3 d. ago Abortion is becoming a key issue for Republicans as they try to figure out their long

The Affordable Care Act already prevents federal funds from being spent on abortions in covered plans, but some Republicans are pushing for harder limits as they seek a deal to address health care costs

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8 d. ago Republicans will be left holding the bill for Trump’s policies in the midterms | Sidney Blumenthal

The abject obedience of GOP members for the president has not augured well in the 4 November electionsThe elections of 4 November were the end of a grandiose illusion. After his 2024 victory Donald Trump claimed he had an “unprecedented and powerful mandate”, that his “mandate” was “massive”, and that his “Maga movement” was irresistible, the wave of the future. It lasted 10 months, in which he had betrayed his chief promise to lower inflation, turned the public against him on every issue and Republicans at last faced a battering by voters.Trump’s image of omnipotence has rested upon a pyramid of dread. His ability to maintain the servility of the Republican Congress, whose members are intimidated by the danger that if they defy him he would support primary opponents to run against them, has been the political foundation for all the other forms of fear he incites throughout American institutions. Trump could not have leveraged himself as “dictator on day one” without congressional a...

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1 week ago Republicans warn Bondi not to bury Epstein files after law’s passage

Senate majority leader, John Thune, and others push the attorney general to release Epstein records within 30 daysUS politics live – latest updatesWithin hours of Donald Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, Republican senators were on the ground to issue a pointed message to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi: don’t bury these documents.The bill’s passage marked a rare moment of bipartisan support in an otherwise ideologically fractured Congress as it now sets a 30-day deadline for the release of Department of Justice files related to the actions of convicted sex offender of minors and financier Jeffrey Epstein, dubbed by a judge “the most infamous pedophile in American history”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Republicans dodged a bullet on shutdown and Trump bailed them out on Epstein

Republicans no longer have to contend with the shutdown, but the issue of spiking health care premiums hasn’t gone away, writes John Bowden

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1 week ago Three out of four Americans unhappy with Trump’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein saga as bill awaits his signature

Even worse for Trump, a majority of Republicans disapprove of the way he has handled the issue of making the government’s case files on the financier-sex trafficker and pedophile public, a new poll reveals

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2 w. ago Thomas Massie shrugs off Trump insults over his wedding as Epstein standoff intensifies: ‘He’s trying to be a bully’

President has openly threatened four Republican representatives as Epstein issue spirals out control thanks to dead sex trafficker’s claim his former friend ‘knew about the girls’

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2 w. ago Seth Meyers on Trump: ‘The most unpopular president of all time’

Late-night host spoke about growing discontent among Republicans after issues over both policy and the Jeffrey Epstein scandalSeth Meyers spoke about rising tensions within the Republican party with Donald Trump losing support from his base over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.The Late Night host spoke about yesterday’s dramatic meeting in the situation room to discuss Epstein, an ongoing crisis that has seen the president becoming “wildly unpopular”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago MTG reportedly eyeing run for president in 2028 as MAGA firebrand increasingly breaks from Republicans on major issues

The Republican firebrand is reportedly concerned that other members of her party have strayed from the ‘real MAGA’ and believes she has the base support to launch a run

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4 w. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons

Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was JewishRepublican US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she believes in demons, surmising that they might be aliens who fell from heaven, and claims to have been unaware that key figures in the antisemitic space lasers conspiracy she floated were Jewish.She made those bizarre remarks as a guest on Friday on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher after winning some fans among Democrats who once loathed her – yet had come to appreciate how the far-right Georgia representative had recently broken with Republicans on various issues. Those include healthcare, Gaza, the federal government shutdown that began on 1 October and the handling of documents pertaining to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was friends with Donald Trump before the latter man won two presidencies. Continue reading...

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