Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) rejected a push by her fellow Democrats for the Biden administration to ignore a ruling banning an abortion drug.
Appearing on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/04/16/sotu-gillibrand-full-interview.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of the Union</a>&#8221; Sunday, Gillibrand rejected calls from her New York colleague, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY), who last week called for the administration to ignore a federal judge&#8217;s ruling in Texas who suspended the FDA&#8217;s approval for the abortifacient drug mifepristone.
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to ignore the rule of law,&#8221; said Gillibrand. &#8220;And we have a court system and an appeals system for a reason. So I think the Biden administration is correct in actually fighting this in the Supreme Court. Whether we win or not in the Supreme Court doesn&#8217;t mean that&#8217;s our last effort. We will go state by state to guarantee reproductive freedom.&#8221;
At the same time, Gillibrand blasted the Supreme Court over its previous rulings on abortion.
&#8220;When you take away 50 percent of America&#8217;s right to privacy, to say women don&#8217;t have it during their reproductive years, it is such an overstretch and an outrageous statement that I think, when people wake up to the reality of what this means for a conservative court where they believe they should impose their views of the world, their religious beliefs, their views on health care, on the FDA&#8217;s decision of 20 years ago of a drug that has been deemed very safe?&#8221;
Earlier this month, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-in-texas-suspends-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-used-in-up-to-half-of-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal judge</a> in Texas blocked the FDA&#8217;s approval for mifepristone, claiming it had acted too quickly and without sufficient testing. Appearing on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; last Sunday, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/04/09/sotu-ocasio-cortez-full.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ocasio-Cortez</a> called for the Biden administration to ignore the ruling.
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“There is an extraordinary amount of precedent for this,&#8221; she told host Dana Bash. &#8220;There is a term known as agency non-acquiescence, and this has been used. And for folks saying this is a first, that this is precedent-setting, it is not.”
&#8220;[T]he courts rely on the legitimacy of their rulings. And when they make a mockery of our system, a mockery of our democracy and a mockery of our law as what we just saw happen in this mifepristone ruling, then I believe that that the executive branch and we know that the executive branch has an enforcement discretion,” she added. &#8220;I do not believe that the courts have the authority over the FDA that they just asserted.”
The Fifth Circuit blocked the Texas judge&#8217;s decision but re-imposed stricter requirements on the distribution of mifepristone. On Friday, the Supreme Court blocked the Fifth Circuit&#8217;s ruling until 11:59 P.M. this Wednesday. According to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/14/supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-abortion-pill-restrictions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC</a>, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to block the rules, or re-impose them, while it hears the Biden administration&#8217;s appeal to the Fifth Circuit&#8217;s ruling. The Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling could significantly restrict access to the drug nationwide.

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The owner of a restaurant in upstate New York blasted U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for hypocrisy on the state&#8217;s COVID-19 mask mandate, after she entered the restaurant without a mask on.
John LaPosta, the owner and head chef of Innovo Kitchen, based in Latham, New York, made the comments in a post on the restaurant&#8217;s Instagram page Friday.
“The problem with NY politics in a nut shell,&#8221; LaPosta wrote. &#8220;My Senator blowing past my manager before she can even ask her to put a mask on. Walking right past a really big sign that says &#8216;masks required to enter&#8217; The masks are a mandate from the Governor. As good citizens, agree or not, we must follow our leaders. Her guest is graciously wearing one. I guess Senator Gillibrand thinks that the Governor is wrong or she is special and above the rules.&#8221;
LaPosta tagged the CDC, as well as several local journalists and news outlets, at the end of the post. The post included video from a security camera showing Gillibrand walking into the restaurant without a mask on, while the guest, who is wearing a mask, follows her briefly before apparently stopping at the host desk to check in.
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In addition to the signs inside, the home page of <a href="https://innovokitchen.com/">Innovo Kitchen&#8217;s website</a> has a section notifying customers that the statewide mask mandate was reinstated on December 13, 2021. &#8220;All staff must wear masks and all customers must wear masks anytime they are not seated,&#8221; the website reads.
Speaking to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/kirsten-gillibrand-walks-maskless-through-ny-restaurant/">New York Post</a>, LaPosta knocked Gillibrand for her hypocrisy. “Gillibrand is part of the system that put the mask mandate in place,&#8221; he said. &#8220;She thinks she’s above the law.”
“It’s hypocritical to me. The arrogance is just breathtaking. Our politicians should be with us, not against us,” he added.
LaPosta also said that Gillibrand&#8217;s flouting of the mask rules will make it harder to enforce them in the future. “People will say, ‘If Gillibrand is not wearing a mask, why should I wear a mask,’” he said. He added that he believed Gillibrand owed his staff and apology.
