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The Hill
03-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Senate Democrat: Nation would be ‘sicker, hungrier, and less well-off' if GOP megabill passes
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) ripped the GOP's 'big, beautiful bill' Thursday as the House scrambles to get the reconciliation package to President Trump's desk by a July 4 deadline, claiming the U.S. would be 'sicker, hungrier and less well-off' if it is signed into law. 'Once Americans realize the real cost of this bill, they will be angry, because it's going to impact every American,' Coons told CNN's John Berman on 'CNN News Central.' 'Our health care costs will go up, our emergency room wait times will go down, and our nation as a whole will be sicker, hungrier and less well-off as a result of this bill,' he added Thursday. The Delaware Democrat's comments came after House Republicans overcame a dramatic procedural vote overnight to advance the massive spending and tax bill. Trump and party leaders have leaned heavily on the holdouts to come on board ahead of the final vote — when the GOP can only stand to lose three votes total. The president also spoke by phone to a handful of GOP lawmakers early Thursday morning, after asking skeptics in the party in a post online, 'What are you trying to prove???' As the House prepared for a final vote on the sprawling package, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took to the floor to give his 'magic minute' address. The hourslong speech broke former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's previous record for longest floor speech in the lower chamber — speaking out against the GOP megabill for 8 hours and 44 minutes, and delaying the vote. Democrats have vehemently opposed the bill in both chambers for its extended tax breaks they argue benefit the wealthy as well as sweeping cuts to Medicaid, the federal food stamp program and green tax credits. Critics on both sides of the aisle have also pushed back against an expected increase to the national debt. 'Jesus fed the hungry, healed the sick, and loved His neighbors — we're told to do the same,' Coons wrote earlier this week on social platform X. 'But the GOP tax bill that just PASSED serves billionaires while starving those who need support the most,' he said, referring to the Senate-passed version of the bill. 'It's immoral and unfaithful.'
Sky News AU
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Pramila Jayapal doubles down on comments comparing ICE to a ‘terrorist force'
Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal has doubled down on a social media post attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Tuesday, Jayapal claimed ICE was 'acting like a terrorist force' as the agency continues mass deporting illegal immigrants. 'ICE is acting like a terrorist force. People across the country of all legal statuses — including U.S. citizens — are being kidnapped and disappeared off the street by masked men. No oversight, no accountability. Completely lawless,' Jayapal wrote. During an interview on 'CNN News Central', the representative was asked about her post and the White House's response to it. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson released a statement slamming Jayapal's 'disgusting' comments. 'Jayapal's disgusting comments warrant an immediate apology. Heroic ICE officers are simply doing their jobs and enforcing federal immigration law, with the utmost professionalism,' Jackson's statement read.
New York Post
03-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Rep. Jayapal defends comment calling ICE ‘a terrorist force,' says White House ‘owes an apology' to Americans
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., defended a recent social media post calling ICE a 'terrorist force' Wednesday. During an interview with Brianna Keilar on 'CNN News Central,' the host spoke to Jayapal about her Tuesday Instagram post where she wrote that 'ICE is acting like a terrorist force. People across the country of all legal statuses — including U.S. citizens — are being kidnapped and disappeared off the street by masked men. No oversight, no accountability. Completely lawless.' Advertisement Keilar asked Jayapal to respond to a statement from White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson, which was obtained by Fox News Digital. In the statement, Jackson said, 'Jayapal's disgusting comments warrant an immediate apology. Heroic ICE officers are simply doing their jobs and enforcing federal immigration law, with the utmost professionalism.' 'Dangerous smears by deranged leftists like Jayapal radicalize their supporters to violently attack and obstruct federal law enforcement. Because of comments like Jayapal's, assaults against ICE agents have increased by 500% this year. And that number will go even higher if Jayapal doesn't stop with her smears,' Jackson added. 