House Democrats want Kash Patel to answer for his spending — but this time they’re not alone

Josh Shapiro Actually Said This About the Democratic Party

Josh Shapiro Actually Said This About the Democratic Party

Dems to investigate Kash Patel ‘luxury’ perks after GOP ally sought answers about FBI jet use, BMW purchases

Congressional Democrats are pushing FBI Director Kash Patel for answers over his use of taxpayer-funded resources after a private letter from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) raised many of their same concerns about the director’s spending patterns. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the top Democrats on the House and []

Trump Won't Sign Housing Bill Because Of 'Communists?

Trump was asked by a reporter why the SAVE Act is more important to him than signing the bipartisan Housing bill that would make homes more affordable for all Americans who are struggling and his response made no literal sense, when he ranted about communists. Congress just passed the 21st Century ROAD To Housing Act by a whopping margin of 358 - 32, in the Republican-controlled House and 85-5 in the Senate, but Trump claimed it was rigged so communists could come in. Huh? Did his brain flash on the New York primaries? Trump is refusing to sign a bill from his administration that finally helps the working class of this country, who are struggling with rents, mortgages and affordability and he couldn't come up with a coherent response. Q: Buying a home is unattainable for so many Americans. Is this election legislation more important to you than resolving the housing crisis? TRUMP: Every election is important. We're doing very well. They want a lot of communists to come in. I'm saying it a little bit differently, but the people that they're pushing are communists, and this country is not going to have communists. This isn't a border security or immigration bill he's taking about. What people are Mike Johnson pushing? Is the Speaker a communist now? Is the Republican Senate?read more

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Liberal Socialism By Kevin A. Carson A new C4SS study by Kevin Carson (online pdf).

Keystone Kash Runs Into Trouble With Crackpot FBI Goose Chase

Kylie Cooper/ReutersSenate Democrats are pushing back hard against FBI Director Kash Patel’s wild decision to mobilize hundreds of federal agents and analysts on what one senior senator is calling a “fool’s errand.” Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote to both Patel and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding answers after MS NOW reported that Patel had ordered 260 FBI intelligence analysts from field offices across the entire country to work on what internal FBI documents describe as a “priority investigation” in Georgia related to the 2020 election. Warner did not mince his words. “This misuse of taxpayer dollars is negligence and abuse of power of the highest order,” he wrote, before laying out exactly what was being sacrificed to pursue it.Read more at The Daily Beast.