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Articles / Congress / Government Barn Berning across America: AOC, Bernie Sanders take their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour national The irony of Representative AOC and Senator Bernie Sanders traversing across the nation on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour is almost too hypocritical to handle. By: New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“AOC”) and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are crusading against the wealthy on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour and some politicos are calling out the irony. At one of their latest tour stops in Denver, a crowd of roughly 30,000 people came to see the event, according to the The Denver Post. At one point in his speech, Sanders proffered the crowd, “what I think is the worst addiction in this country, the most dangerous, is the greed of the oligarchs. How much money do you need?” Sanders owns homes in Washington, D.C., Burlington, Vt., and a summer camp on New England’s Lake Champlain. When asked about his homes during an interview in November with Investors Hangout, he argued that contrary to criticism, his trio of domiciles are “middle-class.” Whereas Republicans previously were perceived to represent wealthy Americans, that has demonstrably changed. According Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data reported by Bloomberg, the wealth shift has produced a political climate which heavily favors the Democratic Party in America’s richest districts. As of 2021, 65% of Americans who make over $500,000 a year vote Democrat. 74% of taxpayers in districts that vote Republican had a household taxable income of less than $100,000. Furthermore, eight of the ten richest counties in the country vote Democrat. During the duo’s appearance in Arizona last Thursday, Sanders told the crowd, “we’re not going to allow you and your friend, Mr. Musk, and the other billionaires to wreak havoc on the working families of this country. No, you’re not going to destroy Social Security. You’re not going to destroy Medicaid. You’re not going to destroy the Veterans Administration.” Republicans, including President Trump have repeatedly asserted that they will not cut these programs. AOC followed the same songbook railing against the wealthy. “We’re going to throw these bums out and fight for the nation we deserve.” Sanders chimed in, “You know who the biggest criminals are in this country? They are the CEOs of major corporations who are robbing us every single day,” she told the crowd in Arizona. While she is one of the youngest members of Congress, she is a prolific fundraiser, often benefitting from the benevolence of C-Suite donors. Since 2018, she has raised roughly $49 million. She also has been accused of not aligning words with actions after receiving donations from billionaires like Tom Steyer in 2018. Evan Barker, a lifelong Democrat who helped raise millions of dollars for Democrats and volunteered at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, came out as “disenchanted, lost, sad and alone” in an article published by Newsweek last fall. In addition to fundraising and volunteering for Democrats, she also served as an alternate delegate for former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and an intern for former President Barack Obama’s campaign. She now says, “It’s impossible to unsee what I’ve seen. I can only go forward. I’m not going back.” And she’s not alone. She spoke to Furthermore Podcast on Monday and cited family members’ parallel shifts. “Pretty much my entire family voted for Democrats. I have an uncle who voted for Barack Obama twice. And he was a Navy veteran and was also in the laborers union in Missouri, and since 2016 he’s voted for Donald Trump.” The political shift goes back a generation further in her family: “same case with my grandma, who wasn’t in unions herself, but worked blue collar jobs and was married to construction workers, and definitely benefited from unions and has also switched over to Donald Trump, as well as my mom, which, she was sort of like the longest holdout, and is now a Trump supporter.” That shift likely impacted voter turnout in 2024. Former President Joe Biden registered 81.2 million votes in the 2020 election. Former Vice President Kamala Harries garnered 74.7 million votes, thought that number is being challenged in a number of states like California which allowed vote counting after Election Day. Therefore, 6.5 million Biden voters sat out the 2024 election and declined to vote for Harris. According to Barker, that sentiment exists in the party down to its core. “I worked on the campaigns directly as a staffer, but I know other staffers that are still working on Democratic campaigns because it’s their livelihood, it’s their only experience, and they feel very disenchanted, and they feel like they can’t really say what they feel and what they think, because they’re still afraid of being canceled.” If Democrats have managed to build a new party image, it isn’t bearing out in polling data, either. In an SSRS survey sponsored by CNN, Democrat and Democrat-leaning voters were asked who best represents the core values of the party. Ocasio-Cortez garnered the most votes, but only with 10%. Kamala Harris received 9%, and 8% went to Bernie Sanders. All of the other names, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, received 6% or less. 5% of respondents said that no one best represents the core values of the party. 