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Will Ragland
1 year
"[Unions] get their little 5 percent. They get another 2 percent. They get another 3 percent, 4 percent. All of a sudden, they're making more money than the people that own the company." -Trump 2 weeks after the UAW made massive concessions to Big 3 in December of 2008.
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WATCH: When the financial crisis threatened to wipeout the American auto industry, Donald Trump blamed @UAW .
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So Musk is running a Super PAC and directly coordinating with the candidate for an interview on X and during that interview explicitly endorses the candidate. Do election laws just not apply anymore?
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Will Ragland
4 years
. @Perduesenate : "I'm offended" at the suggestion of eliminating or reducing student debt...
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Will Ragland
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. @AOC "A whole hearing about a 24 hour hiccup in a right-wing political operation... we could be talking about health care, bringing down the cost of Rx drugs, abortion rights, voting rights, civil rights, but instead we're talking about Hunter Biden's half baked laptop story."
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Will Ragland
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In a transparent stunt, Trump and Republicans claimed today that Rep. Stefanik “wasn’t allowed to talk”—the numbers say different:
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Will Ragland
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Under Trump, a shortage of staples crippled supply chains for months. Let’s review:
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Matt Gaetz
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Donald Trump is the best supply chain President God has ever created.
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Will Ragland
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Grover Norquist's organization, Americans for Tax Reform which has a long record of railing against federal government aid, received between $150K and $300K in COVID small business aid from the Paycheck Protection Program...
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Will Ragland
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McConnell points fun at @AmyMcGrathKY campaign summing up her argument up like this: "She's a Marine, she's a mom, and I've been here too long." After 36 years in office, a dozen of the 50 poorest counties in the U.S. are in Kentucky. I'll take the Marine.
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Will Ragland
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. @KLoeffler missed half (5 of 10) of the COVID related Senate HELP hearings this past year including one on vaccine development and distribution... leading to scenes like this.
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Will Ragland
6 months
17 point swing.
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Will Ragland
5 years
The top 10 "impeachment" @Facebook posts over the past 24 hours in terms of # of interactions come from: 1. Donald J Trump 2. Fox News 3. Fox News 4. Donald J Trump 5. Fox News 6. Daily Wire 7. Daily Wire 8. Fox News 9. Donald J. Trump 10. Fox News
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Tim Onion
5 years
New from me + @dylanbyers : Mark Zuckerberg had a secret dinner with Donald Trump and Peter Thiel last month, @NBCNews has learned
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Will Ragland
2 months
. @TheAtlantic : "Even if they get their news from a privately owned app or TV station much of the underlying weather data is courtesy of meteorologists working for the federal government."
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Will Ragland
4 years
. @KLoeffler sits on four committees that held a combined 31 hearings this year. Loeffler attended 9 of them missing 70% of the total. She missed ALL of the hearings the Joint Economic Committee held... and 10 of the 13 the Committee on Veterans Affairs held.
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Will Ragland
4 years
. @SRuhle re WH refusal to disclose CARES Act small biz loans: "These aren't private loans. This is public government money... any other program in the small business administration's history, all of those loans are public... there is a ton of possible fraud."
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Will Ragland
5 years
Trump Cabinet-updated @DeptofDefense -Raytheon lobbyist @HHSGov -pharma lobbyist @EPA -coal lobbyist @Interior -fossil fuel lobbyist @USDOT -McConnell wife @USEDGov -GOP megadonor @USTreasury -hedge fund exec @USDOL -cut Epstein deal @CommerceGov -King of Bankruptcy @HUDGov -$35K plates
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Will Ragland
2 years
“A 14-year-old Tucson girl was denied a refill of a life-saving prescription drug she had been taking for years... [She] has debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis which has kept her in and out of the hospital."
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Will Ragland
4 years
If the election was so rife with fraud, why does this guy feel the need to offer $1 million reward for someone to come forward?
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Will Ragland
4 years
Trump outlines why the $500 billion Mnuchin slush fund is a terrible idea: “I’ll be the oversight.”
