By ADAM PACK | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION
Senate GOP hawks who receive large sums from the defense industry could be mobilizing to tank one of President-elect Donald Trump’s national security nominees.
Former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, nominated by Trump to helm the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, could face opposition from Senate Republicans with hawkish views on national security over her beliefs on Ukraine and government surveillance powers.
Though a considerable number of Trump-aligned senators have endorsed Gabbard, citing her decades-long military service and commitment to reforming the country’s intelligence agencies that have been frequently weaponized against the president-elect, GOP senators whose national security views appear to sharply diverge from Gabbard’s have mostly refrained from supporting her nomination.
“The uproar from the Uniparty over @TulsiGabbard’s nomination to be Director of National Intelligence simply proves she’s the perfect choice. I look forward to voting in favor of her confirmation. — Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) Dec. 3, 2024
Gabbard will begin meeting with Republican lawmakers next week, Alexa Henning, Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. She can afford to lose the support of just three Republican senators, assuming all Democrats oppose her nomination and Vice President-elect JD Vance casts a tie-breaking vote to secure her confirmation.
Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, the incoming chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee — the panel that will process Gabbard’s nomination — has not taken a public position on the former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, but promised to move quickly on Trump’s cabinet nominees during an interview with Fox News.
Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a notable Senate GOP defense hawk, endorsed Gabbard in an X post following Trump’s announcement of her nomination, calling her “extremely bright and capable.”
Gabbard, who recently joined the GOP and served as a surrogate for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, is a vocal critic of U.S. support for Ukraine and the national security apparatus’ spying powers. She is also an avowed opponent of the “military industrial complex,” which she has accused of profiting off the war in Ukraine.
Biden’s decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine shows they don’t care about the Ukrainian people; these munitions will lead to Ukrainian casualties caused by undetonated bomblets for decades to come. This is the same cold, calculating, callousness we saw in Madeleine Albright… pic.twitter.com/BlWsuvf3sk — Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) July 9, 2023
A significant cohort of Senate Republicans, despite Gabbard and the president-elect’s opposition, support the United States contributing additional military aid to Ukraine and preserving the government’s warrantless spying authorities.
On April 19, 30 GOP senators backed the reauthorization of the government’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) Section 702 authority, which allows for warrantless surveillance under certain conditions against Americans. Four days later, 29 Republican senators voted with their Democratic counterparts to send more than $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
Gabbard has been subject to personal attacks from Democratic lawmakers over her views on the Russia-Ukraine war. Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz dubbed Gabbard, who is still serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, a “Russian asset” and Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth concluded Gabbard is “compromised” and “couldn’t pass a background check.” The New York Times published an article following Gabbard’s nomination with the title, “How Tulsi Gabbard Became a Favorite of Russia’s State Media.”
Members of the Senate GOP conference have reportedly bought into some of these allegations, according to a report from The Hill. Wasserman-Schultz and Duckworth’s offices did not respond to the DCNF’s inquiries about providing evidence to support their claims questioning Gabbard’s loyalty to the United States.
“Just as the Democrats and the Washington Elite see President Trump as a threat to their unchecked power, they see Congresswoman Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard as a threat as well,” Henning told the DCNF. “As DNI Director she will champion our constitutional rights and put an end to using intelligence agencies as weapons against the American people.”
The following GOP senators with hawkish views on U.S. foreign policy could stand in the way of Gabbard’s confirmation, according to a DCNF review of Senate Republicans’ statements on Gabbard’s nomination to serve as Trump’s chief intelligence officer and their past support for Ukraine and FISA.
Sen. Mitch McConnell
Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell could pose an obstacle to Gabbard’s confirmation given the former Senate Republican leader’s interventionist foreign policy views and reported opposition to former Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz’s nomination to serve as Trump’s attorney general.
“President Trump’s got the right policies. Clearly, the American people have his back. The thing that’s holding us back on the right is the established order of the donor class Republicans that are manifested in the Senate, “Steve Bannon told Puck in an interview published on Nov. 26. “What’s going to hold us back is Mitch McConnell.”
