Jennifer Bendery
@jbendery
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I report on Congress, the White House + political campaigns for HuffPost. Bluesky: @jbendery.bsky.social. Tips: [email protected]. Signal: jbendery.41
Washington, DC
Joined August 2008
gaslighting (v.) -- to manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
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This massive video of Christine Blasey Ford's testimony is playing on repeat in front of Brett Kavanaugh's dinner guests as they wait outside.
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she ain't comin over man.
Congratulations to the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on winning the World Cup! Great and exciting play. America is proud of you all!.
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Oh man. Rep. Ted Lieu now playing a tape of Candace Owens, who is sitting right there, saying it would have been fine if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great.
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A reader in Philly has flagged another mysterious new monument that has magically appeared in a public park to "honor" Trump. It looks a lot like the ones popping up in DC. Titled "In Honor Of A Lifetime Of Sexual Assault," it features Trump's "grab em by the pu**y" comment.
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WOW. San Juan mayor: "I am going to do what I never thought I would do. I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying.
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Hundreds of Indigenous voters and allies are walking miles together -- many in traditional Native attire -- to cast early votes in Navajo Nation today. Among the allies here: Mark Ruffalo.
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The Trump campaign is attacking Tim Walz for restoring voting rights to convicted felons. Who. wants to tell them.
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Here is Megan Rapinoe getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House right now. 🏳️🌈🇺🇸
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All three of the guys behind Project 2025 worked in the White House for Trump when he was president.
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My god did JD Vance lie and gaslight his way through last night's VP debate. About big things. So casually. Things that are so easy to call out. Like. (1/x).
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Anyway, Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018
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Just a reminder of all the lies Brett Kavanaugh told, under oath, in his Senate confirmation hearing. These were just the ones we could track at the time.
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Sean Spicer is now a TV reporter. AG Jeff Sessions' former spokeswoman will be CNN's political editor overseeing 2020 coverage. Actual journalists are being laid off everywhere. I. don't have a clever punchline for this one.
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Just an incredible milestone for the United States Senate: more Republicans have tested positive for COVID-19 than have accepted Joe Biden as the president-elect.
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Little exclusive: Sen. Manchin is about to introduce a bill to prevent any federal funding for the 2026 World Cup -- which is being hosted by the U.S. -- until U.S. Soccer agrees to provide equal pay to the U.S. women’s and men’s national teams.
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DNC held its first staff meeting today since Clinton's loss. This happened.
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This is incredible. A 38-year-old woman who died Sunday from cancer has posthumously helped to erase $14 million in medical debt for other people.
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I see a total of four Republicans in Congress -- Mia Love, Carlos Curbelo, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Erik Paulsen -- have condemned Trump calling Haiti and Africa "shitholes." . Zero GOPers in leadership. Zero.
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Kamala Harris calls for formal impeachment inquiry into Brett Kavanaugh
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The guy hasn't said a thing about the three historically black churches burned down in Louisiana in 9 days.
Notre Dame is an iconic symbol of faith to people all over the world – and it is heartbreaking to see a house of God in flames. Our thoughts and prayers are with the firefighters on the scene and all the people of Paris.
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Remember the viral photo of the woman on her bicycle who flipped off Trump's motorcade?. That's @julibriskman and she just won a Virginia election.
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Chuck Todd: Think Biden's State of the Union address will resonate with Ukrainians?. NBC correspondent in Lviv, Ukraine: So its 6am here and people may be a little preoccupied because Russians are invading their country and trying to take it over. 😂.
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A thing that happened today that won't get much attention: Senate Republicans confirmed *another* lifetime federal judge who earned a rare and embarrassing "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Association.
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Here is Glenn Beck's media outlet openly apparently trying to bully a government employee, for no real reason, who is one of the friendliest, most helpful people I've worked with over the last few years. 8M views. Why. Why do this. Just to be mean to someone?
