Friday, October 2, 2026. 32 days away from the midterms and Chump continues to struggle, Renee Nicole Good's family seeks justice in the US courts, Priss Pot Pete Hegseth continues to fail at his job, and much more.
Ben (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) takes the national temperature in the country 32 days out from the midterms.
The new numbers come as Trump and Vice President JD Vance hit the campaign trail on Thursday, heading to heavily Republican areas to shore up lagging enthusiasm in their party ahead of next month’s midterm elections. Trump will go to Texas and Oklahoma while Vance stumps in Florida, areas where GOP candidates were once expected to glide to victory but are now facing tougher races.
Early voting has already started in some states and there are 32 days left until the midterms. 32 days. And Chump's hitting the road now with a message of more-of-the-same. That's all he has to offer. He screwed up the US economy so bad and he can't fix it now. His tariffs, his war on immigrants and his war on Iran have all resulted in the destruction of the US economy.
A majority, 65%, of U.S. adults now blame Trump’s policies for persistently high costs more than factors outside of his control, signaling growing weariness over his aggressive use of tariffs and continued unhappiness with the war with Iran.
The dismal numbers come just weeks before midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans maintain control of Congress and while Trump is hitting the campaign trail with an aggressive schedule of rallies. But Trump -- who has asked voters to pretend that he is on the ballot as he tries to bolster turnout -- remains deeply unpopular, with even many Republicans faulting him for failing to deliver on promised relief.
B-b-b-but Biden!
Though Chump loves to play that card, it has gotten old and the few that did believe it? Their number grows smaller and smaller.
Suzanne Blake (NEWSWEEK) reports:
Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, told Americans that they have lost purchasing power during President Donald Trump’s second term, effectively making them poorer under this administration than during President Joe Biden’s time in office.
“The $40 trillion deficit translates to more than $360,000 per American taxpayer. We’re adding less to the debt than we did under President Biden, but Americans’ buying power is still significantly less than what it was,” Rand wrote on X.
“In fact, if you’re making $50K/year, you’re poorer than you were a few years ago because inflation compounds over time.”
This is at odds with Trump’s repeated statements that inflation has been brought under control and Americans are experiencing an economic recovery after what the president has described as an “inflation nightmare” inherited from former President Joe Biden.
With barely a month to go before a midterm election in which the signs look increasingly dire for Republicans, President Donald Trump is busting out his old moves like an aging rocker on a comeback tour.
They do not get the love from the fans that they used to, so he is upping the audacity to 11. A new round of television spots, for instance, is drawing attention less for its message than for its eyebrow-raising notation: “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”
He also put himself center stage in Dallas at a first-of-its-kind Republican midterm convention in recent weeks. That effort to revive the boisterous euphoria of the 2024 gathering in Milwaukee saw only the Democrats receiving a postconvention bounce.
Mostly, the president wanted to talk to the news cameras stationed at the back of the room. Mr. Trump again offered a cash prize of $5,000 to every American adult if his party keeps control, earning some of the loudest applause of the evening.
“Republicans can do it and Democrats can’t,” Mr. Trump said. “We’re taking in massive amounts of money through tariffs and record-setting economic success. Democrat policies won’t allow this to happen.”
In reality, the proposal for the $5,000 checks would be prohibitively costly, at more than $1.3 trillion. But Mr. Trump rarely concerns himself with details on the rally stage. He suggested that the money could come from investment revenue.
When confronting the matter of political survival, Mr. Trump has always returned to his political rallies, drinking in applause from an adoring audience like spiritual Red Bull. Mr. Trump hasn’t done these events much lately. He has been preoccupied for much of his second term with foreign conflicts and building a White House ballroom, and his advisers have said that there has been no need for him to rally, because there are no more races for him to run.
As people wake up, Chump's left to scramble trying to figure out which states to visit. There's no sign that he will help anyone by campaigning in their state -- and
one Republican candidate for the US Senate says he got no lift from Chump's appearance last month -- and he might even harm them.
