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In his column for the Washington Post, longtime political observer Dana Milbank marveled at Donald Trump's ability to gum up the works of the U.S. government more than a month before he is sworn in. As the analyst noted, the president-elect could have stayed on the sidelines as opposing members of the House hammered out a budget deal to make …

Vance scored style points at the vice presidential debate Tuesday evening, but he also had one line that stuck out in the minds of his critics. The moment was highlighted by Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign, which posted, "Still thinking about this" along with a photo of the moderator's explanatory comment to the audience, and Vance's defensive remark. Dana Milbank …

South Dakota News Watch — Trina Lapp, an 18-year-old Milbank native who attends Dakota Wesleyan University, doesn’t view politics or the upcoming election as an afterthought. “We’re the upcoming generation that will be the main voters eventually.” She is one of several Dakota Wesleyan students who will take part in a Vote South Dakota forum Thursday, Sept. 19, at the …

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was left deeply unimpressed by former President Donald Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. In his latest piece, Milbank argued that Trump and the GOP were "squandering all the sympathy and goodwill" that came from the failed assassination attempt on the former president over the weekend. "Trump himself, after a feint toward unity …

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Something strange and hopeful happened this week, wrote Dana Milbank for The Washington Post. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, having cut a surprisingly balanced debt ceiling deal with President Joe Biden, ignored the howling and threats of the far-right flank of his party. "Many of the same House GOP extremists who nearly denied Kevin McCarthy the speakership did their utmost this …

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Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has so abandoned truth and his responsibilities that he might as well have joined the insurrection, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank slammed Friday. IN OTHER NEWS: Murdoch confirms Kimberly Guilfoyle's mysterious Fox exit was due to 'inappropriate' behavior When Carlson cherry-picked minutes of those hours to characterize the storming of the building as "peaceful" — …

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Starting in 1932, government medical workers in rural Alabama withheld treatment from unsuspecting Black men infected with syphilis so doctors could track the disease and dissect their bodies afterwards. Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted in 1972, the organisation that made those funeral payments, the Milbank Memorial Fund, is publicly apologising …

After terrorists attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, Republicans in Congress and their propagandists in the right-wing media demanded accountability. But Washington Post opinion writer Dana Milbank, in his December 15 column, slams MAGA Republicans for their blatant hypocrisy — stressing that Republicans who were so outraged over Benghazi aren’t demanding …