kushner may have done for the Saudis,” he said. It’s troubling that any president’s foreign policy could be influenced by the potential of future financial gain. This week’s news demonstrates how real that possibility is — Kushner developed a relationship with the Saudi crown prince while working in the White House and later went on to secure a multi-billion-dollar investment. Again, we don’t know the motives on either side of this deal, but this shouldn’t even be a possibility. As POGO has advocated before, there should be a ban on post-presidential emoluments. LISTEN NOW The Continuous Action The first episode of POGO’s new podcast is out now. If you haven’t already, be sure to rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts. ANALYSIS Future F-35 Upgrades Send Program into Tailspin The prospect of expensive future F-35 upgrades prompted the Pentagon to request fewer aircraft in 2023. Had this been done sooner, taxpayers could have saved $2 billion. Read More ANALYSIS Misconduct at CBP Runs Deep, and Congress Must Address this Systemic Problem Serious misconduct is prevalent within Customs and Border Protection, and agency leaders at all levels have shielded officers and agents from facing accountability for their actions for years. Read More LETTER Congress Should Pursue Reforms to Bolster Oversight Capacity Making reforms through the appropriations process would strengthen Congress’s ability to conduct fact-based, bipartisan oversight. Read More QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I don’t think they’ve ever been empowered, unfortunately, to do the work that Congress directed them to do.” Tim Stretton, Director of the Congressional Oversight Initiative, in Government Executive WATCHLIST Catch a clip of our director of public policy Liz Hempowicz on MSNBC. ONE LINERS “For a few decades now, we’ve seen DOJ articulating this kind of absolutist stance that close advisors to the president are absolutely immune from congressional subpoena. And it’s worth noting that DOJ has basically invented this out of whole cloth, and it’s certainly not something that Congress agrees with, and it’s not really something that any of the judges who have had an occasion to look at this argument have agreed with either. So they’re pretty much on their own on it, but that’s the line they’ve taken in the past.” David Janovsky, Analyst at The Constitution Project at POGO, in the Hill   “This bill will dramatically improve oversight at the VA by eliminating a longstanding loophole that allows VA employees to escape independent oversight by simply resigning from their post.” Liz Hempowicz, Director of Public Policy, in WBOY   “What’s troubling and should trouble everyone in the American public is that a top administration official had extensive dealings with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, MBS, and has now entered into a business deal that doesn't make any sense. ... It raises the specter here that maybe what MBS is paying for here is something other than the hope of a high return.” Walt Shaub, Senior Ethics Fellow, on Dan Abrams Live   “The real concern here is that the public has no way of knowing exactly what favors someone like Kushner may have done for the Saudis.” Walt Shaub, Senior Ethics Fellow, on Bloomberg News

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Excerpt: "Our post-Watergate laws and practices for the presidency need revamping."

ow that Donald Trump’s time in the White House is ending, an urgent task is the reform of the presidency that for four years he sought to shape in his image and to run in his personal and political self-interest. What those years have shown is that the array of laws and norms that arose after Watergate and Vietnam requires an overhaul.

Any program for reform of the presidency must give precedence to our health and economic crises. It must also acknowledge political realities. Some reforms can be carried out by the executive branch, but others require legislation. Those must attract at least modest bipartisan support in the Senate.

With these constraints in mind, an agenda for reform of the presidency could realistically reflect the following priorities.

The strength of a presidency is measured by its capacity for effective executive leadership. Mr. Trump’s record of feckless leadership was closely related to his unrelenting efforts to defy or destroy constraining institutions. The reforms proposed here would enhance the institutional constraints that legitimate the president’s vast powers.

They would thus serve the twin aims of ensuring that the “energy in the executive” that Alexander Hamilton defined as “a leading character in the definition of good government” is nonetheless embedded, as the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. rightly insisted, in a “system of accountability that checks the abuse of executive power.”

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Trump businesses barred from getting coronavirus stimulus money, Schumer says; Bill Gates says the US missed its chance to avoid coronavirus shutdown and businesses should stay closed

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Wow! That must have really got him mad!!! I Love it!

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An NPR station in Seattle said that it no longer will carry live coverage of President Donald Trump's coronavirus briefings because of concerns that they feature unchecked misleading or false information. "KUOW is monitoring White House briefings for the latest news on the coronavirus — and

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Those who are living below the poverty line have always faced criticism from both politicians and the public. While there are many proposed causes of poverty, those who rely on the government's assistance to get by are often perceived as not hardworking enough or simply lazy.