Nolan D. McCaskill (REUTERS) notes, "The Democratic wave is crashing hardest in states Trump won by wide margins, though Republicans are also significantly underperforming in Georgia and North Carolina, where Trump won by 2 and 3 percentage points, respectively. The volume of unexpectedly competitive states could scramble the final stretch of the campaign cycle as top officials assess where to spend their war chests."
Halle Troadec and Hannah Demissie (ABC NEWS) report, "Last year, Republicans had hoped to keep Democrats on their heels in Georgia and North Carolina's Senate races, and even flip the seat held by Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia. Now, just weeks away from the midterms and grappling with an expanding map of seats to defend, they face calls to divert resources from the two states won by President Donald Trump in 2024 into even redder states that have become more competitive amid Trump's low national approval ratings and the Iran war."
Julia Manchester (THE HILL) explains, "This week, Trump is slated to visit Oklahoma and Alabama, in addition to making stops in Ohio and Texas. The president is also set to head to Nebraska on Monday. Republicans argue the stops are all a part of the party’s strategy to get as close as they can to replicating their 2024 presidential-year turnout. But polls show voters across the board souring on Trump’s policies, threatening Republican chances in what were once thought to be safe red states like Nebraska."
Maura Barrett (SCRIPPS NEWS) notes, "
Consumer confidence fell to 81.9 in September, its lowest level since 2014, according to the Conference Board. That's below the levels recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more Americans now describe their personal finances as bad than good. The Conference Board data shows the drop in confidence cuts across party lines. Over the past year, Republican confidence fell 15 points, while confidence among independents fell 4 points and among Democrats fell 5."
Ed Kilgore (INTELLIGENCER) points out, "The race isn’t over yet, but the trends are pretty strong and clear and at the moment very blue."
President Donald Trump’s Senate pick denied his connection to a registered sex offender who was sentenced to prison for two convictions involving children—and was caught.
Republican Michael Whatley, who is running for an open Senate seat in North Carolina, denied through his campaign spokesperson that he played any role in organizing a recent campaign stop with Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—which opened with a prayer from registered sex offender Pastor Daimon L. King, who was convicted of rape and incest.
The event “was NOT planned nor organized by the Whatley campaign nor did the campaign invite any of the guests,” Whatley spokesman DJ Griffin told the Associated Press.
What’s more, leaked audio from the event in the small city of New Bern, North Carolina, reveals Whatley himself acknowledging the event’s beginnings.
“Now I got a good friend who was in North Carolina for just a day, wanted to stop by and say hello. He called up, and he said, ‘Hey, where’s a good place to be?’” Whatley said, referring to Oz. He continued: “Well, let me call the chair of the Craven County GOP.”
The event "opened with a prayer from registered sex offender Pastor Daimon L. King, who was convicted of rape and incest"?
Elaine just noted accused rapist Russell Brand and Dr Oz joking with one another at a MAHA event. Is everyone in Chump's circle a rapist? Chump's been found guilty of sexual assault. And he was friends with pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for years. And his Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is still set to go to court for turning a blind eye to the sexual abuse of young boys. And his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth paid a woman accusing him of sexual assault $50,000. And Secretary of Health and Human Services Junior
apologized in 2024 to Eliza Cooney for his 1998 assault on her when she was 23 years old.
King, 60, is the leader of New Beginnings Celebration church in New Bern, a town near the North Carolina coast where the rally was held on Aug. 28. The pastor has taken on an increasingly visible role in Republican politics in recent years. He presents himself as a pro-Trump Black conservative and has served as a precinct chairman for the Craven County GOP. He has praised Trump and decried “fake news” in sermons uploaded to YouTube, delivering what he calls the “pure, uncut word of God.”
[. . .]
Some 30 years ago, King was a marching band assistant at a high school outside Raleigh when he was charged with statutory rape and indecent liberties with a 15-year-old student, The News & Observer reported at the time. King, then 31, was convicted in 1998 and served nearly five years in prison before being paroled, according to state department of corrections records.
In 2010, he pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage female relative and served close to three years in prison, state records show.