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NEW: House Republicans just rolled out their official "Commitment to America” plan for 2023 with an inspirational video chock full of scenes presented as exceptional imagery of America -- but that are actually stock footage from Russia and Ukraine.
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Pelosi's shop confirms the White House sent them a copy of their talking points on Trump/Ukraine -- and then followed up with a "recall" email 😂.
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Wow-- more details on the White House meeting, via a senior Democratic aide:. Pelosi directly to Trump: Russia has always wanted a "foothold in the Middle East" and now it has one. "All roads with you lead to Putin.".
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Pool report: Trump was asked about losing in court today. "I've had a great track record. within a couple of months, we'll have 182 federal judges.". Is he saying that the more federal judges he confirms. the more the courts will just rule for him? 😬.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued a statement today denying responsibility for letting loose the six zebras that have been on the run in the D.C. suburbs.
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Facebook: I will eat your ad revenue + destroy your business model.Newsrooms: Wait, no don't.Facebook: Nom nom nom .Newsrooms: Stop we're laying off people to survive.Facebook: Nom nom.Newsrooms: Helllp.Facebook: OK now we want to provide our users w/local news but can't find it.
Facebook says its effort to establish a service that provides users with local news is being hindered by the lack of outlets where the company's technicians can find original reporting.
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Chuck Woolery -- who accused the CDC, doctors and Democrats of lying about the seriousness of COVID-19 to hurt Trump (and got a Trump RT over it) -- has changed his mind and deleted his Twitter account after his son tests positive
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I see that the pieces of chicken that were on my plate have gone missing and my cat is sitting 15 feet away, licking his chops. While this does not conclude that my cat ate my dinner, it also does not exonerate him.
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"Grab 'em by the pussy." -- your dad
. because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and God-darnit people like me. #Franken.
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JUST IN: Deb Haaland wins the Dem primary in New Mexico's 1st congressional district, meaning. we're on the verge of getting our first-ever Native American woman in Congress.
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When I asked the National Congress of American Indians' prez for comment on Santorum, I did not expect so much fire. Wow. Full statement below. "Make your choice. Do you stand with White Supremacists justifying Native American genocide, or do you stand with Native Americans?"
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As Jim Jordan complains about this contempt hearing, it reminds me, whatever happened with all this? Remember how former Ohio State wrestlers accused him of turning a blind eye to sexual abuse?
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"He had a bloody eye and a fly on his head." -- Anderson Cooper on Mike Pence tonight. 😂.
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Joe Biden likely wouldn't have won key states without Native American voters turning out in droves for him
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Jenny Craig tells HuffPost they're dropping Laura Ingraham's show. That puts it at TEN advertisers that have dropped Ingraham since she mocked Parkland student @davidhogg111 two days ago.
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NY Times reporters say Brett Kavanaugh asked them to lie in exchange for an interview
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Latest VP pool report says Harris just hit a McDonalds with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. "They went to a table of young women who looked like they had just come from the rally. One of the girls burst into tears.". "Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is playing overhead.".
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A thing not getting much attention is that Biden just put another public defender into a lifetime seat on a powerful U.S. appeals court. That makes 4. Huge shift from the corporate attorneys + prosecutors typically picked for these powerful jobs.
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Here is the American Federation of Teachers' official response to Betsy DeVos resigning.
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) just formally testified to the Republican-led House Rules Committee that the real threat to democracy is House Republicans. 😂.
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NEW: House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife has taken down the website for her business, Onward Christian Counseling Services, a day after HuffPost reported on documents on the site comparing being gay to bestiality and incest.
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Hawaii Gov. Josh Green met with Dem and GOP senators today, warning them not to confirm RFK as HHS secretary and describing RFK's role in spreading anti-vax misinformation in 2019 in Samoa that resulted in dozens of children dying from the measles.
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NEW: . Newly unearthed video of N.C. GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson in 2020: "I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote."
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And. that's now SEVEN advertisers dropped Laura Ingraham in less than 24 hours.