Gillibrand issued a statement acknowledging her wrongdoing late Friday. “We all need to do our part to help stop the spread of Omicron and that means following state and local guidance,&#8221; Gillibrand said in a statement, via the New York Post. &#8220;That includes me and I will do better going forward.&#8221;
The Democratic Governor of New York reimposed the statewide mask mandate on December 10, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gestapo-tactics-at-least-13-counties-tell-hochul-they-wont-enforce-her-mask-mandate">The Daily Wire</a> reported. “Governor Kathy Hochul today announced masks will be required to be worn in all indoor public places unless businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement,” the governor’s office said in a press release at the time.
The New York Post reported that failures by businesses to enforce the mandate would be punished by a fine of up to $1,000.
The order is expected to be &#8220;<a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-major-action-address-winter-surge-and-prevent-business-disruption">reassessed</a>&#8221; Saturday, per the governor’s office. As of the publication of this article, there has been no decision made publicly available.

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Although Hunter Biden’s laptop has led millions of Americans to question Joe Biden’s integrity, the president is far from the only politician listed as a potential target for the Bidens’ influence-peddling operation, according to an investigative journalist familiar with the laptop’s contents. Biden’s associates bragged about their close relationship with “senior political figures” in the U.S. and foreign “oligarchs,” including current Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), and many others. Democratic Party royalty on both coasts find their names dropped during the Biden family’s business deals with foreign nations, she says.
And, she charges, when Hunter’s foreign business contacts demanded a list of “deliverables,” then-Vice President Joe Biden sprang into action.
The explosive revelations come from the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President/dp/163758105X">Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide</a>, written by <a href="https://nypost.com/author/miranda-devine/">New York Post columnist</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine">Miranda Devine</a>.
Former Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski tried to hammer out a $10 million deal between the China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC) — which was led by an intimate associate of Chinese President Xi Jinping — and the company he and Hunter formed, SinoHawk.
In return for the Chinese agreeing to put up the Americans’ half of the $10 million investment capital, Bobulinski promised that he and Hunter Biden would produce “strong and easily definable relationship[s] between our key U.S. executive(s) and their relations in the target country with the following persons: a. senior political figures; b. royal family and/or aristocracy if they exist; c. dominant commercial/business figures and/or oligarchs.”
Then, Bobulinski named names. A document related to the CEFC deal, titled “Key domestic contacts for phase one target projects,” includes “Democratic luminaries from around the country, including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris are listed,” writes Devine. The document describes Newsom, who was then mayor of San Francisco, as “Hunter’s friend.”
Previous foreign business deals show how far Hunter Biden was willing to go to please his investors, Devine writes — especially his relationship with the owner of Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky, who paid Hunter $83,333 a month during Joe Biden’s tenure as Barack Obama’s vice president. As a Ukrainian investigation into Burisma heated up in 2015, the company ratcheted up pressure on the Bidens.
Burisma demanded Hunter Biden sign off on “a list of deliverables&#8230;a concrete course of actions, incl. meetings/communications resulting in high-ranking US officials in Ukraine (US Ambassador) and in US publicly or in private communication/comment expressing their ‘positive opinion’ and support of Nikolay [Zlochevsky]/Burisma to the highest level of decision makers here in Ukraine: President of Ukraine, president Chief of staff, Prosecutor General, etc,” wrote Zlochevsky’s lieutenant, Vadym Pozharskyi, in an email on November 2, 2015.
He insisted the “scope of work should also include organization of a visit of a number of widely recognized and influential current and/or former US policy-makers to Ukraine … with the ultimate purpose to close down any cases/pursuits against [Burisma] in Ukraine.”
Faced with an ultimatum, Hunter delivered. Devine writes:
<blockquote>The following month, [then-Vice President] Joe [Biden] flew to Kyiv and again addressed the Ukrainian parliament on December 8, 2015. He slammed the “cancer of corruption” in the country and declared: “The Office of the General Prosecutor desperately needs reform.” </blockquote>
With such a history, Bobulinski’s pitch implies the Chinese will receive powerful advocacy, but the laptop shows that they already had. Jim Biden wrote to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fall-of-andrew-cuomo-how-an-empire-built-on-fear-came-crashing-down">then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo</a> (D) to set up a meeting with Hunter and CEFC Executive Director Zang Jianjun. Jim also arranged for Zang’s daughter, Rouqui, to receive prompt admission to New York City’s Horace Mann School, an elite private school. (She opts against attending.)
Aside from domestic Democrats, Hunter Biden also appears willing to milk his connections with foreign political leaders around the world, Devine writes:
<blockquote>Also cited [in the CEFC documents] are “foreign friends” who can be tapped for Belt and Road development projects. They include Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos; Argentina’s president, Mauricio Macri; Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister), Enda Kenny; and the richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani. 
