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Paul Ryan's nameplate is OFF the speaker's office doorway at the Capitol.
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After the Sandy Hook massacre Obama did a small background check measure through executive action and undoing it was one of Trump’s first moves as president
The president has told the White House counsel to explore whether he can do some kind of background checks measure through executive action, though he has made clear internally he wants a political concession in exchange from his critics
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Trump refusing to sign the bill immediately screwed millions of workers out of $300.
From a bartender in NOLA:
“His little delay routine locked me out of the LA unemployment system because I lapsed in the system yesterday and so will have to reapply with a brand new claim”
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Chuck Grassley said he got ACORN's tax returns for "legislative purposes," but Dems want Trump's for "political purposes."
"It’s black and white."
Former ACORN exec Bertha Lewis agrees: “We were black and they were white."
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Almost forgot about this, but yesterday, Matt Gaetz burst into the Speaker’s Lobby all upset and demanded to know which reporter is asking all his colleagues if they hate him.
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Sure sounds like Matt Gaetz will be the next Republican nominee for President of the United States
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I asked Ted Cruz about his campaign claim that Beto O'Rourke was literally funding the migrant caravan in Mexico.
He said "the election is over" and didn't want to talk about it.
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BREAKING: A federal judge has just BLOCKED Trump's first food benefit cut from taking effect next month.
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Ken Buck (R-Col) told me he wouldn’t vote for either Jordan or Scalise because they dodged his question about who won in 2020.
“Is we don't have the moral clarity to decide whether President Biden won or not, we don't have the moral clarity to rule in this country, period.”
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Nancy Pelosi just introduced, as part of the Jan 6 remembrance.... a song by Lin Manuel Miranda performed by the cast of Hamilton
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I will absolutely never forget that after a Trump caravan nearly ran a Biden campaign bus off the road in November Marco Rubio said “we love what they did.”
"In the days before the attack that appalled the world and resulted in five deaths,
@marcorubio
made no public effort to counter what he now calls a lie pushed by politicians he didn’t name."
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The federal government would pay most parents of young children $350 per child every month under a groundbreaking new proposal from
@MittRomney
that would put a serious dent in child poverty.
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Seems like a lot of journalists are saying "the debate" was terrible because they're afraid to just say the president was terrible.
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Josh
@HawleyMO
is upset Democrats have filed an ethics complaint against him for lying about the election, raising his fist to a mob, sending out a fundraising email while the mob trashed Capitol, and then continuing to tell the same lie that motivated the mob in the first place
NEW — Hawley Responds to Dems' Ethics Complaint
"Joe Biden and the Democrats talk about unity but are brazenly trying to silence dissent. This latest effort is a flagrant abuse of the Senate ethics process and a flagrant attempt to exact partisan revenge"
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The only threat to the First Amendment that we should be talking about right now is an actual death threat from actual killers who are an actual constituency of a major political party
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“This is bullshit. You’re bullshit,” Joe Manchin just told me
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This is slipping by in many accounts of the attack on the Capitol.
147 Republicans voted to throw out the election AFTER rioters ransacked the Capitol for no reason other than to throw out the election.
Important story by
@jbendery
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New name for the Cannon Caucus Room where the J6 hearings go down
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New: CBO says Republicans’ $21 billion IRS cut will result in $40 billion in lost revenue, increasing the deficit by $19 billion, per Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
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A whistleblower says someone tried to interfere with the president's IRS audit.
Instead of shouting to reporters, a month ago Dems brought it to a judge, offering a private briefing.
So far the judge has shown no interest.
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Senator John Thune (R-SD) tells Janet Yellen he is concerned about the "massive amount of debt that we continue to rack up" and says "we seem to have no concern" about it
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whomst among us has not accidentally hit "send" on our draft letter withdrawing troops from someone else's country
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AFL-CIO has an aggressive statement about today's big interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve:
"Increasing interest rates signals to working people that the government thinks we have too much money and we should have less money to spend."
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The 25-30% reduction in child poverty isn’t getting its due in the national economic conversation
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Americans are twice as likely to have seen news stories about bonuses than stock buybacks because of the tax bill.