@davidhogg111 @sleepnumber @ATT @Allstate @esurance @Bayer @RocketMortgage @LibertyMutual @Arbys @TripAdvisor @Nestle @Wayfair We’d like to confirm that we are no longer advertising on Laura Ingraham’s show and are monitoring all of our ad placements carefully.
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Imma help you out, Mr. President. Here's some language from NASA's website for children.
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"I have tried to refrain from politics for 4.5 billion years. But today I am joining the resistance effective immediately." -- Mother Nature.
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INBOX: Sarah McBride Becomes First Trans State Senator in US History; Wins State Senate Seat in Delaware.
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Christine Blasey Ford has had to move 4 times since she came forward, pay for a private security detail, she has yet to return to her job as a professor at Palo Alto University, and she keeps receiving death threats. 🇺🇸.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is at the Federalist Society's annual convention dinner — several hundred tuxedoed and ball gown-ed conservative lawyers erupted into cheers and a standing ovation when his name was announced .
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she now supports adding at least 4 seats to the Supreme Court and will co-sponsor the Judiciary Act, a bill that would do just that.
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Everytown took out this 2-page ad in the NYT today listing off members of Congress, their phone numbers and how much NRA money they’ve taken
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Hi @seanspicer. I see you're on my flight to Kansas City. That means we're on the same plane for 3 hours with no escape. Wanna do an interview? Lemme know. --Jen in Row 11.
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The House isn't coming back into session until after the inauguration. The Senate has adjourned until Jan. 19. Surreal cap to yesterday.
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Asked Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for his take on the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children. In the span of 3 mins, he said he was “all for it,” didn’t agree with it, supports IVF and just needs to read the bill. (There is no bill.)
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Sarah Sanders on SCOTUS' ruling that a cake baker could turn away a couple wanting a cake for their same-sex wedding: "We are pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision."
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.
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Snipers on the roof of the Supreme Court right now. Upper left.
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NEW: In an incredibly unusual move, the Air Force is making a point to let its hundreds of thousands of personnel know that it will provide families with medical + legal help if they are being hurt by new state laws attacking gay and transgender children.
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Robert DeNiro notices mid-speech, on stage, that someone cut some of his prepared remarks off the teleprompter that ripped Trump for his lies and John Wayne for being terrible to Native Americans, so he pulled out his phone and angrily read them himself.
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Crooked Media says its Get Mitch Or Die Trying Fund, which has been raising money to flip the Senate and replace Mitch McConnell as majority leader, has raised $600K in the last 2 hours.
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Tucker Carlson's show is bleeding advertisers after he said the U.S. doesn't have a white supremacy problem and that it's a "hoax" being pushed by the media. Dell just pulled out today via @ohheyjenna.
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Latest Harris campaign email:. "Trump is old and quite weird?" . 😂
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Al Franken, after DeVos narrowly gets confirmed. Yeeowtch.
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Schumer just announced that the new Secretary of the Senate will be Ann Berry, a former longtime aide to Sen. Leahy and now the first African American to hold the job since. 1789. That's when the position was created.
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"We are politicizing the courts and that is wrong," says Ben Sasse, who is helping to ram through a Supreme Court nominee 3 weeks before a presidential election in an effort to make sure Trump lands a Supreme Court justice who could play a role in securing his reelection.
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Over in the Senate, Patty Murray today became the first female president pro tem in history. I asked how it feels to be third in line to the presidency. "Well, today I’m second, because Kevin McCarthy’s not speaker." 😂.
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Three federal judges appointed by Democratic presidents have now canceled their plans to retire since Trump won the election, ruining his plans to replace them.
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JUST IN: The Senate just confirmed Nicole Berner, a longtime SEIU lawyer and former Planned Parenthood litigator, to a lifetime federal judgeship on a U.S. appeals court.
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Not exactly a congratulatory statement from Bernie Sanders
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Sen. Mark Kelly told me he's feeling "really good" about Harris winning Arizona, in part because of her massive ground operation -- 120,000 volunteers -- vs. Trump's pretty invisible one.
