Tag: Kevin McCarthy

GOP Leader McCarthy: Trump Would Never Do What He Said He’d Do

NOTE:  All we could do is shake our head as we read this one.

On Thursday morning, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy defended Trump’s admission that he would collude with foreign governments by saying there is no way Trump would actually do what he said.

“I think if you ask the president, he would be very clear about it — not allowing any foreign countries to interfere in our elections,” McCarthy said at his weekly press conference.

In fact, when Trump was asked about foreign interference in our elections, he was very clear that he would welcome it.

View the complete June 13 article by Dan Desai Martin on the National Memo website here.

Despite national security concerns, GOP leader McCarthy blocked bipartisan bid to limit China’s role in U.S. transi

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) blocked a bipartisan attempt to limit Chinese companies from contracting with U.S. transit systems, a move that benefited a Chinese government-backed manufacturer with a plant in his district, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

His behind-the-scenes intervention came as Congress was trying this year to craft a spending compromise to avert another government shutdown. McCarthy pressed lawmakers to strip out language that could have prevented the company in his district, BYD Motors, from winning federal contracts, and they relented because they feared imperiling the bill.

BYD Motors is a division of BYD Co., a giant Chinese manufacturer. Among other things, it makes electric buses that are often used by local governments. Stella Li, BYD Motors president, is a campaign contributor to McCarthy, and the lawmaker spoke at a ribbon-cutting for BYD’s California plant in 2017.

View the complete May 21 article by Damian Paletta and Erica Werner on The Washington Post website here.

A top Republican challenged a professor on the border debate. It did not go well.

The following article by Melanie Schmitz was posted on the TinkProgress website September 6, 2017:

Oops.

HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY OF CALIF., SPEAKS TO REPORTERS ON CAPITOL HILL IN WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2017. (CREDIT: AP PHOTO/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE)

During an interview with The Ralph Bailey Show on Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy attempted to explain the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program scale-back, immigration, and the debate over the southern border to a political science professor from California State University, Bakersfield. The professor just didn’t understand the issues with immigration, how border patrol operates, or why Mexico was so dangerous, McCarthy claimed. “Have you ever been to the border?” he asked.

There was just one problem: the professor to whom McCarthy was speaking— Mark Martinez—had indeed been to the border. In fact, Martinez had previously taught graduate studies in Mexico at the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, hundreds of miles south of the border and has a wide breadth of knowledge in political development, international relations, and American foreign policy. Continue reading “A top Republican challenged a professor on the border debate. It did not go well.”

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump

The Post’s Adam Entous discusses a 2016 conversation of GOP leaders in which House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made an explosive claim. (Video: Bastien Inzaurralde/Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post)