Wow. Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just made a stunning admission on live TV. Bessent: "I think that there are sectors of the economy that are in recession"

TAPPER: Where is President Trump right now? REP. BUDDY CARTER: He's in Asia. He's negotiating trade deals. He's negotiating world peace. TAPPER: Well, he's at Mar-a-Lago technically right now.

Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."

It’s time the American people did the same, fire every last one of you clowns. You don’t get to make your own schedule or hide behind a title. You’ve become a SINO, Speaker in Name Only. ...

BREAM: Can you not swear in Adelita Grijalva, though? MIKE JOHNSON: There is a precedent for doing a pro forma session swearing in, but we are not engaging in regular business right now

Leavitt: "These are crazed people that President Trump and Republicans are having to deal with, and that's why President Trump has said Republicans need to get tough, they need to get smart, and they need to use this option to get rid of the filibuster to reopen the government."

Leavitt: "Look at what President Trump has been able to do by leveraging tariffs and leveraging the might of the US economy. We are the number one consumer country in the world." (We also were before Trump took office, so ... )

Newsom: "This is a historically unpopular president. His policies are even more unpopular than him. In every core category he's underwater. He who promised to make us healthier & wealthier & we're poorer and sicker ... He knows he's lose midterms so he's trying to rig it before 1 vote is cast"

Newsom: "He is not screwing around. He's changing the rules. He's rigging the game because he knows he'll lose if all things are equal. He did not expect California to fight fire with fire."

Newsom: "He just announced he'll be sending out strike teams and organizing them in every state. Wake up! What the hell do we need to tell people to get them off their couch? To say, 'Hold on. I may have liked his bluster. I may not have liked the last guy, but I didn't sign up for this.'"

It was multiple Republicans also who said the same thing. There is bipartisan dissatisfaction with this situation. bsky.app/profile/atru...

WELKER: Part of your tactic is to imitate some of what we see from online from President Trump. Do you risk normalizing that behavior? NEWSOM: Quite the contrary. The whole expression was to not allow it to be normalized. He's dressing up as the Pope! It's madness. And so I put a mirror up to it.

Ted Cruz: "Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate. And in fact, in terms of abuse of government power, it makes Watergate pale in comparison."

BREAM: How do trade talks get back on with Canada? BESSENT: We'll see. This is very serious. The prime minister of Ontario, who I imagine is smarting quite a bit from the Blue Jays loss, spent $75 million interfering in US public policy. A price has got to be paid for this.

TAPPER: When can we expect the Trump administration to make SNAP payments? BESSENT: Well, President Trump just truthed out that he needs to hear from the courts TAPPER: The courts have weighed in BESSENT: There's a process that has to be followed

TAPPER: Obama's comments came within a day of Trump hosting a Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago while SNAP benefits are set to run out. Your response? BESSENT: I believe President Obama played a record amount of golf of any president, so I'm not sure why he's out there throwing stones

TAPPER: Do you agree that the US is at risk of a recession? BESSENT: I believe we are in a transition period here. I think we're in good shape, but there are sectors of the economy that are in recession

Mike Johnson claims Republicans have a healthcare plan ready to go, Marge Green said he’s lying, while Van Drew says it is going to take them at least a year to come up with one. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Jeffries: "Why have House Republicans remained on a taxpayer funded vacation for the last 6 weeks? Of course they are unserious as it relates to reopening the government. Why has Trump spent more time on the golf course, including this weekend, than he has talking to Democrats on Capitol Hill?"

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Rachel Campos-Duffy opens her interview with Brooke Rollins by asserting Rollins "cares very deeply about families and children" but then asks her to explain why she disagrees with a judge's ruling requiring the administration to fund SNAP

Brooke Rollins calls food stamps "a broken and corrupt program" and says, "guess what? There's a new sheriff in town. His name is Donald Trump."

Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Republicans' healthcare plan: "The plan is to come up with something better."

Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...

I thought Trump said he solved all this and there was now perpetual peace under his leadership and superior negotiating skills.

OBAMA: “Is the economy working better for you? Because it sure has gotten better for Trump & his family… his billionaire friends, finance bros, well-connected corporations have seen their tax bill go down… But for ordinary families, costs have gone UP."

Nice To See President Obama out Campaigning for 2 Democratic Governor's. He's Still Brings IT........

He has threatened to annex Canada & Greenland, conduct strikes in Mexico, Venezuela & now Nigeria. He has orchestrated 50+ extrajudicial killings. No evidence provided for his actions. He is openly enriching himself and his billionaire donors while waging war against the working class. 1/3

Holy false teeth

This is what he’s building the ballroom at the White House for. bsky.app/profile/patr...

Unsealed court documents show that JP Morgan filed a 2019 suspicious activity report alerting the U.S. government to more than $1 billion in potentially human-trafficking-related transactions tied to Jeffrey Epstein,wire transfers involving Russian banks and prominent figures such Alan Dershowitz.

Today, honor the ones who walked before us — the laughter, the lessons, and the love that never fades. Light a candle, share a story, and let your heart remember. 💛 🌼 Día de los Muertos — a beautiful reminder that love outlives us all.

The cost of living is skyrocketing because the CEO's being paid too much. Company increase prices to raise enough money to make their CEO a multimillionaire while the workers are having to get government benefits just to survive. No CEO deserves 10 to 50 times more than the rest of their employees.

There’s a name for this. C O R R U P T I O N

14 strikes. 61 dead. “But the administration does not know their identities.” 🤷🏼 🛶 💣 theweek.com/politics/pen...

🤣😂🤣 Lying so much that Waltz thought he could get away w it at the UN! This is America’s Ambassador to the UN. #arrestrepublicans

The crowd tonight in Norfolk, Virginia for Abigail Spanberger and Barack Obama. LET’S GO!!!

Trump’s America: FBI Director is taking govt jets to watch his girlfriend sing, president is in Palm Beach holding Great Gatsby balls after golf, we are murdering people in boats while refusing to show proof of guilty, govt is shut down, airports are a disaster, prices are up.

Obama: When he was asked to give the trump administration a grade, he said they deserved an A. These are the same folks who put secret war plans in a group chat. You don't think there's anything they could be doing better? No room for improvement?

So much infighting these days.

Checking in for an update on the 2025 Republican Party …

Kash fired the guy he thinks outed him for taking another private jet flight to see his girlfriend sing.

Trump posts crazy stuff like this at times where he feels like he’s not getting enough attention and wants people to start talking about him again. It’s deranged, narcissistic behavior.

ICE arresting people on Halloween. Let's talk about it.

Trump says he's instructing the Department of Defense to prepare for military action against Nigeria

Obama is better than caffeine…any day. I had almost forgotten what it sounds like when a fine orator is at the podium.

A bad day for conspiracy theorists, not that they will admit it. You have to be very arrogant to dismiss mainstream science because a man on YouTube lied to you.