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The document also says that SinoHawk’s partners had already “engaged in-country contacts” in Argentina, Belgium, France, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates, according to the book.
Zang will ultimately sign the $10 million contract that Bobulinski sends on Biden’s behalf. But CEFC does not fund SinoHawk, as Hunter Biden will step in to offer a side deal that ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-hunter-bidens-allegedly-lucrative-arrangement-with-china-energy-fund-committee">diverts nearly $6 million</a> into the pockets of himself and his uncle, Jim Biden.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, reportedly called two Republican Senators on their personal phones and lobbied them to support paid family leave. 
According to POLITICO, Markle, who is targeting both Democrats and Republicans, called Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) to urge them to support paid family leave provisions in the Biden administration’s “Build Back Better” spending bill. 
“I’m in my car. I’m driving. It says caller ID blocked. Honestly … I thought it was Sen. Manchin. His calls come in blocked. And she goes &#8216;Sen. Capito?&#8217; I said, &#8216;Yes.&#8217; She said, &#8216;This is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.”&#8230; “I couldn’t figure out how she got my number.”
Collins was equally shocked. “[M]uch to my surprise,” Collins told <a href="https://twitter.com/marianne_levine/status/1455933132805492745?s=20">Politico’s Marianne LeVine and The New York Times’s Emily Cochrane</a>. “&#8230; [S]he called me on my private line and she introduced herself as the Duchess of Sussex, which is kind of ironic.”
“[I] was happy to talk with her. But I’m more interested in what the people of Maine are telling me about it.” 
The calls, according to Politico, were facilitated by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), an outspoken <a href="https://twitter.com/gillibrandny/status/1455921196999094277?s=20">advocate</a> for paid family leave. Gillibrand said she gave the duchess the phone numbers. 
&#8220;I talked to each of the women senators and let them know that she&#8217;s going to reach out, because she only completed two of the calls,&#8221; she said. &#8220;She&#8217;s going to call some others, so I let them know in advance.&#8221;
&#8220;She wants to be part of a working group to work on paid leave long term and she&#8217;s going to be. Whether this comes to fruition now or later, she&#8217;ll be part of a group of women that hopefully will work on paid leave together,&#8221; she added. 
News of the Duchess’s call comes as Democrats have <a href="https://twitter.com/marianne_levine/status/1455933132805492745?s=20">re-inserted</a> a paid family leave provision into the scaled-back $1.75 trillion social spending bill. 
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-asks-for-paid-family-medical-leave-to-be-included-in-spending-bill-hearing-after-cut">reported</a> Wednesday, Pelosi sent a <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11321-3">letter</a> to the members of her caucus, asking them to review the text of the Build Back Better Act, and asking the House Ways and Means Committee to take up the paid family leave provision. The letter reads in part:  
<blockquote>It had been my intention throughout this process to put on the House Floor and pass a bill that would pass the Senate in the same form.  Because I have been informed by a Senator of opposition to a few of the priorities contained in our bill and because we must have legislation agreed to by the House and the Senate in the final version of the Build Back Better Act that we will send to the President’s desk, we must strive to find common ground in the legislation.  As we are reviewing priorities and at the urging of many Members of the Caucus, I have asked the Ways and Means Committee for its legislation for Paid Family and Medical Leave to be included in this morning’s hearing.</blockquote>
Paid Family Leave still faces opposition from Capito’s Democratic colleague, Joe Manchin, also of West Virginia. As The Daily Wire reported Wednesday, Manchin’s opposition has previously forced the Biden administration to lower its paid family leave proposal from 12 weeks all the way down to four, before it was cut entirely from the framework outlined by the administration last week.

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called on Democrats Sunday to push forward with President Joe Biden’s partisan infrastructure package without gathering Republican support, calling it a &#8220;misstep&#8221; to wait on Republicans any longer. 
“I think the American people elected us to solve the problem of COVID, to rebuild the economy, rebuilding the infrastructure, and I think it’s the moment to act. I think we need a bold solution that does both the hard infrastructure — of roads, bridges, high-speed rail, rural internet — but also the softer infrastructure, the human infrastructure of paid family leave, affordable day-care, making sure our kids are back to school so that all parents can get back to work,” said the New York junior senator. 
Gillibrand, a former Democratic presidential candidate, refused to answer CNN host Jake Tapper’s question Sunday when he asked whether she believed Republicans have been negotiating an infrastructure deal in bad faith. She responded: “To me, it means we are about to miss the moment that we have to answer the need of this country.”
“People need government to work for them, and so we have to answer that moment with bold reforms. And I think waiting any longer for Republicans to do the right thing is a misstep. I would go forward,” she added. 
