Heard on the Hill
What we're hearing from people we trust on and around the Hill
THE SENSATION SWEEPING THE NATION: Amazon is the latest company to announce plans to invest billions in America; the company is planning to put $20 million into Pennsylvania for cloud computing infrastructure and artificial intelligence advancements. Amazon joins other firms like pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly in bringing investments back to America’s shores. Eli Lilly broke the news of its multi-billion dollar investment with the Reporter, and its CEO, David Ricks, did an interview with the Reporter about America’s new Golden Age.
BIG GUNS: At Amazon’s annual D.C. conference, both Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, and David Sacks, the White House’s Crypto Czar, addressed thousands of attendees about topics ranging from AI to national security and beyond.
FACE ACT REPEAL: The Biden administration weaponized the FACE Act against pro-life Americans, and the Judiciary Committee is renewing its push for a full repeal of the policy.
INCOMING PACKAGE: Senate Finance Committee’s reconciliation package is expected to be ready this week.
NO REWARD FOR TERRORISM: Mike Huckabee, America’s Ambassador to Israel, said that America does not support an independent Palestinian state. David Friedman, Huckabee’s predecessor in the first Trump administration, called him a “rock star ambassador” in response to the news.
NOT SO GRASSROOTS: Democrats like Sen. Cory Booker are relying on polling from a group called Families Over Billionaires to message against renewing the Trump tax cuts. There’s a huge problem with this, as GOP commentator Matt Whitlock noted. “It's hilarious because ‘families over billionaires’ is exclusively funded by .... left-wing billionaires - Soros, Reid Hoffman, Pierre Omidyar.”
CALLED IN: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R., Fla.) is requesting documents from Neville Singham “regarding his funding of a communist group linked to the LA riots and the CCP.” If Singham refuses, Luna said that she will “be subpoenaed.”
FACT CHECK: Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) insisted that “there was no violence. I was on the street. I know.” A Reporter fact check found that there was in fact violence.
YOU’RE FIRED: Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, pushed back on misleading claims from a top intelligence official who claimed that Gabbard surprised her by firing a subordinate. However, “was in fact informed of the personnel move directly by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard herself,” the Daily Wire noted.
GEORGIA RUMBLE: Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) is facing the first attack ads of the cycle, led by America One PAC, a super PAC supportive of Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.).