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Neither here nor there.
I'd be curious to know her thoughts about Native Americans and how they've stolen benefits from the black man?
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I'd be curious to know her thoughts about Native Americans and how they've stolen benefits from the black man?
packyderms_wife
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that's the plan, then china can swoop in and buy all of the foreclosures.
packyderms_wife
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I don't see him as a gutless coward. I see him as a man who probably has multiple death threats against him and his family by whomever is pulling the strings on the communist side.
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And triggered a GENOCIDE for his followers. In a case like that he should have gotten what military support he could, and died with us. Whatever deal Trump made they will shoot him as fast as they can.
I will blame him for the millions the obalist military he gave control of to susan rice or harris or whomever he gave the go shoot them orders to. Hell, some liberal clown is saying we should be hunted down and killed like Usama. How is that better than with Trump in charge of the deporables and half the military supporting Trump.
I will blame him for the millions the obalist military he gave control of to susan rice or harris or whomever he gave the go shoot them orders to. Hell, some liberal clown is saying we should be hunted down and killed like Usama. How is that better than with Trump in charge of the deporables and half the military supporting Trump.
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Biden Picks Transgender Who Encouraged Covid-Safe Orgies As Assistant Health Secretary
TUESDAY, JAN 19, 2021 - 10:51
President-elect Joe Biden has ticked another diversity box, tapping Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine for his assistant secretary of health, which would make her the first transgender federal official confirmed by the US Senate.
Levine made headlines last month after her department issued guidance for Pennsylvania orgy enthusiasts who wish to remain COVID-safe while engaging in group sex. The PA official also drew criticism for pulling her mother out of a nursing home after issuing a state-wide order forcing them to accept COVID patients.
Trained as a pediatrician, Levine was appointed to her current role by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in 2017, winning confirmation by the Republican-majority PA Senate before emerging as "the public face of the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic," according to NBC Philadelphia.
"Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic — no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability — and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond," said Biden in a statement, adding "She is a historic and deeply qualified choice to help lead our administration’s health efforts."
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Biden Team Shares More Info On Day-One "Pathway To Citizenship" For Millions Of Illegals
TUESDAY, JAN 19, 2021 - 7:01
As the MSM continues to pump stories about the possibility of a military-led insider attack at Wednesday's inauguration - with nary a mention of the millions of jobs still missing from the pre-pandemic days, or the millions more still on pandemic unemployment assistance and other benefits - Joe Biden and his team are doling out more details about the Biden team's Day One immigration blitz.
We first noted a couple of days ago that the incoming Biden Administration is planning to implement new immigration reform that includes an eight-year path to citizenship for millions of illegals and long-term protected status for DACA recipients, among other details. According to ABC News, Biden will also switch up the border-control policies to rely more on technology and less on the Trump Administration's strategy of treating the porous southern US border as a crisis.
Biden intends to send the bill to Congress immediately after his inauguration, all part of his 10-day blitz of new policies.
The Biden team tried to paint his policies as a continuation of his "work" as VP back in the Obama Administration. But the reality is the path of citizenship for millions - not just the DACA "Dreamers" - is far more radical than anything Obama managed to accomplish. Members of Biden's team told ABC that the VP worked on addressing the "root causes of migration from Central American countries" during his time as VP, when there was, infamously, a crisis of unaccompanied minors arriving at the southern US border.
For those living in the US without legal status as of Jan. 1, Biden’s plan would provide a pathway to citizenship allowing for five years of temporary protected status, and the opportunity to earn a green card upon meeting the requirements like paying taxes and passing a background check. So, as long as migrants work, pay taxes, and don't have a history or, say, gang involvement, they would have a pretty good shot at winning permanent legal status.
For the record, Biden hasn't always spoken so highly of his "accomplishments" regarding immigration policy during the Obama years: during the Oct. 23 presidential debate, he said “[W]e made a mistake. It took too long to get it right."
Biden's VP Kamala Harris also spoke about the administration's immigration policy in a recent interview, previewing the eight-year pathway to citizenship, along with expanding protections for DREAMers and DACA recipients.
While we recognize it's not quite as high-priority for Biden, we look forward to eventually hearing his team's plan to crack down on the burgeoning amount of drugs, including fentanyl-laced heroin, meth and cocaine, millions of tons of which flow into the US each year, killing tens of thousands of Americans.
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Goldman: Here Is What Bidencare Will Look Like
MONDAY, JAN 18, 2021 - 20:45
Last week, Goldman published its preview of what political life would look like for at least the next two years under a Democratic "blue sweep" of Washington.
Today, in a follow up to that widely-read report, Goldman's chief economist Jan Hatzius assesses the macroeconomic implications of Biden’s campaign proposal to modify and expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which Goldman's economists believe has a good chance of enactment through the reconciliation process later this year. Below, we except from the key parts of Goldman's report providing a preliminary view of the macroeconomic impact of Biden’s expanded healthcare platform, which Goldman calls Bidencare.
