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« Reply #1424 on: May 18, 2023, 08:22:32 AM »
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« Reply #1425 on: May 18, 2023, 08:48:52 AM »
Right wing propagandists were pushing their usual disinformation saying "President Biden didn't have a plan" after Title 42 expired.

Of course, Biden had a plan, and it's working. Unlawful border crossings dropped more than 56% since President Biden’s plan went into effect. Once again, this data debunks the right wing manufactured "open border" lie.   

Now, Texas Governor Abbott is rallying other governors to “fight" border crossings going down.

Republicans don’t want the border to get better. They want chaos as usual so they can blame Biden for it. And these right wingers are trying to do that after Biden's plan cut unlawful border crossings by 56%.


Texas Gov. Abbott asks governors to fight Biden asylum rules
https://thehill.com/latino/4008326-texas-gov-abbott-asks-governors-to-fight-biden-asylum-rules/


DHS official: Border encounters continue to fall 56% since Title 42 ended



Since the lifting of the pandemic-era Title 42 immigration policy last week, the Department of Homeland Security has seen a steady decline in encounters at the Southwest border between migrants and Border Patrol agents, officials said Wednesday.

Blas Nuñez-Neto, DHS’ assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, told reporters there has been an average of about 4,400 encounters over the past four days — and fewer than 4,000 each of the last two days. That amounts to a 56%
drop.

U.S. officials have been stressing that the border is not open and urging migrants who want to enter the U.S. to apply for legal pathways, which have been expanded, using a mobile app. Officials have warned that those who attempt to go around the system will face severe consequences — swift deportation, a five-year ban if they have no legal basis to enter the U.S. and criminal prosecution if they attempt to cross the border again.

“This transition is the culmination of nearly two years of preparation and a whole-of-government approach to return to traditional Title 8 immigration processing,” Nuñez-Neto said.

Since Friday, thousands of migrants, including single adults and families, have been returned to Mexico and other countries, Nuñez-Neto said.

He added that the number of encounters with Venezuelan nationals is down 98% since last week to fewer than 50 a day over the past three days. Daily encounters with people from Mexico have fallen from 1,900 a day to 1,000, while encounters with Colombians have declined from 1,400 to around 500.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/immigration/2023/05/17/dhs-official--border-encounters-continue-to-fall-since-title-42-ended

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« Reply #1426 on: May 19, 2023, 03:41:34 AM »
Rep. Jamaal Bowman calls out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for racist tropes after she claims to ‘feel threatened’ by him



NEW YORK — U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman Thursday accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of promoting racist tropes about Black men after she claimed to have felt “threatened” by his “physical mannerisms” during an argument on the steps of the Capitol.

Bowman, a Bronx Democrat who is Black, said Greene was spewing racist dog whistles when she claimed he should be monitored because she believes he acted “aggressively” during a verbal confrontation a day earlier.

“Black men continue to be characterized as aggressive and threatening when we are passionate and outspoken,” Bowman tweeted. “They’re not just using dog whistles, they’re using bullhorns.”

Greene earlier Thursday made no effort to hide her thoughts about Bowman, a former Bronx middle school principal.

"His physical mannerisms are aggressive,” Greene, who represents a deep-red rural Georgia district, said at an unrelated Capitol Hill press conference.“I think there’s a lot of concern about Jamaal Bowman. And I am concerned about it. I feel threatened by him.”

The two lawmakers were picking up where they left off the evening before with a war of words outside the Capitol.

The caught-on video confrontation started with Bowman and other progressive lawmakers heckling scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos, who escaped a possible expulsion vote when fellow Republicans referred his indictment to the ethics committee for a probe.

Bowman told Greene that the Republican Party needs to move away from right-wing radicalism.

“No more QAnon, no more MAGA, no more debt-ceiling nonsense,” he said.

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'Nonsensical and dangerous': GOP strategist rips Marjorie Taylor Greene for racist tirade



Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spurred a fresh wave of outrage on Thursday by invoking racist tropes to portray fellow Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) as aggressive and threatening, and claimed that people referring to her as a white supremacist are being as offensive as using the N-word.

