Watchman: While Americans Stand at Food Banks, Congress Sneaks in a $34,000 Pay Raise

HNewsWire: by Tyler Durden As House Democrats were set to hand power over to the Republicans following their midterm loss, they slipped in a provision into the House’s internal rules under the guise of aiding their less affluent members; a $34,000 allowance to ostensibly help with living expenses in Washington D.C. A deep dive into the records by the Washington Free Beacon reveals that over 200 lawmakers, including the vociferous Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), have dipped into this taxpayer-funded pot, a sumptuous feast on the nation’s dime. Ocasio-Cortez, who has previously lamented the costliness of D.C. living on a Congressperson’s salary, now enjoys taxpayer support for accommodations in a luxury building replete with amenities that seem more Silicon Valley than Capitol Hill. Bipartisan handout So far, 113 Democrats and 104 Republicans, including millionaire members like Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) and…

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It’s All Theater: There Is No “Impeachment Inquiry”

The Dems Haven’t Sent Subpoenas to Anyone in the Trump Administration… The Media Is Lying (Again). Democrats and their sycophantic allies in the Washington media are once again staging political theater in an attempt to convince more Americans that President Trump committed an impeachable offense during a phone call with the Ukrainian president earlier this summer. If you listen to the Dems and the media, they say Trump asked President Zelensky for “dirt” on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden regarding a business deal involving the latter, and that Trump threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine if he didn’t cooperate. In fact, Joe Biden did what they are accusing Trump of doing: Threatening, in 2015, to withhold a billion dollars in aid from Ukraine unless that government fired a prosecutor who was looking into corruption involving…

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