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☆ Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger thanked Russia for putting him on 'Russophobia' list and banning him from the country: 'I appreciate them thinking of me'
  + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger thanked Russia for including him on a new travel ban. "I accept that I'm not their cup of Russian tea," he said in a Saturday statement mocking the list. "My inclusion on this list is deserved, and I appreciate them thinking of me." The list, which was released Friday by the Russian Foreign Ministry, named US citizens who aren't allowed to travel to Russia. Gershkovich was detained in the country in March and formally charged with espionage in April.
☆ Millions of student-loan borrowers would be forced into 'abrupt and unplanned repayment' if Republicans' plan to overturn Biden's debt cancellation gets passed, 261 advocacy groups tell Congress
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The House could likely take a first vote this week on a bill that would overturn student-debt relief. 261 advocacy groups urged congressional leaders on Monday to ensure that doesn't happen. They said the bill could force borrowers into an "abrupt" return to repayment and block targeted relief. "It will also force the Department of Education to unwind loans forgiven under Public Service Loan Forgiveness for first responders, nurses, educators, servicemembers, and hundreds of thousands of other public service workers across the country," they continued. Along with the CRA, McCarthy's bill to raise the debt ceiling — which passed the House two weeks ago — had spending cuts attached that included banning student-loan forgiveness.
☆ House Republicans are planning the first vote to overturn Biden's student-loan forgiveness next week
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
In March, Republican lawmakers introduced a resolution to overturn Biden's student-debt relief. The House education committee is planning to vote on the bill next week, a spokesperson confirmed to Insider. Even if the resolution passes the House, it likely won't progress in a Democratic-controlled Senate. That hasn't stopped Republicans from coming up with their own plans to block debt relief from happening. Along with the CRA, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy's bill to raise the debt ceiling — which passed the House last week — including banning Biden's student-loan forgiveness and blocking any future relief.
☆ Top Senate Democrats push for new ethics rules in wake of Clarence Thomas report as Republicans defend justice
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Manu Raju | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
Plus some Democrats on the panel, like Sen. Dick Blumenthal, want to go much further than Durbin in the Thomas probe – exposing divisions within the ranks. “I hope that Chief Justice Roberts reads his story this morning and understands something has to be done,” Durbin told CNN. “The reputation of the Supreme Court is at stake here. “The drip, drip, drip of these destructive disclosures is going to destroy the United States Supreme Court unless there is an effective proper investigation,” he said. “The court is responsible for their own guidelines in that regard,” Romney told CNN.
☆ Americans could be on track for a stream of job losses, big cuts to retirement savings, and a surge in student-loan payments in less than a month. It's completely preventable.
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
That could all be avoided if Congress passes a bill to raise the debt ceiling this month. Republicans see the debt ceiling as a tool for making wide-ranging spending cuts, a long-held GOP priority. Moody's Analytics recently found that McCarthy's plan to raise the debt ceiling attached to spending cuts could cost the country 780,000 jobs. "President Biden invited the four leaders to the White House to discuss the urgency of preventing default," a White House official said in a statement to Insider. But Democratic Sen. Jon Tester told CNN that it would be a "big mistake" for the White House to reach a deal with Republicans that include spending cuts.
☆ Even Republican senators aren't sold on the GOP plan to fight over the debt ceiling again in a year
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Kevin McCarthy plans to have the House vote on his debt ceiling bill on Wednesday. Other House GOP lawmakers wanted to see stricter work requirements for welfare programs in the legislation. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's proposal would only raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion, or until March 31, 2024 — whichever comes first. Ensuring another debt ceiling fight just months before next year's elections is reportedly drawing some ire, or at least headaches, from fellow Republicans. "The American people expect and deserve serious, sensible action to address our soaring national debt," McCarthy and other GOP leaders said in a statement on the legislation.