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The Biden-Harris healthcare platform proposes to expand healthcare coverage and reduce costs, in part by providing more generous health insurance subsidies to consumers and by lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60. The proposal would boost gross government spending on healthcare by roughly $1.5tn over 10 years (0.6% of GDP).
The most straightforward effect of the plan would be an increase in healthcare coverage, on the order of 14 million people by the mid-2020s according to the Penn-Wharton model. This expansion would be roughly half as large as the 29.6 million people who gained coverage during the ACA’s implementation from 2010 to 2015, 24 million of whom joined government-sponsored or direct-purchase programs. Accordingly, many of the macroeconomic effects of the ACA during the 2010s would likely recur on a smaller scale in the 2020s.
To complement Goldman's review of the academic literature studying the ACA, the bank analyzed the state-level cross section of macro outcomes in the 2010s (the ACA was passed in 2010 and for the most part implemented over 2012-2017).
The left panel of Exhibit 1 compares states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the ACA in 2014 to those that didn’t. In expansion states on average, the publicly insured population share rose an additional 3% over five years, healthcare employment rose an additional 1.4%, and healthcare consumption rose an additional 1.6% on a nominal basis—and probably quite a bit more in real terms due to lower healthcare inflation in the MSAs of those states.
As with the original ACA, coverage expansion in the 2020s would likely be financed by some combination of Medicare reimbursement rate cuts (lower healthcare prices paid by the government to healthcare providers), tax increases, and efficiency gains.
In terms of labor supply effects, labor force participation fell almost everywhere during 2012-2017, but it surprisingly fell by less on average in Medicaid expansion states (-0.7pp vs. -1.1pp in non-ACA states over the full period).
Similarly, the average workweek fell in most of the country, but by less so in expansion states on average (-0.1% vs. -0.5% over the full period).
The academic literature on the healthcare sector implications of the ACA generally arrives at the same conclusions using considerably more detail in order to isolate the ACA’s causal effects. As shown in Exhibit 2, these studies generally find that the ACA lowered healthcare prices and costs, increased healthcare consumption, and generally improved quality of care, particularly for lower-income consumers. However, some studies found a reduction of physician time spent with each patient, and the potential consequences of this trend on quality of care warrant further study; meanwhile deductibles soared. Additionally, some studies suggest improvements in health outcomes or labor productivity are concentrated or skewed towards specific subgroups, such as lower-income households or minorities.
Based on the median results of these studies, Goldman's state cross-sectional results, and an assumption that the 2020s coverage expansion would be roughly half as large as that of the ACA itself (discussed earlier), the bank offers tentative estimates of the implications of a possible ACA expansion on these macro variables in the final row of Exhibit 2. Taken together, Biden’s proposed ACA expansion would ultimately boost healthcare consumption by at least 1%. If such legislation is partially financed by Medicare reimbursement rate cuts — as was the original ACA — it would likely lower PCE healthcare inflation by 0.25-0.5% per year for several years. These inflation effects would be additive to the continued drag from annual Medicare cuts legislated by the original ACA (worth roughly -0.5%) and to the temporary changes in healthcare price levels in 2020-22 related to the coronavirus. The literature also suggests that ACA expansion would likely improve health outcomes as well, most obviously for those gaining coverage.
In terms of the effect on the medical sector’s financial health, Goldman writes that hospital margins actually rose during ACA implementation, despite the legislated cuts to Medicare prices paid to hospitals and negative price spillovers to private-payer reimbursement rates (e.g. what health insurance companies pay to hospitals). And both in the state cross-section and the academic literature (“Provider Finances” column of Exhibit 2), ACA implementation appeared to be neutral or even positive for the financial health of providers (190bp of margin outperformance among hospital systems in expansion states, population-weighted, based on data from the American Hospital Association).
The outperformance of hospital margins in expansion states likely in part reflects the fact that Medicare reimbursement cuts affected providers in all states, whereas the benefits of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion (primarily increased volumes and less uncompensated care) were better enjoyed by states that participated in the program. As shown in Exhibit 3, expansion states saw slower growth of uncompensated care (relative margin impact of +0.8pp on average versus 2011), which for example includes uninsured individuals going to the emergency room and not always paying the full bill.
Given the magnitude of the Medicare cuts, it is somewhat surprising that margins increased at all over this period. At a minimum, the absence of margin contraction in expansion states in the 2010s suggests scope for additional increases in healthcare coverage and consumption that are financed in part by lower prices—and that need not overburden the healthcare system itself.
