WASHINGTON, D.C. – New Jersey politicos perusing the National Guard’s D.C. deployment photos will notice a familiar face: the Jersey Shore’s own Frank Luna, the former GOP operative and JCP&L external affairs consultant who also happens to be an infantryman.
Previously district chief of staff for ex-Congressman Tom MacArthur, Luna is part of a 500-man deployment from the Garden State helping keep order in-and-around Capitol Hill through next week’s inauguration of Joe Biden. New Jersey and other states authorized reinforcements after last week’s riot. Tensions remain high across the nation particularly in the law enforcement and security communities amid fears of domestic terrorism and armed demonstrations.
creative protests like bringing props to the offices. this was a very good one. each of these balloons delivered to new jersey republican congressman tom macarthur s office, in the third district in new jersey, handed him these balloons to the staffer, each one representing 1,000 people who would lose coverage as a result of his vote for the bill that he helped pass in the house. you will notice the balloons are themselves filled with confetti which creates quite conundrum in terms of what do you with all those balloons once you get them in the office. the activism has been tremendous in the home states and home districts of representatives from before the inauguration. from the fist moments of people organizing to see if the republicans would do what they said they would do. in repealing the affordable care act. it has involved a lot of meetings with the staffers. it involves not listening to the staffers when they try play indicate the crowds.
workforce development week. on tuesday, president trump will travel to milwaukee to talk about the importance of vocational training and apprentice ship. on wednesday he will deliver what the white house is characterizing as a major policy speech about jobs. on friday he will head to miami to bail a new cuba policy. he is expected to rollback many changes first put in place by the obama administration. first, tonight, president trump holding his very first public event of the weekend. he is hosting a fundraiser for congressman tom macarthur who played a pivoted role in getting the health care plan through the house. that should be underway right now, if not it will be starting shortly. president trump will then be heading back to the white house tonight. gregg: kristin, swinging the golf club out there with the president bedminster, new jersey.
one that safeguards and promotes american interests in the world. this budget if fully implemented would require us to retreat from the world diplomatically. or put people at risk. you have a lot of benghazi s in the making if this thing became law. state farm officials are confident that this provides enough funding for security aberrations. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he expects congress to largely ignore the president s proposed cuts to the state department and foreign aid. james was marked rich edson, stocking foggy bottom force tonight. thank you. republican congressman tom macarthur of new jersey is resigning as cochair of the tuesday group. that s the cluster of g.o.p. moderates who helped push the health care reform package to the house. macarthur said that some of the group seem unwilling to copper mines. two american astronauts completed urgent repairs has had the international space station today. veteran commander peggy would sing and rookie jack fisher