“It’s pretty obvious that McConnell has staying power, and we have to confront that,” Bannon added.
McConnell has been an influential proponent of sending military aid to Ukraine and the reauthorization of FISA. The defense sector contributed more than $150,000 to McConnell’s campaign committee and leadership PAC between 2019 and 2024, according to OpenSecrets.
McConnell will be the incoming chair of the Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee, tasked with appropriating money for the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. He has promised to spend the remainder of his time in the Senate pushing back against “isolationism,” an oblique reference to Gabbard and Trump’s “America First” foreign policy worldview.
“Members of my own party now contend that, somehow, the stability of markets and the deterrence of adversaries are achievable without tending to the requirements of American hard power,” McConnell said during a keynote speech at an American Enterprise Institute event that celebrated the Kentucky senator’s foreign policy views on Nov. 12. “Confronting this particular challenge is where I now place my focus. Shoring up American primacy, combatting the dangerous tendency toward isolationism, and urgently restoring America’s hard power: this is how I will spend a great deal of the time I have left in public life.”
Sen. Thom Tillis
Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis could also pose a challenge for Gabbard. He has pledged to not support any Trump national security nominee that does not support Ukraine.
“I’m going to have to have a very compelling story for anybody who’s going to influence policy in Ukraine,” Tillis told the Wall Street Journal in response to an inquiry about whether he will support Gabbard’s nomination. “At DNI, I don’t know if that’s her [Tulsi Gabbard] or not, but when I get into the nomination process, I have no intention of supporting anybody who equivocates on support for Ukraine.”
Tillis has voted to send military aid to Ukraine and reauthorize FISA. His campaign committee and leadership PAC received nearly $75,000 from the defense sector between 2019 and 2024, according to OpenSecrets.
Vance criticized Tillis’ support for providing military aid to Ukraine last year, stating “With all due respect to Thom, he’s not living in reality.”
Tillis is up for reelection in 2026 in what is likely to be a competitive contest in a battleground state against a Democratic opponent and could also face a primary challenger from the right.
Sen. Susan Collins
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a consistent supporter of Ukraine and the government’s warrantless surveillance powers, is noncommittal on Gabbard’s confirmation, telling reporters that her nomination “illustrates the importance of a full background check, a public hearing, and the constitutional role of the Senate.”
The Maine Republican, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, appeared to oppose Gaetz’s nomination and has also not taken a position on Pete Hegseth, Trump’s DoD pick, whose confirmation is also facing considerable headwinds.
Collins traveled to Ukraine to meet with President Zelensky in May 2022 as part of a congressional delegation led by McConnell. The defense industry has doled out more than $300,000 to Collins’ campaign committee and leadership PAC between 2019 and 2024, according to Open Secrets.
Collins is up for reelection in 2026 in her quest for a 6th Senate term and is the only Republican senator who represents a state that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris won.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a frequent Trump critic who opposed Gaetz’s nomination, could also vote against Gabbard’s confirmation to serve as DNI director.
Murkowski has voted to send military aid to Ukraine and to reauthorize FISA. She traveled to Ukraine to meet with Zelensky in April 2023 alongside Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Mark Kelly of Arizona.
The Alaska Republican has also voiced confidence in Zelensky’s leadership, a significant departure from Gabbard who has criticized the Ukrainian president’s alleged crackdown on Ukrainian civil society during the country’s war against Russia.
The defense sector contributed more than $200,000 to Murkowski’s campaign committee and leadership PAC between 2019-2024, according to OpenSecrets.
Sen. John Cornyn
Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a GOP defense hawk and proponent of providing military aid to Ukraine, notably omitted Gabbard’s name during a speech where he appeared to endorse four of Trump’s defense and national security nominees, including Hegseth.
Cornyn, who is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, toldPunchbowl News that he would like to ask Gabbard about her views on Russia while acknowledging that she is a “patriot.” Cornyn’s office declined to provide details about whether the Texas Republican is planning to meet with Gabbard before her confirmation hearing that has yet to be scheduled.
Cornyn has characterized a Ukrainian victory as “a victory for all who value freedom” and accused his critics “pushing Russian propaganda” following his vote in support of sending additional military aid to Ukraine in April.
