Republicans In Disarray

Q: Could the $5,000 checks be part of reconciliation? Would it be fully paid for?

MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not gonna get into details of all that because we haven't had time to process it pic.twitter.com/Auwi276MFw

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 15, 2026

HIMES: You spent $10b to try to lower the yield on the 10 year bond. When you started, it was 4.8%. Today it's at a 20 year high of 5.04%. A 20 basis point rise. Was your intervention successful?

BESSENT: Yes it was

HIMES: Wait -- it went up by 20 points!

BESSENT: There's a… pic.twitter.com/6nwK5t1p7L

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 15, 2026

HIMES: You spent $10b to try to lower the yield on the 10 year bond. When you started, it was 4.8%. Today it's at a 20 year high of 5.04%. A 20 basis point rise. Was your intervention successful?

BESSENT: Yes it was

HIMES: Wait -- it went up by 20 points!

BESSENT: There's a counterfactual of what would it have done

It’s actually down by 600%, if you use Trump math. Or if you look at it in terms of the multiverse.

Rep. Al Green grills Bessent on Trump's memecoin 👇

GREEN: How do you justify legalizing these Ponzi schemes?

BESSENT: I'm unfamiliar with this. I don't think it meets the criteria for a Ponzi scheme. pic.twitter.com/nTFiaWUyo3

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 15, 2026

He’s unfamiliar with it, but it doesn’t qualify as a Ponzi scheme?

Bessent dismisses historically low economic sentiment: "There's a survey problem because Democrats are now poisoning the survey" pic.twitter.com/TxBWtOJKdk

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 15, 2026

FAKE ECONOMIC SENTIMENT!

BOOKER: But in March after Elizabeth Williamson reported that you used a SWAT detail to protect and drive your girlfriend, you agents interviewed your girlfriend about the reporting. Is that true?

KASH PATEL: Why are you talking about my loved ones? Stop attacking me and my… pic.twitter.com/zzruKQ5Luh

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 15, 2026

BOOKER: But in March after Elizabeth Williamson reported that you used a SWAT detail to protect and drive your girlfriend, you agents interviewed your girlfriend about the reporting. Is that true?

KASH PATEL: Why are you talking about my loved ones? Stop attacking me and my loved ones

"WAAAAAHHHHH!” 😭

Booker to Patel: "Like a thug, you're using your agency to go after reporters in a chill to one of the most sacrosanct ideals of the US. They can pass you all the notes they want, but the truth is clear. Right now you are stonewalling this committee for asking simple questions of… pic.twitter.com/WOIAZ7s1Wx

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 15, 2026

Booker to Patel: "Like a thug, you're using your agency to go after reporters in a chill to one of the most sacrosanct ideals of the US. They can pass you all the notes they want, but the truth is clear. Right now you are stonewalling this committee for asking simple questions of accountability on how you're using govt resources to go after reporters."

Kash Patel calls on Chuck Grassley to end the hearing. pic.twitter.com/p9aCdgbbjy

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 15, 2026

"WAAAAAHHHHH!” 😭

Chuck Grassley apologizes to Kash Patel over tough questions from Democrats: I'm sorry I couldn't control some of them more than I already did. pic.twitter.com/9szotTsysG

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 15, 2026

Did the bad men hurt his little feefees?