In terms of the impact on the labor market (first two columns, exhibit 4), the literature is more mixed, with some evidence of a boost to employment levels, but ambiguous effects on labor force participation. In the strongest evidence of a negative effect, Duggan, Goda, and Li (2020) analyze a sample of near-elderly individuals, finding that the expanded coverage options in the ACA reduced participation by 1.1% among this group (or 110k individuals exiting the labor force). Using microdata from the Current Population Survey, Goldman also finds that larger increases in insurance coverage were associated with larger participation declines among those close to retirement age (55-65 years old), both in states that expanded Medicaid and in those that had larger increases in coverage, as shown in Exhibit 5.
Given this and the likelihood that Biden’s plan to lower the Medicare eligibility age would amplify this incentive, Goldman believes that implementation would likely reduce labor force participation — at least among the near-elderly — but this labor supply effect would only partially offset the boost to employment levels from other channels in the medium term.
The GDP effects of an ACA expansion are less clear cut, given so many moving parts and uncertainty around the details of the program. That said, based on the bank's analysis and literature review, Hatzius says that he believes the GDP effects are likely to be positive over the medium term, unless they are financed by large tax increases on lower- and middle-income consumers. In summary, Goldman believes that the combined GDP boost from higher healthcare consumption, increased healthcare labor demand, and a more productive workforce could more than offset the drag from reduced labor force participation among the near-elderly.
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Bottom line: Bidencare will be just the "virtuous wrapper" the doctor ordered so speak, to transfer $1.5 trillion in debt-funded deficit spending into the broader economy, while enabling tens if not hundreds of billions of government inefficiencies (read waste, corruption and embezzlement) along the way, while banks get to pocket their 5-10% advisory fees along the way, making everyone - except future generations of course, which will be saddled with even more insurmountable debt - better off. That last bit, by the way, was from us and not from Goldman for obvious reasons.
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Watch Live — Ted Cruz questions Biden Secretary of State nominee…
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Senate confirmation hearing happening right now
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Ragnarok, Bideypoop is now replacing the Secret Service, the FBI, and both the military and LEO's as his security detail and he hasn't even been sworn in. All whites in the military are going to be purged, and are now taking loyalty tests/oaths.
You are a smart person. Don't you see the coup pattern going on here?
You are a smart person. Don't you see the coup pattern going on here?
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Watch Live: Senate Committee Holds Hearing for DHS Nominee Alejandro Mayorkas
Former Obama administration official Alejandro Mayorkas is speaking before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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Watch Live: Senate Committee Holds Hearing for DHS Nominee Alejandro Mayorkas
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Former Obama administration official Alejandro Mayorkas is speaking before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
Mayorkas was nominated to be the Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by President-Elect Joe Biden after serving in the agency during the Obama administration.
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Tom Cotton Won't Support Waiver for Biden's DOD Pick Lloyd Austin
Tom Cotton announced he will not support a waiver to allow Biden's nominee for defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, to serve in the position.
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Tom Cotton Announces He Will Not Support Waiver for Biden Defense Nominee Lloyd Austin
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) announced Tuesday he will not support a waiver to allow President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, to serve in the position.
Cotton made the announcement during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to vet Austin for the position.
“Unfortunately I must announce that I oppose the waiver of the seven-year cooling-off period. My decision reflects not at all on you personally, or your record, which I respect. Rather, I believe Congress should no longer grant such waivers at all.”
Before Austin, a retired four-star Army general could be allowed to serve in the defense secretary position, Congress would need to pass a waiver to the law that requires a defense secretary to be out of uniform for at least seven years.
Austin retired from the military in 2016, just about four years ago. Congress waived that restriction for President Donald Trump’s first defense secretary, former Marine Gen. Jim Mattis.
Cotton acknowledged he voted to approve the waiver for Mattis, but said he had reservations even then and “quickly became [sic] to view that as a mistake and I have since regretted it.”
He added that he now even thinks the waiver for Gen. George C. Marshall in 1950 was “also a mistake.”
“Under no foreseeable circumstances can I imagine supporting such a waiver again,” Cotton said. He said his reasons are the same reasons the law is in place, to give generals a “cooling off” period.
The Arkansas senator said his reasons included the “perception that these waivers are now routine, not extraordinary.”
He cited Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jack Reed’s (D-RI) own words in 2017, when he said he would not support another waiver and they should happen only “once in a generation.”
“If we approve two waivers in just four years, our actions will speak louder than our words,” he said.
Cotton also opposed the idea that being a four-star general is no longer a career capstone. “Some generals and admirals may begin to think that if they play their cards right, they too can become a secretary in a few years. I don’t think that’s good for the force or for the country.”
He said he was also concerned about the perception among the American people that the military expertise of general offices is the same as national security expertise, and that it resides chiefly in the military.
Cotton opposed the potential perception of favoritism from Austin towards the Army while being defense secretary, which he called “unavoidable.”
