The First Day of Donald Trump s New Website Recalls His Earlier Twitterstorms
On 5/5/21 at 8:42 PM EDT
Republican former President Donald Trump spent the first full day of his new blog slamming his Republican congressional critics and large social media companies. His attacks bore similarities to his previous Twitterstorms during his presidency.
Trump launched his new blog, named From the Desk of Donald J. Trump, on Tuesday evening. Since its launch, two of his posts have directly attacked Wyoming Republican Representative Liz Cheney and one has attacked Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Cheney has repeatedly called out Trump for his repeated and baseless claims that he lost the 2020 presidential election due to widespread voter fraud. McConnell blamed Trump for inciting the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Trump has recently called McConnell a dumb son of a bitch and a stone-cold loser.
No harsh words for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (at least to this point)
Sean Burch | May 5, 2021 @ 8:13 AM
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A half hour after his ban from Facebook was upheld on Wednesday morning, former President Donald Trump took to his new online platform on his website to complain but not about the social network.
Instead, Trump blasted “warmonger” Liz Cheney, the GOP representative from Wyoming, for not backing his false claims there was widespread election fraud during the 2020 presidential election. Trump also ripped Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whom he called “gutless and clueless,” for failing to “expose all the corruption” tied to the election.
We re open to doing a roughly $600 billion package which deals with what all of us agree is infrastructure, McConnell said at an event in Kentucky. And to talk about how to pay for that in any way other than reopening the 2017 tax reform bill.
Raising the corporate tax rate to 28%, up from 21%, is the linchpin of Biden s proposal to pay for the American Jobs Plan, a massive revamping of the nation s infrastructure and energy sector that would create jobs in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
But McConnell on Monday called the 2017 tax cuts among the most significant domestic accomplishments of the past four years under former President Donald Trump. We re not going to revisit that, he said.
Fears over post-pandemic job shortage likely overstated, but complicate Biden s relief deals In just numbers, there are not enough job openings to go around right now period,” said the Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz, former DOL chief economist.
People wait in line for help with unemployment benefits at the One-Stop Career Center in Las Vegas. | John Locher/AP Photo
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Businesses and the White House in recent weeks have warned that they are combating a labor shortage despite the millions laid off due to the coronavirus pandemic, creating potential political friction for President Joe Biden as he pushes Congress to advance his trillion-dollar spending proposals to gas up the economy.