Bonuses: $3 billion
Buybacks: $200 billion
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Former president calls “for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” so that he can be president.
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Rep Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla) usually wears sneakers but today has on funereal attire, he says, for the death of the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry.
“You have to pay respects,” he told me.
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I believe Rep Jared Huffman just yelled Hakeem Jeffries in the style of a Leroy Jenkins internet humor, can you confirm
@MEPFuller
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Democrats applauded after the song (performed via video) concluded and Pelosi said it was important to have the arts as part of this.
I was not expecting the arts today!
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big flex by the Congressional Progressive Caucus today.
“I am so proud of our caucus,” CPC chair Pramila Jayapal said. “I have never seen our caucus so strong.”
Me either!
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Bloomberg denies that he said "kill it" to a pregnant employee but the Washington Post interviewed another employee who said he witnessed it
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Earlier this evening I told an unemployed source in FL that it looked like Trump might finally cave.
“There’s a little hope then,” she said. “Tonight’s the night I fill my pill box and was going to try to cut them in 1/2’s to try to make them last longer.”
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So there are videos of Lauren Boebert telling different versions of this story, pretty much proving Omar right that Boebert made up the version with a police officer frantically rushing toward the elevator
NEW: Another video shows Lauren Boebert suggesting Ilhan Omar was a terrorist at an event in September.
"I said, well, lookey there, it's the Jihad Squad...She doesn't have a backpack, she wasn't dropping it and running so we're good," Boebert said.
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In 2011. Florida Republicans lead by now-senator Rick Scott endeavored to create the worst, most unresponsive and least generous unemployment insurance system in the country.
They succeeded.
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I had asked if it was true he wanted CTC out of BBB.
“I've always been for child tax credits,” he said.
So I asked if he wants it to continue paying parents $300 a month, and he said he was not going to "negotiate" with me and that I'm bullshit
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James O'Keefe has captured Beto O'Rourke staffers talking about using campaign resources to bring blankets, water, and food to Honduran asylum seekers who had a sick child
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Brian Mast R-Fla says McCarthy told the restive right-wingers in his conference just now, “If you want to file a motion to vacate, then file a fucking motion.”
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So Joe Biden has weaponized the Justice Department against his own son
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We had a story mostly ready for this, the most plausible outcome, because the president is not clever and was clearly throwing a childish tantrum with little chance of success
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Here's a C-SPAN clip of Rep Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) voting for Hakeem Jeffries in the style of Leroy Jenkins
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Moderate Rep Don Bacon (R-Neb) says Republicans can’t coalesce.
“A lot of folks are in denial but you're never gonna get eight or 10 folks on board. And so I think the bipartisan path is going to be the only way out.”
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McCarthy keeps repeating this detail from the Senate report about how police riot gear was on a bus that was locked, saying Dems don't want to investigate this.
But that's -- that's FROM the investigation that Amy Klobuchar was running!
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NEW: Biden admin proposes letting SSI recipients receive meals and groceries from friends without cutting their monthly benefits
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Mnuchin today: “We proposed a one-week extension at $600 so that while we negotiate a longer-term solution”
This proposal is basically a sham to get reporters to say “both sides” blew it on unemployment.
They proposed it after it was too late to prevent a benefits lapse.
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The big COVID relief bill continues the ban on federal funding for ACORN, an organization that has not existed for years
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New: Republicans delete reference to discredited FBI informant from their impeachment interview request letters
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Republicans warn conservative media their smoking gun tape of Joe Biden talking bribes might not exist
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They're saying Joe Biden got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired in order to benefit his son.
State Dept officials testified in 2019 and 2020 that firing the prosecutor was THEIR policy, not Biden's.
So I asked: Did they commit perjury? Will you bring them back for more questions?
A reporter pokes holes in the Republican impeachment narrative by pointing out witnesses in the Trump impeachment said having the Ukrainian prosecutor removed was state department policy. Johnson falls back to his list of bullet points and ends the press conference
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Jim Jordan has not been answering reporter questions this morning about the 2020 election.