The defense industry has contributed more than $260,000 to Cornyn’s campaign committee and leadership PAC over the last five years, according to OpenSecrets.
Cornyn is up for reelection in 2026 and is likely to face a competitive primary challenger from the right.
Sen. Mike Rounds
Republican South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is also noncommittal on Gabbard’s nomination and appeared to question Trump’s decision to nominate the former Hawaii congresswoman during an interview with reporters.
“I start out saying, OK, this is an individual the president wants on his team,” Rounds told Punchbowl News on Nov. 22. “But now let’s talk about information that maybe the president didn’t have, or information that comes up, and at that stage do we advise the president to look elsewhere or do we offer our consent?”
Rounds recently defended FBI Director Christopher Wray following Trump’s decision to replace him with Kash Patel, who served in multiple positions during the first Trump administration.
Rounds also criticized the idea of ending the Russia-Ukraine war in a negotiated settlement during a speech in September at the Halifax Security Forum, claiming, “As much as I would love to say that there is a path towards a peaceful resolution to this by negotiating with this tyrant, I suspect that we may be deceiving ourselves.”
The defense industry contributed nearly $100,000 to the South Dakota Republican’s campaign committee and leadership PAC between 2019-2024.
McConnell, Tillis, Collins, Murkowski and Rounds’ offices did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment about whether the senators plan to meet with Gabbard before her confirmation hearing that will likely be scheduled for early January once the new Congress is sworn in.
It would be interesting to find out how many of these Senators opposed to Trump’s picks and still wanting to support Ukraine in a losing battle have received any kind of kickback from Ukraine.
The Honorable U.S. Senator from the Great State of Alaska Lisa Murkowski has always been big on defense spending which is a conservative concept, and Gabbard a former democrat, did not leave behind her liberal roots.
What is so “Honorable” about receiving and hiding stolen money from investors by a convicted thief?
You should do a little more research on who funds her campaign and RCV win.
Senators and judges are always referred to as honorable. It comes with the job.
Only if you work for her are you obligated to use honorifics. I’d accurately call her a greedy POS and a war criminal that belongs behind bars for the rest of her miserable life.
She is a lying stealing politician from Alaska.
We need to fix this sorry mess.
She won without the need for RCV, do your research.
That is a lie. RCV stole the Republican primary from the GOP party, and that was so Murkowski would not have to run in a republican primary because after what she did to Trump, she can never win in a Republican primary again. She never would have even been in the general in 2022.
Stop lying. We will catch you every time.
I caught you, she won as a write-in against Joe Miller and democrat Scott McAdams, remember.
She didn’t “win” the write in against Joe Miller, as in legitimately voted ballots. There was a lot of “help” provided in insuring her name was spelled correctly, and signatures in the same handwriting from western Alaska.
The primary loss to Joe Miller scared the tar out of her handlers, and all of a sudden, no more primaries in Alaska, we were given RCV.
She won on a shady write in candidacy. Nothing was a legit win Joe Miller mopped the floor with her, thus she had to beg the villages to write her in.
Begging, isn’t that what politicians do?
We don’t like her 3rd. At all. No one likes her but leftists.
She’s a high ranking senate republican who like Ted Stevens is pro choice, big on defense and brings in her more than her share of money for Alaska and you would be better served to vote for her in the next election 4 years from now.
RINO much?
Actually Democrats are the most blood thirsty b- ever put on earth. They love a good war.
So(?!?!), I’m guessing that these “esteemed” … “noble” … “prominent” … “distinct” Senators want more of what they’ve voted for in the past:
– Lying under oath to federal investigators as did interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
– Forgery of an FBI court affidavit, as did convicted felon and agency lawyer Kevin Clinesmith.
– Claim amnesia 245 times under congressional oath to evade embarrassing admissions as did former Director James Comey.
– Partner with a foreign national to collect dirt and subvert a presidential campaign as the FBI did with Christopher Steele in 2016.
– Use the FBI to draft social media to suppress news unfavorable to a presidential candidate on the eve of an election.