☆ Biden vows to veto the GOP bill to raise the debt ceiling if it makes it to his desk, saying it would cost Americans 780,000 jobs while stripping them of food assistance and student-debt relief
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The White House said Biden will veto the GOP bill to raise the debt ceiling if it makes it to his desk. It's unclear if enough Republicans will sign on to support its passage through the House. Biden has repeatedly said that he will not negotiate terms to raise the debt ceiling and he would only support a bipartisan and clean increase, without any spending cuts attached. Given that 2024 is a presidential election year, that future debt limit drama may well be even more heated than the current one. With Republicans urging Democrats to negotiate raising the debt ceiling while Biden has refused, the country continues to inch closer to an economically catastrophic default, which could happen early this summer.
☆ Ted Cruz, one of Trump's staunchest MAGA allies, was begging Fox News behind the scenes to show 'demonstrable facts' and evidence before repeating Trump's 2020 election lies
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Ted Cruz was recorded in 2020 urging Maria Bartiromo to make sure she had her facts straight. Cruz told Bartiromo to ensure she had evidence for any election fraud claims aired on Fox News. Cruz later joined several hardline MAGA senators in voting to not certify the 2020 election results. Despite his reservations, in January 2021, Cruz ended up voting not to certify the results of the 2020 election, joining several hardline GOP senators in repeating Trump's election fraud lies. Representatives for Cruz and Fox News did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.
☆ Senate Republicans who backed Trump's election fraud claims say Fox News settling Dominion case leaves things 'a little murky'
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Several Senate Republicans predicted the settlement wouldn't change much at Fox or in journalism. "A bad settlement is a lot better than going to court," one Trump backer told Insider. "I think that it leaves a few things a little murky," Braun said while walking through the Senate subway. "The trial was likely to be pretty ugly," Cruz told Insider. "It's no problem — if you don't lie," Romney told Insider between votes.
☆ GOP senators defend Clarence Thomas' billionaire benefactor's Nazi memorabilia collection: 'Harlan Crow's a terrific person'
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The GOP megadonor also keeps Nazi artifacts at his Dallas home, where he's hosted fundraisers. In interviews with Insider at the Capitol on Tuesday, several of them defended the Republican megadonor amid broad scrutiny of his taste in historical artifacts. The Texas senator argued that the media is "deliberately" mischaracterizing the nature of Crow's collection in order to tarnish Justice Thomas' reputation. 'He's not a drug dealer or cocaine trafficker'Crow also collects other historical artifacts, including thousands of documents, books, and historical artifacts pertaining to American history. But when asked about Crow's Nazi memorabilia and dictator sculptures, Ernst said she had "no idea" about it.
☆ We asked the GOP senators who've endorsed Trump for 2024 if an indictment might change their mind. They said it wouldn't.
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Oma Seddiq | Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Trump may soon face an indictment in New York over a "hush-money" payment to Stormy Daniels. Insider asked all five GOP senators who back Trump in 2024 whether him being charged would alter their support. And Republican senators who have already endorsed his third White House bid appear to be sticking with him regardless. Schmitt, for his part, abruptly declined to comment when asked about the possibility of an indictment of Trump. Trump also recently suggested that an indictment could be politically beneficial for him — a notion that Tuberville agreed with on Thursday.
☆ Several big-name GOP lawmakers won't go to CPAC this year amid chairman Matt Schlapp's sexual assault scandal
  + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
CPAC is typically a major opportunity for GOP politicians to boost their profile and give red-meat speeches. But many aren't going this year as chairman Matt Schlapp faces a $9.4 million sexual assault lawsuit. Nikki Haley, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida — are still scheduled to speak later this week. Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, also not attending, visibly cringed when asked about CPAC.
☆ Days before the Supreme Court takes on Biden's student-loan forgiveness, Elizabeth Warren urges it to 'do its job and apply the law as it is written'
  + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Sen. Elizabeth Warren urged the Supreme Court to uphold Biden's student-debt relief. "The Supreme Court needs to do its job and apply the law as it is written." GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn, for example, wrote on Twitter on Thursday that "canceling student debt is Biden's gift to young left-wing activists. She also led GOP senators in filing an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court urging it to strike down Biden's debt relief. This scale of student-loan forgiveness is unprecedented, so it's hard to determine which way the Supreme Court will rule.