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s necessarily good will behind all negotiations,&#8221; says Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand when asked about negotiating with the GOP on infrastructure. &#8220;I think waiting any longer for Republicans to do the right thing is a misstep. I would go forward&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/LjBQNMWp9c">pic.twitter.com/LjBQNMWp9c</a>
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Gillibrand is one of many Democrats who have expressed frustration with Republicans’ refusal to go along with a massive infrastructure spending plan — particularly as Democrats continue to play loosely with the definition of infrastructure. 
The White House has proposed a $1.7 trillion infrastructure bill; a group of Republican senators have countered with a $928 billion plan. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki thanked the senators for the counter-offer last week but also took issue with other areas, such as the lack of new spending for building rail systems, repairing transit systems, and for so-called green infrastructure. 
Another major sticking point, suggested Psaki, was that most of the money for the Republican proposal was coming from non-new spending. In fact, the plan would create about a quarter of a billion dollars in new spending, far lower than Democrats want. 
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that the White House wants a &#8220;clear direction&#8221; as to where the infrastructure talks will lead by June 7, suggesting that the Biden administration may want to move on without Republican support, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-gives-gop-1-week-reach-deal-infrastructure-n1269148">reports</a> The Associated Press.
Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), a lead negotiator on the Republican side, said Sunday that she believes a deal can be reached.

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Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the two senators who represent New York, called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign late Friday, becoming the latest Democratic lawmakers to call for him to step down.
“Confronting and overcoming the Covid crisis requires sure and steady leadership. We commend the brave actions of the individuals who have come forward with serious allegations of abuse and misconduct,” said the two Democratic senators in a joint <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1370504097145708549">statement</a> Friday night. “Due to the multiple, credible sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, it is clear that Governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the people of New York. Governor Cuomo should resign.”
Schumer is the highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate, and Gillibrand, a former presidential candidate, was the first Democratic senator to call for former Minnesota Senator Al Franken to resign, back in 2017, following allegations of sexual misconduct. Franken, a Democrat, resigned at the beginning of 2018 and has since said he “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken">absolutely</a>” regrets doing so.
More than half of New York&#8217;s congressional delegation has also called on Cuomo to resign, including Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY).
“Governor Cuomo is guaranteed due process under law. Although his accusers are credible and the charges against him are serious indeed, the investigations under way by New York State Attorney General Letitia James and the Albany police must be permitted to run their course before we reach judgment about his liability for any alleged criminal act,” <a href="https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394565">said Nadler</a>. “But there is a difference between formal investigations that may end in criminal charges and a question of confidence in our political leadership. The question before us is squarely a political judgment.”
“Governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of the people of New York. Governor Cuomo must resign,” he added.
Cuomo told reporters during a conference call Friday afternoon that he doesn&#8217;t plan to resign, encouraged people to give him due process, and suggested he was a victim of Cancel Culture. “Serious allegations should be weighed seriously, right? That’s why they are called serious,” said Cuomo. “Politicians who don’t know a single fact but yet form a conclusion and an opinion are in my opinion reckless and dangerous.”
“People know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture and the truth. Let the review proceed. I am not going to resign. I was not elected by the politicians. I was elected by the people. Part of this is I am not part of the political club. And you know what? I’m proud of it,” he said.
Late last month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-NY) referred to the allegations against Cuomo &#8220;credible.&#8221; At the time of Pelosi&#8217;s statement, two former Cuomo administration employees had come forward with allegations of sexual harassment.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-gov-andrew-cuomo-refuses-to-resign-questions-motivations-of-accusers">Gov. Andrew Cuomo Refuses To Resign, Questions ‘Motivations’ Of Accusers</a>

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the failed 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate, <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1350879377781829641">suggested</a> Sunday morning that Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) may be the best person “alive in America today” to bring the country together and get things done in Congress.
During a press conference, Gillibrand praised Schumer, who is poised to take the reigns as Senate majority leader, as the ideal Senate counterpart to President-elect Joe Biden to handle the COVID-19 crisis and “the financial collapse corresponding” to the pandemic.
“Chuck Schumer understands states and communities all across this country better than anybody, he’s worked to get people elected in every part of this country — red, blue, and purple — and he understands that this country needs to heal, that we have to bring people together, that we have to get things done,” remarked Gillibrand.