Speaking to CNN that evening, Republican strategist Rina Shah laid into Greene.

"I want to ask you, Rina, what you made of that," said anchor Sara Sidner. "You know, we know from reporting, from CNN and everyone else's reporting, that Greene repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2016 — sorry, 2018, 2019, before she was elected to Congress. And now she's making this accusation that just didn't seem credible."

"Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here for someone who's sitting in a member of Congress' post," said Shah. "It's almost shocking to me. I'm a two-time senior congressional staffer over a decade ago. But I'll tell you, this was fast how we got here. To see this kind of extremism and a sitting member of Congress weaponize their words on the regular. But what she thinks somebody else is doing, the tactics she employs are not just nonsensical, it's dangerous, because it's whataboutism and it's wrapped up in racism. She doesn't reflect the views of white conservative women in this country."

Further, Shah continued, "the more she continues this, we'll be able to see her real ambition."

"I think we see some of it," said Shah. "She does these events because she fundraises off of them. You don't see any of her colleagues, the ones that look like her, woman of the GOP, in the House chamber, rushing to her defense. Because what I saw in that incident was a heated discussion between two colleagues. Was it civil? I think it was. But what it indicated is that she and many others, also on the other side of the aisle — I'm not going to say it's in equal amounts or the same way — but I want to say that we do see this declining civility in the body of Congress. That is most dangerous for us because that indicates higher levels of — they're going to get less stuff done, and higher dissatisfaction with Congress."

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« Reply #1427 on: May 19, 2023, 08:41:22 AM »
Ron DeSantis just cost Florida a lot of jobs and revenue because of his fascist agenda. 


Disney cancels $1 billion development project in Orlando — costing Florida 2,000 jobs



The potential creation of over 2,000 jobs in the city of Orlando has been scrapped as Disney continues to feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, The New York Times reported.

Disney’s chief executive Bob Iger and the company's theme park and consumer products chairman Josh D’Amaro have pulled the plug on a nearly $1 billion office complex that was scheduled to be built in Orlando -- a project that would have brought over 2,000 jobs with high salaries.

"The project, known as the Lake Nona Town Center, was supposed to involve the relocation of more than 1,000 employees from Southern California, including most of a department known as Imagineering, which works with Disney’s movie studios to develop theme park attractions," The Times' report stated. "Most of the affected employees complained bitterly about having to move — some quit — but Disney largely held firm, partly because of a Florida tax credit that would have allowed the company to recoup as much as $570 million over 20 years for building and occupying the complex."

In an email to employees this Thursday, D’Amaro’s cited “changing business conditions” as the reason for the project's cancellation.

As The Times' points out, the company's ongoing feud with DeSantis "figured prominently" into the project's cancellation.

The feud between Disney and DeSantis began when the company spoke out against Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law which put restrictions on classroom discussions about sex and gender.

Florida legislators have since then targeted the company with a variety of measures that include ending its ability to self-govern its 25,000-acre resort as if it were a county, and by giving DeSantis control over government services at the resort.

Read the full report over at The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/business/disney-ron-desantis-florida.html



GOP Rep. Clay Higgins Manhandles Activist At Press Conference

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GOP congressman accused of assaulting activist previously threatened demonstrators with violence



U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, a far-right wing Republican from Louisiana, is being highly-criticized after viral video appeared to show him physically pushing and removing a young man from a Washington, D.C, press conference hosted by far-right GOP members of Congress Loren Boebert and Paul Gosar. Higgins, who previously has threatened protestors, is now being accused of assault by the man, who could be heard in the clip saying, “you’re hurting me.”

The man Rep. Higgins removed, 25-year-old Jake Burdett, posted video of himself asking pointed questions to both Boebert and Gosar, interrupting the small gathering.

“I figured I’d ask them some tough questions,” Burdett told The Daily Beast. “Bird-dog them, whatever you want to call it."