– Suppress FBI knowledge that Hunter Biden’s laptop was genuine—to allow the lie to spread that it was “Russian disinformation” on the eve of the 2020 election.
– Raid the home of an ex-president with SWAT teams, surveil Catholics, monitor parents at school board meetings, or go after pro-life peaceful protestors.
– Going “AWOL” without notifying the president of a serious medical procedure as did current Secretary Lloyd Austin.
– Installing race and gender criteria for promotion and mandate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training?
– Insinuating falsely that cabals of white supremacists had infiltrated the military—only to alienate that entire demographic and thus ensure the Pentagon came up 40,000 recruits short?
– Oversee the scramble from Kabul that saw $85 billion in U.S. military equipment abandoned to Taliban terrorists?
– Watch passively as a Chinese spy balloon traversed the continental United States for a week.
– Allow the chairman of the Joint Chiefs to promise his Chinese communist counterpart that the People’s Liberation Army would first be informed if the President of the United States was felt to issue a dangerous order.
– Rotate into the Pentagon from a defense contractor Boardship and then leave office to rotate back there to leverage procurement decisions (potential conflict of interest).
– Oversee the Pentagon’s serial flunking of fiscal audits, quarter after quarter.
– Oversee agencies circumventing U.S. law by transferring money to communist China to help it produce lethal gain-of-function viruses of the COVID-19 sort—in the manner of Dr. Fauci.
– Organize scientists to go after critics of mandatory masking and defame them.
– Give pharmaceutical companies near-lifetime exemptions from legal jeopardy for rushing into production mRNA vaccines not traditionally vetted and tested.
– Leave office to effectively monetize their HHS expertise and thus make millions from the pharmaceutical companies, quid-pro-quo.
– Assemble “51 former intelligence authorities” to lie on the eve of the 2020 election that the Hunter Biden laptop “had all the hallmarks” of a Russian information/disinformation operation”—in an effort to swing the election to incumbent Joe Biden.
– Shamelessly and intently lie under congressional oath like former DNI James Clapper, who claimed he only gave the “least untruthful answer” in congressional testimony.
– Encourage the FBI to monitor a presidential campaign in efforts to discredit it—in the manner of former CIA Director John Brennan, who lied not once but twice under oath.
– Fail to foresee the American meltdown in Kabul, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, or the Houthis takeover of the Red Sea.
– Allowed, and voted for, the entire freakshow – traitors within the current Biden Administration.
Americans and Alaskans want to know if these Senators want more of these treasonous acts against America and Americans. Never forget, this happened on “YOUR WATCH” whereby you allowed all of those and many more to occur, without an ounce of effort to curtail – control, as none of these traitors have been held accountable, but are certainly all involved are now seeking a complete – full Presidential ‘Pre-Emptive” Pardon. This entire mess is completely disgusting and continues to diminish the great institutions of America. Every one of you should be ashamed and disgusted with yourselves, just like the American Public is today. Unfortunately, you’re all simply inflicted with irreparable narcissism. May God have mercy on your retched souls!!!
Good, Spot on summary!
Good summary Rob. Right on.
Excellent!
Not only has Murkowski, Collins and McConnell taken money from defense contractors, but also from AIPAC with Murkowski receiving almost half a million dollars, Collins well over half a million dollars and McConnell hit the motherlode from AIPAC with almost two million dollars! It is no wonder that these Senators are all in on never-ending war!
Think about this old Mitchie is a billionaire and still has his hand in everyone’s pockets. 80 year old billionaire and still grabbing the money. Unreal. As for Lisa. Nuf said.
Most of his money is his wife’s.
Tulsi runs into a buzz saw with her foreign policy issues. I like her personally, but she needs to stop with the policy trend of hating on Ukraine and being in bed with Putin. This allows Trump to voice his opinion but stay in the shadows. He let’s others test the waters. She’s not going to have a real seat at the table with policymaking, but, it may hurt her chances of being approved.
Prove that she is “in bed with Putin”. Or, is it that all you can cite is CNN garbage?
You want pictures? I don’t have any. I was metaphorically speaking based on her past comment.
