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Johnson, R-La., huddled behind closed doors in the morning - as he did days earlier this week - working to assemble the package for consideration as the House focuses the final days of its 2025 work on health care. "House Republicans are tackling the real drivers of health care costs to provide affordable care," Johnson said in a statement announcing the package. He said it would be voted on next week.

Trump has been dismissing negative polls about the economy as fake, including in Truth Social posts this week where he complained he's not getting enough credit for fixing the mess left by former President Joe Biden. When will I get credit for having created, with No Inflation, perhaps the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country? When will people understand what is happening? When will Polls reflect the Greatness of America at this point in time, and how bad it was just one year ago? he wrote on Truth Social this week. Probably when the economy's better. Maybe that's when it's going to happen. Come on now, Daniels said in response to Trump's question about getting credit.

My mother, Regina Treitler, had in fact violated the War Brides Act, but she justified her actions as the only way she could reunite her family after the Holocaust. My parents had fled Germany in 1938, right before Kristallnacht. They had saved themselves, but my mother had been tormented by the fact that her two brothers and her sister-in-law had not escape. They were trapped in Europe for the duration of the Holocaust, their fates unknown.

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Donald Trump teased supporters in Pennsylvania this week, still toying with nicknames for his predecessor Joe Biden. Typically, Crooked Joe wins. I'm surprised because to me he's a sleepy son of a bitch. Exulting in Biden's drowsiness, the US president and his supporters seemed blissfully ignorant of a rich irony: that 79-year-old Trump himself has recently been spotted apparently dozing off at various meetings.

they don't have any kind of security guarantee,

Hosting the Congressional Ball seems like it should be one of the easiest tasks on the Trumps' agenda. The annual party is a bipartisan event where members of the House of Representatives and Senate gather to celebrate the holidays at the White House. All the president and First Lady have to do is show up in something festive, issue some generic holiday well-wishes, and smile.

Billionaire Mark Cuban has long championed the idea that kids should start saving early to secure their futures. Drawing from his own childhood in Pittsburgh, where he sold garbage bags door-to-door to fund small dreams like new basketball shoes, Cuban stresses hands-on financial lessons. In interviews, he advises parents to open savings accounts for children and encourage them to build that first pot of money.

President Trump's proposal for 50-year mortgages aims to tackle the housing affordability crisis by lowering monthly payments. The plan, supported by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, would extend the standard 30-year term to 50 years, potentially through backing by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Supporters argue this could help younger buyers and first-time homeowners enter the market amid high home prices and elevated interest rates.

I think it's going to be a really steep climb, Dasha, said Short, in relation to GOP midterm efforts. The reality is that Americans like divided government. They don't want one party in control. Each time there's been one party in control, there's been a backlash. The once chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence noted that in previous midterms, the incumbent party is much more vulnerable to losing Congressional seats.

"These are sham ethics waivers," Clark said. "They lack the kind of rigorous objective ethics analysis that would ensure that public policy is made for public benefit. Instead, they were aimed at enabling Sacks to profit from his government position," she said, describing the waivers as "like a presidential pardon in advance."

President Donald Trump dismissed a reporter's question about skyrocketing healthcare costs, griping, You make it sound so bad. At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire, said a reporter. What's your message to those 24 million Americans who will see their insurance premiums go up Well, don't make it sound so bad, Trump interrupted, because obviously, you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.

The White House is withdrawing @JoeFrancescon as its nominee to be the National Security Agency's (NSA) Deputy Director, meanwhile the acting Deputy Director will retire at the end of the month. This means the top two positions at NSA and the four-star commander at Cyber Command will remain vacant for 8 months and counting. All because of infighting in the White House and the involvement of whacky Laura Loomer in hiring. We are at Cyber War everyday and the inability to get leaders in place is gross negligence.

Lily Rodriguez approaches a woman selling elotes outside a subway station in Queens. She buys one, but what she's truly looking for is to earn the vendor's trust, and find a way to offer her a whistle. Rodriguez was accompanied by other volunteers who were similarly engaged in passing out whistles to every passer-by, distributing more than 200 of the instruments meant to make noise on the New York City streets.

In 2008, the ten-year-old son of Rahm Emanuel, then a Democratic congressman, bet Mike Pence, then a Republican congressman, that Barack Obama would carry Pence's home state of Indiana in that year's Presidential election. Pence lost the bet-ten dollars-but never paid up. "Every time I see him, I tease him," Emanuel recounted recently. " 'You owe ten plus cumulative interest.' " Emanuel was seated at a table with Pence for a joint

During his first stint as president, Trump was heavily influenced by the Westlands Water District, a huge agricultural water agency in the San Joaquin Valley that sought more irrigation water for itself and other farm interests. That relationship led to an extremely controversial contract that guaranteed Westlands as much as 1 million acre-feet of water each year from the federal Central Valley Project, solidifying the district's supply situation.

Since mid-May, when Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced Pete Rose would be eligible for Hall of Fame consideration and explained his specious reasonings behind it, last week's Hall of Fame vote by the 16-member Classic Era committee carried with it a certain air of inevitability for Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, the two greatest players currently not enshrined in Cooperstown.

Public displays of fitness by American politicians are nothing new. Presidents George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Ulysses S. Grant, among others, were all depicted riding warhorses as symbols of "leadership and executive ability."[3] America's twenty-sixth president, Theodore Roosevelt, was renowned for his love of fisticuffs. He often asked professional boxers to strike him in the jaw, and then he would hit them back.[4]

We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming in by water, and now we're starting by land, and by land is a lot easier, and that's going to start happening,

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Vermont is not entirely without big-name fast food places. It has 30 McDonald's locations, yet remains the only state in the U.S. without one in the capital city. There are also seven Kentucky Fried Chickens, but again, not a single one in Montpelier. The state capital is also the only one without a Starbucks, even though the coffee chain has about a dozen locations elsewhere in Vermont. As you can see, breaking into Vermont is not an easy feat.