Secretary General in Florida: NATO makes the United States stronger and more secure

01 Feb. 2024

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg concluded his trip to the United States on Thursday (1 February 2024) with a visit to the headquarters of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in Tampa, Florida. Addressing troops, Mr Stoltenberg underscored that in a changing world with serious challenges, NATO Allies stand united “around our core cause to protect and defend each other.”

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_222252.htm

Members of the State Duma addressed the US Congress regarding the terrorist act committed by Ukraine shot down Russian IL-76 military aircraft

“Support for neo-Nazi ideology and its incarnation in Ukraine only provokes the Kiev clique to continue terror and escalate violence, bringing the world closer to a global catastrophe,” the document says

February 1, 2024, 12:57

http://duma.gov.ru/en/news/58742/

Address of the State Duma “To the Congress of the United States of America regarding recurrent terrorist act by Ukraine resulted in shooting down of the aircraft carrying out a humanitarian mission”

The adoption of the document was unanimously supported by members of the State Duma. According to Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, Congressmen should realize who receives and how uses the US weapons send by President Biden to Ukraine

February 1, 2024, 12:57

http://duma.gov.ru/en/news/58741/

Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank

February 1, 2024

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/01/executive-order-on-imposing-certain-sanctions-on-persons-undermining-peace-security-and-stability-in-the-west-bank/

Message to the Congress on Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank

February 1, 2024

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/01/message-to-the-congress-on-imposing-certain-sanctions-on-persons-undermining-peace-security-and-stability-in-the-west-bank/

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Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks presides over the ceremony during which Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse becomes the new director for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Army Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier is retiring from the post.

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1lPJqbzrgQExb

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Twelve State Attorneys General Join Chairman Smith in Condemning IRS’s Direct File Scheme

FEBRUARY 2, 2024 — OVERSIGHT — PRESS RELEASES

“We have a duty to protect the American taxpayer from an already supercharged IRS that exerts too much control over their lives.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the attorneys general of twelve U.S. states slammed the Biden Administration’s efforts to sidestep Congress and establish a direct file system for American taxpayers at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS):

Chairman Smith said, “From the beginning, the Biden Administration tipped the scales in favor of a direct file program that the American people did not want or need. The outcome of the $15 million ‘feasibility study’ authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act was a foregone conclusion, and taxpayers are rightfully concerned about having the already distrusted IRS function as their tax preparer, filer, and auditor. Additionally, the IRS has not been able to provide information about the overall cost of the direct file scheme, leaving many unanswered questions about how much it will cost American taxpayers to develop and maintain a direct file program.

“I applaud the state attorneys general for joining Ways and Means Committee Republicans in condemning the Biden Administration’s efforts to unilaterally establish direct file without authorization from Congress, and I look forward to working alongside them to stop this bureaucratic grab in its tracks. We have a duty to protect the American taxpayer from an already supercharged IRS that exerts too much control over their lives.”

You can read the full letter from the 12 state attorneys general here.

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IRS-Direct-File-Letter-Final.pdf

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/twelve-state-attorneys-general-join-chairman-smith-in-condemning-irss-direct-file-scheme/

Chairman Green: “Impeachment Is the Only Reasonable Recourse Left for Congress” to Hold Secretary Mayorkas Accountable

February 2, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) penned an op-ed in The Washington Examiner laying out the compelling constitutional case for the Committee’s articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. This comes after the Committee voted to report two articles of impeachment to the House with a favorable recommendation following a 15-hour markup of the articles earlier this week. The historic markup followed the Committee’s nearly year-long investigation into the causes, costs, and consequences of the unprecedented border crisis.

Specifically, Chairman Green articulates in the op-ed the justification for impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas established in United States v. Texas. The available evidence clearly reflects Secretary Mayorkas’s impeachable offenses—his willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and his breach of the public trust. Read the full op-ed here and below.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/2831292/iron-clad-argument-impeaching-mayorkas/

https://homeland.house.gov/2024/02/02/chairman-green-impeachment-is-the-only-reasonable-recourse-left-for-congress-to-hold-secretary-mayorkas-accountable/

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