☆ A former Trump official is pitching Republicans on a cost-cutting proposal that includes getting rid of a student-loan forgiveness program for public servants
  + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Former Trump budget official Russell Vought is pitching a spending cut plan to Republicans as part of debt ceiling negotiations, per The Washington Post. Part of those cuts include phasing out the federal student-loan program and getting rid of Public Service Loan Forgiveness. House Republicans are in the midst of negotiations to raise the debt ceiling before the US runs out of money to pay its bills, likely some point this summer. It's unclear how big of an influence Vought's proposals will have in Republicans' final deal to raise the debt ceiling. Trump also advised the GOP to leave those programs out of negotiations, and Voight doesn't think those programs should be in the spotlight at all.
☆ Republican lawmakers urge Supreme Court to overturn Biden's student loan forgiveness plan
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky at the U.S. Capitol Building on Feb. 13, 2023. Dozens of Republican members of Congress have filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan should be ruled unlawful. "Congress authorized the forgiveness of federal student loan debt only in specific, narrow circumstances," argued the brief filed by more than 40 GOP senators, among them Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They say that "petitioners' assertion of power to forgive everyfederal student loan in the country, potentially even a decade after the Covid-19 pandemic ends, raises significant separation of powers concerns." The briefs were filed this month, as the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments, scheduled for Feb. 28, on the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan.
☆ Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott on his relationship with Mitch McConnell after a failed challenge to lead Senate Republicans: 'Well, he just kicked me off a committee. So that was pretty petty.'
  + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Sen. Rick Scott said it was "petty" of Sen. Mitch McConnell to take him off the Commerce Committee. McConnell in a separate Fox News interview denied retaliation and said he had "no animus toward Rick Scott at all." And I gave it to two other senators, no particular reprisal in mind, no animus toward Rick Scott at all," he added. "That was the Scott plan. That was the Rick Scott plan.
☆ Biden touts 'making progress reducing student debt' but doesn't call out the lawsuits blocking his broad loan forgiveness plan during the State of the Union
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Biden touted "reducing student debt" during his State of the Union address. He did not mention the ongoing lawsuits that have blocked his broad student-loan forgiveness plan. When it comes to education, the president addressed increasing pay for teachers and providing two years of free community college, but he didn't have much to say about student debt. "And we're making progress by reducing student debt and increasing Pell Grants for working- and middle-class families." "Look, the opponents suing to stop my plan are the only thing standing between millions of Americans' crushing student debt and relief," he wrote on Twitter last month.
☆ Over half of the House GOP and nearly all Senate Republicans signed briefs urging the Supreme Court to block Biden's student-loan forgiveness
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
On Friday, 128 of the 222 House Republicans signed onto an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to block student-debt relief. They both argued that Biden doesn't have the authority to cancel student debt using the HEROES Act of 2003. On Friday, 128 House Republicans signed onto an amicus curiae brief urging the nation's highest court to block Biden's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers. That's just over half of the GOP composition in the House, with 222 Republicans holding a slim majority in that chamber. Both of the briefs argued that the HEROES Act does not allow for broad loan forgiveness, which a series of other conservative groups reiterated in their own briefs filed to the Supreme Court this week.
☆ Republicans demand spending cuts to lift the debt limit. They won't say what to cut.
  + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Sahil-Kapur-Headshot.Jpg | Sahil Kapur | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
WASHINGTON — Republicans, newly empowered with a House majority, are demanding spending cuts as a price for lifting the debt ceiling and averting a catastrophic default on U.S. debt. Republicans are divided over whether Medicare and Social Security spending should be on the chopping block. Jose Luis Magana / APLuna said she wants to do it without tax increases or Social Security or Medicare cuts. The White House has vowed that Biden won’t grant concessions on the debt limit and that paying the country’s bills is non-negotiable. But I think we’ve got to also honor our commitment to Americans when it comes to Social Security and Medicare,” Garcia continued.
