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Trump and Republicans in Congress eye an ambitious 100-day agenda, starting with tax cuts

WASHINGTON — A tax break for millionaires, and almost everyone else. Trump’s first term became defined by those tax cuts, which were approved by Republicans in Congress and signed into law only after their initial campaign promise to “repeal and replace” Democratic President Barack Obama’s health care law sputtered, failing with the famous thumbs-down vote by then-Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ex-Trump aide flags 'the only reason' president-elect's law breaking might be stopped

Raw Story

The "Anonymous" writer who sounded the alarm about concerns in Donald Trump's first administration is begging Republicans to line up to join the new one. Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, penned a column for the New York Times urging conservatives "not to run from him, as some might say. Read Also: …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

N.C. Republicans seek a voter purge that would violate federal law

Raw Story

Republicans want the courts to kick 225,000 voters off the North Carolina rolls by the end of next week. The North Carolina Republican Party and the Republican National Committee said in a lawsuit filed Monday in Wake County that the State Board of Elections failed to act when resident Carol Snow complained about violations of a federal law called the …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans breath a sigh of relief at Trump's abortion announcement they can now hide behind in 2024: GOP lawmakers who backed a 15-week ban now say limits should be decided by states

Daily Mail

Senator Lindsey Graham has increasingly found himself on an island when it comes to the issue of abortion as he continues to push for federal restrictions. Other congressional Republicans have fallen in line behind former President Donald Trump's newly publicized view that he believes ending a pregnancy should be an issue left to the states. Whether they fear the wrath …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans Are Trying to Erase Trans Identity From The Law

Huff Post

Transgender people are at risk of losing the ability to update their driver's licenses and IDs with new legislation that restricts definitions of sex. At least 10 states have introduced or passed legislation to narrowly define what it means to be “male” or “female.” Such laws have myriad impacts for transgender people — from making it impossible to update birth …

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1 year, 4 months ago

President Biden focuses on factory jobs in Wisconsin, ignoring latest Trump indictment

Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — On the heels of a fourth indictment for Donald Trump, President Joe Biden focused on manufacturing jobs in a speech at a Wisconsin factory — putting his ideas for growth up against his Republican rivals in a bid to win over voters in a key state in next year’s presidential election. Biden said that his ideas are in …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Florida Governor DeSantis signs abortion ban into law

Al Jazeera

Florida now among an estimated 13 other US states that have enacted bans on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy or earlier. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a prominent figure in the Republican Party who is expected to run for president in 2024, has signed into law a six-week abortion ban, making the southern state the latest to enact severe restrictions …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Republicans Double Down On Anti-LGBTQ Hysteria

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Gwendolyn Herzig, a transgender pharmacist, went to the Arkansas statehouse last month to testify in support of providing transgender youth with gender-affirming health care. “Do you have a penis?” Herzig later told NBC News that the experience “was probably the most publicly humiliating thing I’ve ever gone through.” The medical malpractice suit is just one of the …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Texas Republicans See Attacking Trans Kids As Political Win

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING AUSTIN, Texas ― On Jan. 11, the second day of the Texas legislative session, Rep. Tony Tinderholt took the microphone to offer an amendment to a procedural resolution laying out the House of Representatives’ rules. “It’s sad to even say this these days, but the push from the radical left has shifted reality.” Texas Rep. Tony Tinderholt …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Texas vow to ‘eliminate all rapists’ rings hollow at clinics

LA Times

Evidence tape is seen with a Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit in an examination room Aug. 31 in Austin, Texas. Greg Abbott said the state would strive to “eliminate all rapists from the streets.” When Texas’ new abortion law made no exceptions in cases of rape, Republican Gov. A year since Texas’ law went into effect in September 2021, at …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Trump immediately turns to violence after trading places with his enemies

Raw Story

There’s absolutely no question that the former president has been issuing threats since last week when federal agents searched his Florida home for secret government documents. The only question, to my way of thinking anyway, is whether respectable white people understand that the Republicans manufacture violence rather than preserve peace, as the party has claimed for years. There’s no going …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Disney gave $190K to support Florida Republicans weeks before taking a stand on 'Don't Say Gay' bill

Daily Mail

The Walt Disney Company donated $190,000 to Florida's Republicans weeks before they began condemning the state's contentious education bill, it has emerged. Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, is pictured on March 28 signing the 'Don't Say Gay' bill Joe Harding, a sponsor of the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, was angered by Disney condemning the legislation, and handed the campaign …

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2 years, 9 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Republicans skew Jackson’s record on crime

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Republican senators characterized Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s judicial views as extremist and soft on crime, using her confirmation hearings to air a line of conservative grievances that relied at times on distortions of her record. ___ TEXAS SEN. JOHN CORNYN: “Why in the world would you call Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and George W. Bush war …

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2 years, 9 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Republicans twist Jackson’s judicial record

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In the court of public opinion — like the Supreme Court nomination hearings coming this week — politicians ask questions of witnesses to score points for their side. Their assertions on this front don’t stand up to scrutiny: GOP SEN. JOSH HAWLEY OF MISSOURI: “Judge Jackson has opined there may be a type of ‘less-serious child pornography offender.’. …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Florida House passes GOP 15-week abortion ban

Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives early Thursday approved a ban on abortions after 15 weeks, moving to tighten access to the procedure ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could limit abortion rights in America. The GOP-controlled House passed the 15-week abortion ban after several hours of debate between Democrats who said the measure …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Pennsylvania court strikes down state’s mail-in voting law

Al Jazeera

After Joe Biden won the 2020 US election, Republicans challenged a new state law that had made mail-in voting easier. A court in the US state of Pennsylvania sided with Republican legislators on Friday in striking down a state law that had eliminated barriers to voting by mail, raising a question mark about ballot access in the political battleground state …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Florida Republicans Propose 15-Week Abortion Ban With No Exceptions For Rape Or Incest

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Florida Republican lawmakers introduced a 15-week abortion ban on the first day of the state legislature’s 2022 session this week. If the Florida bills are signed into law, the 15-week abortion ban would go into effect on July 1 ― after the Mississippi case is decided. Florida’s proposed 15-week ban is not as extreme as Texas’ new …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Biden signs $1T infrastructure deal with bipartisan crowd

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed his hard-fought $1 trillion infrastructure deal into law Monday before a bipartisan, celebratory crowd on the White House lawn, declaring that the new infusion of cash for roads, bridges, ports and more is going to make life “change for the better” for the American people. “We see this as is an opportunity because we …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Biden signs the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law

NPR

Biden signs the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law Enlarge this image toggle caption Kenny Holston/Getty Images Kenny Holston/Getty Images President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law Monday, enacting a key piece of his domestic spending agenda that will funnel billions to states and local governments to upgrade outdated roads, bridges, transit systems and more. The …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Token of all tokens: Could a $1T coin fix the debt limit?

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Some politicians think they’ve found a silver bullet for the impasse over the debt limit, except the bullet is made of platinum: Mint a $1 trillion coin, token of all tokens, and use it to flood the treasury with cash and drive Republicans crazy. Specifically, the law says the treasury secretary “may mint and issue platinum bullion coins …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Here's What's In Texas Republicans' New Voting Law

NPR

Here's What's In Texas Republicans' New Voting Law Enlarge this image toggle caption Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images Sweeping new voting restrictions are now law in Texas — a state that already had some of the most restrictive election rules in the country. Sponsor Message The new law is part of a nationwide push by state-level Republicans to enact …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Republicans Are Criminalizing The Democratic Process For People Of Color

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING On May 14, Montana Gov. What does that mean for the society that we will live in?” Targeting Third-Party Ballot Collection Montana’s HB 530 ― which Gianforte signed into law in May after Republican majorities in the state legislature passed it without a single Democratic vote ― prohibits anyone from submitting another voter’s absentee ballot if they …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Texas: Democrat walkout blocks passage of voting restriction law

Al Jazeera

Critics say the law, like many recently passed across the US, would make it more difficult for some people to vote. The legislation is the most recent attempt in state legislatures across the US to pass voting restrictions, which many Republican legislators have argued are needed to increase security at the polls. Meanwhile, the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, who …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Montana governor signs bill limiting power of health boards

Associated Press

Greg Gianforte has signed a bill limiting the power of local public health boards to issue mandates in response to emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic. Local elected officials such as county commissioners can change or rescind health mandates following Gianforte’s signature Friday. GOP Rep. David Bedey Before the law, appointed local health boards could enact rules such as mask mandates …

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Trump and Republicans in Congress eye an ambitious 100-day agenda, starting with tax cuts

Ex-Trump aide flags 'the only reason' president-elect's law breaking might be stopped

N.C. Republicans seek a voter purge that would violate federal law

Republicans breath a sigh of relief at Trump's abortion announcement they can now hide behind in 2024: GOP lawmakers who backed a 15-week ban now say limits should be decided by states

Republicans Are Trying to Erase Trans Identity From The Law

President Biden focuses on factory jobs in Wisconsin, ignoring latest Trump indictment

Florida Governor DeSantis signs abortion ban into law

Republicans Double Down On Anti-LGBTQ Hysteria

Texas Republicans See Attacking Trans Kids As Political Win

Texas vow to ‘eliminate all rapists’ rings hollow at clinics

Trump immediately turns to violence after trading places with his enemies

Disney gave $190K to support Florida Republicans weeks before taking a stand on 'Don't Say Gay' bill

AP FACT CHECK: Republicans skew Jackson’s record on crime

AP FACT CHECK: Republicans twist Jackson’s judicial record

Florida House passes GOP 15-week abortion ban

Pennsylvania court strikes down state’s mail-in voting law

Florida Republicans Propose 15-Week Abortion Ban With No Exceptions For Rape Or Incest

Biden signs $1T infrastructure deal with bipartisan crowd

Biden signs the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law

Token of all tokens: Could a $1T coin fix the debt limit?

Here's What's In Texas Republicans' New Voting Law

Republicans Are Criminalizing The Democratic Process For People Of Color

Texas: Democrat walkout blocks passage of voting restriction law

Montana governor signs bill limiting power of health boards