Two Republicans have been trying in party meetings to get Jordan to disavow Donald Trump’s lies. He won’t.
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It's July!
Democrats still haven't filed their lawsuit over the president's tax returns 🤔
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“The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,"
@GOPLeader
said two weeks ago.
“He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding."
Today:
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“Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass,” this Republican congressman yelled to rile up the mob that stormed the Capitol
Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick murdered in illegal assault on Capitol interior. Officer Sicknick was a hero defending America.
I hope all Americans agree that Officer Sicknick’s murderer deserves the death penalty and should be so prosecuted.
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A stunned Kamala Harris exiting the judiciary committee: “I can’t even. I don’t know. I don’t know how to react to that.”
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“There’s nothing new here, for me, at the end of the day,” Josh
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said, at the middle of the day, a few hours before Democrats played surveillance video nobody had ever seen
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Trump said in October 2018 he would unveil “a major tax cut for middle-income people” that November. Didn't happen.
* U.S. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE POSSIBLE AROUND NOV. 3, ELECTION DAY
@Reuters
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Mitch McConnell last night said Congress coulda done this bill in July:
“Republicans were advocating for a package just like this one, all along, in real time.”
No, they weren’t.
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Fed chair Jerome Powell sees "a real imbalance in wage negotiating" in favor of workers.
The Fed will fix that.
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The House Oversight Committee will conduct a deposition with Joe Biden’s great-great grandfather via seance in the O’Neil House Office Building this week, per a source
The Hill is out with my column in a recent discovery of the criminal history of the great-great-grandfather of Joe Biden. It turns out that the evasion of accountability may be something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection.
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Trump didn’t extend unemployment benefits yesterday.
He told states to set up a “lost wages assistance program” in coordination with FEMA, DHS and DOL and it’s gonna be a dang mess
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Hey, whatever happened to kicking Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley out of Congress? Or censuring them? Or them resigning?
Nothing. It was all discussed for a few days last year before being sent to a farm upstate (the ethics committee)
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Ralph Norman (R-SC) on Biden impeachment, with a little modification on the presumption of innocence in our criminal system:
"You cannot just not... say you are innocent and not have to prove it."
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Democrats on the House floor are laughing and smiling as they take turns talking about how much Trumpcare sucks.
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The Jan 6 Committee subpoena for Alex Jones doesn't mention that he actually addressed the mob from the Capitol steps. Here's a screengrab from a video of it:
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Karl Rove is an expert on fake voter fraud scandals. He was involved in firing US Attorneys for not prosecuting bogus voter fraud cases, a disgrace that led to the resignation of the Attorney General.
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I think Joe Manchin just saved me from getting hit by a car
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Janet Yellen did not belittle Republican concerns about the national debt.
She just said it's a problem for later and a bad reason not to mitigate pointless human suffering today.
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This is the centerpiece of the Republicans' corruption allegation against Joe Biden
amazing - during a Fox News interview w/ Brian Kilmeade, former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko denounces Victor Shokin, who plays as a leading role in Kilmeade's conspiracy theories, as a "completely crazy person" & says "there's something wrong with him" as Kilmeade melts
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Republicans say 3 million workers have benefited from tax reform bonuses or raises.
2 million of those work at Walmart, Home Depot & Lowe's, which announced $1,000 bonuses.
You only get the full $1k if you've worked there for... 20 years.
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Hunter Biden telling elected Republicans he has a better resume than they do
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Let’s take this seriously and literally
"You’re gonna bring a fucking pistol, I’m gonna bring a fucking cannon. You wait! You wait! You wait! Stay there like a fucking sheep!”
Here’s body worn camera footage of Capitol defendant Christopher Joseph Quaglin, who was wearing a MAGA sweatshirt.
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D.C. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell said the Trump administration's arguments against the use of nationwide injunctions were "off-the-wall"
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The plan is amazingly simple: to disobey the law
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Everyone around here is "for" the child tax credit. It's a question of whether you want it to keep paying parents as much as $300 per month.