☆ The Supreme Court's investigation raises questions about the justices' determination to find the abortion draft leaker
  + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The Supreme Court could not determine who leaked a draft abortion ruling last May. Yet the 20-page report has raised concerns about the rigor of the court's investigation. "During the course of the investigation, I spoke with each of the Justices, several on multiple occasions," Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley, who conducted the investigation, said in a statement. An executive-branch investigation may have led to the justices speaking under oath, a line the Supreme Court marshal did not cross, according to her statement. The Supreme Court's marshal did not note any new leads in her report.
☆ Here are the 14 Republican senators who may have doomed their bills in the new GOP House by voting for a major spending bill
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Kevin McCarthy even vowed to block House consideration of bills sponsored by GOP senators who voted for it. But a slew of GOP senators voted for it anyway, including 4 who are retiring and 14 who will remain. "Kevin's in a tough spot," Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, a former House Republican and an opponent of the omnibus himself, told CNN's Manu Raju. "Statements like that... is the very reason that some Senate Republicans feel they probably should spare them from the burden of having to govern." Additionally, four Republican senators who voted for the bill are retiring, making the threat meaningless to them.
☆ Spending Bill Energizes Kevin McCarthy’s GOP Critics in Speaker Race
  + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Natalie Andrews | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) has said he opposes the current spending bill that is making it way through Congress. WASHINGTON—The impending passage of a spending bill later this week is helping to fuel opposition to Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) in his run for House speaker. Many House Republicans, including Mr. McCarthy, have said they oppose the current spending bill, arguing instead to start talks early next year when they control the chamber and have more leverage on spending cuts. Mr. McCarthy has told Republicans he is a “hell no” on the bill and urged GOP senators to pass a short-term deal to hand the reins to the new Republican majority early next year. But detractors say Mr. McCarthy and other party leaders haven’t done enough to block it.
☆ Mitch McConnell says the 'entire nation knows' who is responsible for the Capitol riot after the January 6 panel asked the DOJ to prosecute Donald Trump
  + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Mitch McConnell hit out at Donald Trump after the latter was referred to the DOJ for prosecution. In a statement, McConnell said that "entire nation knows who is responsible" for the Capitol riot, without directly naming Trump. The January 6 panel on Monday asked the DOJ to prosecute Trump on four charges linked to the riot. McConnell's statement came after the House panel investigating the Capitol riot on Monday asked the Justice Department to prosecute Trump on four charges. "There is no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day," McConnell said of Trump at the time.
☆ Florida Sen. Rick Scott says defeated Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker will 'continue to be a leader' in the GOP 'for years to come'
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Sen. Rick Scott said Herschel Walker would "continue to be a leader" in the GOP "for years to come." Scott made the comments following Walker's runoff defeat to Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia. The Florida lawmaker was a visible presence at many Walker rallies throughout the campaign. But throughout the course of the campaign, Walker's campaign suffered from a series of scandals. After the runoff loss, Republicans are continuing to do a lot of soul-searching, as every statewide GOP candidate besides Walker was victorious at the ballot box in Georgia this year.
☆ Kellyanne Conway slams GOP senators who didn't stump for Herschel Walker ahead of the Senate runoff: 'Why weren't you in Georgia?'
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Kellyanne Conway last week criticized GOP senators who didn't stump for Republican Herschel Walker. "Where were the other senators to say, 'I want Herschel Walker, not Raphael Warnock in the Senate with me?'" In last month's general election, Warnock edged out Walker 49.4%-48.5% statewide, which triggered a runoff as neither candidate hit the requisite 50% of the vote to declare victory. Warnock on Tuesday won the runoff over Walker 51.4%-48.6%. I don't like it because it's not Election Day, it's election season, election trimester.
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