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Top Democrat Apologizes for Comments About Biden, Still Thinks He Won’t Run in 2024

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Aug. 3 walked back earlier comments she had made about President Joe Biden, but suggested that she still thinks he won’t run again in 2024. “I don’t believe he’s running for reelection,” Maloney, who leads the House Oversight Committee, said during an Aug. 2 primary debate. The next morning, she…


Top Democrat Apologizes for Comments Against Biden, Still Thinks He Won’t Run in 2024

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Aug. 3 walked back earlier comments she had made against President Joe Biden, but suggested that she still thinks he won’t run again in 2024. “I don’t believe he’s running for reelection,” Maloney, who leads the House Oversight Committee, said during an Aug. 2 primary debate. The next morning, she…


Whistleblowers Claim FBI Leaders Pressuring Agents to Pad Domestic Terrorism Data

Agents at the FBI are being pressured by superior officers to massage reports and pad the resulting data on the number of incidents involving Domestic Violent Extremists (DVE), according to information provided by agency whistleblowers to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Jordan is presently the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and likely to become…


Pennsylvania GOP Congressional Candidate Trying To Unseat Democrat in President Biden’s Hometown

Nestled in the Rust Belt of northeast Pennsylvania where President Joe Biden was born, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre are cities once dominated by Democrats. But times have changed and Republicans believe that Donald Trump-endorsed business owner Jim Bognet can unseat five-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District general election. The 8th district includes Scranton…


Pa. GOP Candidate Seeks to Unseat Democrat in Biden’s Hometown

Nestled in the Rust Belt of northeast Pennsylvania where President Joe Biden was born, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre are cities once dominated by Democrats. But times have changed and Republicans believe that Donald Trump-endorsed business owner Jim Bognet can unseat five-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District general election. The 8th District includes…


NIH Officials Ignore FOIA Request for Details of Fauci’s Wife’s Health Agency Job

Open the Books is suing in federal court, seeking to force the National Institutes for Health (NIH) to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by providing employment and compensation details for Christine Grady, the agency’s chief bioethicist and the wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Open the Books is a Chicago-based non-profit government watchdog…


Tens of Thousands of Rail Labor Union Workers Vote to Go On Strike

An overwhelming majority of the nation’s oldest rail labor union voted to authorize a nationwide walkout amid stalled contract negotiations that could potentially bring train shipments to a halt as early as July 18. On July 12, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) members approved the strike by a 99.5 percent margin. The union…


Biden Acts as Tens of Thousands of Rail Labor Union Workers Vote to Strike

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order creating an emergency board to investigate failed contract talks between the nation’s oldest rail workers union and a dozen carriers threatening to shut down rail shipments on July 18. “I have been notified by the National Mediation Board that in its judgment these disputes threaten substantially to…


Senate Finance GOPers See Double-Digit Inflation Ahead If Biden Won’t Change Course

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) predicted on July 13 that inflation will soon hit double-digit figures if President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats move forward with their plans to hike taxes on most Americans. “We just got the numbers this morning for Ohio—$8,300 bucks a year in additional spending on energy, on food, on utility bills…


House Proposal Will Hike Taxes on Lower- and Middle-Income Americans: Bipartisan Congressional Panel

Taxes will go up for millions of lower- and middle-income taxpayers under the House Democrats’ version of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, according to two new analyses by the non-partisan professional staff of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). “While Republican tax reform in 2017 cut taxes for all Americans, and increased…