“Rep. Gosar, can you talk about when you did that rally with the neo-Nazi, Nick Fuentes? Can you talk about when your family did a ad all endorsing your opponent?” Burdett says in the video. “Representative Boebert, can you talk about your divorce? Did it have anything to do with giving food poisoning to Shooter’s Bar and Grill?”

Seconds later, Congressman Higgins apparently grabs Burdett, and tells him, “No. You’re out. You’re out.”

As he grabs him, Burdett says, “Aren’t you a congressperson, touching me?” and then, “Get off me! You’re hurting me!”

The Daily Beast reports, “Burdett wasn’t injured in the incident, he told The Daily Beast. But he felt ‘scared, intimidated, powerless, defenseless.’ He couldn’t exactly push back, he added later in an interview. ‘Like, who do I think the cops are going to crack down on: me, or the congressperson?'”

Video taken by Kristy Fogle, which offers a clear view of Higgins grabbing and pushing Burdett has gone viral with over 9 million views.

In the background someone can be heard saying, “Get this on video, this is assault.”

Burdett seems to think so too. On social media he asked if any attorneys thought it was, and one called it, “assault, battery, and a potential civil rights violation.”

Burdett also posted videos he apparently recorded. On Twitter he says, “Rep Clay Higgins proceeded to assault/physically remove me from the press conference.”

So who is U.S. Congressman Clay Higgins?

Before he was a member of Congress, Higgins was a law enforcement officer, which might explain why he is defending his actions by accusing Burdett of appearing threatening and mentally unstable.

In a statement to KATC, Higgins said, “Activist was a 103M. Threatening. He was escorted out and turned over to Capitol Police. Textbook.”

One website defines 103M as “Disturbance by mental person.”

But Higgins is a U.S. Congressman, not a physician, not a mental health professional, not a law enforcement officer in Washington D.C., and it’s unclear why he would be authorized to diagnose or physically remove someone exercising their First Amendment rights.

A damning September 2020 Buzzfeed News article reveals Congressman Higgins had ties to the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that just months later would go on to play a role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Oath Keepers founder and leader, Stewart Rhodes, in November of 2022 was convicted of seditious conspiracy, along with eight other members of that group.

“Facebook removed two posts from a Republican member of Congress representing Louisiana,” Buzzfeed News reported in 2020, referring to Higgins, “in which he threatened demonstrators against police violence, suggesting he would shoot and ‘drop any 10 of you where you stand’ if they took to the street armed.”

“If this shows up, we’ll consider the armed presence a real threat,” Higgins wrote on his personal, verified “Captain Clay Higgins” Facebook page, Buzzfeed reported, noting his post included “a picture of an armed Black militia group that has protested the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.”

“We don’t care what color you are. We don’t care if you’re left or right. If you show up like this, if We recognize threat… you won’t walk away.”

In that Facebook post Higgins also wrote, “I wouldn’t even spill my beer. … We are SWAT. Nothing personal. We just eliminate the threat. … That’s not a challenge, fellas. It’s a promise.”

“You’re the ones threatening, if you show yourselves, aggressively natured and armed in my presence,” he also wrote. “We don’t want to see your worthless *ss nor do we want to make your Mothers cry.”

Buzzfeed states that “Higgins did not explicitly threaten to shoot protesters, but seemed to make reference to it in his post by writing ‘1,450 fps’ – a reference to the speed of some ammo measured by feet per second.”

This screenshot appears to be the post Facebook deleted.

It was curious for Higgins to threaten violence against the protesters, essentially for being armed, because Louisiana is an open-carry state. In fact, Higgins is so devoted to the Second Amendment, in 2021 he declared his opposition to all gun control laws because murder is in the Bible, while appearing to suggest it is in man’s nature to kill, and that America is a Christian nation.

Meanwhile, Buzzfeed also reported, “On July 29, 2017, Higgins appeared at a DC event organized by Oath Keepers, a group that claims to have tens of thousands of members and has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a radical anti-government group.”

