White House Bumbling Toward Shutting Itself Down With Hard-line, Last-minute Demands

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. House Democrats have launched an investigation into a meeting between oil company executives and Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home and club last month, following reports that the former president offered to dismantle Biden’s environmental rules and requested $1 billion in contributions to his presidential campaign. Democrats on the House oversight committee late on Monday evening sent letters to nine oil executives requesting information on their companies’ participation in the meeting. “Media reports raise significant potential ethical, campaign finance, and legal issues that would flow from the effective sale of American energy and regulatory policy to commercial interests in return for large campaign contributions,” the Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the committee, wrote in the letters. The investigation comes after the Washington Post broke the news of the dinner meeting, where Trump spoke in front of more than 20 fossil fuel executives from companies including Chevron, Exxon, and Occidental Petroleum. It was reported that Trump said steering $1 billion into his campaign would be a “deal” for the companies because of the costs they would avoid under him.

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mdash; The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, two congressional aides said Tuesday. It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 bombs — on hold earlier in the month.

“I’m shocked they want to silence the voice of MAGA.” — Steve Bannon, quoted by ABC News, in response to prosecutors wanting his 4-month jail sentence to begin immediately.