Several Democrat senators have also previously expressed opposition to granting Austin the waiver, but they did not express that opposition during the confirmation hearing
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Biden faces opposition to killing Keystone XL from labor and Democrats
It’s practically the last thing people care about, but in putting the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline on the top of his list of President Trump's achievements to kill, President-elect Joe Biden is jeopardizing support from his party and union workers.
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Biden faces opposition to killing Keystone XL from labor and Democrats
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist |
| January 19, 2021 02:43 PM
It’s practically the last thing people care about, but in putting the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline on the top of his list of President Trump's achievements to kill, President-elect Joe Biden is jeopardizing support from his party and union workers.
According to a new survey shared with Secrets, 62% of Democrats and 71% of labor want the oil pipeline from Canada to Texas to be completed.
But Biden has put it on his first week hit list as part of a combination of attacks on Trump’s policies, a revival of Obama-era programs, and his own agenda.
Source: JDA Frontline Partners.
In the survey of 1,400 people done for Alberta, the Canadian province where the pipeline begins, Americans showed little interest in prioritizing the issue until they were told about Biden’s plan.
In fact, the whole issue of climate change and the environment, which the pipeline is closely aligned with, is nearly last on the public’s list of interests, tied with “other,” which is odd because Biden has made climate his top policy issue and put many officials in charge of the issue.
Most said they want him to deal with the coronavirus. That won a thumbs-up from 24% of respondents when asked about 17 issues on Biden's to-do list.
Climate ekes out at 3%, according to the analysis from JDA Frontline Partners.
When their attention is drawn to the pipeline, most think jobs, the survey said.
“American voters view the pipeline as good for the economy, good for workers, and good for our relationship with Canada,” the survey said.
Some in the GOP think Biden’s focus on the pipeline and his plan to rejoin the Paris climate agreement are aimed both at skewering Trump and bolstering the Obama legacy. Obama killed the pipeline and joined the agreement.
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NEW: Biden Announces More Key Administration Posts - Breaking911
WASHINGTON – Today, President-elect Joe Biden announced a number of key administration posts: Elizabeth Klein, Deputy Secretary of the Interior; Dr. Jewel Bronaugh, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; Andrea Palm, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services; Polly Trottenberg, Deputy Secretary of...
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WASHINGTON – Today, President-elect Joe Biden announced a number of key administration posts: Elizabeth Klein, Deputy Secretary of the Interior; Dr. Jewel Bronaugh, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; Andrea Palm, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services; Polly Trottenberg, Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Cindy Marten, Deputy Secretary of Education; Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB); and Gary Gensler, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
President-elect Joe Biden said, “Our administration will hit the ground running to deliver immediate, urgent relief to Americans; confront the overlapping crises of COVID-19, the historic economic downturn, systemic racism and inequality, and the climate crisis; and get this government working for the people it serves.
These tireless public servants will be a key part of our agenda to build back better — and I am confident they will help make meaningful change and move our country forward.”
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris said, “To meet the unprecedented challenges facing the American people, we will need deeply experienced and knowledgeable leaders across our administration. These remarkable public servants reflect the very best of our nation, and they will help us contain this pandemic, create an economy that works for working people, and rebuild our country in a way that lifts up all Americans. President-elect Biden and I look forward to working with them to deliver results for the American people.”
The following White House announcements were made today:
Elizabeth Klein, Deputy Secretary of the Interior
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Elizabeth Klein is an experienced leader in clean energy, climate change, and environmental law and policy. Most recently, she was Deputy Director of the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at NYU School of Law, which supports state attorneys general in defending our nation’s bedrock environmental values.
Klein served at the Department of the Interior during both the Clinton and Obama-Biden administrations, advancing high-priority initiatives such as Interior’s renewable energy program and climate change adaptation efforts. She was previously an attorney at Latham & Watkins specializing in energy and environmental law issues and served as Director of Communications and Government Relations for the National Park Foundation prior to becoming an attorney.
Klein graduated with a degree in economics from the George Washington University and received her JD from American University’s Washington College of Law. Daughter of a former Navy Commander, Klein has roots in Delaware and Massachusetts, among other places, and now calls Virginia home where she lives with her husband and two daughters.
Dr. Jewel Bronaugh, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
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Dr. Jewel H. Bronaugh was appointed the 16th Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in 2018 by Governor Ralph Northam. She previously served as the Virginia State Executive Director for the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA), appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe and then-U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in July 2015. Prior to being appointed to FSA, she served as Dean of the College of Agriculture at Virginia State University (VSU) with oversight of Extension, Research and Academic Programs. Previously she was the Associate Administrator for Extension Programs and a 4-H Extension Specialist. Dr. Bronaugh would be the first woman of color to serve as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.
In spring 2019, Dr. Bronaugh launched the Virginia Farmer Stress Task Force, organized in partnership with agricultural and health agencies and organizations, to raise awareness and coordinate resources to address farmer stress and mental health challenges in Virginia. In the fall of 2020, she helped establish the Virginia Food Access Investment Fund, a new program to address food access issues within historically marginalized communities.
