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Congress Meets Saturday to Try to End Government Shutdown
Though there is enough hand-wringing, blame (see #ShumerShutdown, #SchumerShutdown, #TrumpShutdown) and hypocrisy to go around, the fact is that the federal government shuttered after midnight on Friday. Now members of Congress are scheduled to meet Saturday to strike a deal. The Washington Post reports that the House was expected to reconvene at 9 a.m. and…
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Republicans Seem Hell-Bent on Showing Us That Their God Doesn’t Exist
I remember vivid details about the morning when I first decided I didn’t want to go to church anymore. I remember that my mother attempted to wake me several times that morning when she was already fully dressed, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, wearing her nurse’s uniform that she had to wear every fourth Sunday because she…
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Senate Passes Major Tax Overhaul 51-49, Cutting Corporate Taxes and Gutting Student Loan Write-Offs
The United States may be getting a major tax overhaul after Senate Republicans scraped their way to a victory early Saturday morning, with a bill that critics say senators haven’t read and one that gives major concessions to corporations and the wealthy. The bill, approved just before 2 a.m. in a 51-49 vote, next heads…
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Trump Hosted an Empty-Chair Meeting After ‘Chuck and Nancy’ Told Him to Kick Rocks
Let’s recap, shall we? President Shoofly von BotherEveryone was supposed to host a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to discuss preventing a possible government shutdown. Before the meeting, President DoucheFace von FrostedTufts decided that it would be a good idea to tweet how ineffective and…
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The Supersecret Trumpcare Bill Is Now Public and It Sucks, but You Knew That Already
This vomit-inducing Senate revision of President Donald Trump’s initial trashy health care bill was doomed from the time Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thought it was a good idea to have an all-male GOP lineup working behind closed doors in secret to create it. On Thursday, the Frankenstein-esque creation of Trumpcare—dubbed the Better Care Reconciliation…
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Warren Tries to Read Coretta Scott King’s Letter About Sessions on Senate Floor; McConnell Silences Her
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) proved himself to be a coward Tuesday night when he stopped Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) from reading a 1986 letter penned by Coretta Scott King about Jeff Sessions, now the U.S. attorney general nominee. Warren was in the process of reading the scathing letter—which was written by the widow…
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CIA Says Russia Helped Trump in US Election: Report
In a secret assessment from September, the CIA concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to an explosive report from the Washington Post. “It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump…
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2 Top GOP Leaders Make Peace With Trump to Create United Republican Front
Two top congressional Republicans who were previously critical of President-elect Donald Trump are working to bridge the gap with him after his election win Tuesday night. Last month, when a leaked 2005 video showed Trump boasting about being able to sexually assault women by grabbing them in their genitals without consent, House Speaker Paul Ryan…