It’s Sunday and the weekend has come to an end. Below are a few articles and events we might have missed but are worthy of discussion. And in case you missed the Sunday shows, we got you covered. Please feel free to add your own headlines we might have missed.
The Biden Administration:
Congress:
- More proof that Republicans only care about giving tax cuts to the wealthy but do not care about the American people and how the pandemic has affected all of us:
- Ten moderate Republican U.S. senators urged Democratic President Joe Biden on Sunday to significantly downsize his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package to win bipartisan support as Democrats in Congress prepared to push ahead with his plan this week.
- GOP Rep. Kinzinger to Start New PAC to Challenge Party’s Embrace of Trump.
- Sen. Joe Manchin has taken aim at fellow Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris over the administration’s approach to pushing its Covid-19 relief plan.
- “I saw [the interview], I couldn’t believe it. No one called me,” Manchin said Friday to WSAZ, the West Virginia station where Harris gave an interview Thursday. “We’re going to try to find a bipartisan pathway forward, I think we need to do. But we need to work together. That’s not a way of working together.”
- Two members of Congress from Massachusetts have tested positivehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/30/two-lawmakers-test-positive-coronavirus-one-after-receiving-both-doses-vaccine/ for the coronavirus, one after receiving both doses of the vaccine, a reminder that people can still be vulnerable to infection after being vaccinated, particularly in the two weeks after receiving the second dose.
- Margie, Margie, Margie:
The Sunday Shows:
- It’s not the pandemic, it’s the teachers’ unions, according to Senator Cassidy.
- Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said on Sunday that Republican leadership “ought to stand up” against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) controversial comments that have resurfaced over the past week.
- Bernie Sanders claims the Democratic Party has the votes to pass a COVID-19 relief bill.
- Stephen Miller has a meltdown:
Other News:
- Walmart mass shooting survivor deported to Juarez after traffic stop by El Paso police.
- A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that the U.S. government could resume expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border unaccompanied by a parent.
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s stay of a lower court ruling allows President Joe Biden’s administration to resume expulsions begun by former President Donald Trump under a public health policy citing the COVID-19 pandemic. The appeals court issued a stay that had been requested by the Trump administration shortly after a federal judge in November barred the practice.
- A man who once believed in the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory apologized to CNN’s Anderson Cooper for thinking he ate babies.
- Kansas voters will decide next year whether the state’s constitution protects abortion rights under a ballot measure approved by the state Senate on Thursday.
- If approved by voters, the measure — known by its supporters as “Value Them Both” — would amend the state’s constitution to say there is no right to abortion and leave the power to regulate the procedure to the legislature, currently a Republican-leaning body that in recent years has tightened restrictions on abortions.
- Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said he is “not going to back down” to Democrats who have he wanted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and that he incited violence which occurred during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
And a bit of humor:
