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Welcome. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. The platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight and inspiration as we take back our state from some of the most extreme Republicans in...
by randallt
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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“Where you spend your money says a lot about your values.” – Al Franken President Joe Biden has unveiled his proposed budget for the 2025 fiscal year, and politics, being what they are, an editorial in the Washington Post rightly explained it has “zero...
by RickElia
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 05:38 AM PDT
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Here is what is in the budget-from-hell proposed by the largest Republican committee on Capitol Hill for FY 2025 — From www.whitehouse.gov/... Cuts $1.5 trillion from Social Security Raises Social Security Retirement age to 69, cuts disability benefits...
by AKALib
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 06:19 AM PDT
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My budget is very limited, but I make regular donations to a few worthy efforts, including Daily Kos. $20/month. I’ve tried to unsubscribe the fund-raising emails and texts, but keep getting them anyway. And never any acknowledgement of my ongoing...
by arper
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 12:19 PM PDT
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Donald Trump’s recent public appearances have featured a mishmash of barely coherent ramblings , ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies. The legislation's success gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 11:06 AM PST
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The Speaker of the House is being pushed to disinvite the President from giving the State of the Union before a joint session of Congress, because the President hasn't submitted a budget for the next fiscal year (FY2025, which starts 10/1/2024). This...
by WBinDE
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 07:04 PM PST
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Every few months the Republican Party threatens to shut down the federal government claiming the country is in massive debt and must tighten its spending belt by cutting social programs. In January Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 02:35 PM PST
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I read recently about the idea that “corporations” have become a new species of life, in competition with “homo sapiens.” In the last few days, I’ve received increasingly panicked emails from Amanda McKay about meeting February budget requirements....
by arper
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 02:43 PM PST
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With a government shutdown looming, 13 Republican senators, led by Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Texas’ pretend cowboy Sen. Ted Cruz, released a letter they said they sent to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell demanding he make a big stink about holding...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 02:12 PM PST
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The 2024 campaign has begun. Joe Biden, despite his accomplishments, is flagging in the polls. We Democrats have 20 Senate seats up for re-election and the Republicans in charge of the House holding the nation hostage over the budget and trying to...
by 40ford
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 07:57 AM PST
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Arizona state Sen. Jake Hoffman, a member of the Freedom Caucus, successfully pushed SB 1279 , which prohibits “Satanic memorials, statues, altars or displays or any other method of representing ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 11:30 AM PST
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Marjorie Taylor Greene gave a doozy of an interview with r ight-wing podcast host Charlie Kirk on Wednesday to commiserate about House Republicans’
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 04:15 PM PST
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Governor Walz has proposed a $982 million bonding package to improve roads, bridges, water supplies, and public safety. This follows a $2.2 billion package passed in the last session. The reason that one was so big was because Republicans had...
by yogibear1963
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on Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 09:38 AM PST
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The two-year-old Affordable Connectivity Program , created as a part of the Democratic Party-led Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, looks like it will be coming to an end because of lack of funds. The ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 07:00 AM PST
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I’m shocked, shocked that Republicans have been using social media to attack Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and his budget deal with Democrats! Apparently, Johnson took those critics to task in a closed door meeting today, according to Axios. Mike...
by Merlin196360
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 11:55 AM PST
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Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on topline spending levels for the current fiscal year that could help avoid a partial government shutdown later this month. The agreement largely hues to spending caps for defense and domestic programs...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 01:28 PM PST
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On Thursday, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson sent a very anxious letter to President Joe Biden asking for him to use his executive powers: “I urge you to immediately take executive actions available to you under existing immigration laws to stem the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 07:10 AM PST
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On Wednesday, a House select committee heard from Oren McKnelly, executive counselor of the Social Security Administration. On the committee was none other than the world’s worst theater-goer, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado. Boebert attacked the...
by Walter Einenkel
180 comments
on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 04:24 PM PST
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Last week was a bad week for the Republican party on Capitol Hill. A Republican House member accused Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the kidney. Over on the Senate side, Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) tried to start a physical altercation with a...
by NebraskaDemocrat
8 comments
on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 07:05 AM PST
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