Connor O'Brien
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Defense reporter covering Congress for @politico. Markup enthusiast. Self-described Huguenot. Send me your tips and sage grouse gifs: [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined September 2010
2025: Senator Kid Rock proposes a repeal of the 2001 AUMF to reign in the the war powers of President Dwayne Johnson.
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RT @IsaacDovere: “Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week. setting of….
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RT @paulmcleary: Trump said tonight the U.S. would start sending air defenses to Ukraine again. But Kyiv was already looking at two meeting….
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RT @kaitlancollins: President Trump on sending more weapons to Ukraine: "We're gonna send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be ab….
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NEW: We’ve got the House NDAA draft ahead of a July 15 markup. Some big items:.—no topline increase, keeps DoD $ at $848B after Rs added $150B through reconcilation.—limits US troop reductions from Europe.—includes Rogers’ SPEED Act to overhaul acquisition
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RT @MZanona: One member of Congress said he asked a White House official what the holdouts got in return for supporting the bill, and said….
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RT @ArthurDelaneyHP: The big bill gives ICE $45 billion for new jails, which is five times the annual budget for federal prisons, and $29 b….
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RT @riley_rogerson: Keith Self called it “broken.” Chip Roy called it “a travesty.” Ralph Norman said it was “mortgaging our future.”. They….
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RT @ktullymcmanus: GOP megabill has passed the House, will go to the president's desk. FINAL TALLY: 218-214.GOP NO VOTES: Thomas Massie of….
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RT @JenGriffinFNC: Trump allies caught off guard by Pentagon’s Ukraine weapons freeze via @politico.
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RT @mikedebonis: Fifteen hours of team coverage, 18 posts, and still going at Inside Congress Live .
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Just gonna note that the chair of the House Armed Services Committee has said *if* the reconciliation bill fails — along with the ~$150B for defense — he plans to raise the topline of the NDAA when the bill gets marked up in two weeks.
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RT @MZanona: Republicans are trying locate Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who delivered a surprising NO vote on the mega bill rule. Likely to try….
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RT @MEPFuller: Four Republicans voting against the rule at the moment: Keith Self, Victoria Spartz, Andrew Clyde and Brian Fitzpatrick. If….
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It would’ve been a real power move if Steve Womack just gave the rule the ol’ doc fix.
As Rep. Steve Womack closes out a seven-hour stint in the House chair, he gavels down and declares, with emphasis: "THIS is a five minute vote.".
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RT @EliStokols: With Trump unlikely to approve any new defense aid, Kyiv has a new request: let Europe purchase U.S.-made weapons for Ukrai….
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RT @paulmcleary: Pentagon spox Sean Parnell says "all of the intelligence that we've seen have led us to believe" that Iran's nuke sites "h….
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[Don Johnson as the antagonist golfer in Tin Cup]. Still going….
State of the reconciliation amendment vote… 9 Rs haven’t voted
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RT @dave_brown24: Republican lawmakers are slamming the Trump administration’s decision to halt some U.S. missile and munitions shipments t….
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It’s not just members having to scramble back to DC from their districts for this vote. House Armed Services Chair Mike Rogers was leading a congressional delegation in Europe that he had to cut short to come back and vote, postponing visits to two countries.
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