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Will Ragland
4 years
. @Facebook did you know that one of your official third-party fact checkers is sending fundraising emails for Trump?
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Will Ragland
3 years
So to review. Even the basics like soap, Clorox, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, meat, flour, pasta, beer, soda, and even Christmas Trees saw massive supply chain challenges under Trump. Hell there was an Xmas tree shortage every single year of his single term.
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Will Ragland
4 years
You can’t write this story and leave the part out about her husband cutting a $1 million check to Trump’s Super PAC a month after these charges were leveled. You just can’t.
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Roll Call
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The Senate Ethics Committee dismissed insider trading allegations concerning Sen. Kelly Loeffler, weeks after the Justice Department concluded its inquiry into whether she sold off stock after a coronavirus briefing using material nonpublic information.
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Will Ragland
4 years
On @USPS policy changes. DEJOY: "The analysis we did would show that we would improve service to every constituent." @SenJackyRosen : Can you provide me with that analysis by Sunday? DEJOY: "No ma'am." ROSEN: Can you provide it at all? DEJOY: "Uh, I will get back to you..."
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Will Ragland
6 months
Since @Heritage has taken down the Project 2025 policy docs on the morning of the Mifepristone SCOTUS arguments, here's a link to an archived version.
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Will Ragland
23 days
Forgot about this.
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Will Ragland
2 years
Newsmax received a $2.5 million PPP loan to help weather COVID. All of it was forgiven.
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NEWSMAX
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. @StephenMoore "What a horrible example the United States government is setting by telling people they can be deadbeats and not pay back their loans." MORE:
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Will Ragland
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“That Supreme Court ruling yesterday on immunity is vital.” - #Project2025 head and Heritage Foundation president, Kevin Roberts
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Will Ragland
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PragerU received $704,057 in PPP loans. All of it was forgiven.
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PragerU
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It's not complicated. Bailing out irresponsible behavior will spur more irresponsible behavior.
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Will Ragland
3 years
"I'm actually okay at 28%. The level we got to in our tax plan on the corporate side was actually a bit lower than we needed to go... I always thought that a compromise rate in the mid 20's made sense." --GARY COHN, Trump's tax/econ advisor on a 28% corporate tax rate 6/25/20
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Will Ragland
3 years
"Facebook understands that if they want to continue to grow they have to find new users... by hooking kids..." "It's just like cigarettes. Teenagers don't have good self-regulation, they say explicitly I feel bad when I use Instagram and I can't stop."
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Will Ragland
3 years
See how easy it used to be... @LeaderMcConnell gets unanimous consent to move forward and consider a debt limit extension on May 7, 2003. Later the it passed via simple majority. President Bush was in the WH and GOP majorities were in the House and the Senate.
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Will Ragland
3 years
September 13, 2020
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Will Ragland
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NEW: Trump world's proposed corporate income tax cuts would give the largest 100 US companies alone a nearly $50 billion tax break. That's larger than the US Department of Education's K-12 education budget. from @Brendan_Duke and me.
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Will Ragland
3 years
May 8, 2020: “If You Go to Wendy’s this week, there’s a good chance you won’t be able to get a hamburger.” “You may also be restricted to buying one or two packs of whatever’s available.”
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Will Ragland
4 years
The president refused to condemn the largest domestic terror threat to the US according to his own DHS Secretary and FBI Director... white supremacy. In fact, he told them to "stand-by".
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Will Ragland
4 years
Just the President bragging about his supporters not being socially distanced...
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Will Ragland
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@McKenzieAWilson
McKenzie Wilson
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🚨 HUGE NEWS FROM THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION: Today, 10 of the most expensive and frequently dispensed drugs for seniors are getting a massive price cut: 9 out of 10 of these drugs are getting their price slashed in *half.*
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Will Ragland
4 years
REMINDER: @kloeffler and her husband increased their net worth by $200 million since the summer becoming billionaires... She missed 75% of her assigned committee hearings in 2020. She missed half of all COVID related hearings... like this one:
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Will Ragland
4 years
Here's the list of hearings she missed and attended.