King is required under North Carolina law to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Let's turn to Priss Pot Pete who needs to spend more time in that beauty salon he had constructed if they're ever going to do a good job covering up his psoriasis. The Secretary of Defense (Defense, not War, USA TODAY, you need to be factual and factual is he's the Secretary of Defense) spoke on Wednesday. Of all the commentaries on Hegseth's speech,
Holly Baxter (INDEPENDENT) was the best and here's a taste:
So chaplains and churches and “religious support” will become a new priority. No more “political correctness and secular humanism” (perish the thought!) Instead, there will be an Office of Religious Affairs that “will report straight to the top”. (By the top, he means himself, by the way, not to God, and like all Christian groups, “it’s gonna have real teeth”.)
Hegseth then quoted Psalm 33:12, “Blessed is the nation whose god is the Lord. That line of the Bible is specifically referring to Israel, but sure.
“While we wage physical war,” he continued, “we know the real fight is spiritual.” The Book of Isaiah, he said, sees God asking Isaiah who he can send in his name, and Isaiah responding, “Send me.” Hegseth then extended this verse to suggest that Isaiah might also say: “Send me to fight the communists. Send me to fight the Islamists,” before concluding to the generals that “lethality is your calling card and victory your only acceptable end-state.”
What is actually said in the Book of Isaiah is instructive, as the biblical writer in question suggests during these verses that if people are “always hearing, but never understanding” and “ever seeing, but never perceiving,” with “hearts that are calloused,” then they will never truly “see with their eyes,” “hear with their ears,” “understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Oof, how inconvenient for War Daddy Pete! But it doesn’t matter because, as Hegseth rounded off his speech, “We are the War Department and we never back down.” Not in the face of logic, not in the face of real quotes from the Bible, not in the face of people trying to give us college educations!
And then he stalked offstage after giving a couple of stony-faced thumbs-up, ready to lead us all into a bold future. Godspeed, brave companions! And boy oh boy, isn’t Jesus going to be ecstatic that he’s coming back to the US military just in time for the AI-powered killer bots?!
Hegseth has been dismissive of the mental health concerns involving the troops. This is a press release Senator Mark Kelly's office issued August 14th:
Last night, on MS NOW’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his dismissal of the mental health crisis unfolding aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln—where sailors have tried to jump overboard due to deteriorating conditions—and to call out the Trump administration’s failure to keep military families informed.
Kelly also encouraged servicemembers who are struggling with their mental health to learn and use the resources available through the Brandon Act, legislation he passed that guarantees servicemembers the right to seek mental health treatment without fear of retaliation. The legislation is named in honor of United States Navy Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Caserta of Peoria, Arizona, who died by suicide after seeking mental health care and being denied.
Watch the full conversation here. See key excerpts below:
On Secretary Hegseth’s dismissive response to the mental health crisis unfolding aboard the USS Lincoln…
“I got to say, as bad as that and the conditions that these sailors have been put in, what I think is as bad, if not worse, is the Secretary of Defense’s response. Dismissing it like it’s no concern at all. I think a fundamental part of leadership is trying to improve the lives of the people you’re leading. And he doesn’t want there to be any accountability. He doesn’t want to get blamed. That’s pretty obvious. He doesn’t want this president to get blamed. I’d like to see from this administration just once, just one time, someone taking some responsibility for something that isn’t going right. And in this case, they seem to have a mental health crisis aboard that ship. It needs to be addressed, and the conditions need to be improved.”
On speaking to an Arizona grandmother whose grandson is aboard the ship…
“He’s depressed about the situation he is in. He doesn’t know when this deployment is going to end. I’d say the most disturbing thing she told me is she saw a picture of him, and she said when he got into the Navy, he was already like a skinny kid. She says it looks like he’s lost 20 to 25 pounds.
“But the thing that also bothered her the most was the dismissiveness Pete Hegseth brought to this whole situation. She saw what he said, and she said it was rather disturbing that this is the way that he represented what was going on.”
On the Trump administration’s failure to keep military families informed…
“Servicemembers, spouses and children, they’re also serving their country. And we owe them not only gratitude, but we owe them a certain amount of respect that we’re going to operate within certain rules. And one of them is to share information when you’re when your family member, your servicemember on active duty is having a problem, they have the right to know.”
