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Cursing Congressman Doubles Down: I’m Being Attacked for Swearing at Teenagers Because Republicans Defunded the IRS

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U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) has no regrets and no apologies after swearing at and cursing out 16 and 17 year-old U.S. Senate pages Wednesday night who reportedly were in the Capitol Rotunda taking photographs before their final day serving the nation’s lawmakers.

Instead, Congressman Van Orden, who has a history of berating teenagers, is claiming there is nothing wrong with his actions and blames the left for criticizing him – which he suggests is nothing more than playing politics because House Republicans made changes when Kevin McCarthy became Speaker, including ending a COVID-era program for House members to vote by proxy, and for what he claims is defunding IRS agents.

Van Orden, who was endorsed by Donald Trump, attended Trump’s Stop the Steal rally and was at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 after losing his first attempt to become a U.S. Congressman, in a statement did not deny swearing and cursing at the teenaged high-schoolers.

Rather, Van Orden, who that night, his aides say, had hosted a group of about 50 constituents and, according to a photograph (below) had a large amount of alcohol in his congressional office, criticized the teens by suggesting they were treating the Capitol like a “frat house.”

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“Wake the f*ck up you little sh*ts,” Congressman Van Orden told the Senate pages, according to a transcript one of them wrote down, as The Hill reports. Punchbowl News was first to report the incident. “What the f*ck are you all doing? Get the f*ck out of here. You are defiling the space you [pieces of sh*t].”

“Who the f*ck are you?” he reportedly asked. When told they were Senate pages, Van Orden is said to have replied, “I don’t give a f*ck who you are, get out.”

He does not dispute he cursed out the kids, nor does he dispute the photograph taken from outside his office Wednesday night, which appeared to be filled with bottles of alcohol. Nor does he dispute he was “heard partying loudly” in his congressional office that night.

According to Punchbowl News’ Max Cohen, who broke the story on Thursday, Van Orden appeared on local Milwaukee talk radio station WISN Friday morning. He began by appearing to mock the massive criticism he’s received over his verbal abuse of the teenaged pages.

Cohen reports Van Orden said, “for the record, I wanna say I was misquoted. what I actually said was get off my lawn.”

He also said, “the people who have brought this up are not serious people. Let’s stop pretending like they are.”

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“Here’s why this is a thing. In the last 180 days, we have defunded IRS agents, we ended proxy voting… we opened the people’s house,” Van Orden said, according to Cohen.

But the people who are criticizing the Congressman from Wisconsin include his fellow lawmakers on Capitol Hill, include the entire U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike.

Thursday evening Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer denounced Van Orden’s attack on the pages. Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell joined in that condemnation, saying, “everybody on this side of the aisle feels the same way.”

Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman on Friday adds, “Several top figures in the House Republican leadership told me they were alarmed by Van Orden’s behavior.”

Watch the video of Leaders Schumer and McConnell’s remarks above or at this link.

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Judge Rebukes Trump Admin for Defying SNAP Payment Deadline

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A federal judge chastised the Trump administration for defying his order issued last week to fully distribute SNAP payments by Monday, or at least partially by Wednesday. The administration had said it would release 65 percent of the funds but offered no timeline for doing so.

Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island sharply rebuked the Trump administration “for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5,” Politico’s Kyle Cheney reported on Thursday. “He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.”

“It’s likely that SNAP recipients are hungry as we sit here,” McConnell said, according to Cheney.

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The judge alleged that “Trump and his allies have admitted to withholding SNAP benefits for ‘political reasons’ rather than to preserve child nutrition programs, which the judge said was a pretext,” Cheney also reported.

Judge McConnell cited a Truth Social post President Trump made in which he vowed to hold up the SNAP funds. The President wrote that food stamp benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!”

The White House later walked back the President’s remarks, claiming he was referring to any future shutdowns.

The judge “said Trump’s Truth Social post was essentially an admission of his ‘intent to defy the court order,'” according to Cheney.

“The defendants failed to consider the practical consequences associated with this decision to only partially fund SNAP,” McConnell said, according to the Associated Press. “They knew that there would be a long delay in paying partial Snap payments and failed to consider the harms individual who rely on those benefits would suffer.”

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‘Make Lots of Trump Babies’: Dr. Oz Highlights Midterm Goals

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, shared a few of his goals for next year’s midterms with reporters.

Speaking from the Oval Office on Thursday, Oz promoted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform.

“We’ve dropped the [price of] infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies — I’m hoping by the midterms,” he told reporters, as HuffPost reported.

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Praising President Donald Trump’s plan to lower prices on popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs, Oz said, “America will have to get fit in order to rightsize the health care system.”

Dr. Oz has talked about making “Trump babies” before.

“Now I know what you’re all thinking, and you’re probably right, that there are going to be a lot of Trump babies,” Oz said in October at a White House event focused on making in vitro drugs more accessible. “I think that’s probably a good thing.”

“But it turns out the fundamental, creative force in society is about making babies,” he continued. “It’s about creating. And this country, the one that President Trump is leading so beautifully has been a country of abundance, not scarcity.”

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‘Clown Show’: House Dem Leader Slams ‘Divorced From Reality’ Senate GOP Head

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As the federal government shutdown enters its 38th day with no end in sight, the Speaker of the House and the House Democratic Minority Leader appear united — on one aspect only: blaming the Senate.

Amid reports that a few Senate Democrats might agree to vote to reopen the government if Republicans guarantee a date-certain vote on restoring the Affordable Care Act subsidies, Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to attempt to scuttle that potential bargain on Thursday.

Asked if he would assure that the House would vote on restoring the Obamacare subsidy funding, which would be the basis of a Senate deal, Johnson refused.

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“No, because we did our job, and I’m not part of the negotiation,” the Speaker told reporters on Thursday. “The House did its job on September 19th” when it passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through November 21. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has effectively declared that legislation is dead, unless he can change the end date.

“I’m not promising anybody anything,” Johnson continued. “I’m gonna let this process play out.”

Over on the Democratic side of the aisle, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries blasted the Senate Majority Leader.

“Not a partisan thing, a patriotic thing: We have to decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis,” Jeffries declared.

“And John Thune is divorced from reality,” he charged.

“I mean, it’s a clown show over in the Senate,” Jeffries continued.

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“Fourteen, fifteen times, you bring the same partisan Republican spending bill?” he said, referring to the House-passed continuing resolution that Leader Thune has been putting before the Senate several times a week.

“Expecting a different result? That’s the classic definition of legislative insanity. Doing the same thing, over and over and over again,” he said while blasting Thune, saying he “has no ability to actually negotiate in good faith.”

Weeks ago, Jeffries told MSNBC, “what I’m saying is that we need an ironclad path forward that decisively addresses the Republican healthcare crisis.”

“In terms of the Affordable Care Act, you know, this is a group of people, Republicans, who have tried to repeal the Affordable Care more than 70 different times since 2010. They can’t be trusted on a wing and a prayer. We need a real path forward to address the crisis that Republicans have visited upon the American people in terms of healthcare, the cost of living, and affordability.”

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