Tag Archives: Josh Hawley

Via press release: Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) reintroduced the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act, which would ban members of Congress from trading or holding individual stocks. The move comes after President Trump announced he would sign such a bill into law if it crossed his desk. “Members of Congress should be fighting for …

“I thought what the secretary of defense just said, Laura, was an outstanding statement and, listen, we don’t know how much of this is accurate or not, but it looks like even if everything The Atlantic reported is true, it’s the president’s advisers discussing among themselves options they might recommend to the president, and nobody can deny the success of …

The Hill reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he will introduce legislation to curb what he says is a “dramatic abuse of judicial authority” by courts that have issued injunctions against Trump’s agenda, including the deportation of alleged gang members. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the judge “is essentially …

“The economy is top of mind for everybody. Prices still too high. He’s been — Trump’s been in there for six weeks, but they’re bringing egg cartons tonight to make their point because Biden, I don’t know, didn’t he oversee the killing of, what, two million chickens or something because of the bird flu? Completely overstated threat, but now we’re …

The Huffington Post reports: Republicans in the House are considering big cuts to Medicaid — and that isn’t sitting well with one Republican senator, who’s arguing they’d harm many people who voted for President Donald Trump. “I would not do severe cuts to Medicaid,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told HuffPost in an interview. He said he agreed with MAGA whisperer …

The Hill reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) signaled Thursday that former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for director of national intelligence could be in jeopardy after her past defense of alleged traitors, adding to the list of skeptics. “I’m worried by what I hear from some of my Republican colleagues. I’m worried that her nomination may be in jeopardy,” Hawley …

“This is the same old, same old. This bill right here would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit, and the worst part is, it is all for Dem priorities. Why would you saddle Donald Trump with this terrible spending bill before he even gets into office? “It is 1500 pages of pork barrel spending and worse than …

Axios reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is making a big opening bid in the 2025 tax battle, calling for the child tax credit to increase from a maximum of $2,000 to $5,000 per kid, Axios has learned. Such a plan could cost $2 trillion to $3 trillion over 10 years. That complicates the math for incoming Senate Majority Leader John …

The Huffington Post reports: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch pulled no punches with a damning assessment of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) as “quite possibly the worst sitting senator in America right now.” The Missouri newspaper’s editorial board said Sunday that Donald Trump acolyte Hawley “stands apart for his singular role in spurring the violence” of Jan. 6, 2021. Hawley was “the …

People Magazine reports: Harrison Butker is getting candid about the reaction to his previous controversial comments on women in the workforce. During the discussion with host Laura Ingraham, Butker addressed the reaction to his May commencement speech — in which he talked about “diabolical lies told to women” about working rather than becoming homemakers. “But it’s more talking about how …

St. Louis’s NBC affiliate reports: At a recent campaign stop in the suburbs of St. Louis, reporters asked Republican Sen. Josh Hawley to list his top three accomplishments he felt made him worthy of re-election for a second six-year term. “We got new housing for our soldiers in Fort Leonard Wood,” he replied. Hawley’s campaign routinely repeats this claim in …

Mediate reports: Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) confronted his Democratic challenger at the Missouri state fair on Thursday, challenging him to an impromptu debate during an awkward exchange between the two. In a video posted by Hawley on X, the senator says “Guys, how are you? Let’s go find Lucas Kunce. Let’s go find him. Come on, where’s he been? I …

Mediaite reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) spoke at 2024’s National Conservatism conference — better known as NatCon — and made a bold declaration in support of Christian Nationalism. Speaking from the podium during NatCon 4’s gala dinner on Monday, Hawley stated: “Some will say I am calling America a Christian nation, and so I am. Some will say I am …

“We hear all the time that religion divides this country. The left says it constantly. Have you heard it? All the they time, they’re like, ‘Oh, religion is so divisive. Religion divides America.’ “I’m here to tell you today that religion doesn’t divide America, religion unites America. We are a religious people! I’ll tell you what divides America is the …

The Huffington Post reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) complained on Fox News Thursday that American infrastructure is in disrepair. But as viewers pointed out, he was one of the Republican senators who voted against a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed in 2021. “It just strikes me that more and more, nothing really works in America anymore,” Hawley told Fox …

“What a terrible idea. If Republicans want to be in the minority party forever, then go ahead and endorse that. Republicans are so stupid. If they want to go to working people and say, ‘Congratulations, you have paid into this your whole life — your payroll taxes — and now we’re going to take part of it away from you. …

“I’m calling on Merrick Garland publicly now to do what I think is required under the law in the Constitution. Either charge the president, or he will go to the cabinet and tell them, ‘I believe we have to invoke the 25th Amendment.’ He’s got to do one or the other. If he doesn’t, it will just confirm what everybody …

Sen. Josh Hawley writes for First Things: America as a Christian nation—that’s a heretical notion by today’s lights. We are a secular country, the experts have insisted—demanded—for decades. But that was never true. The Founders read Roman historians, yes. Some were influenced by Enlightenment philosophies. But the Bible has been the main source of our national ideals. From the age …

The Hill reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) endorsed former President Trump for the GOP nomination for president on Tuesday, adding to his growing list of congressional endorsements. Hawley told Politico in an interview that he will back the GOP front-runner and has expected for more than a year that Trump would win the Republican nomination. The Missouri senator’s backing comes …

NBC News reports: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asked the Biden administration Tuesday to ban TikTok in part because of how the app has handled content about the Israel-Hamas war. He called for the ban in a letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who chairs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an interagency panel with the …