SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

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Welker: "Are the president's policies driving up inflation?" Bessent: "Core inflation is down." Welker: "Core inflation doesn't take energy into account, or food into account." Bessent: "Why don't we revisit the Biden era policies?"

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Welker: "Who do you think is to blame for the disruptions to the Starlink and Starshield services?" Zelensky: "Of course, the message came from government…It was the message from American government to limit this and SpaceX did it." Welker: "Has service been restored?" Zelensky: "No."

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this isn't a "feckless Dems" thing btw every facet of government participated in this bizarre two-step of authorizing the TikTok ban and then... not actually doing anything? Congress passed it, the President signed it, courts upheld it, and then everyone just kinda sat around twiddling thumbs

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really is one of the dumbest political blunders of all time that Dems sent the TikTok ban to Biden's desk and then chickened out on actual enforcement, thus letting Trump negotiate a "deal" to hand it over to the chuddiest media mogul alive

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