Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

NEW DETAILS after a flurry of Biden-Dem meetings, per sources • Price range: $1.75-1.9T • Free community college cut • Paid leave ⬇️ 12 to ~4 weeks • CEPP slashed, focus to clean energy w/ ⁦@kwelkernbc⁩ ⁦@LACaldwellDC⁩ ⁦@DartDClark⁩ https://t.co/3nC5HbWL3h — PolitiTweet.org

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That's a wrap. 1/6 committee adjourned. Criminal contempt referral now goes to the full House of Representatives, where it needs a majority vote to pass. Then, the Speaker certifies it to the DOJ, formally asking it to prosecute Bannon. Committee says it must under the statute. — PolitiTweet.org

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NEWS —> The Jan. 6 committee has adopted the report to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with the subpoena. Unanimous vote. Cheney - aye Lofgren - aye Schiff - aye Aguilar - aye Murphy - aye Raskin - aye Luria - aye Kinzinger - aye Thompson - aye — PolitiTweet.org

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Liz Cheney evokes this recent Trump statement threatening to have Republicans stay home in 2022 and 2024 amid his made-up claims about the last election >> https://t.co/GAxVKwsUqg — PolitiTweet.org

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.@Liz_Cheney says the executive privilege claims by Donald Trump and Steve Bannon "reveal one thing." "They suggest President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6 — and this committee will get to the bottom of that." — PolitiTweet.org

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Cheney says "there is no conceivably applicable privilege that could shield Mr. Bannon from testimony" on the various asks of the committee. She says this will set a precedent not just for the 1/6 committee but "for all congressional investigations." — PolitiTweet.org

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Cheney: "The violence that day was in direct response to President Trump's repeated claims from election night to January 6 that he had won the election." "Mr. Bannon has no legal right to ignore the committee's lawful subpoena," she says. — PolitiTweet.org

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LIZ CHENEY: "It appears Mr. Bannon had substantial advance knowledge of the plans for Jan. 6, and likely had an important role in formulating those plans." — PolitiTweet.org

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Ahead of Bannon contempt vote, Thompson says this is about "whether the rule of law will be able to endure as a pillar of democracy." To other witnesses, he says: "If you're thinking of following the path Mr Bannon has gone down, you are on notice that this is what you'll face." — PolitiTweet.org

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Steve Bannon is the low-hanging fruit for this committee given his explicit refusal to cooperate. Thompson, interestingly, is pitting him against the other subpoenaed witnesses and trying to make an example of him. — PolitiTweet.org

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Chairman Thompson says Steve Bannon is "isolated" in his refusal to cooperate with the Jan. 6 committee. "Mr. Bannon stands alone in his complete defiance of our subpoena. That's not acceptable." — PolitiTweet.org

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1/6 committee in in. THOMPSON: "It's a shame that Mr. Bannon has put us in this position but we won't take no for an answer. We believe Mr. Bannon has information relevant to our probe." "I expect the House will quickly adopt this referral." He expects a quick DOJ prosecution. https://t.co/81mumovxPz — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @frankthorp: Some real ‘News Team Assemble’ vibes from your @NBCNews Capitol Hill team, w/ six of us doing hits for @MSNBC & @NBCNewsNow… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@RepJoshG says moderates and Biden discussed a “smartly-targeted, commonsense reconciliation package” today. He says his priorities are SALT, child care and climate action. He also calls for passage of the infrastructure bill. “I remain optimistic.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @USAO_LosAngeles: Federal grand jury indictment charges U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry with one count of scheming to falsify and conceal mat… — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer on reconciliation: "The pace has picked up." He says Congress can't write the entire bill "in the next few days" but that the goal is "getting a framework done that is agreed upon by 50 senators and 218 House members." — PolitiTweet.org

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Chuck Schumer says Build Back Better will be a "yooge" accomplishment. — PolitiTweet.org

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Chuck Schumer, after an unusually long Senate Democratic lunch meeting, calling it a "spirited discussion." He says there's universal agreement that they want to get a deal on Build Back Better "THIS WEEK." — PolitiTweet.org

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Chuck Schumer say he’s willing to hold an open amendment process for the Freedom To Vote Act if Republicans don’t filibuster it and allow debate to begin. — PolitiTweet.org

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John Thune, on Trump suggesting Republicans may stay home in 2022: "Nobody should be discouraging people from voting." He says turnout will be down from the prez year but predicts "huge interest" in putting a check on Biden agenda. "I hope" people don't discourage that, he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mitch McConnell, asked if he's comfortable with GOP embracing Trump pre-2022: "I do think we need to be talking about the future." He says "my hope" is the election will be a "referendum" on Biden's performance and "not a rehash of suggestions of what may have happened in 2020." — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) says he’s a NO on the House provision for Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He’s noncommittal on the idea overall. “Negotiations — many different ways that can take place. I'd like to finally see something that tells me what they want to do,” he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Steve Bannon's lawyer asked the Jan. 6 committee to delay today's meeting on holding him in contempt. Chairman Bennie Thompson said no. The White House told Bannon's team it is unaware of "any basis" for him to refuse the subpoena. New docs via committee 👇 https://t.co/sLkM8VzqMe — PolitiTweet.org

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(deleted a tweet and re-posted to clarify that those calls were from POTUS & VPOTUS, not just POTUS) — PolitiTweet.org

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The @WhiteHouse sends reporters this statement on Biden/Harris's calls with Dem senators Warnock, Padilla, King, Klobuchar and Ossoff ahead of the Freedom To Vote Act vote. They're all on board. The bill has 50 votes. What it doesn't have is 60—or a path around the filibuster. https://t.co/AjXeaWSV4K — PolitiTweet.org

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The @WhiteHouse sends reporters this statement on Biden's calls with Democratic senators Warnock, Padilla, King, Klobuchar and Ossoff ahead of the Freedom To Vote Act vote. They're all on board. The bill has 50 votes. What it doesn't have is 60—or a path around the filibuster. https://t.co/9dO6q0ij4f — PolitiTweet.org

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For those wondering, @Sen_JoeManchin makes clear a carbon tax is not in play. "We haven't talked about that," he says. "The carbon tax is not on the board right now." (via @alivitali @GaryGrumbach) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alexburnsNYT: the total political failure of this slogan, in one poll question — PolitiTweet.org

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@tlaskawy or even the pre-Newt GOP — PolitiTweet.org

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The story of a failed slogan >> A Year After ‘Defund,’ Police Departments Get Their Money Back https://t.co/uFCpTrKQ8Y — PolitiTweet.org