In 2011, on the eve of a potential government shutdown under former President Barack Obama, Donald Trump — then a famed reality TV host and tabloid staple — told The Today Show that a government shutdown amounted to a “tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States.” Now, …
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President Donald Trump and his family are building a multinational cryptocurrency, real estate, and licensing empire on the back of his presidency, catapulting his estimated worth by billions. The net worths of individual members of Congress are estimated to range between the tens of thousands of dollars and more than …
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Alina Habba — Donald Trump‘s former personal lawyer who, a court recently ruled, has been illegally serving as U.S. attorney in New Jersey — accused federal judges of “a collusion” against her. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann said last week that Habba “is not lawfully holding the office of United …
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Andy Kim is in between offices. The desks in his temporary space in the bowels of the Dirksen Senate Office Building remain mostly bare. Boxes holding monitors and other work supplies are stacked nearly to the ceiling in the conference room. His staff, waiting for news on when they’ll get …
Read More »How Bob Menendez's Gold Bars Led This New Jersey Democrat to Run for Senate
New Jersey Congressman Andy Kim was taking his kids to their annual checkup on Friday when his phone went haywire. “I was in the doctor’s office with them, they were running around and being absolutely crazy, but I could feel in my pocket my phone blowing up, just people calling …
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