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Roger Wicker
The Washington Post published a shock report detailing a military strike order allegedly given by the defense secretary earlier this year.
Hilary Hanson at HuffPost:
The top Republican and Democratic senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a joint statement promising to look into a report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a U.S. strike force to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug trafficking boat in September. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who is the committee chairman, and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), said in a press release that the committee has “directed inquiries” to the Department of Defense and “will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances.” The Washington Post published a stunning report Friday based on interviews and accounts from seven people “with knowledge of” a Sept. 2 military strike that killed 11 people on board a boat near the coast of Trinidad. Intelligence analysts suspected that the boat was smuggling drugs. “The order was to kill everybody,” one person told the Post. To fulfill Hegseth’s directive, Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley then ordered a second strike to kill two men in the water who had initially survived, according to the Post.
War Criminal DoD Secretary Pete Hegseth’s activities are under the microscope of Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Jack Reed (D-RI), who serve as their party’s lead faces on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Roger Wicker.
Roger Wicker (R-MS) United States Senator
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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) on Twitter reminding everybody that Democrats and Republicans aren’t alike.
Not one GOP member of the US House or Senate wanted you to get that $1,400. By contrast, all 51 voting Republican senators and 94.9% of all Republican House members voted to give massive tax breaks to the filthy rich in December of 2017. With Republicans, it’s perfectly fine to increase the deficit – as long as it helps their billionaire masters who then show gratitude by contributing more to GOP campaigns.
In a bizarre twist to the unanimous GOP opposition to the stimulus, Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi tried to take credit for the stimulus even though he voted against it.
GOP Senator Absurdly Tries to Claim Credit for Stimulus That He Voted Against
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was having none of Sen. Wicker‘s or any other Republican’s hypocrisy. It was classic Pelosi.
Pelosi Slams Republicans Who ‘Vote No And Take The Dough’ On COVID Relief Package
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been preemptively peeved for days that Republicans, every single one of whom voted against the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, would take credit for its popular provisions anyway.
“All of it is an opportunity for us to grow the economy by investing in the people for the people,” Pelosi said of the package on Tuesday. “And I might say for our Republican colleagues who — they say no to the vote, and they show up at the ribbon-cuttings or the presentations.”
She later added that some of them will go home and take credit for it in their districts, despite working to sink it.
These warnings turned out to be more prescient than perhaps even she would’ve guessed. On Wednesday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) touted a provision in the package — conveniently opting not to mention that he voted against it.
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“Unfortunately, Republicans, as I say, vote no and take the dough,” she said. “You see already some of them claiming, ‘oh, this is a good thing,’ or ‘that’s a good thing.’ But they couldn’t give it a vote. Anyway, enough of them.”
Republicans are generally not reality-based. Donald Trump told 30,573 lies while in office. Somewhere in Sen. Wicker’s scrambled brain he thinks that voting against a bill helps get it passed.