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A House Republican is drafting legislation to try to bypass Senate rules and advance President Donald Trump’s push to require enhanced voter identification. The bill would cost taxpayers $250 million over five years. According to Politico , U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) is working on the “SAVE America Through REAL ID Act,” which would provide funds for lower-income voters to obtain a REAL ID, while encouraging states to require a REAL ID to vote. “In order to address that one issue, we’ve created this grant program for states to use to help people who meet the income qualifications … to be able to get a free REAL ID,” Fedorchak told Politico. Fedorchak hopes the $250 million price tag will make the legislation eligible to pass in the Senate under the reconciliation process, which requires only a simple majority — thus potentially bypassing the need for any Democratic votes. Fedorchak’s bill would be “an alternative to the proof-of-citizenship and voter-ID mandates in the original ...
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Critics drag Trump’s 'graph' of blued-up reflecting pool

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During a Wednesday press conference, President Donald Trump could not wait to announce that crews will begin refilling the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after spending over a month resurfacing it with "American flag blue" sealant. But what caught hecklers was the moment Trump pulled out a poster in the Oval Office comparing the size of the reflecting pool to that of some of the largest buildings in the U.S., as if the investment he put on U.S. taxpayers’ had done anything to extend the length of the pool—or that a rectangular water-filled hole could compare to the girders, architecture and design that goes into the Empire State Building of the World Trade Center. “He has to pump up those rookie numbers,” offered on critic on X , who posted an augmented graph containing a much longer, red bar labeled “My gas bill” alongside Trump’s blue reflecting pool. “Most un-math graph ever!” quipped another critic. Many others included simple “head slap” emojis, while another said o...
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A group of Trump billionaires just took a shocking loss

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President Donald Trump has close ties to Silicon Valley billionaires, relying on them to shape policy on everything from waging war against Iran and deregulating cryptocurrency to paving the way for rampant AI in American society. “Multiple candidates backed heavily by Big Tech executives floundered in Tuesday’s primary elections, as concerns about the corrosive effects of new technologies such as artificial intelligence tools continue to mount,” reported MS NOW’s Ja’han Jones on Wednesday . “The clearest examples came in California, where tech executives spent ungodly amounts of money attempting to make sure their chosen candidates emerged victorious.” Jones listed examples of how this happened including in the California gubernatorial primary, during which San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan went down to humiliating defeat despite being funded by tech executives like Google co-founder Sergey Brin and pro-Trump Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. Jones also cited Ethan Agarwal, a tech investor w...
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Iowa toss-up: Trump policies are shaking the Republican grip on heartland

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President Donald Trump’s policies have hurt farmers so badly, Republicans are getting nervous that they could flip the state in both its Senate and gubernatorial elections. “Well, number one, this is Iowa and the tariffs are hitting them really hard. Before the tariffs, Donald Trump had a 52 percent approval rating in the state — still not super great for Iowa — but he is currently at 42 percent,” The Bulwark’s conservative founder political expert Sarah Longwell wrote on Tuesday . “Farmers are losing money, even with the federal subsidies that are trying to offset the impact of the tariffs.” She added that “soybean farmers are losing about $75 an acre. Trump's one big, beautiful bill kicked nearly 100,000 Iowans off their health insurance. And [Republican Gov. Kim] Reynolds is one of the most unpopular governors Iowa has seen in a while.” In addition to complaining that the school vouchers program requires students to go down to four days a week of schooling, many voters also bel...
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NYT columnist hits Trump with vicious new nickname

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President Donald Trump has earned a vicious new moniker: “commander in thief,” writes New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who chastised the president for his efforts to engage in a “brazen, in-your-face attempted heist of the U.S. Treasury to benefit himself, his family and his political allies.” Those allies, he said, could include Trump’s supporters who were present at the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — whom Friedman labels “phony defenders of freedom’s frontier.” Friedman also accused Trump of having “conspired with his own Justice Department, headed by his former personal lawyer, to use taxpayer money to create a $1.776 billion political slush fund.” Having a president who “behaves like a commander in thief — not a commander in chief — is costing us dearly at home and abroad,” he writes. “This perversion of the American presidency is undermining the very alliance structure that won two world wars and the Cold War and generated one of history’s longest ages of peace ...
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Admin's charm offensive can't fix Trump's damage —it's 'too little, too late'

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An esteemed historian and foreign policy scholar argued that President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense is trying to walk back his boss’ geopolitical mistakes — but it’s too little, too late. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stunned U.S. adversaries and allies at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue of defense officials in Singapore,” The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Russell Mead wrote on Monday . “He did it in the most unexpected way: by delivering a thoughtful and sensible speech on the future of American defense policy in Asia.” After praising Hegseth for giving “coherent and well-informed answers to questioners from large and small powers across the region,” he added that Trump’s hostile rhetoric toward Asian countries has undermined the effectiveness of Hegeth’s message. Even as the Defense Secretary urged a balance of powers and increased military spending in part to promote stability in the region. “Conceptually at least, this approach is significantly more useful than Joe Biden’s...
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