The junior New York senator added: “I don’t think there’s a human being alive in America today that could do a better job than Chuck Schumer in this moment to bring this country back together again, to get things done, to get the economy moving. His life and dedication to public service has prepared him for this moment better than anyone, and so I am so optimistic that in this new Congress, we will be able to govern, we will be able to get resources to our cities, our states, our communities. We&#8217;ll be able to help people who have no jobs get jobs, we&#8217;ll be able to help families that are hungry get food, we&#8217;ll be able to help kids that don&#8217;t have resources, the tools they need to study and learn in school.&#8221;
&#8220;I see everything as possible now because of that one change. And so I just want Senator Schumer to understand that he is the right person at this time for this moment to deliver the relief that hopefully President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris will bring forward,&#8221; she said.
Schumer, who has served in the Senate since 1998, became the highest-ranking Democrat in the body after Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) retired in 2017. In light of the GOP’s senatorial losses in Georgia, Schumer will soon begin his first stint as Senate majority leader, which will mean Congress will be under complete Democratic control.
Biden, who assumes office on Wednesday, has vowed to send a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package to Congress that contains $1,400 stimulus checks, $3,500 child tax credits, and a $400 weekly unemployment benefits boost to last until late September. 
The president-elect also wants the relief package bill to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour. Although a $15 minimum wage has been a rallying cry among progressives for years, only states have enacted a $15 minimum wage. 
Back in 2019, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blocked a House-passed proposal to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr/status/1151885990862237697?s=20">saying</a> that such an increase would “kill jobs and depress the economy” in the midst of an economic boom. As <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/15/biden-stimulus-gop/">The Washington Post</a> notes, Democrats would need to gain 10 Republican votes in order to pass a federal minimum wage increase.

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Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), currently the youngest representative in the legislative branch, may be looking at even higher office in the future. 
During an interview with <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/becoming-aoc-cover-story-2020?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_brand=vf&amp;mbid=social_twitter&amp;utm_social-type=owned">Vanity Fair</a>, the democratic socialist congresswoman revealed that she doesn’t &#8220;know if I’m really going to be staying in the House forever, or if I do stay in the House, what that would look like.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t see myself really staying where I’m at for the rest of my life,&#8221; she added, which could simply imply seeking a congressional leadership position or moving beyond the House of Representatives. 
Back in January, <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/aoc-first-year-in-washington.html">New York Magazine</a> reported that “people close” to Ocasio-Cortez discussed her possibly running for mayor of New York City in 2021, as a successor to Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the idea was ruled out. 
While Ocasio-Cortez has drawn some buzz as a potential successor to either Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) or Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), comments she made to Vanity Fair suggest a role in a Democratic presidential administration. 
“I don’t want to aspire to a quote-unquote higher position just for the sake of that title or just for the sake of having a different or higher position. I truly make an assessment to see if I can be more effective. And so, you know, I don’t know if I could necessarily be more effective in an administration, but, for me that’s always what the question comes down to,” said the New York congresswoman. 
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Polling data from May 2020 suggests that Ocasio-Cortez could have a difficult time running a successful primary challenge against Schumer in 2022 or Gillibrand in 2024, at least, without a stronger shift in public opinion. 
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/no-sen-ocasio-cortez-crushed-by-schumer-gillibrand-in-poll">The Washington Examiner</a>, a New York poll conducted by Zogby showed Ocasio-Cortez losing a primary challenge to Schumer 54% to 21%. She fared better against Gillibrand, whose term expires in 2024, but still lost by 17 points. 
“The fact that Ocasio-Cortez is neck and neck with Gillibrand in NYC, and beating the former presidential candidate among younger voters, should be worrisome to the senator since many votes on a statewide level come from downstate, and Ocasio-Cortez has the name recognition to energize younger voters. Gillibrand should take note,” said the pollster, reported The Washington Examiner. 
However, the freshman congresswoman&#8217;s chance could certainly improve over time, particularly if the New York electorate develops an appetite for a candidate with a fresh face and a fiercely radical platform.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-democrats-must-take-senate-to-avoid-having-to-be-bipartisan-i-will-push-biden-further-left">AOC: Democrats Must Take Senate To Avoid Having To Be Bipartisan, I Will Push Biden Further Left</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-progressive-squad-already-making-demands-of-biden-transition-team-weeks-before-the-election">Ocasio-Cortez, Progressive ‘Squad’ Already Making Demands Of Biden Transition Team Weeks Before The Election</a>

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has continued her reign as one of the most hypocritical alleged feminists in all of politics.
During a recent interview with radio host Evan Dawson, Gillibrand was asked about the differences between the allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and those against de facto Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Gillibrand offered an answer full of misrepresentations about the allegations against Kavanaugh.
“There were multiple allegations against Brett Kavanaugh in various circumstances. Not only Dr. Blasey Ford’s allegations but several from his college days. Um, there was a similarity in the multiple allegations against him,” she told Dawson, who hosts a program called “Connections.” “Um, and he had a terrible record on supporting women and I opposed him based on his actual record and I did not believe his statements and so I think they’re very different. Also, Brett Kavanaugh was a Supreme Court Justice nominee for a lifetime appointment and my responsibility was to vote up or down and I voted against him on the merits of him not being qualified for that job.”