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Will Ragland
4 years
Republicans like to make the "if the shoe were on the other foot" argument a lot. But it literally was... This is how Congress certified Georgia's electoral votes in 2017 amidst an objection from House Dems... Biden as Senate President cut them off and declared, "It's over!"
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Will Ragland
5 years
Stefanik—one of the 48 Republicans invited—also decided to skip Yovanovitch’s earlier deposition. You can find a full rundown of the impeachment depositions here.
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Will Ragland
5 years
👉ZERO Republicans assigned to the impeachment inquiry attended every hearing. They were invited to all of them. Remember this tomorrow when you hear Republicans bring up "closed door" or "secret" hearings. Full rundown of who attended what: 6/
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Will Ragland
6 months
16x Trump has slurred Mitch McConnell's wife on Truth Social in the last 18 months.
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Will Ragland
3 years
Debt accrued by party with presidency since 2001: GOP: $12.7 T Dems: $10 T
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Will Ragland
1 year
YOUNGKIN 16 days ago: Bidenomics is hurting all Americans. YOUNGKIN TODAY: Virginia’s economy is doing historically well… 2.5% unemployment, record growth, record labor force participation rate.
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Will Ragland
4 years
@HarrySteinDC @JesseCharlesLee Republican national security official endorsements: Trump: 66 Biden: 130 Biden has nearly double the support from GOP national security officials.
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Will Ragland
2 months
I don't think people really appreciate how the RNC didn't just shift focus away from their successful repeal of Roe. They didn't mention it once. Just looked at the complete RNC transcript for every speaker. There literally was NOT one mention of "Roe" or "abortion."
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Will Ragland
2 years
GOP Senate nominee Markwayne Mullin's plumbing companies...Mullin Plumbing Inc. and Mullin Plumbing West Division... received nearly $1 million worth of PPP loans combined. Both loans were completely forgiven.
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Markwayne Mullin
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There is no such thing as free lunch.
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Will Ragland
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I mean, if it was such a pain in the ass, why did they have 3 Project 2025 authors/contributors-Tom Homan, Peter Navarro, and Ric Grenell-speak last night at the RNC?
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Kaitlan Collins
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Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita tells @jmart that Project 2025 is “a pain in the ass." "These people do not speak for him. They do not speak for the campaign."
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Will Ragland
1 year
Stark contrast.
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Andrew Bates
1 year
"In a new memo, released hours after the federal government named the first 10 drugs set to be subject to price negotiations, officials made clear they hope to continue driving at the difference between Biden and congressional Republicans on the issue."
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Will Ragland
4 years
🧵 Since the start of 2020 while the COVID threat to Americans grew, President Trump had... 11 golf outings 10 political rallies 1 mega rally in India on a trip that failed to make progress on a trade deal 1 Mar-a-Lago visit w/ Brazil delegation where an outbreak occurred.
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CNN Politics
4 years
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggests that the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump distracted the US government from the growing coronavirus crisis
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Will Ragland
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The @DailyCaller received a $407,525 PPP loan to weather COVID. All of it was forgiven.
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Henry Rodgers
2 years
"Joe Biden and the woke Democrats are at it again. They’re caving to the radical Left and forcing working-class and responsible Americans to pay off the loans of affluent liberals. It’s crazy. It’s bad policy..." Sen. Rick Scott told the @DailyCaller before releasing the ad.
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Will Ragland
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Sen. Hagerty R-TN questions Dr. Cook's expertise saying it's "more social science than economics." Cook: I have a PhD in Economics. I specialize in international economics and managing financial crises. I worked w Larry Summers at Treasury and in the WH at CEA.
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Will Ragland
4 years
Trump's priorities since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the U.S.
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT): "It will be my objective to phase out Social Security to pull it up by the roots... That's why I am doing this to get rid of that. Medicare and Medicaid are of the same sort and need to be pulled up."
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Will Ragland
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The Federalist received a $200K PPP loan in 2020 to help weather COVID. All of it was forgiven.
