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Who knew that anyone on Fox is actually interested in what happened to working families after the COVID relief funds for child care expired last fall. Of course, Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy couldn't bother to point out who the actual culprit is. During a segment that aired this Wednesday morning, here's how Doocy started an interview with a woman who runs a day care center out of her home in Arkansas.
DOOCY: It has been five moths since COVID federal funding ended for child care, and many child care providers are now fighting just to stay afloat. Our next guest says after all her bills are paid, she barely breaks even.
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I'm sure you were disappointed last September when Congress didn't say, okay, child care in this country, it is a priority. We're going to figure a way to pay for it, but they didn't. And so now your industry is on the brink.
"Congress." Sorry Steve, but the word you're looking for is "Republicans."
As Vox explained last September: A program that saved child care for millions is expiring. What now?
This weekend, parents and child care providers across the nation are bracing for the end of an instrumental federal program that has stabilized child care programs and reduced costs for families over the past three years.
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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) clashed with a reporter who was not buying his claim that President Joe Biden was involved in an "influence peddling" scheme.
As the president's son, Hunter, was giving a deposition behind closed doors on Wednesday, Comer spoke to reporters at the Capitol.
"We have evidence that Joe Biden met with the Chinese officials," Comer said as one reporter asked for proof that the current president helped a Chinese health care company.
"You mentioned AmeriCorps Health," Comer observed. "Does anyone in here question whether or not that was influence peddling? Does anyone question that?"
"I question that because there was no evidence that Joe Biden did anything," the reporter replied.
"He got $200,000 from it," Comer argued. "Look, you can defend Joe Biden all day long. You can defend Joe Biden. You can be on his legal defense team, Kevin Morris will probably pay your legal bills if you want."
"You're not answering my question," the reporter pointed out.
"Joe Biden took $200,000 directly from AmeriCorps Health," Comer repeated.
"Then what?" the reporter wondered. "He was a private citizen at the time of the $200,000 check."
"So do you have a problem that Joe Biden's lied about this?" an exasperated Comer shot back. "Do you have a problem that AmeriCorps Health hooked investors?"
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"I'm asking you, what specific action did he take as a public official, an elected public official?" the reporter pressed.
Rubin joined retired federal appeals court Judge Michael Luttig to discuss with Nicolle Wallace the shocking news that the U.S. Supreme Court granted Trump’s request to consider his claim of presidential immunity. As CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic put it, the decision made the court “a partner” in Trump’s effort to run the clock and seriously jeopardize any chance of a trial before the election.
Luttig issued a grave warning:
America fought one revolution almost 250 years ago in order that there would never be another revolution. And the Constitution prescribes that there will not be another revolution. But the intellectual underpinnings of the MAGA movement, the intellectual underpinnings, sound literally in revolution. And they compare what they are about, those people, to the revolution that we had in 1776. That is what's at issue in the next nine months.
Rubin got the last word. Her voice sounding as if it were about to break, she talked about “watching a building that I love” get “plundered” on January 6, 2021. “I think about what the judge is saying now and the intellectual underpinnings of the MAGA movement, and thinking about what that could look like, and I am beyond terrified, Nicolle, right now, for our country.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook is promising that Apple will “break new ground” on GenAI this year. Cook made the pronouncement during the company’s annual shareholders meeting today, which came in the same week the company reportedly scuttled its multibillion-dollar, decade-long plan to build an EV. Some of the staff on the EV project were reassigned […]
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Emerging decentralized social network and X rival Bluesky has just landed a notable former Twitter leader as its new Head of Trust and Safety. On Wednesday, the company announced it has appointed Aaron Rodericks, who most recently co-led the Trust and Safety team at Twitter, to this new position. Though typically leaders below the C-Suite […]
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Just let this guy keep talking and maybe Trump could hire him as a spokesperson for his campaign. The Biden campaign might even chip in for some of his salary if Republicans think this sort of crap is a winning message for November.
For anyone not already familiar with this clown, Michael Knowles is a MAGA podcaster for The Daily Wire who has defended book bans, wants to ban "transgenderism" entirely, and called for it to be "eradicated," wants to outlaw the "evil" pride flag, fantasizes about having Trump as a Chief Justice, defends blackface, wants the taxpayers to foot Trump's legal bills, and just attacked gay marriage at this year's CPAC.