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I have always been an Apple kind of guy but I have to admit there is nothing wrong with Gates' brain.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the US didn't act fast enough on the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the US didn't act fast enough on t

• Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates answered questions about COVID-19 during a “TED Connects” program.
• Gates said the United States missed its chance to avoid stay-at-home orders because it didn’t act fast enough on the pandemic. 
• He added that the U.S. needs to ramp up its testing abilities. 

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday that the United States missed its chance to avoid mandated shutdowns because it didn’t act fast enough on the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. 

“The U.S. is past this opportunity to control (COVID-19) without shutdown,” Gates said during a TED Connects program broadcast online. “We did not act fast enough to have an ability to avoid the shutdown.”

“It’s January when everybody should’ve been on notice,” Gates added. The virus was first discovered in December in China.

Government officials across the country have advised or directed residents in the past days to stay home in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus that’s infected at least 46,500 people in the U.S. Many locations, including California, New York City and Washington, D.C., have ordered all nonessential businesses to temporarily close. As a result, unemployment claims are surging and markets are hitting multiyear lows. 

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he wants businesses to open by Easter, April 12, to soften the economic impact. Government officials and health experts have widely criticized these calls, warning that bringing people back to work will overwhelm the health-care system and lead to more deaths. 

Gates acknowledged Tuesday that self isolation will be “disastrous” for the economy, but “there really is no middle ground.” He suggested a shutdown of six to 10 weeks. 

“It’s very tough to say to people, ‘Hey keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner, we want you to keep spending because there’s some politician that thinks GDP growth is what counts,’” Gates said. “It’s hard to tell people during an epidemic … that they should go about things knowing their activity is spreading this disease.”

Gates added Tuesday that the United States needs to ramp up its COVID-19 testing abilities and better navigate who actually needs to be tested. 

“In terms of testing, we’re still not creating that capacity and applying it to people in need,” Gates said. “The testing thing has got to be organized, has got to be prioritized. That is super, super urgent.” 

Gates has long focused on the health field within his work at the nonprofit Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Last week, Gates hosted an Ask Me Anything session on the discussion forum Reddit to talk about the COVID-19 pandemic with users.

Additionally, Gates warned in his 2015 TED Talk that the world needs to prepare more for a pandemic. 

“We’ve actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic. We’re not ready for the next epidemic,” Gates said at the time. When referencing his TED Talk on Tuesday, Gates said that “sadly very little was done,” but he remains optimistic. 

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Line after line of crooked GOP bullshit- even ways Trump can take advantage of it.

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“The bill also contains a six-month extension of federal funding through the end of November for abstinence-only education programs favored by social conservatives who are a critical Republican voting bloc.”

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$2 trillion Senate bill includes an enormous number of important provisions that will help US get through historic crisis. But it also has some narrowly tailored provisions pushed by lobbyists in DC. LET's TAKE A LOOK. First the story w @kenvogel

First up: Community Banks. Much of last year, industry pushed the FDIC to allow them to have 8 percent capital reserves. They lost. FDIC said it had to be 9 percent. Coronavirus was an opening. They pushed Congress to overrule FDIC, at least temporarily. That is in the bill

Next: Hotels. Normally, more than 500 employees isn't considered a small business. But hotel owners with multiple properties wanted to be eligible for Small Business loans/grants to pay wages in the Coronavirus package. Lobbyists intervened. Now its 500 employees PER HOTEL

Guess who has a small chain of hotels that are run by a company that overall has more than 500 employees, but whose individual properties might now be eligible for this provision: Trump Org. Unclear if they will use this. We asked.

NEXT: They call it the "Retail Glitch" what retailers say was a mistake in 2017 tax bill that prevented stores, restaurants and HOTELS from getting a fast tax break on renovations. Industry pushed for more than a year to fix it. Coronavirus gave them an opening. It is in the bill

FOR PROFIT COLLEGES: Would be able to retain more of the money they collect via federal loans to their students, even if students drop out, in a provision that is in the bill. Works for all colleges. But for profit may benefit most.

Again, this bill does incredibly important things for a lot of sectors of the US. Just pointing out there are various provisions that benefit individual sectors--provisions inserted after lobbyists intervened. That is how Washington works. Even in a global health crisis.

It is our job to find this stuff. So we did.

Small banks, retailers and for-profit colleges got provisions they wanted. So did Boeing. Among those who could potentially benefit: President Trump’s company.

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Fine Print of Stimulus Bill Contains Special Deals for Industries

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