Breaking: "Rubio announces he's acting director of USAID"

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17. That's interesting. hmmm

Meanwhile:
The rules of the Senate are designed to protect the rights of the minority, and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda. The three biggest weapons? Blanket opposition, quorum calls, and blocking unanimous consent—parliamentary guerrilla tactics that can slow, stall, and obstruct at every turn.


Schumer is not entirely wrong to believe that Democrats need to pick their battles. My normal preference would be to focus on economic fights, which will emerge quickly enough as Trump’s tariff wars drive up inflation. But Musk’s coup is an economic matter as well an attack on the Constitution. Having the world’s richest man gain privileged access to government data, which he will then unilaterally use to slash spending, is the very embodiment of oligarchy. By making Musk’s coup a fighting issue, Democrats have a chance to appeal to the distrust of centralized power and wealth that spans the political spectrum. Polling shows the public is increasingly souring on Musk, who has a net approval rating of minus 16 percent (36 percent favorable, 52 percent unfavorable). It’s unlikely that very many Americans want Musk to have their personal information.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-spending-data-coup/