On why no servicemember should fear seeking help…
“They shouldn’t be punished and they should get treatment. I was the primary sponsor in the Senate on a piece of legislation called the Brandon Act, named after Brandon Caserta, who was a Third Class Petty Officer in the Navy who took his own life. He was in a helicopter squadron. It was a tragic case of somebody who sought treatment and didn’t get it.
“So, I encourage service members out there, if they’re struggling, if they’re depressed, if they’re having ideas about taking their own lives or harming themselves, learn about the Brandon Act and know that you can go to your leadership and they have to provide you treatment.”
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A 21-year-old Black Navy sailor died by suicide during an extended deployment in June, and her family is now questioning whether she received enough mental health support aboard her ship.
Jaimie Bethea, a mass communication specialist from South Carolina, died June 20, about a month before the USS Fort Lauderdale returned to Norfolk, Virginia, following an 11-month deployment.
NPR reported Tuesday (September 29) that the ship’s deployment was extended multiple times, with Bethea’s family saying the prolonged time at sea worsened her mental health struggles.
“It was constantly like getting texts like, ‘Guys, you'll never fing believe it. We just got extended again,’ and I think it happened four times,” Bethea's sister Arianna Calderon told NPR. “It's just that uncertainty and promises unfulfilled.”
Bethea’s mother died from cancer three months before the deployment. Bethea spent a month on shore with her mother before returning to the ship, where she sought mental health treatment and was prescribed antidepressants by the Navy.
Within a few months of the deployment, Bethea began experiencing nightmares about her mother, according to Calderon.
ARIANNA CALDERON: I think truly just nothing matters to me more than my sister. Nothing ever has.
WALSH: Bethea's sister, Arianna Calderon.
CALDERON: So, yeah, like, I lost my world genuinely. I lost everything, and, like, all I care about now is just, like - I don't know - getting some semblance of justice.
WALSH: USS Fort Lauderdale was in the Caribbean, part of the Trump administration's operation around Venezuela, which included the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and attacking boats in the region suspected of carrying drugs.
CALDERON: It was constantly, like, getting texts like, guys, you'll never [expletive] believe it. We just got extended again. And I think it happened four times. It's that uncertainty, and it's promises unfulfilled, you know?
WALSH: Calderon says they lost their mother three months before the ship deployed. Bethea was given shore duty for a month, and she watched her mother die of cancer in a South Carolina hospital. She sought help, and the Navy put her on antidepressants.
CALDERON: Within a few months into her deployment, she was having nightmares about her mom. I mean, I'm not a psychologist, but she was definitely experiencing symptoms of PTSD.
WALSH: The USS Fort Lauderdale was part of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group with its 4,500 sailors and Marines. The ship has a crew of about 350 sailors. Like most Navy ships, it doesn't have a dedicated mental healthcare provider. It relies instead on a doctor. Chaplains also receive some training, including on the Navy's protocol for suicide prevention.
TIANA COOK: I met Jaimie when I was in high school sophomore year. We were in the marching band together.
WALSH: Bethea's longtime friend Tiana Cook (ph) says she communicated with her nearly every day while she was on the USS Fort Lauderdale. She told Cook that supplies were tight and she couldn't get her medication consistently during the deployment.
COOK: There's, like, a text that I read. She would tell me a lot about, like, days where she would, like, just cry when she woke up. She would take a lot of naps from just being, like, exhausted and sad.
WALSH: According to a string of texts to friends and family reviewed by NPR, Bethea said that she had been having a panic attack that lasted hours and sought medical help on board. In another text, she told friends and family that she was surprised how easy it was to walk away from the ship's hospital.
COOK: The last text she sent was around 12:30. She said, I love you guys. I need you to know that. That was it. That was the last I heard from her.
WALSH: Cook says after her death in June, one of her friends on the ship said that Bethea had previously attempted suicide three months into the deployment. Bethea's sister, Arianna Calderon, says the Navy should have done more.
CALDERON: There just needed to be some sort of intervention. There should have been. They should have removed her from the ship.
