Extreme Commanders

Florida attorney general calls for feds to ‘denaturalize and deport’ congresswoman

Florida’s attorney general responded to a Minnesota congresswoman’s criticisms of the Trump administration by calling on Tuesday for her deportation.

James Uthmeier posted “Denaturalize and Deport” on X in response to a video of Rep. Ilhan Omar condemning President Donald Trump’s organization of a military parade last Saturday. She encouraged people to participate in protests at the time.

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Senate GOP leader faces pushback after members blindsided by Trump bill

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is facing strong pushback from members of the GOP conference over the Finance Committee’s piece of President Trump’s tax and spending bill, which largely ignores GOP senators’ concerns about Medicaid cuts and the quick phaseout of clean-energy tax credits.

Senate Republicans who raised red flags over Medicaid spending cuts the House passed say they were blindsided by the Senate’s version of the bill, which would cut Medicaid by several hundred billion dollars beyond what the House proposed.

They are warning that the Finance Committee’s language will cause dozens of rural hospitals to close in their home states, require lower-income Americans to pay more for medical procedures and shift costs onto the states.

“I had no idea that they were going to completely scrap the House framework like this. This totally caught me by surprise. And I’ve talked to other senators, and that’s what I’ve heard consistently from everybody I’ve talked to,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who has repeatedly warned about the impact of Medicaid cuts on his constituents and rural hospitals.

“No one was expecting this entirely new framework,” he said.

Hawley and other Republicans have complained for weeks that the House cuts to Medicaid went too far and called for changes, but those warnings appeared to have little impact on Thune or Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho).

Instead, Thune and Crapo sided with conservatives, such as Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who called for deeper spending cuts than what the House passed.

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Sounds like a negotiating tactic. Present an even worse bill so that people will say the original bill wasn't that bad and vote for it, when they otherwise wouldn't have.