So question. With an equally split senate, is there still a minority/majority, since Harris is technically only a tiebreaker, not an actual senator?

Yes there is. McConnell is a minority now and Chuck Schumer the majority leader.

#ThankTheMaker

Grand Plan!! Here we come.

President Joe Biden banned his senior advisers from accepting lucrative bonuses from their former employers for joining his administration in an effort to curb efforts by companies to influence the White House’s agenda.

Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that also prohibits top administration appointees from lobbying senior White House staff for a time, usually two years, after they leave the government, an addition to the current ban against trying to influence former agency colleagues.

The restrictions will also apply to what’s known as “shadow lobbying,” in which former officials advise their new K Street colleagues how to influence the the government. Biden’s ban affects those who would plan outreach to their former agencies and the White House.

Biden’s order lays out lobbying restrictions that are more robust than the rules put in place by either President Barack Obama or President Donald Trump, signaling a tightening of the revolving door between government and corporate interests in Washington.

While Biden’s executive order may limit companies’ methods for shaping legislation and regulations in their favor, it’s unlikely to halt Washington’s powerful corporate influence machine altogether, government reform experts said.

“This goes a long way,” said Liz Hempowicz, director of public policy for the Project On Government Oversight, a watchdog group. “Moneyed interests will always find a way to exert their power.”

Wednesday’s order on lobbying is one of 17 executive actions Biden signed on his first half-day in office. His team has said it also plans to resume publicly releasing White House visitor logs, a practice Trump stopped when he entered office.

Advocates who spend at least 20% of their time representing clients’ interests to decision-makers are required to file a quarterly report disclosing their contacts under lobbying laws.

Biden’s new ethics policy elicited praise from good government groups who argued that the order improves upon on the rules set by the Obama administration by banning shadow lobbying and other ways companies covertly influence politics.

“This is exactly what we want to see,” Hempowicz said. “It’s unfortunate that the standards can change so significantly from administration to administration.”

In the final hours of his presidency, Trump revoked his administration’s ethics pledge banning political appointees from lobbying the agencies where they worked for five years after leaving the government. His original order had also banned former political appointees from lobbying work for a foreign government or political party.

The Obama administration barred appointees from communicating with employees of their former agencies for two years after leaving government. While Trump imposed a longer prohibition, his focus on “lobbying activities” left the door open for companies to influence the White House in other ways, critics said.

Has it come yet?

Yes and No

I stand by the evidence the election was stolen

I stand by the evidence the election was stolen, but yes there was much less evidence that Trump must have had a plan, I underestimated that despite Trump clearly anticipating they were going to steal, there may have just been no way to stop it. My guess is he had very little allies in places like the FBI or military that would be needed to drain the whole swamp in a trap like this, and this would be exactly why the Democrats had no fear stealing the election. He made too many hires like Bill Barr as AG and Christopher Wray as FBI director that did nothing for him but help the establishment by stalling evidence. The military has troops who love him but leaders who hate him meaning they would possibly refuse any attempt he would make to use them, plus Trump is a constitutionalist who wouldn't want to cross a line that can't be undone. He either trusted too many people or his hands were tied, if he fired everyone and replaced them with MAGA early on, the rest of the GOP may have voted him out after Democrats found a reason to impeach, it may have been the price for miraculously making it through 4 years when everyone there hated him. Pence was likely forced onto him for the same reason, the GOP could have voted for him not to be the nominee before 2016 election if they wanted to. Ultimately the swamp being too much for one man to drain was somewhat predictable in retrospect and I may have bought into the myth too much that he could do it. Trump overall went ultra aggressive at them, the media and big tech from day 1 instead of mixing in some ass kissing, leading to them beating the shit out of him back for four years and eventually winning.

The executive order concerning transgenders in sports is ridiculously unfair.

Why do you care?

Hard to believe this is the most popular president in history

you know Trump's in his Florida bunker mad as hell at that report.

Because biological men and biological women cannot have a fair sports competition.