“Higgins is a former law enforcement officer and was a member of a SWAT team. He resigned from the Opelousas Police Department in 2007 after an internal investigation accused him of using unnecessary force on a suspect (he has since denied that was the reason for his resignation),” Buzzfeed adds.

Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Bureau’s Counterintelligence Division, Pete Strzok, on Wednesday responded to video of Higgins by saying, “Same guy who quit being a patrol officer before he could be disciplined for using unnecessary force on a subject (‘striking a subject in handcuffs’) and then lying about it.”

Up until recently, Higgins was possibly best known, while in Congress, for shooting a selfie political video inside the Auschwitz gas chamber.

As NCRM previously reported, Higgins last year was one of 33 Republicans sponsoring a federal, vigilante “Don’t Say Gay” bill. He was one of 28 House Republicans who refused to vote for the bipartisan Respect for Child Survivors Act, which would aid victims of child sex abuse and their families.

This year he became one of 26 Republicans on the House Oversight Committee who refused to sign a simple, two-sentence statement denouncing white supremacy.

Just last month Congressman Higgins voiced opposition to the separation of church and state, while attacking liberal Americans and, seemingly the LGBTQ community along with one of the cornerstones of American democracy.

“Over time,” Higgins tweeted, “American communities will build beautiful, church owned public-access libraries. I’m going to help these churches get funding. We will change the whole public library paradigm. The libraries regular Americans recall are gone. They’ve become liberal grooming centers.”

And one month before that, in March, Congressman Higgins promoted the idea of using the power of the federal government to assist and support someone who was under investigation and later charged with 34 felonies.

“It is pretty clearly a wrongful persecution of a free American citizen who happens to be the former president of the United States,” Rep. Higgins told The Daily Beast, referring to Donald Trump. “Because of those circumstances, I think it’s appropriate for Congress to inquire into what drove that decision-making process for [Manhattan DA Alvin] Bragg.”

A Change.org petition with over 1000 signatures is asking for Congressman Higgins to be charged with assault.

https://www.rawstory.com/clay-higgins/

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« Reply #1428 on: May 19, 2023, 09:04:43 AM »
So much for the false propaganda that Biden has "low poll numbers". Biden easily beats Trump in this 2024 Republican poll with even bigger victory than in 2020. 3 new polls show Biden winning by a wide margin, and the so called "liberal media" isn't even talking about it,  but they spent last week hyping a bogus outlier poll that didn't even poll registered or likely voters.   




Biden stretches lead over Trump as independents turn away from former president

Joe Biden has increased his lead over Donald Trump according to a new opinion poll that says the president would expand his 2020 margin of victory over the former president Trump if a rematch were held now.

The poll showed independent voters backing Biden by 14 percentage points, up from the nine percentage points by which the Democrats won independents three years ago.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/1771650/Biden-leads-Trump-independents-snub-former-president

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« Reply #1429 on: May 19, 2023, 09:22:49 AM »
President Biden @POTUS

We've arrived in Japan.
 
I look forward to further strengthening the U.S.-Japan Alliance — the cornerstone of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific and around the world.

It's a pleasure seeing my friend Prime Minister Kishida Fumio again.

Last year in Japan, Prime Minister Kishida said to me: “We are two nations that share fundamental values.”

I couldn’t agree with him more.

These shared Democratic values are the source of our strength, our Alliance, and our ability to deliver for all our people.




https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1659226086515920897


My thanks to the men and women of the United States Military and the Japan Self-Defense Forces for a warm welcome.






Together with Prime Minister @kishida230, the United States and Japan are working toward a more peaceful and prosperous Indo-Pacific.
 
Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your partnership – we’re proud to stand with you.

The United States-Japan partnership will help guarantee a more peaceful and stable world for future generations.




https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1659243702676488192


It was great to meet with Prime Minister Kishida again to advance cooperation on the challenges facing our nations and globe.

We’re strengthening our partnerships on technology, clean energy, and our supply chains – and our economies and people will be better off for it.


