7 Things: Britt, Tuberville vote ‘no’ on debt limit; ‘biggest tax cut in history;’ and more …

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June 2, 2023

7. President Joe Biden had a rough day yesterday as he stumbled in front of the world and tumbled to the ground at the Air Force Academy graduation, his third fall of the year. Later he would bump his head entering Marine 1. The media rushed to his defense … surely, it is fine that our elderly president can’t stay on his feet.

6. President Donald Trump did not hold back on President Joe Biden in his Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity. Describing his own legal issues as a “witch hunt,” the former President lamented the failure to go after the Biden family, “They’re being protected, and it’s a one-sided system, it is a very unfair system, but they’re being protected.”

5. A meeting with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall over the delay in officially naming Redstone Arsenal as the home of Space Command HQ did not go too well, according to U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Monrovia). Strong said the secretary got “lit up” and “he got his money’s worth from Alabama delegation about the process that they’re intervening in.”

4. Alabama’s record-setting budgets have now passed and Gov. Kay Ivey has signed the bills. In announcing her signing of these budgets Ivey noted how the state has done under her leadership, “During my time as governor, we have not once used the word proration, nor have we spent beyond our means.”

3. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) continues to push back against failing schools after criticism of his comments about the terrible performance of inner-city schools in the state and beyond. In a press call, Tuberville said, “We’re 19% proficiency in reading in the city of Birmingham. That’s embarrassing.”

2. According to Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth, the Alabama Legislature has now passed the largest tax cut in Alabama’s history. The tax on groceries has now been cut, with 1% being eliminated in September and another 1% being removed if the Education Trusts Fund reaches 3.5% growth year-over-year.

1. The U.S. Senate has passed the debt limit increase. Both senators from Alabama, Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and Katie Britt (R-Montgomery). voted no. Britt explained her “no” vote, saying, “Decisive action and tough decisions are needed to finally get control of wasteful government spending and put America’s fiscal house in order.”

Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and on Talk 99.5 from 10 a.m. to noon.