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The Federalist
2 years
Biden’s Plan To Dump Student Loan Debt Onto Taxpayers Is Blatant Vote Buying
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Will Ragland
2 years
Watch this interview… then tell me if the @nytimes description of it in its latest story does an adequate job of conveying to its readers what was said.
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@NoLieWithBTC
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
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The Colorado shooter’s dad on finding out his son murdered people: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting... And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.” ( @CBS8 )
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Will Ragland
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. @Brendan_Duke and I wrote an analysis on what a corporate tax cut to 15% would look like. The largest 100 corporations would receive a combined annual ~$50 billion tax break. That's more than the federal government spends on K-12 education per yr.
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Notable: Trump tells Bloomberg that he supports cutting the corporate tax rate to 15%, down from current 21% level. 15% was the rate he originally sought in 2017 when the GOP tax law was being drafted
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Will Ragland
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@AJentleson CW at the time: Beltway newsletter says Oz's polished for TV snake oil pitch will resonate more with PA blue collar white voters than a guy who has been real about his challenges, lives above a car dealership in a recovering steel town near Pittsburgh and wears Carhartt.
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Will Ragland
4 years
Yes. The Trump economy is the worst in recorded history. @ryan_zamarripa & I break it down.
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Will Ragland
5 years
👉ZERO Republicans assigned to the impeachment inquiry attended every hearing. They were invited to all of them. Remember this tomorrow when you hear Republicans bring up "closed door" or "secret" hearings. Full rundown of who attended what: 6/
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Will Ragland
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. @mayawiley says that Project 2025 is how you make this decision real for voters... "Civil Rights Act of 1964 gone." "Union rights gone...things that helped even white men organize and get labor protections..."
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Will Ragland
3 years
-3 of the 5 McCarthy nominated R's voted to overturn election. -4 of the 5 voted against the independent commission. -ALL 5 voted against impeachment.
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Will Ragland
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Black unemployment hit its lowest annual average rate on record in 2023.
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Will Ragland
5 years
There are 48 Republicans assigned to the impeachment inquiry on three committees—Oversight, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs. 👉12 of these Republicans failed to attend ANY of the 11 depositions whose transcripts have been made public. 2/
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Will Ragland
4 years
Trump held 6 rallies and attended the Daytona 500 in February after this interview.
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Will Ragland
4 years
What Wisconsin voters woke up to today.
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Will Ragland
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Well said @RepJayapal . "We must stop criminalizing immigrants at every turn, even as we willingly accept their labor and contributions. We cannot allow xenophobia and racism to permeate our countries from the top ranks." #DreamAndPromiseNow
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Will Ragland
5 years
ZERO. The number of depositions @RepMarkGreen attended out of the 17 held. He was invited to ALL of them. He is one of the 12 GOP House members charged with investigating Trump's Ukraine shakedown that failed to attend any deposition.
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Rep. Mark Green
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It’s a beautiful day in Washington DC, but also a tragic day, because it’s the fourth time in our Nation’s history that we’re voting to impeach the President of the United States. The left is attempting to undo an election. They hate what 63 million Americans voted for.
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Will Ragland
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The Coronavirus aid package debate in a nutshell. @Sen_JoeManchin : "Seems like we're more focused on the big corporations and the health care of Wall Street than we are the people of rural America and Main Street."
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Will Ragland
4 years
. @RepLynch : "Will you put the high speed machines back?" DEJOY: "No. I will not." LYNCH: "You will not...Well there you go..."
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Will Ragland
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Al Gore concession after SCOTUS decision: "This is America. Just as we fight hard when the stakes are high, we close ranks and come together when the contest is done." "This is America and we put country before party. We will stand together behind our new president."
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Will Ragland
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Drudge: "For first time Dem more trusted on economy" "Fastest vibe shift in modern political history" "MAGA in a slump" "Trump calls crowd AI generated" "JD drag on ticket"
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Will Ragland
2 years
The flashing red warning signs that Republicans are serious about using a national default to cut Social Security and Medicare.
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Will Ragland
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15.6 million jobs created under Biden administration. Labor force participation for prime-age workers is at its highest in over 20 years. Women's employment rate hit another high. Unemployment remains at historical lows.