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« Reply #1430 on: May 20, 2023, 08:43:00 AM »
Trump always feuded with major American companies. But it was always just for show, a distraction. DeSantis thought he was copying Trump by feuding with Disney. What DeSantis didn't understand is that if you actually draw blood, a major corporation like Disney will bite back.

From day one DeSantis has been trying to copy the Trump playbook without understanding it. The Trump playbook is fairly useless to begin with, given that it led to Trump losing in 2020 by seven million votes. But DeSantis can't even replicate Trump's limited success with it.

It's not that difficult to understand why Trump used the strategies that he did, why those strategies worked to the extent that they did, and why they stopped working for Trump as time went on. But DeSantis doesn't appear to grasp any of that.

Ron DeSantis is a dummy with zero political savvy who can't even figure out how to copy the simplistic moves of his one-trick pony predecessor. This isn't something new; he's been this far over in his head from the start.

The astounding part continues to be that the entire mainstream media (on both sides) spent a couple years excitedly portraying DeSantis as if he were a smarter and more disciplined version of Trump. All you had to do was watch DeSantis to know all along that this was never true.


'No one is afraid of him': Opponents say DeSantis is not considered a serious challenger



Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to formally launch his presidential campaign next week, has tried to cast the Republican primary race as a two-man contest between himself and former President Donald Trump — a sentiment backed by national polling that suggests DeSantis is an underdog but the only candidate with double digit numbers consistently against the former president.

But according to Rolling Stone, other Republican presidential hopefuls aren't interested in bowing out to let DeSantis face Trump alone.

"Just Thursday, [DeSantis] told donors ... that 'you have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing,' meaning, 'Biden, Trump, and me. And I think of those three, two have a chance to get elected president: Biden and me,'" wrote Asawin Suebsaeng and Patrick Reis. However, "According to seven GOP operatives and pollsters supporting 2024 contenders other than Trump or DeSantis, the other contenders — including declared and likely candidates such as Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, and Chris Christie — now believe DeSantis is, in their estimations, 'a paper tiger' whose less-than-stellar performance in his 'shadow campaign' has convinced them he can be torn down as the 'only' non-Trump alternative. And that belief, the operatives say, has only grown in recent weeks, as DeSantis’ poll numbers have wavered."

One GOP donor put his opinion on DeSantis bluntly in conversation with Rolling Stone: "No one is afraid of him."

"Despite Team DeSantis’ repeated vows that this is not 2016, it appears the other 2024 Republicans are banking on a primary melee that looks exactly like what the Florida governor wants to avoid," said the report. "'The spring and early summer after [DeSantis’ 2024] announcement will generate some positive headlines and calm down some donor nerves, but the candidate’s retail skills and relatability and organizational issues — which have all been raised to date — probably aren’t going to get fixed in that span,' says one operative linked to a Super PAC backing a different 2024 GOP contender. 'The best-funded, most competent political organization in the world can’t make up for the fundamental limitations of the candidate. That is why a lot of people in this business have been DeSantis skeptics for a long time.'"

This comes amid a number of controversies for DeSantis, including his enactment of an extreme abortion ban that goes further than restrictions that are already torturing women in his state, and a retaliatory war against Disney that has led to the state canceling thousands of jobs and $1 billion in investment.

Read More Here: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ron-desantis-2024-presidential-campaign-donald-trump-mike-pence-unafraid-1234738569/



Top Budget Democrat slams 'pro-default' House Freedom Caucus as GOP halts debt ceiling talks



Hours after the far-right House Freedom Caucus demanded that Speaker Kevin McCarthy call off debt ceiling talks with President Joe Biden, GOP negotiators did just that on Friday as the two sides remained at an impasse over federal spending—which Republicans want to slash deeply—and other issues.

"It's time to press pause because it's just not productive," Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), McCarthy's handpicked lead negotiator, told reporters Friday without saying when or whether talks would resume.

