Posts by Kim Browne
Republican Who Claimed “We’re All Going to Die” Won’t Run Again
During a Thursday CNN appearance, Daskalakis advised senators to ask Kennedy at his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee next week: “Has he been ever briefed by a CDC expert on anything—on, specifically, measles, Covid-19, flu?” Asked whether RFK has indeed ever received such a briefing, Daskalakis replied, “The answer is no. So no one…
Read MoreJudge Tosses D.C. Case From Trump Prosecutor—Calls It Total Garbage
During a Thursday CNN appearance, Daskalakis advised senators to ask Kennedy at his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee next week: “Has he been ever briefed by a CDC expert on anything—on, specifically, measles, Covid-19, flu?” Asked whether RFK has indeed ever received such a briefing, Daskalakis replied, “The answer is no. So no one…
Read MoreMike Johnson Totally Deflects When Asked About His State’s Crime Rate
During a Thursday CNN appearance, Daskalakis advised senators to ask Kennedy at his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee next week: “Has he been ever briefed by a CDC expert on anything—on, specifically, measles, Covid-19, flu?” Asked whether RFK has indeed ever received such a briefing, Daskalakis replied, “The answer is no. So no one…
Read MoreTrump Picks Nightmare Peter Thiel Acolyte to Replace CDC Director
During a Thursday CNN appearance, Daskalakis advised senators to ask Kennedy at his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee next week: “Has he been ever briefed by a CDC expert on anything—on, specifically, measles, Covid-19, flu?” Asked whether RFK has indeed ever received such a briefing, Daskalakis replied, “The answer is no. So no one…
Read MoreTrump Slashes Foreign Aid With Rare, Possibly Illegal Move
During a Thursday CNN appearance, Daskalakis advised senators to ask Kennedy at his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee next week: “Has he been ever briefed by a CDC expert on anything—on, specifically, measles, Covid-19, flu?” Asked whether RFK has indeed ever received such a briefing, Daskalakis replied, “The answer is no. So no one…
Read MorePam Bondi’s Justice Department Make Deal to Save Her Brother’s Client
For the second time in just a few weeks, the Justice Department has done Attorney General Pam Bondi’s brother, Brad, a solid. On Wednesday, the DOJ dropped felony wire fraud charges against a client of Brad Bondi named Sid Chakraverty, a property developer who was accused of defrauding programs meant to support women- and minority-owned…
Read MoreForget Trump’s Words. His Actions Prove He Doesn’t Mind if Kids Die.
Donald Trump has, of course, done a lot of shocking things as president, things even previous Republicans wouldn’t have done. We focus most of our coverage on those things, and rightly so. But on one issue, he’s been a pretty standard Republican president, which is to say to say he’s been horrible and wicked in…
Read MoreTrump Hits Kamala Harris Right Before Her Book Tour
During a Thursday CNN appearance, Daskalakis advised senators to ask Kennedy at his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee next week: “Has he been ever briefed by a CDC expert on anything—on, specifically, measles, Covid-19, flu?” Asked whether RFK has indeed ever received such a briefing, Daskalakis replied, “The answer is no. So no one…
Read MoreCDC Official Makes Shocking Confession About RFK Jr.’s Intel
On Thursday evening, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis—who recently resigned from a high-level role at the Centers for Disease Control—revealed a jarring fact about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to Daskalakis, Kennedy has never been briefed by any of the center’s scientists on major diseases. Daskalakis was one of numerous top CDC officials to leave…
Read MoreTrump’s Military Parade Was So Bad That Now He Wants a Redo
Then came the Q&A portion, beginning with a question about whether Moore believes consumers pay for Trump’s tariffs. “So, right now, what we just saw in a report is that we haven’t seen inflation at all—” he began. But, sensing his evasiveness, the crowd began to chant: “Who pays the tariffs? Who pays the tariffs?”…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Press Sec’s Dumb Spin Implodes as RFK Fiasco Worsens
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 29 episode of theDaily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. The White House is saying that the director of the Centers for…
Read MoreLisa Cook Forces the Supreme Court to Show Its True Colors on the Fed
Powell, Cook, and the other five Federal Reserve governors automatically serve on the Federal Open Market Committee, a separate body that also includes some of the presidents of the regional Federal Reserve banks. The FOMC has various levers to influence the growth and contraction of the U.S. money supply, which has wide-ranging implications for inflation,…
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