Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur
@NBCNews Senior National Political Reporter covering Capitol Hill and elections. 🏛️🗳️ Part-time Formula 1 correspondent. 🏁🏎️
Hunter Biden blames his father's poor 2024 debate performance on sleeping pill l “…he’s 81 years old, he’s tired as shit, they give him Ambien to be able to sleep, he’s gets up on the stage and he looks like he’s a deer in the headlights.” nbcnews.com/politics/joe-b…
Fun fact: Andrew Garbarino has been in the House for 5.5 years, now picked to become Homeland Security chairman. Previous GOP chair Mark Green was in the House for 4 years before taking this gavel. Meanwhile, panel’s top Democrat Bennie Thompson has held his post for 20 years.
GARBARINO wins Steering vote for Homeland Security gavel Full conference will vote to ratify Tuesday
GARBARINO wins Steering vote for Homeland Security gavel Full conference will vote to ratify Tuesday
No one is happier than Donald Trump that Hunter Biden has decided we should hear from him at this moment.
Southwest Airlines passengers will fly in assigned seats for the first time on Jan. 27, the carrier tells CNBC. Customers can start buying tickets with assigned seats on July 29. nbcnews.com/business/trave…
🎸🎤 Sunday night tunes. One of my favorite John Lennon songs: Across The Universe. Acoustic, raw and unedited in my living room. Nobody can do justice to this so please don’t hold me to it.
Trump trashes @RepThomasMassie, again. I asked Massie about his threat a few hours ago. He said he isn’t worried. He says Trump allies are “wasting millions of dollars against me, and they're gonna lose the majority because of that.” He predicts it will “backfire tremendously.”
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Rep. Ralph Norman, Rules Cmte member, just said they’re at a standstill and won’t pass a rule on anything ALL WEEK as the Epstein tension persists. That means only bills on “suspension” (requiring a 2/3rds majority) can get floor votes — and if they run out they all go home.
Looks like the House GOP fear of having votes on Epstein is going to drive the House home early this werk
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) heading to the House chamber today with a binder labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 2”
It's good to see that Hunter has taken some time to process the election, look inward, and hold himself accountable for how his family's insular, dare I say arrogant at times, approach to politics led to this catastrophic outcome we're all now living with.
Hunter Biden just went off on the Democratic Party: "Fuck him and everybody around him... George Clooney is not a fucking an actor. He's a brand." "James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 fucking years." "David Axelrod had one success in his political life and that was Barack…
The new House breakdown is 219 Republicans, 212 Democrats after Rep. Mark Green vacated his seat yesterday. Now four vacancies — created by Green (R) and the deaths of Connolly (D), Grijalva (D) and Turner (D).
The Chair read a letter of retirement from @RepMarkGreen noting his resignation to be effective July 20th.