"That's just a cheap and I think unavailing attempt to discredit her."
"I think she's a very valuable witness, some of which she testified about in the committee was hearsay, but I want to say this: the claims that her whole entire testimony is hearsay, that's nonsense," Honig said. Hutchinson, a former top White House aide with unique access to Trump and the inner workings of the West Wing, testified at the sixth June hearing of the House committee probing the attack on the US Capitol.Īn executive assistant to Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, she was a central figure in the White House around the period of the insurrection on January 6 last year. IN OTHER NEWS: 'I don’t want four more years of that': Trump 2020 voter dreads him back in office and tweeting again Honig went on to say that former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson's decision to cooperate with the DOJ's investigation into the plots to overturn the 2020 election will provide a "goldmine of evidence" both for the January 6 committee and for the DOJ. "If you think that's gonna be easy, you're not living in reality, and that inarguably gets that much more difficult if becomes an announced candidate, a frontrunner, or even a nominee," Honig said. "If enacted, this legislation will be historic, and I urge the Senate to move on this bill as soon as possible, and for the House to follow as well." "We will pay for all of this by requiring big corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, with no tax increases at all for families making under $400,000 a year."īiden thanked Manchin, an often unpredictable partner in the Senate, for his "extraordinary effort." In his statement, Biden said prescription drug prices would drop and healthcare for Americans using the subsidized Affordable Care Act policy would also become $800 a year cheaper.įunding for clean energy will "create thousands of new jobs and help lower energy costs in the future," he said. An extra $300 billion raised under the plan would go to paying off the federal deficit. It would be paid for by raising $739 billion, with a major chunk coming from a 15 percent corporate tax rate. READ MORE: 'I don’t want four more years of that': Trump 2020 voter dreads him back in office and tweeting again If passed, the reconciliation bill will pour some $369 billion into clean energy and climate initiatives and $64 billion into state-funded healthcare, including a popular measure meant to lower ruinously high prescription medicine prices. This addresses the problems of today - high health care costs and overall inflation - as well as investments in our energy security for the future," Biden said in a statement. "This is the action the American people have been waiting for.
President Joe Biden hailed the breakthrough on the reconciliation bill on Wednesday.
The new reconciliation deal appears to reverse all of Manchin's previous statements, with him committing to a revised climate framework and methods of reducing the deficit that involve some modest tax increases on the wealthy.Īccording to CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju, some House Republicans who previously committed to backing the CHIPS Act are now changing their vote, although the bill is still expected to pass the House later today. IN OTHER NEWS: Cassidy Hutchinson is a 'goldmine of evidence' in any prosecution of Trump: CNN legal analyst
Just days after that threat, Manchin was reported as telling Democratic leadership he would not support any reconciliation deal that includes climate funding or tax increases, leading to speculation that if any deal was reached at all it would be a narrow bill on health care - after which Republicans backed off and re-committed to passing the CHIPS Act. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had previously warned that if a reconciliation bill was in the works, Republicans would block the CHIPS Act from passing. At issue is that the announcement of the deal came immediately after Republicans had cast their votes for the CHIPS Act, a bill that would fund the creation of semiconductors in the United States to reduce dependence on China for electronics.
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