Dr. Bronaugh received her Ph.D. in Career and Technical Education from Virginia Tech. She is passionate about the advancement of youth leadership in agriculture. Dr. Bronaugh is from Petersburg, Virginia. She and her husband Cleavon, a retired United States Army veteran, have four children.
Andrea Palm, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Andrea Palm is Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), overseeing one of the largest state agencies as a member of Governor Tony Evers’ cabinet. In this role, she has responsibility for the state’s Medicaid program, its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and behavioral health programs, among others. Palm has been leading the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Previously, Palm held a number of policy and operational roles in the Obama-Biden Administration at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor to the Secretary. During her eight-year tenure, she worked on a variety of Administration priorities, including the Affordable Care Act, as well as providing leadership for the Department’s work to combat the opioid epidemic.
Palm was born and raised in rural upstate New York. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
Polly Trottenberg, Deputy Secretary of Transportation
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Polly Trottenberg is a nationally recognized transportation leader with federal, state, and city experience. Trottenberg previously served in the Obama-Biden administration as the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy and Under Secretary for Policy at USDOT. For the last seven years, she has served as New York City’s Transportation Commissioner, running a complex 5,800-person agency that operates New York City’s transportation network of roadways, bridges, traffic and parking systems, the Staten Island Ferry, and extensive bicycle, pedestrian and public plaza infrastructure.
Trottenberg helped implement the nation’s first Vision Zero program, taking a multi-disciplinary approach to eliminating traffic fatalities and injuries. She has also focused on improving transportation equity and access, including implementation of the groundbreaking 14th St. Busway. She led NYCDOT’s COVID-19 response and recovery, transforming city streets to promote sustainable transportation and economic recovery, including one of the largest outdoor restaurant programs in the country.
Trottenberg has extensive legislative experience, serving three U.S. senators – Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. She received her bachelor’s degree in History from Barnard College and her Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Cindy Marten, Deputy Secretary of Education
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Cindy Marten has served as Superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District since 2013 after being unanimously selected by the Board of Education. She directed implementation of the district’s Vision 2020 initiative, committing to a meaningful graduation for all students with the district achieving the highest graduation rate among big-city districts in California and the fastest reading growth of large urban districts nationwide in 2019.
A classroom teacher for 17 years prior to being appointed superintendent, Marten worked for ten years at Central Elementary in City Heights, one of San Diego’s most ethnically diverse and economically challenged school communities, where she established a highly successful bi-literacy program, a hands-on school garden program, integrated arts education, quality after-school and preschool programs, a daycare center for employees’ children, and a community health and wellness center for students and their families.
Superintendent, principal, vice principal and literacy specialist are all job titles Marten has held in her 32-year career as an educator. She was chosen as one of the 2018 Business Women of the Year by the San Diego Business Journal, and was awarded the 2015 National Conflict Resolution Center Local Peacemaker Award. She earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, and a master’s degree in Teaching and Learning from the University of California, San Diego.
Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Rohit Chopra is a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. He has actively advocated to promote fair, competitive markets that protect families and honest businesses from abuses. Commissioner Chopra was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2018, and he has pushed for aggressive remedies against lawbreaking companies, especially repeat offenders. Together with state and international law enforcement partners, he has worked to increase scrutiny of dominant technology firms that pose risks to privacy, national security, and fair competition.
Chopra previously served as Assistant Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he led the agency’s efforts on student loans. In 2011, the Secretary of the Treasury appointed him to serve as the CFPB’s Student Loan Ombudsman, a new position established in the financial reform law. He also served as a Special Advisor at the U.S. Department of Education.
In these roles, Chopra led efforts to spur competition in the student loan financing market, develop new tools for students and student loan borrowers to make smarter decisions, and secure hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds for borrowers victimized by unlawful conduct by loan servicers, debt collectors, and for-profit college chains. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Gary Gensler, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Gary Gensler served as chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2009 to 2014, leading the Obama-Biden Administration’s reform of the $400 trillion swaps market. He was senior advisor to U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes in writing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and was Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance from 1999 to 2001 and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets from 1997 to 1999. Gensler was Chairman of the Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission from 2017 to 2019.
Gensler also worked as CFO for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, as a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, and subsequently as an economic advisor for the Obama 2008 campaign. Prior to his public service, Gensler worked at Goldman Sachs, becoming a partner in the Mergers & Acquisition department, headed the firm’s Media Group, led fixed income & currency trading in Asia, and lastly co-headed Finance, being responsible for the firm’s worldwide Controllers and Treasury efforts.
Currently, Gensler is a Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Co-Director of MIT’s Fintech@CSAIL & Senior Advisor to the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, researching artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and new financial technologies. He won the MIT Sloan Outstanding Teacher Award based upon student nominations for the 2018-19 academic year. Gensler earned his undergraduate degree in economics in 1978 and his MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He has three daughters, and is from Baltimore, Maryland.
