At one point during his emotional presentation, Zelensky paused to ask one of the American lawmakers to mute themselves.
“Senator Rick Scott, please mute your mic,” he said.
Schumer secured a provision in the agreement that will prohibit businesses controlled by the President, Vice President, Members of Congress, and heads of Executive Departments from receiving loans or investments from Treasury programs, per senior Dem aide.
STURGIS, S.D. —The founder of Bikers for Trump is mobilizing opposition to Harley-Davidson for making bikes abroad. But he's selling Trump T-shirts made in Haiti, because American shirts are too expensive.
Obama: "George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators."
The former USPS IG, David Williams, said that Mnuchin essentially tried to take over the Postal Service and impose authority over an independent agency. He called it illegal and "especially egregious."
Here’s an early design of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill created by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Steven Mnuchin said designs would be delayed until 2026 and a future Treasury secretary will decide who’s on the face of the note.
WORLD BANK: "Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and hostilities against the people of Ukraine, the World Bank Group has stopped all its programs in Russia and Belarus with immediate effect.”
UPDATE: Senator Elizabeth Warren calls for Treasury IG to investigate whether Treasury actually analyzed the tax plan and if there was political interference. Says Mnuchin "grossly misled the public."
Steven Mnuchin regularly says he has 100 people at Treasury crunching numbers that show tax cuts will pay for themselves. They say they've been sidelined and no such numbers exist.
Trump on a Tik Tok sale: "The United States should get a very large percentage of that price."
CFIUS lawyers said today that this sounded like a "shake down" and that there's not a legal way to demand such a take.
.
@PressSec
says the White House will soon be releasing Biden's tax returns. The fact that the president's tax returns are always audited will not prevent him from making them public.
NEW: Steven Mnuchin recently flew to L.A. on private jet Michael Milken, the billionaire "junk bond” king who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in 1990 and served two years in prison.
Kudlow on CNBC: "This is the greatest democracy in the world, and we abide by the rule of law, and so will this president."
"I think there will be a peaceful transfer of power."
Fauci tells CNN lives would have been saved it social distancing started in February: “There was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.”
“When President Gerald Ford visited the island in 1975 — the only sitting president to make such a visit — he and first lady Betty Ford traveled by horse-drawn carriage.”
Toomey to Fox on Trump: “I understand he wants to be remembered for advocating for big checks, but the danger is he’ll be remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior if he allows this to expire.”
CORKER: "I am not able to cast aside my fiscal concerns and vote for legislation that I believe, based on the information I currently have, could deepen the debt burden on future generations."
NEWS: Heather Nauert's nomination began to falter after the White House was alerted that a problem had cropped up in her background check —Trump’s pick for UN ambassador had employed a nanny who was in US legally but didn’t have a US work permit, sources tell me and
@nwadhams
.
Trump reading a speech yesterday: "This moment calls for healing and reconciliation."
Trump on Twitter today: "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th."
Facui says on Fox that he's trying to figure out what people (Trump) are talking about when they say that rules of previous administrations are slowing virus testing.
James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a Special Council? Therefore, the Special Council was established based on an illegal act? Really, does everybody know what that means?
Visitors to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington are being told that the Harriet Tubman $20 bill has been scrapped for political reasons.
"We need to hold people accountable when they break the law," Sen. Warren tells
@dealbook
when asked if a Biden administration should investigate Trump.
Yellen at lunch with women economists in Beijing: “While the U.S. has differences with the Chinese government, these are not disagreements with the Chinese people.”
What we know:
—Some outlets called
#AZ
&
#NE02
for Biden. If holds, WI, MI, & NV enough if he wins them.
—Biden up 0.6% in NV. Many ballots in Clark.
—Biden up 0.7% in WI. Not a big chunk left.
—Biden down 0.5% in MI, but many blue precincts left.
—PA, GA, NC are also uncalled.
Biden’s team delayed his Middle East trip so the 79 year old president would have more time to rest after last month’s Europe/NATO meetings via
@peterbakernyt
Trump brandishes the p-word again:
“You can either go down in history as a patriot,” Trump told Pence before he went to oversee the electoral vote “or you can go down in history as a pussy.”
@peterbakernyt
@maggieNYT
@anniekarni
Kudlow says the rising deficit is falling, Mnuchin says tax cuts pay for themselves as Treasury boosts debt sales, Hassett defends tariffs but won’t show his study that shows they will blunt economic growth.
Republicans mused for years what a nightmare it would be if Bernie Sanders chaired budget committee, jamming socialist policies through the Senate.
Now the post is his.
"They should be worried,"
@SenSanders
says of his GOP colleagues.
w/
@jimtankersley
Sarah Sanders on CBN: "I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president."
Yellen signals an end to Trump's trade strategy: "I believe we should try to address unfair trade practices and the best way to do that is to work with our allies, rather than unilaterally."
Janet Yellen urges House Democrats not to water down her plan to empower a beefed up IRS to crack down on tax evaders, signaling that the "tax gap" is one of her top priorities in the $3.5 trillion bill.
Trump on retired Navy SEAL Adm. Bill McRaven, who has called the president's attacks on the press "the greatest threat to democracy."
"He's a Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer. And frankly, wouldn't it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that?"
Mick Mulvaney says on FBN he’s “a little concerned about the use of Rudy Giuliani” to challenge the election results.
“This is not a television program”
Trump's farmer bailout is over but questions about its fairness remain: Why did millions of American tax dollars go to a Brazilian meat processor. w/
@maggieNYT
Trump sinking the stimulus bill stunned administration officials.
Mnuchin held nearly 200 calls in the last week, including some with POTUS, on the deal and negotiated on his behalf.
Tuesday night, Trump said it was a "disgrace."
w/
@lukebroadwater
Graham on Meet the Press: “I believe there's plenty of evidence that the Russians interacted with the Trump campaign and Mr. Mueller's going to get to the bottom of it.”
NEW: Schumer formally requests Treasury inspector general investigate Mnuchin’s handling of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill, calls delays for political reasons “improper and unacceptable.”
The National Retail Federation slams Trump's latest round of tariffs: "It's impossible for businesses to plan for the future in this type of environment. The administration's approach clearly isn't working, and the answer isn't more taxes on American businesses and consumers."
In 2016, Trump campaigned on saving Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts.
Not anymore.
Asked in Davos if cuts to welfare programs are on the table he said: "At the right time, we will take a look at that.”
w/
@maggieNYT
Yellen says she will appoint someone "at a very senior level" at Treasury to focus on climate change and create a hub to deal with financial risks and tax incentives related to climate.
"I think climate change is an existential threat."
CORKER says Treasury officials came to meet him today, but did not bring the analysis of the tax plan he had been promised: "They came over, had a very nice meeting, but there's no modeling yet."
A deputy to WH counsel Don McGahn tried to trick Trump into believing he didn’t have the power to fire Comey because he didn’t trust the president to make the right decision.