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BLS-Labor Statistics
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Payroll employment increases by 272,000 in May; unemployment rate changes little at 4.0% #JobsReport #BLSdata
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Will Ragland
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Trump tax cuts gave: 👉the biggest pharmaceutical companies got a windfall of $82 billion in tax cuts... 👉the biggest banks got a windfall of more than $32 billion in tax cuts... 👉the biggest oil companies got a windfall of more than $25 billion in tax cuts...
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Will Ragland
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Since the beginning of the school year 10 teachers have passed away from coronavirus. Olga Quiroga (IL) Susanne Michael (PA) Shyla Pennington (FL) Heidi Hussli (WI) Ashlee DeMarinis (MO) Nacoma James (MS) Tom Slade (MS) Demi Bannister (SC) Teresa Horn (OK)
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At least 22 of the 100+ #Project2025 advisory board members have have made comments "targeting, restricting, or eliminating no-fault divorce."
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Will Ragland
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Trump in 2015: we're going to “negotiate like crazy” to bring down Medicare prescription drug prices. @RepJoeMorelle : "Are you prepared to authorize Medicare to negotiate the cost of prescription drugs?" Trump Budget Director, Russell Vought: "No. We oppose HR 3."
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Will Ragland
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Trump's recession cost 56,500 Americans their jobs over the last 48 hours. Disney: 28,000 layoffs United: 13,400 furloughed employees Shell: 9,000 layoffs Allstate: 3,800 layoffs Dow: 2,100 layoffs Marathon: 200 layoffs Chaos has a price.
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Will Ragland
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If anything, @SpeakerPelosi was generous to McCarthy’s 1/6 appointees. A look at their records shows they all would be judges and jurors of their own wrongdoing:
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Will Ragland
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Buchanan is worth over $70 million. He's one of the richest members of Congress. At least 3 companies he has sizable stake in received a PPP loan. One includes a $2.3M PPP loan for the car dealership Sarasota 500 LLC. It was all forgiven.
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Rep. Vern Buchanan
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As a blue-collar kid who worked his way through college, I know firsthand the sacrifices people make to receive an education. Biden’s reckless, unilateral student loan giveaway is unfair to the 87 percent of Americans without student loan debt and those who played by the rules.
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ZANDI re Inflation Reduction Act: "It will nudge it lower. It lowers Rx drug costs... it lowers the cost of health insurance for lower income Americans, & longer run, bc of the climate provisions, it will reduce the cost of energy... So net net, it will push inflation lower."
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Will Ragland
5 years
NEW: All 48 House Republicans assigned to investigate impeachment inquiry were invited to participate in the 17 SCIF depositions. However: 👉85% attended less than half (includes Nunes) 👉67% attended three or fewer 👉ZERO attended all 👉12 attended NONE
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Garrett Haake
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Cipollone says “Not even Mr. Schiff’s Republican colleagues were allowed into the SCIF” during impeachment investigation. That’s 100% false. Any member of the three investigating committees could attend, and many Republicans did!
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Guess where this money was taken from? National Guard and Reserve units who are on the frontlines of the COVID fight. Unreal.
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Katherine Clark
4 years
Trump’s funding his vanity project in the midst of this health and economic disaster. 1/2 a BILLION dollars for 17 miles of wall. This is money that should be going to testing, our health care systems, small businesses & those who’ve lost their jobs.
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Will Ragland
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COVID cases in New York City, New Orleans, and Detroit took a significant dip in April while cases around the rest of the country plateaued then started to spike on April 18th. Wonder what happened?
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Will Ragland
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President Donald Trump ran on a promise to “drain the swamp.” In a few short years, he has come to embody it... 10 lobbyists appointed to his Cabinet-double the number of any other administration in history. from me and @JesseCharlesLee
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Will Ragland
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. @oneunderscore__ re the online communities that continue to perpetuate mass violence: "Nothing is being done. Fundamentally, from a federal level, or local level, nothing is being done to stop this."
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