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On Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson spoke to the conservative Hudson Institute. “President Trump has said we want to start the largest deportation effort in history,” Johnson said. “It’s needed. We need to find all these dangerous people, criminals. They’ve emptied out prisons in Central America and sent them all over the border.” Johnson is not talking about a boost in immigration enforcement but a Hitler-like plan for immigrants. In November 2023, top Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke openly about a second Trump administation’s plan to, as The New York Times put it, “scour the country for unauthorized immigrants and deport people by the millions per year.” While they await deportation, “Mr.

Republican-led legislation was humiliated on Thursday after killing its ambitious plan to pass all 12 annual funding bills by the August recess. As CBS's Scott MacFarlane notes, "This is typically low-hanging fruit." However, the GOP somehow "failed to pass a spending bill to fund Congress itself." In addition, the legislation would have boosted funding for Capitol Police and helped pay for Capitol operations. Democrats weren't too happy about the bill due to specific provisions targeting DEI and the LGBT+ community.

Joy Reid discusses the latest must-read article to come out from ProPublica, in partnership with Wisconsin Watch. The article by Phoebe Petrovic looks at the latest superstar of the MAGA crowd, psycho pastor Matthew Trewhella. Just how psycho is Trewhella? Well, he was too psycho for other right to lifers: TREWELLA: I'm 62 now, and, you know, in the time that I've lived, our country's been on this trajectory downhill.

Despite Felon Trump's denial that he has ever heard of the Heritage Foundation or of Project 2025, the evidence is clear as the giant banner hung up by the Heritage Foundation welcoming convention goers to the Trumplican National Convention: Spotted at the RNC in Milwaukee: The Heritage Foundation, the organization behind Trump’s Project 2025, is welcoming attendees to Trump’s Republican Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Stephen Colbert highlights Project 2025, the radical right-wing plan to take power if Trump wins the 2024 election. On "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the late-night host mocked Donald Trump for claiming to "know nothing about Project 2025 but the truth is that over 200 of his former staffers are laying plans for a far-right takeover." Watch Colbert's short video to learn more about Project 2025. Project 2025 Resource Page - A rolling list of links, articles and videos about the plan Trump and Republicans created.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) torched House Republicans after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) demanded a vote on her resolution to hold AG Merrick Garland in “inherent contempt” of Congress and fine him $10,000 for each day he refuses to turn over audio from President Biden’s interview with Robert Hur. Luna, like all the rest of the MAGA cultists, does nothing but look for conspiracy dirt on their political rivals.