Jeff Yarbro
@jeffyarbro.bsky.social
Tennessee State Senator, Lawyer, Preds Fan, Insomniac, Husband & Dad. Hope for the future and naive optimism ain’t the same thing. https://linktr.ee/yarbro
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One out of every four dollars spent on health care in TN comes from Medicaid. Medicaid covers more than 50% of births and almost 60% of Tennesseans in nursing homes. Eight of Tennessee’s members of Congress put Medicaid on the chopping block tonight to cut taxes for rich folks.
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How can Sen. Hagerty act so shocked? The January Report disclosed retrieving toll records for calls from WH to a handful of senators on night of J6. And it was public that he was in that handful. It’d be crazy for a prosecutor not to have those records when the calls were a big part of indictment.
-282 former DOJ officials sound alarm on compromised integrity & abuse of power. -6 former Surgeons General warn RFK endangering nation’s health. -Amid government shutdown, White House threatens to withhold back pay. -Two US cities challenging illegal troop deployments. That’s just today.
We’re missing basic civics here. It’s Congress—not the President—that has the constitutional power to call out the Guard. Congress’s laws let presidents deploy under narrow, specific circumstances. For nearly 250 years, courts have enforced those limits to prevent abuse of power.
George Washington won the Revolution, presided at Constitutional Convention, and was our first President. When Senate proposed his face for US coins, he rejected it as anti-republican and signed a law barring any actual person’s image on coins, which held until Lincoln was put on the penny in 1909.