Schumer signals he’ll vote to advance GOP bill to avoid a shutdown; Trump threatens 200% tariff on E.U. alcohol

Two days after a Republican chairman misgendered Rep. Sarah McBride, the Delaware Democrat said today it seems she lives “rent free” in the minds of Republicans.Her remarks came at the end of a lengthy news conference at House Democrats’ annual policy retreat featuring a dozen freshman House Democratic women. McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, has been perhaps the freshman class’ highest-profile member.“We will not take a lecture on decorum from a party that incited an insurrection. I appear to live rent free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues,” McBride told reporters here in Leesburg, Virginia. “I wish that they would spend even a fraction of the time that they spend thinking about me, thinking about how to lower the costs for American families. “I wish they would spend a fraction of the time that they spend thinking about me, figuring out how to make government actually work better, rather than making it work worse in order to prove that government can’t work,” she continued.“They are obsessed with culture war issues. The Republican Party is obsessed with culture war issues. It is weird and it is bizarre,” McBride added. “And the American people deserve serious legislators, serious elected officials who are focused on bringing people together to deliver real results for the American people, not to play games and not to engage in schoolyard taunts.”Her comments came in response to a question about how Democratic leadership is handling conduct issues among their rank-and-file members, including the interruption of Trump’s address to Congress last week by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas. This week, Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, misgendered McBride at a Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing that he was presiding over. “I now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride,” he said.Without missing a beat, McBride responded by thanking Self and referring to him as “madam chair.” After some back and forth between Democrats and Republicans, Self promptly adjourned the hearing.



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