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America United: An Inauguration Welcome Event Celebrating America’s Changemakers
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The first @BidenInaugural event is here. Tune in as we celebrate America, reflect and honor our history, and highlight the incredible diversity of the nation.
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Joe Biden Is Scheduled to Fly to Washington DC Tonight On a Private Plane Breaking Protocol | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
Joe Biden is reportedly flying to Washington DC tonight on a private plane. According to a CNN reporter, Joe Biden will fly to Washington DC today on a private aircraft. This is another change in protocol for a President-elect: .@JoeBiden will fly to Washington today on a private aircraft, yet...
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Joe Biden Is Scheduled to Fly to Washington DC Tonight On a Private Plane Breaking Protocol
By Joe Hoft
Published January 19, 2021 at 6:09pm
Joe Biden is reportedly flying to Washington DC tonight on a private plane.
According to a CNN reporter, Joe Biden will fly to Washington DC today on a private aircraft. This is another change in protocol for a President-elect:
It’s unknown if Biden was offered a government plane and he refused, or what. Apparently this is standard for a president-elect to fly on a government plane.
The Biden Administration, never acknowledged by President Trump, is scheduled to participate in an inauguration tomorrow at noon in front of 25,000 troops. No admirers are expected to come. Biden was announced the winner of the election by the media in spite of numerous court cases and observations of fraud prevalent in the election. His team is suspected of manufacturing millions of votes to claim the victory. This has all been reported. They used predominantly manufactured absentee ballots and voting machines built for rigging.
President Trump won more valid votes than any President in history. It’s reported that he won 79 million votes to Biden’s 68 million.
Mike Lindell: "Joe Biden Lost on 79 Million Votes for Donald Trump and 68 Million for Joe Biden" (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Mike Lindell was at the White House on Friday for a meeting with President Trump.
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But Big Media will not report the fraud and the truth and Big Tech made sure everyone knew Biden won while they censored even the President.
The state legislatures would not overturn the corrupt results in the swing states and the US Congress had no courage or integrity either.
Now Biden prepares for tomorrow’s Zoom inauguration and no one believes he won the election.
The next Administration is expected to start tomorrow.
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Biden's Secretary of Defense Nominee Says if Confirmed He will "Rid Our Ranks of Racists and Extremists" (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense nominee Lloyd Austin said if he is confirmed he will “rid our ranks of racists and extremists.” And by “racists and extremists” he is referring to white male Trump supporters.
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Biden’s Secretary of Defense Nominee Says if Confirmed He will “Rid Our Ranks of Racists and Extremists” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
Published January 19, 2021 at 6:17pm
Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense nominee Lloyd Austin said if he is confirmed he will “rid our ranks of racists and extremists.”
And by “racists and extremists” he is referring to white male Trump supporters.
“If confirmed, I will work hard to stamp out sexual assault and to rid our ranks of racists and extremists and create a climate where everyone fit and willing has the opportunity to serve this country,” Lloyd Austin said referring to transgenders at Tuesday’s confirmation hearing.
WATCH:
At confirmation hearing, Sec. of Defense nominee Gen. Lloyd Austin says that if confirmed, he “will work hard to stamp out sexual assault and to rid our ranks of racists and extremists.” Austin pledges to ensure civilian control of the military as defense secretary pic.twitter.com/KfKALYP4Hy 3:37 min
The Deep State and Marxists are waging a war on our troops.
The FBI vetted 25,000 National Guard troops in DC to ensure they will be loyal to Joe Biden.
A military loyalty test that is based on a servicemember’s social media and background is dangerous and unamerican.
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Newsom Sets New Tone for California, White House Partnership
AP News
January 19, 2021
SACRAMENTO— After four years of sparring with President Donald Trump, California is ready for a more productive, friendlier chapter with Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom outlined his areas of agreement and places where he hopes to collaborate with the new administration Tuesday in a letter to Biden. Among his requests are federal support for California’s efforts to house homeless people in hotel and motel rooms and a restoration of money for the state’s troubled high-speed rail project, which Trump revoked.
“I offer you my full partnership and support as you take office and inherit the tremendous responsibility to restore our nation’s economy and place of leadership on the global stage — all while working to bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end,” Newsom wrote.
It’s a notably friendlier tone than Newsom often took with Trump, particularly during the first year of his governorship in 2019, when the two sparred over wildfire management, immigration and climate change. California, the nation’s most populous state, was often an easy punching bag for Trump. His administration tried to revoke California’s authority to set its own auto emissions standards, took away $1 billion for the high-speed rail project and adopted a slew of policies detrimental to the state’s millions of immigrants.