McCarthy (R-Calif.) echoed Graves, saying, "Yeah, we've got to pause."

An unnamed White House official told the Associated Press Friday that additional talks "will be difficult" given the two sides' "real differences."

The abrupt halt to negotiations, which had yet to yield much if any substantive progress, came at a pivotal moment, with the June 1 "X-date" less than two weeks away.

"The nation is days away from a disastrous default crisis and the extreme MAGA Majority is splintering into camps of the unreasonable and the absurd," said Liz Zelnick, director of economic security and corporate power at the progressive group Accountable US.

"Republicans have made it clear they will hold the world economy hostage unless President Biden gives in to their demands."

Members of the House Freedom Caucus, a faction of dozens of Republicans that nearly denied McCarthy the speakership earlier this year, have signaled that they won't accept anything less than the extreme legislation the House GOP passed late last month.

If approved, that bill would impose devastating cuts to federal spending and kick millions of people off of federal nutrition assistance, Medicaid, rental assistance, and other programs while only raising the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion—or suspending it through March 2024.

"House Republicans did our job on debt ceiling," the Freedom Caucus tweeted Thursday. "It's time for President Biden and Senate Democrats to do theirs and pass the Limit, Save, Grow Act."

But the legislation in its current form has no chance of passing the Senate, which is narrowly controlled by Democrats. Progressives in the House and Senate have said they won't support any deal that includes the GOP's regressive spending caps or additional work requirements for federal aid programs.

Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said in response to the Freedom Caucus' statement that the far-right GOP faction is "pro-default," adding that "these MAGA extremists will not rest until they've either turned America into a deadbeat nation or imposed cruel cuts on American families."

"This is exactly why I filed a discharge petition to ensure we can avoid default, pay our bills, and save our economy," Boyle added.

But Boyle's discharge petition, which would force a House floor vote on legislation to raise the debt ceiling, is also a longshot solution to the Republican-induced crisis given that it needs at least five GOP votes.

"Let's be clear: this did not have to happen," Boyle said in a statement earlier this week. "By taking our economy hostage and refusing to address the debt ceiling, MAGA extremists have forced Congress to consider other pathways to meet our constitutional obligation—something Congress has done more than 100 times before on a bipartisan basis, including three times in the previous administration."

As an alternative to legislative action, nearly a dozen senators led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are imploring Biden to get ready to invoke the 14th Amendment to avert a debt default, warning that Republicans aren't negotiating in good faith and are willing to wreck the global economy in pursuit of punishing austerity.

Biden aides are reportedly concerned about the legal fight that would certainly ensue if the president attempted to use his executive authority to end the standoff.

But Sanders reiterated his 14th Amendment message on Friday, writing on Twitter that "Republicans have made it clear they will hold the world economy hostage unless President Biden gives in to their demands."

"Instead," Sanders added, "he should prepare to use the 14th Amendment to ensure we pay our debts and protect working families who are already struggling."

https://www.rawstory.com/top-budget-democrat-slams-pro-default-house-freedom-caucus-as-gop-halts-debt-ceiling-talks/

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« Reply #1431 on: May 20, 2023, 08:56:09 AM »
President Biden @POTUS

Today, my fellow G7 Leaders and I paid a visit to Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park where we paid our respects.

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1659612416756400143


The G7 Leaders remain resolved to continue to stand with the Ukrainian people in the face of Putin’s war of choice against their sovereign nation.

In lockstep with my fellow G7 Leaders, we’ve placed on Russia the largest set of sanctions and export control actions ever imposed on a major economy.

Today, we're taking more action – disrupting Russia's ability to source inputs for its war, closing evasion loopholes, restricting their access to the international finance system, and reducing reliance on Russian energy.

Over the last fifteen months, the G7 has stood in solidarity with Ukraine – cutting Russia’s war machine off from key technologies and financing around the globe.
 
And today, the G7's solidarity with Ukraine is even stronger now than it was last year.




https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1659684104277729281


The G7 is more united than ever.





https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1659702979614629888