3 Rep. Pramila Jayapal defended her recent Instagram post calling ICE a 'terrorist force' while being interviewed by Brianna Keller on 'CNN News Central.' CNN Advertisement Jayapal responded, 'What is deranged and cruel and outrageous is that, literally, we are seeing ICE agents, I assume they're ICE agents. They say they are. They don't have any identification. They're wearing masks. They're in plain clothes. They are coming and kidnapping and disappearing people on the streets of the United States.' 'I never in a million years thought that that is something that I would see here in America,' she added. 3 White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Jayapal's comments were disgusting and should apologize for her remarks. Instagram/@repjayapal 'And so I think it is the administration that has to apologize to U.S. citizens that have been rounded up to legal, permanent residents, to people with legal statuses across the country who are getting swept up, people who have been here for 20 years and committed no crimes, getting swept up by masked men who are kidnaping them and deporting them.' Advertisement Jayapal called ICE's immigration enforcement 'outrageous,' 'unconstitutional,' and 'illegal.' 'It is absolutely terrorizing people, including small businesses, farmers,' Jayapal said. 'The round table I had in Spokane was with people from the Growers League, farmers who are terrified, restaurant owners who can't have, you know, who are seeing their sales go down because nobody wants to come out and eat. Literally. People are so afraid, Brianna. It's never something I thought I would see in the United States of America. The White House owes an apology to the American people for what they are doing.' 3 Jackson stated, 'Heroic ICE officers are simply doing their jobs and enforcing federal immigration law, with the utmost professionalism.' AFP via Getty Images Advertisement Border czar Tom Homan brought up attacks on ICE agents on Monday during an appearance on 'The Will Cain Show' where he also criticized a new app called ICEBlock that is reportedly being used to track ICE agents. 'Assault against ICE is up over 500%,' Homan said. 'Now you've got an app that's going to tell where ICE operations are going to. It's only a matter of time before ICE agents are ambushed by some nut, like what happened in L.A., throwing them out a cocktail, throwing bricks at these officers. This is just disgusting at every level.'
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
CNN Data Guru: ICE Raids Have Put Trump's Approval Rating ‘Underwater'
President Donald Trump's immigration policies, once his strongest issue with voters, may now be pummeling his approval ratings. On Friday's broadcast of CNN News Central, CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten said the president's immigration policies and handling of subsequent protests have been 'awful, awful, awful' for his ratings. In fact, Trump is now sitting at the lowest approval rating of his second term. 'This is simply put, one of the worst polling weeks for Donald Trump that we've seen,' Enten told viewers on Friday. The CNN analyst cited two polls, one from Quinnipiac University released June 11 and one from AP-NORC released June 12, which place the president's approval rating at just 38 percent and 39 percent, respectively. According to CNN's poll tracker, that places the president at a 3-point drop in both polls. In short, Enten says the president is 'very much way way way underwater.' While the president's overall approval rating has suffered, Enten says things are looking especially dire when it comes to his immigration policies. According to CNN's aggregate, Trump's approval rating on the specific issue of immigration has dropped a staggering six points in the last two weeks as ICE raids spark protests nationwide. Where Trump's approval rating on immigration sat at +4 on June 1, by Friday morning, it had dropped to -2. 'They have turned against the president on his core strength,' said Enten of Trump's supporters. 'He is now underwater on the issue that has been strongest for him.' The drop in approval for Trump's handling of immigration marks a major change in voters' perception of the president, who has previously leaned on immigration as one of his strongest issues among supporters. Just four days ago, on Monday, Enten said on CNN News Central that Trump's approval rating on immigration had 'gone up like a rocket' since his first term. In fact, Enten said his high rating had emboldened the president to send National Guard troops into Los Angeles on June 8, as he believed stoking conflict with California Gov. Gavin Newsom would help his approval ratings. 'Trump is begging for a fight on this because he knows what he's doing so far is working with the American electorate,' Enten told host John Berman on June 9. Now, the CNN data chief says the tactic was far from successful. 