No one likes Putin but neither do they like Zelenskyy. Eventually the truth will surface.Ukraine is sleezy corrupt. Also has a long history with nazis that were exiled from Germany.
Did you know that Trumps grandpa was kicked out of Germany?
Do they supply you with pom poms when you were hired as a MSM cheerleader?
I am looking forward to your reports from the Donbas region in Ukraine. They say combat can be exhilarating, although forming relationships is difficult when many are casualties.
Oh, I am sorry, I you may simply favor fighting to the last dead Ukrainian.
It’s winnable. Russias armaments aren’t what they used to be. Their migs are junk, getting shot down with .762 rounds. The tanks are getting blown up. They have resorted to used some 80 year old ones. Their missiles are effect just 30% of the time. Syria wishes they never saw the death trap Russian stuff.
Google “Oreshnik”. Analysts say the West has nothing to counter it.
Waking up each morning with the notion that the US always has better weapons and that Russians are backwards and stupid can be hazardous to a person’s health. I have spent some time in Europe and worked with some Russians. While they may be inelegant at times, they more than make up for it in resourcefulness, raw courage and determination.
That didn’t help them in Afghanistan.
Greg for gods sake Putin has 9000 nuclear warheads. If just 1 connected, life as we know it would be over. Never never underestimate a mad man. I think it has been well proven he has NO conscience. Also his newer migs and sukois are not junk.
Yes, no one’s gonna win If a nuke goes off, I was speaking conventionally, waijing, war and yes, his planes, hand missiles and tanks are junk. Putin isn’t a fool Though he’s managed to steal so much money from the Russian people. But arguably, he has more money, than the royal family and certainly more than ferdinand and amelia Marcos stole. He would just go somewhere with all that dough and buy a continent, if he wanted to.
Greg, you seriously need to educate yourself on the current state of Russian armaments, combat aircraft, munitions, missiles, drones, ISR systems, command and control and brigade combat effectiveness compared to US/NATO systems, before commenting.
Our vaunted F-16s delivered to Ukraine, where are they, along with their US ground crews? Aircraft pieces and parts and the unidentifiable pieces of cadavers. 5 of the 6 known contributed
F-16s were detected by drone, and from the moment of confirming they were real, not decoys, they were destroyed in ten minutes.
The #1 voted item in popularity of captured NATO weapons in the war trophy display in Moscow are Abraham’s tanks. In the Kursk oblast, the Leopard, Challenger and Abrahms tanks are now burnt out hulks.
The Ukrainian conscripts do not voluntarily crew these vehicles as their life expectancy is reduced to hours, instead of an average of 3 days in a trench, before being blown to pieces, and backfilled in mass graves.
Why is Secretary of State Blinken demanding that Ukraine commences Shanghaing 18 year olds for the slaughter? How could a lack of manpower be an issue for Ukraine if it were winning?
Despite trillions of dollars wasted on our MIC, it has not produced the equivalent of, or any means to intercept the mach 10+, hypersonic Oreshnik “Hazelnut” intermediate range missile.
It was recently launched in a real life test on a massive, mostly underground, reinforced for nuclear war Ukrainian MIC complex in Dnipropetrovsk.
The complex was used for, among other projects, repairing NATO equipment with western military technicians. Without even using conventional explosives, just the kinetic energy at the velocity of the multiple warheads destroyed the complex. Literally pulverized.
You are free to bloviate ignorant nonesense and express how much you despise Ukrainian people and not give a darn about the death and destruction our incompetent MIC is causing them. We have a large family of children and grandchildren to protect from the consequences of the ignorance espoused by the consequences of those who think like you.
Greg – Stop already with the CNN talking points! Look up Colonel Douglas McGregor for some analysis of Russia’s military capabilities vis a vis NATO and the USA. Very sobering narrative from a combat veteran officer and he is not the only one bucking the official State Department propaganda, but let’s start with baby steps.
I’m going to recommend that you stop watching fox News. You might sleep better at night. I don’t watch any news channel. The armor in Russian tanks. It’s as brittle as glass. That’s why they’ve had to go back to using sixty and eighty year old armor. They’re planes our no match for ours. No, i’m not talking about fifty year old f 16s. Russian missiles are accurate only thirty percent of the time.This has been documented.
