After weeks of internal deliberations, backroom tug-of-wars, and public policy disputes, Republicans have their first drafts of the committee bills that will encompass President Donald Trump’s much coveted “big, beautiful” reconciliation package. While the working masses will be thrown a couple bones, the legislative package is at its core a …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress put in charge of the nation’s health systems, doesn’t think he’s qualified to dispense medical advice. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine conspiracy theorist, was asked about the measles vaccine during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday. The United …
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The leader of the Trump administration’s deportation push had a lot to answer for. In a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, Democrats grilled Noem about the arrest of Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka; the …
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the top two National Intelligence Council officials just weeks after the NIC wrote an intelligence report rebuking some of the Trump administration’s claims about the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. According to a Wednesday report from Fox News, Gabbard fired National Intelligence …
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Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker, a longtime critic of Donald Trump, said Monday he was questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after returning to the country over the weekend. Piker explained on Twitch, where he streams as HasanAbi, that he was pulled aside at Chicago O’Hare …
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It’s getting increasingly difficult for Republicans and even the MAGA faithful to defend Donald Trump’s unconstitutional or otherwise misguided actions as president. In the case of Trump accepting a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, they aren’t even trying — and some of them, including some of the president’s most …
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Aides to former President Joe Biden privately discussed putting him in a wheelchair should he have managed to win a second term, according to new details from an upcoming book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson. According to details published today by Axios, in Original Sin: President Biden’s …
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship on Thursday. Trump signed the order, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” on the first day of his second term, but it has since been halted by nationwide injunctions issued by …
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When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira last week in Worcester, Massachusetts, the situation rapidly devolved into chaos and community outrage. Multiple recordings of the incident went viral, but what bystanders did not capture on video was how federal agents were able to draw Ferreira-De Oliveira …
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Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to maintaining the world’s largest collection of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and recordings. While the takeover has been framed …
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