That’s a lot to unpack. There were multiple allegations against Kavanaugh, but they were all dubious. Some were flat out false. Ford couldn’t even remember the year the alleged sexual assault happened. She said she was in high school at the time, so it should have been easy to narrow down the year, yet she never could, alternating between the mid 80s to the early 80s. The people she named as being witnesses either couldn’t recall the event or denied it ever happened. Her own best friend said she couldn’t remember ever meeting Kavanaugh. Ford and her legal team then set the media on the old friend, accusing her of mental problems.
And there were not “several” allegations from Kavanaugh’s college days. There was one, which was also dubious. The woman didn’t even come to believe Kavanaugh was the one who exposed his penis to her at a dorm-room party until after she talked to Democrat lawyers. Another allegation from Kavanaugh’s college days came not from someone claiming to be a victim, but someone who claimed to have seen someone else push Kavanaugh’s penis toward a woman. That woman said she didn’t recall any such event.
There was also no similarity in the allegations. Gillibrand is an attorney, she should know what it takes for allegations to be considered similar. One allegation alleged Kavanaugh pushed a woman on a bed and groped her. Another said he dropped his pants and exposed his penis to a woman. Another said his penis was put into another woman’s hand by a third party. One of the false accusations said he organized teenage gang-rape parties. Another false accusation said he raped someone in a van.
Gillibrand’s claim about Kavanaugh not supporting women is purely political. He doesn’t support women the way she thinks he should, but her statement also makes it seem like it’s okay to sexually assault women so long as you adequately “support” them in their career. This applies to her endorsement of Biden. He may have been accused, but he’s passed policies that Gillibrand likes, so he can’t possibly be guilty. Never mind the fact there’s actual evidence that Biden met his accuser while there is exactly zero evidence Kavanaugh ever met Ford.
Gillibrand then claimed she actually voted against Kavanaugh because she didn’t think he was qualified for the job, but here’s what she said during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing:
“Do we value women in this country? Do we listen to women when they tell us about sexual trauma? Do we listen to their stories about how their lives have been forever scarred? Do we take their claims seriously? Or do we just disbelieve them as a matter of course?”
Of course, Gillibrand only meant those words as they applied to Kavanaugh, as Lara Trump – wife of President Donald Trump’s son Eric – <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/5-top-dem-women-slammed-kavanaugh-back-biden-lara-trump.amp?__twitter_impression=true">noted</a>, the New York senator now thinks differently.
“She has come forward, she has spoken, and they have done an investigation in several outlets. Those investigations, Vice President Biden has called for himself,” Gillibrand said. “Vice President Biden has vehemently denied these allegations and I support Vice President Biden.”
Gillibrand was next asked about policies from the Department of Education that would provide college students with basic due process protections in cases of alleged sexual misconduct.
Naturally, Gillibrand trashed the policies, instantly going back to favoring allegations over evidence.
“Well, I think Betsy DeVos has been a disastrous Secretary of Education and she has intended since the minute she had that position to roll back protections for students on campus and to roll back Title IX protections. She has undermined the ability for anyone to get fair justice or a fair review on any college campus and I think it’s a big mistake. Um, so I look forward to when Betsy DeVos is no longer our Ed. Secretary,” Gillibrand said.
More to unpack.
First, DeVos didn’t enter the position wanting to “roll back protections.” She learned of the due process problems after she was confirmed and was so moved by the issue that she decided to act. She listened to accusers and accused students and determined the current policies on campus are inadequate. Gillibrand and her ilk claim that these policies “roll back protections” but they don’t. They add constitutional protections for accused students that were missing in the ”believe women” movement adopted by college campuses. Giving accused students the ability to see the evidence against them and cross-examine their accuser and witnesses – basic tenants of the American justice system – does not “roll back protections” for accusers.
It is Gillibrand who “undermined the ability for anyone to get fair justice or a fair review” in these cases. She nurtured a culture where women were told to believe that non-criminal activity amounted to sexual assault and to see themselves as victims. She made sure colleges ignored due process and evidence of innocence out of fear they would receive an onslaught of negative publicity if they didn’t throw out an accused student. Look at the case of “Mattress Girl” Emma Sulkowitz, who had no evidence to support her claims of rape and actually had evidence to the contrary – that the sex was consensual – yet became a national heroine to the media for claiming her “rapist” wasn’t removed from campus.
Accused students couldn’t get “fair justice or a fair review” when colleges actively dismissed exculpatory evidence and allowed accusers to avoid having to produce evidence of their claims. In the end, findings of responsibility ended up not being believed – something that harmed accusers as well.
