An alignment between Russia and Tulsi Gabbard is worrying some Senate Intelligence Committee members.

Summary

Republican senators are privately pushing to review Tulsi Gabbard’s FBI file amid concerns about her alignment with Russian interests following her nomination as Trump’s director of national intelligence.

Gabbard’s past support for Edward Snowden, who leaked U.S. state secrets, has drawn particular scrutiny, as has her history of echoing Russian talking points on Ukraine and Syria.

While GOP senators are publicly deferring to Trump’s pick, some, including Sens. Mike Rounds and Susan Collins, emphasize the importance of full background checks and hearings to address potential security risks.

          • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            20 days ago

            That was never for a single second an actual Republican plan. The ACA was the Republican healthcare plan. Nearly everything the Dems wanted was thrown out by the end, or removed by the Supreme Court after the fact. It was basically just a copy of Romneycare brought to the national scale.

            It was just an easy target to get some of the dumb as fuck voters on their side consistently. The Republicans are great at gathering single issue voters by being an anti-party. The party has had no actual values for over 2 decades now, just being the opposite of whatever the Dems are going for.

              • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                20 days ago

                There was never a real attempt to repeal it. Even when an effort passed in the House, it was obvious the Senate wouldn’t do the same, and several times they explicitly voted DOWN the House version to write their own instead, which then never made it through the House. At no point was it really plausible both sides of Congress would actually pass a repeal.

                The resident Republican Senator that is allowed to vote against the group to prevent shit they don’t actually want to happen while making it look like they do… always would strike it down. This is the seat that Senators like McCain held as a failsafe against their propaganda actually passing, prior to Trump throwing a monkey wrench into everything by refusing to follow the carefully set playbook. It’s not quite as neat since then, but there is a pattern with a couple Republican Senators that are allowed to occasionally vote against the party and prevent things from passing without much negativity from their propaganda outlets.

                The party says what they want to rile up their base knowing it won’t actually pass since they have specific individuals whose job it is to prevent that when necessary to stop their own fake initiatives.