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Articles / Congress / Government Republicans float two-part plan to avert government shutdown, White House meeting set Wednesday In less than two weeks, the American people might be facing another shutdown if Congress does not act. A possible two-stage plan might avoid that. By: Republican appropriators are designing a two-stage plan to dodge a March 14 potential government shutdown: a short term measure to continue current funding and full-year plan to begin trimming government next year by anywhere from $2 trillion to $10 trillion over the next decade. President Donald Trump also is staying deeply involved, even hosting a meeting at the White House on Wednesday with House fiscal conservatives, Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., told Just the News on Tuesday evening. According to House Appropriations Chairman Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, a short-term funding bill would go into effect with a year-long budget for FY2025 still in the works. “A government shutdown is unacceptable, and Republicans have continually worked in earnest to deliver a deal on full-year appropriations,” Cole said in a statement. “Given the deadline before us, we are pursuing every pathway to ensure a lapse in funding never occurs. This two track strategy includes both a focus on a stopgap to provide certainty while negotiations on a full year appropriations continue.” Speaking on the divide between Democrat and Republican funding priorities, Cole added: “Democrat leadership remains laser-focused on restricting presidential authority. It’s a nonstarter and battle they lost to the American people.” Appropriations Committee ranking member Sen. Patty Murray has unofficially logged her vote as a “no” and remarked that she was “absolutely shocked” at Republicans’ plan for the stopgap. She published a document called the “anomalies” list detailing extra funding requests from the White House for programs like the WIC nutrition assistance program for pregnant women and babies, immigration enforcement and increased pay for service members. Senate working towards a short-term deal House Democrats, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, are vehemently opposed to any DOGE-recommended spending cuts and are therefore bellicose on a shutdown. Jeffries released a statement on Sunday via his congressional website that said: “The top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, Rosa DeLauro, remains ready, willing and able to talk with our Republican colleagues, but there has been zero outreach from the Trump administration and House Republicans have walked away from the negotiating table.” One unnamed senior Democrat lawmaker told Politico that “at some point you’ve got to have a goddamn backbone. I’m not giving them a blank check until September.” On the Senate side, Collins told reporters on Monday that she and her committee were preparing a yearlong continuing resolution but are simultaneously working towards a short-term deal “to allow us time to negotiate the appropriations bills.” Trump, on X, threw his support behind a “clean, temporary” measure that continues funding through September after reportedly solidifying the plan in a meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Republican leaders plan to release a text of the funding stopgap by Saturday as the full-year negotiations continue, according to sources privy to a closed-door Monday meeting. Those sources have declined to be identified. For Republicans who are reticent to support a continuing resolution, their concerns may be abated after a meeting set to happen at the White House on Wednesday. “I’m not a big fan of CRs for the obvious reason, you’re just continuing to spend at the same levels of Biden and Pelosi. I think there’s a lot of danger to that. But I am going with a group of conservatives to the White House tomorrow to talk to President Trump about what his plans are and to see what we can help him deliver,” Crane told the “Just the News, No Noise“ TV show Tuesday evening. The timeline for the whole process is expected to stretch into May, according to Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs. “The Senate is going to take up their version or, you know, finish that package off, completing it, a week or so after the the reconciliation comes out next week,” Biggs told the “John Solomon Reports” podcast. “So we’re talking two, three weeks out, and then you’re going to have the conference committee on it, there’s some resolution, and probably mid-May, maybe if we’re lucky, you get that reconciliation package completely done and out.” Congress: 25% approval rating Government shutdowns typically hurt the majority party and as of the last week of February, congressional approval is underwater by 22 points. According to a recent Economist/YouGov poll, 47% of respondents disapprove of the job Congress is doing while only 25% approve. After the stopgap is ironed out, the next step is reconciling the cuts envisioned by the House ($2 trillion over a decade) and the Senate ($10 trillion over same period) and incorporate identified savings from Elon Musk’s DOGE. Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, a House Appropriations Committee member, told “Just the News, No Noise” on Tuesday evening that the numbers seem large until lawmakers realize just before COVID the government was about $2 trillion small just five years ago. “They put out a goal of $2 trillion. That seems large right now, but if you look at it, just to put it in perspective, that’s roughly where we were pre COVID. The Federal Government grew astronomical amount during COVID, and now there’s been attempt among the status quo, the establishment, to kind of lock that in as the new norm. That’s not what we need to do,” Cloud said. “What we need to do is is do what we can to get rid of the waste, fraud, make this lean,” he added. If you want to read more of the latest by Amanda Head or the team of world class journalists at Just The News, feel free to read or subscribe by visiting JustTheNews.com today. 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Articles / Congress / Government Johnson Called Biden To Demand More Security For Trump: GOP Rep. Clyde Clyde said that he didn’t think the Secret Service needed more funding but that their priorities need to be re-examined. By: Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., said that, following the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson called President Joe Biden and demanded more protection for the former president. “Speaker Johnson told us yesterday in a conference that he called up President Biden and demanded of President Biden that he provide President Trump the exact same level of protection that President Biden has,” Clyde said on the “Furthermore with Amanda Head” podcast. On Friday, the House passed legislation that would increase Secret Service protection for Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Over the weekend, there was a second assassination attempt on Trump while he was playing golf in Florida. The Secret Service has requested more funding following the second attempt. Clyde said that he didn’t think the Secret Service needed more funding but that their priorities need to be re-examined. “If indeed there seems to be some sort of a funding gap, Congress can certainly address that,” Clyde said. “But I don’t think that’s going to be necessary over the next six weeks.” “If the Secret Service would simply concentrate on their job and do their job for President Trump as well as they’re trying to do their job for President Biden, then I think that the problem would be solved,” he continued. “But it’s the priorities. It’s a reorientation of their priorities. In my opinion, that needs to happen.” TOP STORIES Trump Lawyer Suggests Jack Smith Plead The Fifth In Testimony, Suggests He's Complicit In Crimes NC GOP Chairman Says Democratic Voter Registrations Are Plummeting As Party Has 'Abandoned' Values Johnson Called Biden To Demand More Security For Trump: GOP Rep. Clyde Lawsuit, Charges Over AI Deepfake Robocalls May Shut Down Various Political Speech Before Election Ben Carson Blasts 'Woke' Pastors, Warns Church Has Left People 'Drifting In The Open Sea' LATEST EPISODES Power The Future Founder: 'The EPA is easily weaponized by environmental left; dismantle it & give power back to states' Actor, Filmmaker Sean Stone exposes political agendas in Tinseltown & unmasks media manipulation in new Trump-focused docuseries Ex-Trump Deputy Campaign Chair: First transition ruined by ‘bureaucratic interference,’ now ‘Trump is picking’ his people Restoring Honor: Fmr Acting VA Secretary Peter O'Rourke discusses Trump’s legacy of veteran support & the fight for mental health reform Jack Smith 'committed serious criminal offenses,' says Trump's Attorney, 'if I were representing him I'd tell him to take the Fifth' RELATED ARTICLES Trump Lawyer Suggests Jack Smith Plead The Fifth In Testimony, Suggests He’s Complicit In Crimes NC GOP Chairman Says Democratic Voter Registrations Are Plummeting As Party Has ‘Abandoned’ Values Johnson Called Biden To Demand More Security For Trump: GOP Rep. Clyde Lawsuit, Charges Over AI Deepfake Robocalls May Shut Down Various Political Speech Before Election Ben Carson Blasts ‘Woke’ Pastors, Warns Church Has Left People ‘Drifting In The Open Sea’ Former Trump Spokeswoman Predicts Democrats Will Swap Out Biden Following His Debate Performance Texas Rep. Nehls Urges Trump Reelection To Restore Safety In U.S Gym Owner Who Defied COVID Lockdown Calls Democratic Governors ‘Foot Soldiers’ In Closing States South Carolina Rep. Norman: Timing of Trump Trial is A ‘Farce’ Former Rep. Gohmert Slams Weaponized Justice System, Says Some Judges Abandoned Core Principles