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Kirsten Gillibrand Asked About Biden Allegations, Trashes Education Department And Due Process

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The fissures have quickly begun to show in the progressive coalition as the sexual assault allegation against former Vice President Joe Biden heats up. While some powerful women have opted to just ignore the situation and endorse Joe Biden anyway, others are noticing the glaring hypocrisy.
On Wednesday, comedienne Sarah Silverman blasted Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) for standing by Joe Biden after previously calling on Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to resign when the #MeToo movement put him in its crosshairs.
“But u called on ⁦[Al Franken]⁩ to resign w/out the ethics investigation HE asked for??” <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/1255612418610397186" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Silverman tweeted</a>.
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But u called on ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/alfranken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@alfranken</a>⁩ to resign w/out the ethics investigation HE asked for?? 
Kirsten Gillibrand on Tara Reade allegation: &#39;I support Vice President Biden&#39; &#8211; CNNPolitics <a href="https://t.co/sUm4oYN44j">https://t.co/sUm4oYN44j</a>
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Franken resigned from his seat in 2017 over a spate of #MeToo allegations that began when talk-show host Leeann Tweeden accused him of forcibly kissing her during a USO show rehearsal. Her allegation was backed by a photograph she shared of him mockingly groping her while she slept. Following her revelation, another seven women came forward with allegations against Franken of inappropriate touching or kissing. He denied all of them.
Sarah Silverman has previously said he was &#8220;bullied&#8221; into resigning for political reasons.
&#8220;I understand that I may have cognitive distortion, because I love him so much. But all I can say is, and he may not be excited about this, but he has no sexuality,&#8221; <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/05/23/sarah-silverman-defends-al-franken-im-so-sad-that-he-got-bullied-into-resigning/">she said</a>. &#8220;I believe in my heart of heart of hearts he never copped a feel.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m so sad that he got bullied into resigning, because all he loved in this world was being a senator and representing the people of Minnesota. I&#8217;ve never met a more pure person,&#8221; she added. &#8220;This is a guy whose passion was serving people and making the world a better place. There&#8217;s a lot of baby-in-bathwater stuff, I think. We&#8217;ll just get it in the process.&#8221;
In March, Tara Reade claimed that then-Senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. She has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. A former neighbor of Reade and Reade’s brother have both publicly stated that Reade told them of the alleged assault in the 1990s. Recently surfaced evidence also suggests that Reade’s mother called into CNN’s Larry King in the 1990s to complain about a prominent senator with whom her daughter had “problems.”
On Wednesday, Sen. Gillibrand <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-joe-biden-support/index.html">endorsed Joe Biden</a>, arguing that media outlets have &#8220;investigated&#8221; Tara Reade&#8217;s claims.
&#8220;When we say believe women, it&#8217;s for this explicit intention of making sure there&#8217;s space for all women to come forward to speak their truth, to be heard. And in this allegation, that is what Tara Reade has done,&#8221; Gillibrand said. &#8220;She has come forward, she has spoken, and they have done an investigation in several outlets. Those investigations, Vice President Biden has called for himself. Vice President Biden has vehemently denied these allegations and I support Vice President Biden.&#8221;
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Three Democrat senators are using the coronavirus pandemic to urge Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to delay providing college students their constitutional rights to due process.
Of course, that’s not how the senators worded <a href="https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/033120_LTRDeVosTitleIX%20v.2.pdf">their letter</a> to DeVos, sent Tuesday, but that is the gist of their argument since they are demanding DeVos delay new Title IX regulations that change the way schools across the country adjudicate claims of sexual misconduct. DeVos’ proposed rules would require schools to provide accused students the ability to properly defend themselves from allegations, a basic tenet of the justice system that has been absent in college Title IX tribunals.
Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) were the only three senators to sign the letter, saying that “while schools are grappling with how to maintain basic services for and supports to their students, it is wholly unacceptable for the Department to finalize a rule that fundamentally will change the landscape of how schools are required to respond to incidents of sexual harassment and assault, and we urge you to reconsider this misguided plan.”
“K-12 schools and institutions of higher education face unprecedented uncertainty about the end of this school year and the start of the next school year. The federal government should be doing everything possible to help them navigate these uncertain times. To ask K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to implement in this moment of crisis and extreme uncertainty a rule that, as proposed, would force them to significantly alter how they handle allegations of sexual harassment and assault is reckless and inappropriate,” the senators continued. “We urge you not to release the final Title IX rule at this time and instead to focus on helping schools navigate the urgent issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic that is top of the mind for all students and families.”
