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Aug 09 2021
Analysis
Fact-checking Republican attempts to blame inflation on Democrats
As the US economy gradually recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, prices are rising across the board with inflation exceeding the Federal Reserve's 2% target and reaching a 13-year high in June. Republicans have turned that jump in inflation into a political talking point, trying to place the blame on President Joe Biden and Democrats, and at times misrepresenting the current economic
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Aug 06 2020
News
Trump Says He May Act on His Own Friday Amid Aid-Talks Stalemate
President Donald Trump said he expects to sign orders on Friday or Saturday extending enhanced unemployment benefits and imposing a payroll-tax holiday as lawmakers have been unable to reach agreement on stimulus legislation that includes those measures.
Trump, speaking to reporters Thursday before leaving on a trip to Ohio, said he also expects to sign orders on eviction protection and
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Jun 26 2020
News
Trump Administration Files Supreme Court Brief To End Obamacare Amid COVID-19 Crisis
The late-night move, taken as coronavirus cases reach record levels, threatens the health insurance of millions of Americans.
The Trump administration filed a brief Thursday night calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act — which allows millions of Americans to get health insurance coverage — just as the nation smashed a record for new COVID-19 cases in a
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Jun 02 2021
News
Justice Department secures 2nd guilty plea stemming from Capitol riot
Paul Hodgkins, 38, of Tampa pleaded guilty on Wednesday to obstruction of an official proceeding for participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Why it matters: Hodgkins is the second defendant to plead guilty in the Justice Department's sweeping criminal investigation of the Capitol insurrection, which has resulted in charges against more than 500 people thus far, according to Insider.
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Mar 12 2020
News
Kevin McCarthy, White House Are a 'No' on the Democrats' Coronavirus Bill
GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow Republicans on a call Thursday morning that he and the White House are opposed to the new coronavirus bill introduced late Wednesday night by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. The legislation reportedly offered emergency relief to Americans affected by the virus, including free coronavirus testing, new unemployment insurance, and paid medical leave, and
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Sep 15 2020
News
Bipartisan U.S. lawmaker group to unveil $1.5 trillion COVID-19 aid bill
A group of 50 Democratic and Republican members of Congress is due to unveil $1.5 trillion bipartisan coronavirus relief legislation on Tuesday, in an election year effort to break a month-long impasse in COVID-19 talks between the White House and top Democrats.
The Problem Solvers Caucus, which includes members of both parties in the House of Representatives, was set to outline the
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Dec 24 2020
News
House Republicans Block $2,000 Coronavirus Stimulus Checks, Defying Trump
House Republicans defied President Donald Trump’s wishes on Christmas Eve, blocking the passage of a proposal to include $2,000 stimulus checks — something the president demanded in an angry video posted to Twitter on Tuesday night while threatening to upend months of negotiations over government funding and coronavirus relief.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) dared Republicans to
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Dec 23 2019
News
McConnell: 'Let's quit the charade' on impeachment
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday slammed Democratic senators as well as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over her decision to withhold House-passed articles of impeachment against President Trump from the upper chamber until Republicans guarantee a "fair" trial.
During an interview with "Fox & Friends," the GOP leader knocked the idea that Senate Minority
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Jan 09 2022
News
Rep. McCarthy: Dems Pushing for Voting Reform to 'Rig An Election'
Congress is back in session this week and even though COVID is spiking, schools are closing again, and the economy is crippled, the Democrats in the majority have one focus, and that's to change the election laws "to rig an election to give them an ability to win when they should not," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Sunday.
"It's over in the Senate, but you watch what they
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Aug 31 2021
News
House GOP urges Dems to delay $3.5T spending package amid domestic, foreign woes
House Republicans urged Democrats on Tuesday to postpone consideration of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion expansion of America’s social safety net, arguing that Congress instead should address the nation’s mounting foreign and domestic woes.
Rep. Bruce Westerman of Arkansas, the top Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee, said Democratic leaders were putting the spending
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