Freshman Ben McAdams will vote for impeachment

Breaking on my phone. He’ll be vulnerable in 2020 so we better get have his back.

Obama: Women 'pretty indisputably' better leaders than men

Former President Obama said at a recent event that he believes women are “indisputably better” leaders than men and confidently predicted that people would see a global improvement if every nation was led by a woman.

According to the BBC, he made the remarks at a leadership event in Singapore during his and former first lady Michelle Obama’s visit to the region last week.

At the event, the former president reportedly said: "Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you're better than us [men].

"I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything... living standards and outcomes,” he continued.


https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/474686-obama-women-pretty-indisputably-better-leaders-than-men

Ivanka Trump Interviewed by Her Own Spokeswoman in Doha While More Powerful Leaders Face Journalists

Ivanka Trump fielded a softball interview from a State Department spokeswoman at the high-powered Doha Forum Saturday, skirting the tough interviews more powerful officials at the conference faced.

U.S. State Department spokesperson and former Fox News contributor Morgan Ortagus posed open-ended and positive prompts to the president’s daughter like, "You were able to put women's prosperity into the national security strategy. That was so important to me that you did that and I’d love for you to explain that,” according to BuzzFeed News.

Trump spoke about her work on women’s economic empowerment, a project dubbed Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, which Ortagus is also a part of, according to BuzzFeed. When asked by The Daily Beast if Trump said anything of interest, BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith, who was in the audience for the interview, said, “Basically no.”

The forum brings together policymakers from across the world in the Qatari capital, and they usually sit for hard-hitting interviews. Higher-ranking officials than Ivanka Trump faced down journalists. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin answered questions from a CNBC journalist about sanctions on Iran, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went back and forth with a CNN anchor about impeachment. A former lead anchor of Al Jazeera interviewed Rwanda President Paul Kagame. The foreign minister of Turkey was asked about his government’s alleged war crimes in Syria, according to BuzzFeed.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-trump-interview-interviewed-by-her-own-spokeswoman-in-doha-while-more-powerful-leaders-face-journalists

Tulsi Gabbard slathers the love on Mike Huckabee

Freshman Torres Small supports Trump impeachment

LAS CRUCES - U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-N.M., has indicated she'll vote to impeach president Donald Trump.

Torres Small, D-N.M. sent a news release Sunday with the following statement:

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A new low for Trump

IRS: Sorry, but It's Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor

The IRS audits the working poor at about the same rate as the wealthiest 1%. Now, in response to questions from a U.S. senator, the IRS has acknowledged that’s true but professes it can’t change anything unless it is given more money.

ProPublica reported the disproportionate audit focus on lower-income families in April. Lawmakers confronted IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig about the emphasis, citing our stories, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked Rettig for a plan to fix the imbalance. Rettig readily agreed.

ast month, Rettig replied with a report, but it said the IRS has no plan and won’t have one until Congress agrees to restore the funding it slashed from the agency over the past nine years — something lawmakers have shown little inclination to do.

On the one hand, the IRS said, auditing poor taxpayers is a lot easier: The agency uses relatively low-level employees to audit returns for low-income taxpayers who claim the earned income tax credit. The audits — of which there were about 380,000 last year, accounting for 39% of the total the IRS conducted — are done by mail and don’t take too much staff time, either. They are “the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources,” Rettig’s report says.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor/amp