'I said at the beginning of this week that Donald Trump wanted this fight,' said Enten during Friday's broadcast. 'Maybe he shouldn't have.' Also hurting Trump's approval rating is his planned military parade, scheduled for Saturday to celebrate his 79th birthday. According to the AP-NORC poll, which Enten referenced on Friday morning's broadcast, a whopping 60 percent of respondents across the political spectrum said the parade was not a good use of government funds, while just 38 percent said it was a good use. This is not the first time Trump's approval ratings have fluctuated dramatically since he took office in January. As Enten noted in Friday's broadcast, the president's numbers also plummeted around the 100th day of his presidency on April 30. On April 29, CNN News Central reported that the president's approval rating had dropped to just 41 percent. It was the lowest rating of any president approaching the 100th day of their term since modern pollsters started tracking presidential approval ratings during the Eisenhower administration. Just six weeks earlier, the president had reached his highest approval rating to date in an NBC poll, which placed him at 47 percent among all respondents. At the time, 55 percent of respondents in the NBC poll said they approved of his immigration policy, while CNN reported the number as 51 percent. Now, the AP-NORC poll reports that number is down to 46 percent. The Quinnipiac poll is even more dire, placing the rating at just 43 percent. 'At this point,' said Enten on Friday, 'He's much more towards the trough of his popularity than the crest of it.'
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Military Expert Explains How Iran Could Respond To Israel Despite 'Significant' Setbacks
Retired Adm. James Stavridis on Friday estimated that Israel's attacks on Tehran will have a 'significant' impact on Iran, knocking 50% of its military capability, as he identified the main reason the country has yet to use one of the strongest tools at its disposal to respond. In an interview with 'CNN News Central,' Stavridis said Israel's strikes on Iran's nuclear and missile sites mirrored Ukraine's Operation Spider's Web, which saw Kyiv launch over 100 drones to attack air bases deep inside Russia earlier this month. 'This is Israel with deep penetration into a huge country. Iran is two and a half times the size of Texas,' Stavridis explained. The CNN military analyst predicted Israel's operation will have a major impact on Iran. 'As we are hearing, it's only the beginning. So I'd look for five to seven days,' he said. 'And that ... I think, will knock the Iranian military back 50% in its capability overall. That's quite significant.' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed the operation 'will continue for as many days as it takes,' while Iran has pledged to retaliate. Stavridis warned that despite the setbacks Tehran faces, it still has options to mount a major response, albeit 'asymmetrically.' 'Rather than launching jets to do a mirror of the strikes they're experiencing, they'll use different means,' he said. 'They still have thousands of ballistic missiles that can reach out and hit Israel. A launch of 500 of those simultaneously potentially could overwhelm Israeli defense facilities. They could use cyber. They could use terror attacks, targeted assassinations.' Iran could also close the Strait of Hormuz, a move that would send 'shivers up the back of the global economy,' according to Stavridis. 'They couldn't keep it closed for more than a month or two,' he added. 'But that's a huge spike in energy prices. Iran still has options here.' The move could disrupt the stream of global oil as over 20 million barrels of oil and petroleum liquids are transported per day through the strait, which connects the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. Iran has yet to resort to those options, including its ballistic missile capability, over fear of drawing the U.S. into the escalating tensions, Stavridis assessed. 'Yes, the Israelis can do a lot of damage to the broad military-industrial complex, but there are still many deeply buried, hardened targets, particularly their nuclear facilities, that can only be truly destroyed by the U.S.,' Stavridis added. President Donald Trump told Fox News' Bret Baier that Friday's attacks did not come as a surprise to the U.S., suggesting he had advance knowledge of Israel's plans. He later told CNN's Dana Bash he is on Israel's side, while urging Tehran to agree to a nuclear deal with the U.S. 'We of course support Israel, obviously and supported it like nobody has ever supported it,' Trump said. Trump Tells Iran To Do Deal Now After Israel Blasts Nuclear And Military Targets Israel Attacks Iran's Nuclear And Missile Sites And Kills Top Military Officials