WALSH: The Navy has now responded to a list of questions about Bethea's death. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao recently announced a new suicide prevention task force. Separately, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle has also emphasized the need for access to care while conceding the length of deployments is expected to rise as the conflict with Iran continues.
Jaimie Bethea took her own life. And she sought help on the USS FORT LAUDERDALE. And it didn't come. Why is that? A suicide on a US battleship. Hegseth should have launched a n inquiry into Jamie's death and the other service members on the USS FORT LAUDERDALE and the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN who have had suicidal thoughts during their deployments. Priss Pot Pete failes the military by refusing to provide true oversight.
James Ball (THE i PAPER) notes, "Some wonder if Hegseth, unable to see that the chaos and dysfunction around him are his own fault, is purging those competent enough to give good advice – which involves telling him things he doesn’t like to hear. Others suggest that a hopelessly out-of-his-depth Hegseth is focusing on issues like shaving, physique, workouts, and wokery because he can, at least, understand those." He's never understood the job. He had no experience for it, no background in it. He did not attempt to educate himself once in office. He has been a non-stop failure.
Finya Swai (THE HILL) reports:
Retired Maj. Gen. Randy Manner blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his latest cuts to the military’s senior ranks, accusing the Pentagon chief of “playing Russian roulette” with U.S. national security.
“This is just unbelievable,” Manner said during a Wednesday appearance on CNN’s “The Lead.”
“It’s sophomoric,” he added.
Hegseth announced plans to cut 20 percent of positions reserved for generals and admirals across the Army, Navy and Air Force — doubling an earlier 10 percent reduction.
Manner said that while he supports reducing the number of senior officers, he argued Hegseth’s approach was done recklessly amid a war with Iran and would cost the military experienced leaders.
“The concept of reducing the number of admirals and generals is a good one,” Manner said. “The problem is that the secretary of Defense has already proven that he’s trying to purge the military.”
Donald Trump launched into a foul-mouthed tirade against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the Iran war just weeks into the conflict, it has been revealed.
Hegseth and several other top military officials were called into the Oval Office in April as Trump demanded an update on the war, which the president had assured the American public would be over by then.
During the tense showdown, Trump handed Hegseth a printout of a New York Times article saying the U.S. was rapidly draining its munitions stockpiles, including more than 1,200 Patriot interceptor missiles that cost more than $4 million each, in the first few weeks of the conflict alone.
“What the f--- is this?” Trump said to Hegseth as he handed him the printout, sources told TIME.
Hegseth tried to dismiss the report—which also claimed that the U.S. had been forced to obtain military supplies in Asia and Europe, exposing commands to potential risks from Russia and China—as “fake news” that exaggerated the numbers to make the U.S. look bad.
However, the figures reported by the Times, including that the military used more than 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles in the Iran war—roughly 10 times the number it currently buys each year—were based on internal Defense Department estimates.
Priss Pot Pete doesn't know what he's doing. He should never have been confirmed by the Senate.
He's not the only Cabinet member struggling. Markwayne Mullin has only been Secretary of Homeland Security since March but he's already failing.
Matthew Chapman (RAW STORY) notes:
President Donald Trump reportedly erupted at Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin after an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership call leaked suggesting the agency was quietly scaling back arrests to focus only on immigrants with criminal records, according to CNN sources familiar with the fallout.
Trump moved fast to shut down any perception of a policy shift, calling a well-known Fox News host directly to insist ICE's approach hadn't changed and agents would continue picking up anyone living in the country without legal status, criminal record or not. But privately, sources say he directed real fury at Mullin, even as DHS officially denies any such directive was ever issued.
The confusion traced back to a weekend call where agency leadership gave ICE agents spoken instructions that seemed to de-emphasize so-called "collateral arrests," meaning people detained simply for being near an actual target, in favor of concentrating on people with criminal histories. According to three people with knowledge of the call, the ambiguous phrasing left agents unsure how to actually apply it in the field.
