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This was predictable. Any chance Democrats have to raise Marjorie Taylor Greene’s profile, they seize it with both hands. That’s why they stripped her of her committee assignments despite knowing that the GOP will retaliate once it has a House majority again. With Trump momentarily keeping a lower profile, they need a righty populist whom they can hold up to suburban voters and say, “You don’t really want to support a party that protects this crazy person, do you?”
So they’ll make as much as hay out of Greene’s latest insanity as they can, even if it means the GOP spending the next few weeks replying, “What about Ilhan Omar?”
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
12:58 P.M. EDT
MS. PSAKI: Hi everyone. Happy Friday. All right. So, today, we have another special guest it’s quite a week with special guests; our seventh of the week Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Cecilia Rouse, a member of the President’s Families Cabinet.
This is not her first time in the briefing room, but, as a quick introduction, she is a renowned labor economist who recently served as Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She previously served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama-Biden Administration, where I had the pleasure of working with her, and on the National Economic Council in the Clinton Administration. She is the first African American and just the fourth woman to lead the CEA in the 74 years of its existence.
On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for May 15, 2021, we recap the last week of the state legislative session with The Post and Courier's Jamie Lovegrove and The State's Maayan Schechter, look at the latest COVID-19 numbers in the state, and more.
ACLU of SC sues Gov. McMaster for ordering state employees to return to offices Joseph Bustos, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Apr. 6 COLUMBIA, S.C. The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina on Tuesday sued Gov. Henry McMaster for ordering state agencies to bring back all workers to the office immediately as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
According to the lawsuit, filed in state court, McMaster s order exceeds his authority and will disproportionately harm women, people with disabilities, caregivers and Black people. The ACLU asked for a court to stop the order.
Last month, McMaster called on state agencies to bring state employees back as COVID-19 vaccine distribution picked up and new COVID-19 cases dropped off in recent months.