Gene Zitver: Ben Cline goes along with Donald Trump’s tariff fantasy
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MAGA Congressman Ben Cline thinks Donald Trump deserves praise for negotiating these dubious “trade deals.”
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Big Ugly Bill could push Virginia health-insurance costs up 20 percent in 2026
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The 10 insurers planning to participate in the Virginia health-insurance marketplace are proposing increases of 20 percent or higher in 2026, which U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, D-Va., say was “entirely avoidable.”
Trumpers sack former acting FBI director who refused to name names
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Brian Driscoll, the former acting director of the FBI, has been terminated, for obvious reasons.
Cost of groceries stressing out Americans; federal cuts, tariffs likely to exacerbate issue
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People are fed up with high grocery prices, and federal cuts by the Trump administration could further impact vulnerable Americans.
Amid Texas gerrymandering, Senate Dems reintroduce voting rights bill
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The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would update and reinforce safeguards in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that have been eroded.
Senate lawmakers push vote on CDFI funding for ‘America’s forgotten communities’
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CDFI funding serve as vital engines of economic growth and financial inclusion in some of the nation’s most underserved communities.
Senate confirms Joe Kent, who led intelligence rewrite, to head Counterterrorism Center
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The DNI’s top national advisor Joe Kent was confirmed last week as head of the NCTC after he directed officials to rewrite intelligence.
Bill would require ‘stress test’ of financial system, assessment of response to disaster
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The Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act would require the Department of Treasury to conduct annual “stress tests” on federal finances.
Unmasking ICE: ‘Our communities need safety and trust, not terror and chaos’
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Immigration agents and the public seem to be at odds with enforcement tactics leading to huge safety concerns on both sides.
The New Gulag: Mental health detentions and the criminalization of dissent
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The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on COVID-19—is yet another Trojan Horse.