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We're at the point where teachers in America, who signed up for a job to teach kids things like math and history, are being led into rooms and shot execution style with pellet guts as preparation for an actual school shooting. 🇺🇸
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Rep. Clyburn, chair of the House S/C on coronavirus crisis, just released 6 weeks of WH Coronavirus Task Force reports obtained by the committee showing the WH was aware of an alarming rise in COVID cases as Trump publicly downplayed it and held crowded events.
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Incredible. AOC is essentially filling the role that Ted Cruz abandoned.
We’ve now raised $2 MILLION in relief for Texans & are adding more orgs.🙏🏽. I’ll be flying to Texas today ✈️ to visit with Houston rep Sylvia Garcia (@LaCongresista) to distribute supplies and help amplify needs & solutions. Let’s see how far we can go:
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Wild to watch Mitch McConnell absolutely throwing Kevin McCarthy under the bus as we hurtle toward a (stupid and unnecessary) government shutdown. Everyone (Schumer, McConnell and now Biden) is increasingly isolating McCarthy as the one to blame for what's coming.
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JUST IN: Nancy Pelosi announces the House will take up legislation to codify Roe v. Wade -- enshrining abortion rights into federal law -- as soon as the House returns from recess.
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"In the same area that Gabby Petito disappeared, 710 indigenous people— mostly girls—disappeared between the years of 2011 and 2020 but their stories didn’t lead news cycles." via @MollyJongFast
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CNN reporter: Did it bother you that Biden called Trump a clown?. Undecided voter in Ohio: "When the shoe fits. When the clown shoe fits.". 😂.
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That woman who flipped off Trump's motorcade? I talked to her this weekend. She just got fired.
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It looks like literally the entire country is protesting family separations on Saturday. Check out this map of planned protests.
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👀. "The next 6 to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic. Vaccines will not become available in any meaningful way until early to third quarter of next year." -- Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research, on Meet the Press.
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The thing about this tweet is that we pay the White House press secretary $183,000 a year to tweet photos of herself with a turkey but not hold a single press conference.
Meeting the National Thanksgiving Turkey before his big White House debut! 🦃
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Props to Sarah for keeping it real -- and right to McCarthy's face. She is 100% correct.
"Trump lied about an election being stolen and then sicked a mob on the Capitol. It's funny that you roll your eyes at this, Kevin, because you're the one who went down and resurrected him.”
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I got a screenshot before it was wiped. This was on JD Vance's Senate campaign website until yesterday:
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Whoa--the American Bar Assn just delivered a letter to Grassley/Feinstein urging them to hold off on a confirmation vote for Kavanaugh until the FBI can look into Dr. Ford's claims.
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GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn goes after one of Biden's Black judicial nominees for having "a rap sheet" of citations, which was actually just three speeding tickets from 10+ years ago. One was for going 5 miles over the speed limit.
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NEW: Today, Trump privately pressured Senate Republicans to “kill” a bipartisan deal to secure the U.S. border because he doesn’t want Biden to chalk up a win ahead of the 2024 presidential election, per a source familiar with negotiations.
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Speaker Mike Johnson, who voted against the Inflation Reduction Act and called it "legislative malpractice," is privately urging EPA to fund an environmental justice grant for his district -- funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Just realized Trump hasn't said anything about the guy who burned down three historically black churches in Louisiana in 9 days. That's all.
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Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.): . "There is no other recourse. We must abolish the filibuster in order to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, and we must expand the Supreme Court in order to reclaim the stolen seats, and restore balance and the faith of the American people.".
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DONE: It took Kamala Harris breaking a tie vote, but Rachael Rollins is confirmed as Massachusetts' historic top federal prosecutor
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At one point Schumer said, "Is your plan to rely on the Syrians and the Turks?". Trump: "Our plan is to keep the American people safe". Pelosi: "That's not a plan. That's a goal.".
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The House is voting on Friday, June 26, on D.C. statehood.
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