Newsom’s tone was more muted in 2020 as he sought not to anger, and even occasionally praised, Trump amid a scramble for federal help to contain the coronavirus. The federal government fulfilled many of his requests for assistance.
But a Democrat in the White House will automatically improve the relationship. California will have extra clout with Kamala Harris as vice president and potentially Xavier Becerra, the state’s current attorney general, as head of the federal health and human services agency.
Newsom Highlights Funding for the High-Speed Rail Project as a Top Priority
Newsom’s letter outlines his support for initiatives Biden has already announced, including more federal resources for vaccinating people and reopening schools. Newsom also supports a proposed a $1,400 relief payment for people. California is using state money to provide a one-time check of $600 to low-income individuals.
His letter further requests the federal government boost California’s efforts to house homeless people in hotels and motels, a new program during the pandemic. Biden has proposed $5 billion in aid nationally to purchase and convert hotels and motels. Newsom requested Biden support efforts to make the programs permanent and expand the use of housing vouchers.
Elsewhere, Newsom highlights funding for the high-speed rail project as a top priority. The state has been working to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco for more than a decade, but the project has been beset by delays and cost overruns. Most recently, one of the project’s main contractors blasted the pace of work, and even some Democratic lawmakers oppose continuing it. Newsom made no mention of the challenges in his letter.
Newsom further requested Biden restore California’s ability to set its own vehicle emissions standards, a power the Trump administration revoked as it dismantled climate change regulations. On immigration, he’s asking the administration to reverse rules aimed at denying green cards to immigrants likely to access public benefits and eliminate religion-based travel bans. Biden has already indicated plans to undo Trump’s travel ban on majority-Muslim nations and to outline a pathway to citizenship for people living in the country illegally.
“Having a true partner in the White House — and an Administration aligned with so many of our values — is a game changer for Californians,” Newsom wrote.
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Newsom Sets New Tone for California, White House Partnership
AP News
January 19, 2021
SACRAMENTO— After four years of sparring with President Donald Trump, California is ready for a more productive, friendlier chapter with Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom outlined his areas of agreement and places where he hopes to collaborate with the new administration Tuesday in a letter to Biden. Among his requests are federal support for California’s efforts to house homeless people in hotel and motel rooms and a restoration of money for the state’s troubled high-speed rail project, which Trump revoked.
“I offer you my full partnership and support as you take office and inherit the tremendous responsibility to restore our nation’s economy and place of leadership on the global stage — all while working to bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end,” Newsom wrote.
It’s a notably friendlier tone than Newsom often took with Trump, particularly during the first year of his governorship in 2019, when the two sparred over wildfire management, immigration and climate change. California, the nation’s most populous state, was often an easy punching bag for Trump. His administration tried to revoke California’s authority to set its own auto emissions standards, took away $1 billion for the high-speed rail project and adopted a slew of policies detrimental to the state’s millions of immigrants.
Newsom’s tone was more muted in 2020 as he sought not to anger, and even occasionally praised, Trump amid a scramble for federal help to contain the coronavirus. The federal government fulfilled many of his requests for assistance.
But a Democrat in the White House will automatically improve the relationship. California will have extra clout with Kamala Harris as vice president and potentially Xavier Becerra, the state’s current attorney general, as head of the federal health and human services agency.
Newsom Highlights Funding for the High-Speed Rail Project as a Top Priority
Newsom’s letter outlines his support for initiatives Biden has already announced, including more federal resources for vaccinating people and reopening schools. Newsom also supports a proposed a $1,400 relief payment for people. California is using state money to provide a one-time check of $600 to low-income individuals.
His letter further requests the federal government boost California’s efforts to house homeless people in hotels and motels, a new program during the pandemic. Biden has proposed $5 billion in aid nationally to purchase and convert hotels and motels. Newsom requested Biden support efforts to make the programs permanent and expand the use of housing vouchers.
Elsewhere, Newsom highlights funding for the high-speed rail project as a top priority. The state has been working to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco for more than a decade, but the project has been beset by delays and cost overruns. Most recently, one of the project’s main contractors blasted the pace of work, and even some Democratic lawmakers oppose continuing it. Newsom made no mention of the challenges in his letter.
Newsom further requested Biden restore California’s ability to set its own vehicle emissions standards, a power the Trump administration revoked as it dismantled climate change regulations. On immigration, he’s asking the administration to reverse rules aimed at denying green cards to immigrants likely to access public benefits and eliminate religion-based travel bans. Biden has already indicated plans to undo Trump’s travel ban on majority-Muslim nations and to outline a pathway to citizenship for people living in the country illegally.
“Having a true partner in the White House — and an Administration aligned with so many of our values — is a game changer for Californians,” Newsom wrote.
Wtf is wrong with these people? They cannot possibly believe that a nation can function for very long under these policies. Do they really believe they will work or do they just not care?