Sources told CNN that Mullin has publicly maintained that anyone here illegally remains a candidate for removal, while privately favoring a pullback from the collateral-arrest approach. One source didn't mince words about the growing rift.
"Mullin is definitely out of step with President Trump and the base on immigration," the source said.
Relatives of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent early this year during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, filed two federal lawsuits on Thursday, including one against the officer who shot her and several top Trump administration officials.
The lawsuits, filed in Minnesota federal court, accused the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, of having placed himself at risk by standing in front of Ms. Good’s car during a tense confrontation on Jan. 7 and unjustifiably using deadly force.
In addition to Mr. Ross, one lawsuit also names as defendants Kristi Noem, the former secretary of homeland security; Stephen Miller, the top White House official overseeing immigration policy; Thomas D. Homan, the White House border czar; Todd Lyons, the former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Gregory Bovino, a former senior Border Patrol official; and Corey Lewandowski, a former aide to Ms. Noem.
That suit says Ms. Good’s death was the result of an immigration operation in Minnesota that was driven by unconstitutional racial animus against Somali and Hispanic people.
“She was killed on a public street, while doing what thousands of her neighbors were doing that winter: watching masked, armed men terrorizing her community and refusing to look away,” the lawsuit says.
The second lawsuit, which lists the U.S. government as a defendant, is filed under a 1964 law that allows plaintiffs to seek redress for deaths caused by negligence.
“They took a mother away from their children,” Becca Good, Ms. Good’s partner, said at a news conference on Thursday in downtown Minneapolis, where she appeared alongside other relatives and their legal team.
Penalties for Propaganda Act cuts OMB’s budget by $20 million each instance taxpayer dollars are used for propaganda
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and top Senate appropriators introduced the Penalties for Propaganda Act, a bill to impose penalties on the Trump administration for breaking federal law and using taxpayer dollars to air government propaganda.
“Not a cent of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars should ever be used to run political ads glorifying the president. Clearly, this administration couldn’t care less about what the law says or about wasting Americans’ tax dollars on obscene ads. Congress cannot sit on its hands. If the president is going to defy federal law to run propaganda celebrating himself—and his budget director is going to allow it—there must be consequences,” said Senator Patty Murray. “This fair-minded bill hits White House Budget Director Vought’s operating budget each time this administration willfully violates our laws to spend federal funding on North Korea-style propaganda. It is not too much to expect the White House Budget Office to respect the law and the basic principle that tax dollars should not fund political ads. Democrats and Republicans alike have made clear that tax dollars shouldn’t be funding these ads, and I hope every one of my colleagues who agrees will support this bill and work with me to get it signed into law.”
In recent days, the Trump administration has spent at least $2.9 million in taxpayer funds airing several political ads celebrating Trump, according to AdImpact. Federal law prohibits taxpayer funding of political propaganda, including Section 718 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026, which states that: “No part of any appropriation contained in the act or any other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, including through a private contractor, for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States not heretofore authorized by Congress.”
The Penalties for Propaganda Act imposes a new penalty for violating the anti-propaganda provision contained in federal law. The bill cuts the budget of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), headed by Director Russ Vought, by $20 million each time any part of the administration violates the law.
In addition to Senator Murray, original cosponsors of the legislation include: Senator Jack Reed, Ranking Member of the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee; Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee; Senator Jeff Merkley, Ranking Member of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee; Senator Chris Coons, Ranking Member of the Defense Subcommittee; Senator Tammy Baldwin, Ranking Member of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee; Senator Chris Van Hollen, Ranking Member of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee; Senator Martin Heinrich, Ranking Member of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee; Senator Gary Peters, member of the Committee and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Ranking Member of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee.
When the government-funded Trump ads first aired, Vice Chair Murray and Ranking Member Reed wrote to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles demanding the ads come off the air and reminding the White House of federal law. When the Committee became aware the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is bankrolling the ads, Vice Chair Murray and Senator Chris Murphy, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee, wrote to Secretary Markwayne Mullin to demand DHS stop airing the ads and provide the Committee with all relevant information about the spending and contracts. DHS has so far failed to share this information.
Text of the legislation is available HERE.
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