Heard on the Hill
What we're hearing from people we trust on and around the Hill
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OUT OF TOUCH: A House GOP chief for a member of the Ed and Workforce Committee lit into committee Democrats for not caring about anti-Semitism, even in the wake of multiple terrorist attacks on Jewish events across America. “Dems have been griping in committee that the issue doesn’t matter and it’s overblown,” the chief told the Reporter. “How fucking dense can they be!”
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE: Matt Duss, a former Bernie Sanders foreign policy staffer, endorsed a deal with Iran — signaling further troubles for a deal that Iran’s terrorist leaders seem hell-bent on tanking.
TAKING A MICHI-GANDER: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) just released its Serve & Observe report documenting Election Day 2024 operations at polling places near Detroit. Their report “reveals myriad troubling trends that undermine the integrity, neutrality, and transparency of Michigan’s voting process,” per the group.
NICE TRY: The Kennedy Center is calling out reporting from the Washington Post for being “fake news.” The Post reported that the prestigious center’s subscribers tumbled from last year, but the reality is that “our subscribers haven’t even received mailed brochures yet and that’s where majority of tickets come,” a Kennedy Center insider told the Reporter.
SHAME ON YOU: The Washington Post made a separate full-blown admission of error following its publication of pro-Hamas propaganda. The Post “deleted” a post in which it cited Hamas terrorists to blame Israel for “open[ing] fire” on a crowd of Gazans. This event never happened. “Early versions fell short of Post standards of fairness and should not have been published in that form,” the Post wrote.
FASTER THAN A SPEEDING STORK: Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy’s work on Operation Stork Speed has flown under the radar. A recent op-ed from Else Nutrition Inc’s Hamutal Cohen Yitzhak caught our eye, praising Kennedy for “ensur[ing] babies get the nutrition they need.”
HELP IS ON THE WAY: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) launched a multimillion dollar nationwide ad campaign as urging the Senate to make tax relief permanent; the latest campaign is part of AFP’s $20 million dollar national “Protect Prosperity” campaign.