And if they don’t care then that is like slitting their own wrist. Because they are killing the golden goose.
And there will be no voting our way out of this path anymore.
I can see now why the USA is not standing with Israel in the end times.
And if they don’t care then that is like slitting their own wrist. Because they are killing the golden goose.
And there will be no voting our way out of this path anymore.
I can see now why the USA is not standing with Israel in the end times.
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January 20, 2021
Biden dives into identity politics with a health department appointment
By Andrea Widburg
On Tuesday, news broke that Joe Biden will nominate Dr. R. Levine, a pediatrician and Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health, to the position of assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This is a peculiar nomination given that, early in the Wuhan virus pandemic, Dr. Levine became nationally known for both deadly and selfish behavior. But that’s all water under the bridge. What matters is that Dr. Levine, a biological male, thinks he is a woman. With qualifications like that, who’s going to quibble about actual competence?
R. Levine is a biological male who believes that he is a woman. Everybody knows this is a lie. How can we tell? Because of the incredible pride with which the left trumpets Dr. Levine’s so-called transgender status. Here’s an example, from CBS:
Dr. Levine’s body dysmorphia, however, qualifies him for a job that, as a practical matter, should be withheld from him on grounds of both competence and decency. In May, when the number of COVID deaths in Pennsylvania was escalating, Levine moved his 95-year-old mother out of the care facility in which she was living, because of the COVID crisis. This came two months after Levine turned Pennsylvania’s nursing homes into abattoirs:
By August 2020, Pennsylvania’s nursing home deaths were so high that the Department of Justice initiated an investigation, as well as investigating deaths in nursing homes in New York, New Jersey, and Michigan. As of this writing, 32,113 Pennsylvania nursing home residents have been infected and 7,327 have died.
It’s clear, though, from Biden’s statement about the nomination, that the new administration is not interested in Levine’s competence. It is interested only in the identity-politics boxes that can be marked off with the Levine nomination:
As always, I want to state that I have no animus towards people whose body dysmorphic disorder is such that they are strangers in their own skin. I find it incredibly tragic and, when I am in the company of such people, I treat them with respect and kindness.
Having said that, a culture cannot survive if it makes public policy out of people’s sad delusions. One day, when the dust finally settles, people will look back in wonder at the notion of entrusting a major nation’s health policies to a person with a track record of bad and selfish decisions, solely because that person has body dysmorphia.
Biden dives into identity politics with a health department appointment
On Tuesday, news broke that Joe Biden will nominate Dr. R. Levine, a pediatrician and Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health, to the position of assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This is a peculiar ...
January 20, 2021
Biden dives into identity politics with a health department appointment
By Andrea Widburg
On Tuesday, news broke that Joe Biden will nominate Dr. R. Levine, a pediatrician and Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health, to the position of assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This is a peculiar nomination given that, early in the Wuhan virus pandemic, Dr. Levine became nationally known for both deadly and selfish behavior. But that’s all water under the bridge. What matters is that Dr. Levine, a biological male, thinks he is a woman. With qualifications like that, who’s going to quibble about actual competence?
R. Levine is a biological male who believes that he is a woman. Everybody knows this is a lie. How can we tell? Because of the incredible pride with which the left trumpets Dr. Levine’s so-called transgender status. Here’s an example, from CBS:
If Dr. Levine actually were a woman, as he claims to be, he would not be “transgender.” He would simply be a woman nominated for a government office which, at the start of the third decade of the 21st century, is entirely unexceptional.
Dr. Levine’s body dysmorphia, however, qualifies him for a job that, as a practical matter, should be withheld from him on grounds of both competence and decency. In May, when the number of COVID deaths in Pennsylvania was escalating, Levine moved his 95-year-old mother out of the care facility in which she was living, because of the COVID crisis. This came two months after Levine turned Pennsylvania’s nursing homes into abattoirs:
By August 2020, Pennsylvania’s nursing home deaths were so high that the Department of Justice initiated an investigation, as well as investigating deaths in nursing homes in New York, New Jersey, and Michigan. As of this writing, 32,113 Pennsylvania nursing home residents have been infected and 7,327 have died.
It’s clear, though, from Biden’s statement about the nomination, that the new administration is not interested in Levine’s competence. It is interested only in the identity-politics boxes that can be marked off with the Levine nomination:
As always, I want to state that I have no animus towards people whose body dysmorphic disorder is such that they are strangers in their own skin. I find it incredibly tragic and, when I am in the company of such people, I treat them with respect and kindness.
Having said that, a culture cannot survive if it makes public policy out of people’s sad delusions. One day, when the dust finally settles, people will look back in wonder at the notion of entrusting a major nation’s health policies to a person with a track record of bad and selfish decisions, solely because that person has body dysmorphia.
"Delusional" is the operative word. The question becomes how long until it all comes tumbling down upon their heads and takes the rest of us with them....