If the advance monthly payments and extra $1,600 expire at the end of the month, there will still be a $2,000 partially refundable credit
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He incited that mob on purpose and his only regret is it didn’t work to keep him in office
Not one word of remorse of in Trump's statement on the acquittal. He doesn't even acknowledge what a tragedy Jan. 6 was
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The judge's indifference so far may merely reflect the slow pace of civil procedure. Federal judges are aloof from partisan politics.
(This particular one happens to be a Trump appointee who donated to the Trump campaign and volunteered for the Trump transition.)
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In his Senate floor speech and his statement yesterday Josh Hawley did not use the word “mob” to describe the violence he helped incite at the Capitol — but now he uses it to describe a publisher canceling his book.
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NEW: The moderate New Dem faction calls on leadership to bring back the monthly child tax credit as part of a year-end spending deal.
"The enhanced CTC lifted millions of children out
of poverty, gave parents the flexibility to return to work..."
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When I asked Steve King last year if he considers himself a white nationalist or a white supremacist, he seemed quite offended.
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"Especially now, as a global pandemic poses widespread health risks, guaranteeing that government officials at both the federal and state levels have flexibility to address the nutritional needs of residents and ensure their well-being through programs like SNAP, is essential."
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out of respect i have moved the flag down from my twitter name to my bio
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it is legal for political campaigns to donate to charity, which is what appears to have happened here.
As is often the case, you can’t go by O’Keefe’s descriptions of his own videos
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It is interesting that Josh Hawley has decried "the police with their tactics of brutality and oppression" in Hong Kong but in his NBA letter dismissed Black Lives Matter as simply "anti-police protests"
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Ken Buck tells me won’t vote for Jim Jordan. Cites his refusal to disavow false statements about election fraud and his involvement in or knowledge of what would happen on Jan 6
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Romney's child benefit is actually BOLDER than what Democrats have proposed with the child tax credit.
He's pitching an actual child allowance rather than reverse engineering one through the tax code. Payments by SSA instead of IRS.
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a bunch of people who raided the Capitol that day will go to jail but probably come back later as Republican members of Congress
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Joe Biden's "American Families Plan" would undo the 1996 welfare reform law's ban on food benefits for people convicted of drug felonies
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"He was among a number of House Republicans who didn’t cover their faces, despite the recommendation from Congress’s attending physician that they do so.
'My understanding is that a mask doesn’t really protect you as much as it protects other people,' Mr. Rice said."
uh yes
The congressman doesn’t know how he caught Covid.
His son, who also got sick, had recently attended an outdoor birthday party, he said. He and his son had played golf, and the family had been to restaurants, a Lowe’s and a grocery store.
via
@WSJ
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Republicans killed the $600 because it supposedly hurt the incentive to work, but you know what else is affecting incentives? That plague
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Rashida Tlaib CENSURED w/ 22 Dems joining Republicans
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Republicans introduce bill to expel Palestinians from the United States
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Food benefits for the poor are “government dependency” while the $16 billion trade bailout is “support for farmers” according to today’s emails from the USDA
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Interesting floor statement from Leader McConnell: “I guess it’s become a rite of passage for a New Democratic President to give a spending spree that Americans don’t need.”
A reference to the 2009 Recovery Act, which preceded one of the slowest recoveries ever?
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NEW: Jamie Raskin asks FBI to make public details of its assessment of the Biden bribery rumor
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Vivek Ramaswamy, proponent of a civics test for young voters, in his closing statement last night:
"The US Constitution, it is the strongest guarantor of freedom in human history. That is what won us the American Revolution."
Constitution was written after the Revolution.
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The Obama admin told Social Security to alert the background check system if disability recipients were unable to manage their own finances. Republicans sent a reversal to Trump’s desk almost immediately
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Bob Good beat a doctor who treats coronavirus patients to win his seat in Congress
Holy shit. Congressman-elect Bob Good of Virginia starts speaking and immediately proclaims, "this looks like a group of people that gets it. This is a phony pandemic."
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