The lack of due process rights have led to students (almost exclusively male students) finding themselves with only one option to clear their names and defend themselves: Sue their schools in a court of law. Unfortunately, many of the students accused do not have the financial means to file a lawsuit. Still, more than 600 lawsuits have been filed alleging Title IX violations by accused students since the Obama administration urged schools to find more students responsible.
In 2011, the Obama administration issued guidance that suggested schools needed to find more students responsible in order to show they were taking sexual misconduct seriously, while providing almost no due process rights for accused students. Women have since used Title IX to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/university-of-colorado-settles-with-student-accused-of-sexual-assault">punish men</a> <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/11/allegheny-college-settles-student-peer-says-falsely-accused-assault-revenge-not-dating-girl-slept/">who rejected them</a>, avoid <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-rules-ohio-state-title-ix-official-can-be-personally-liable-for-helping-rape-accuser-lie/">getting kicked out of school</a>, or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-lied-about-being-raped-now-men-she-accused-are-ashe-schow">for sympathy</a>. To date, more than 200 court rulings have favored accused students and blasted schools for ignoring evidence that the male student was not guilty of what he was accused.
In response to the senators’ letters, criminal defense attorney Scott Greenfield tweeted sarcastically: “To ask schools to implement in this moment of crisis and extreme uncertainty a rule that would force them to [provide male students with minimal due process] is reckless and inappropriate.”
Samantha Harris, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, added: “These transparent efforts, from people who have made clear from the get-go that they will do anything they can to stop these regs from ever being implemented, are absurd. They are exploiting this crisis, plain and simple.”
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These transparent efforts, from people who have made clear from the get-go that they will do anything they can to stop these regs from ever being implemented, are absurd. They are exploiting this crisis, plain and simple. <a href="https://t.co/v3T8JZBNHC">https://t.co/v3T8JZBNHC</a>
— Samantha Harris (@samk_harris) <a href="https://twitter.com/samk_harris/status/1245116948964429827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan suggested on Monday that if he decides to run for political office in New York state, he would ultimately want to take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
&#8220;Let me just say this,&#8221; Homan told host Larry O&#8217;Connor during an episode of his &#8220;Examining Politics&#8221; podcast. &#8220;When I do return to New York and if Senator Gillibrand is still around, she won&#8217;t be around because I will take her on.&#8221;
Homan&#8217;s remarks were in response to O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s inquiry as to whether Homan would be interested in replacing Rep. Pete King (R-NY), who announce that after 14 terms in Congress he would not be seeking reelection when his current term expires.
Homan, who was born in New York, noted that he was not currently a resident of the Empire state, but will likely be when he retires, similar to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who previously held the United States Senate seat.
Gillibrand has been an outspoken opponent of the ICE and one of the first Democratic lawmakers to call for abolishing the immigration enforcement agency.
&#8220;I believe we need to protect families who need help, and ICE isn&#8217;t doing that,&#8221; the New York senator <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/1012525052343017472?s=20">said in June 2018</a>. &#8220;It has become a deportation force. We need to separate immigration issues from criminal justice. We need to abolish ICE, start over and build something that actually works.&#8221;
Gillibrand received widespread backlash after she continued to promote ICE&#8217;s abolishment. She subsequently walked back some of her comments that she claimed were misconstrued. Gillibrand said that despite demanding that &#8220;we need to abolish ICE,&#8221; she stated in September 2018 that she believes America still needs an agency that will fulfill the goals that ICE was created to achieve.
Claiming that the agency has strayed from its intended duties, Gillibrand argued that ICE in its current form should be eliminated, but that a new agency should replace it that will execute the same mission of enforcing U.S. immigration laws and investigating criminal activity of foreign nationals residing within the country.
Homan has been a frequent witness in Congressional hearings where he has been known to get into fiery exchanges with House Democrats. After O&#8217;Connor asked whether he would be providing testimony at Capitol Hill anytime soon, Homan responded that he was scheduled to appear next week.
&#8220;The Democrats don&#8217;t want me up there but when they have these hearings and they want to attack the administration, they have to give the minority, the Republicans in the House, one witness,&#8221; Homan told O&#8217;Connor. &#8220;They&#8217;re quick to call me because I&#8217;ve done it for 34 years, I know the game, I&#8217;ve played it &#8230; if you say something that&#8217;s not right I&#8217;m going to speak up.&#8221;
Homan got into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-former-ice-director-slams-progressive-lawmaker-for-pathetic-and-sad-dishonesty-in-fiery-exchange">a heated exchange</a> with some Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee in September after he slammed Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and her Democratic colleagues for holding President Donald Trump and his administration to a different standard than they had for former President Barack Obama.
&#8220;ICE are the good guys. ICE wants to protect the community. ICE wants to take the bad guy off the street,&#8221; Homan told O&#8217;Connor.

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