By who? You? Here’s another source for you – Larry Johnson, ex-CIA analyst. Remember, Greg, baby steps! By the way, I don’t listen to any corporate mainstream news channels, including FOX, unless I need a laugh.
Not as ignorant as I once thought then.
Greg – LMAO! Here’s another name for you. Professor Norman Finkelstein. Remember, baby steps – don’t overdo it as you are probably not mentally strong enough to handle the truth.
Obviously you are getting your knowledge of the Ukraine/Russia conflict from Yahoo news and Facebook. 🫣
So mark. Where are the Ukrainians neighbors in this fight ?? Gee I wonder why they are not flocking over there to help push the Russians back.. ?? Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany,Norway, ?? And on and on. Where are they?? Curious?? These Europeans stand to lose everything but don’t show up for the fight ??
Germany is on board.
None of the NATO nations other than the US has a viable military. Your Dad exposed that during his first term.
How do you arrive at the conclusion that ending a proxy war of violent aggression against the Russian Federation we started by using Ukraine as a proxy, destroying their society and country is “hating” on Ukraine?
If you had any human empathy for the multi ethnic peoples who have had Ukrainian citizenship for 3 decades, you would condemn those in our government who profit from overthrowing their government and killing off their men, destroying their infrastructure and ending the short duration of the novel concept of a contrived nation state called Ukraine.
Project Ukraine is likely the largest, by volume, EU and US public money laundering operation in history.
It is the people who support this project of financing and continuing this failed project that hate Ukrainians, not Tulsi.
I am shocked – shocked – to think that anybody in Ukraine would divert and abscond with any portion of the billions and billions of US assistance to Ukraine. That has never happened in one of the most corrupt nations on earth. Never. With ten percent for the big guy.
You are extremely uninformed, or extremely un educated.
Senators should be voting based on what their states need, not what they’ll make off lobbyists.
Sometimes the two are intertwined though.
Lisa votes against American greatness at every opportunity.
She was all in on Biden’s freaks and mentally show though.
What a sack she is.
Princess is bought and paid for. Someone has to fund her spending addiction after all!!!
We need a law that says politicians cannot have any extra money other than their salary and will be audited yearly. If there bank account goes above a set limit then it’s jail time plus a big fine.
No rich people in government.
Is it just me, or does it look like Lisa Murkowski is swinging elbows, hip-checking and jockeying for position to be the next Liz Cheney?
She is controlled….end of story.
100% GG
If Senator Murkowski insists on being a massive obstruction to the agenda and appointments of Donald Trump, it may be useful for those in Alaska that rely on the Senator’s largess to consider whether that relationship might be a net NEGATIVE for their fortunes during the Trump presidency. Many in the administration may conclude “if Senator Murkowski is for it – maybe the President is against it”. While that analysis may be simplistic, it would be very easy to apply in practice. Alaska will benefit less from having a Senator who is, in effect, a member of the minority.
What a mess, eh? What happened to the once great GOP that it must now scrounge around like a dung beetle to find a Republican who is as reputable as Gabbard?
Some quit. Trey Gowdy went home. Some don’t want to wade out too deep into the pool.
With that cast of fools opposing her, I like her more.
Tulsi will be awesome
Lisa not so much. Resign and move Murkowski.
Lisa just needs to be moved onto another career, Maybe even A acting career , maybe a sequel to one flew over the cuckoos nest, she would make the perfect character for a elderly Nurse Ratchet!
Lisa is frail like a much older woman. She looks malnourished and like a half-starved deer stuck in the headlights of a Mack truck. She’s pathetic.
Ms. Gabbard should enter her senate confirmation hearings with the names and amounts of defense contractors’ contributions to each senator read them publicly as part of her response to any hostile questions from those senators. And be prepared to keep talking over the gavel when they try to cut her off. And make sure the video of it gets posted everywhere.
Excellent article, and informative. Thanks, Suzanne, for staying on top of this story.