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White House Seeks $47.1 Billion to Fight Covid and Monkeypox, Aid Ukraine

The request comes as Congress needs to pass a stopgap spending bill by the end of September WASHINGTON—The White House is asking Congress for $47.1 billion in emergency funding for Covid-19 and monkeypox and to back Ukraine in its war with Russia, as well as spending for natural disasters, according to administration officials. Congress must vote on a spending

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Trump Slams Electoral Count Act Rewrite, Admits ‘All Others’ Thought Pence ‘Had Absolutely No Right to Do Anything’ Else

Once Donald Trump believes something, it’s virtually impossible for anyone to change his mind. A perfect example was and remains his insistence that “[b]illions of dollars are being paid to the United States by China in the form of trade tariffs!” which is categorically incorrect; importers pay tariffs, not exporters. I’ll forego the “rigged” and “stolen” election as an

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Trump Allies Line Up Shadow Government, Mindful of 2016’s Chaos

America First group lays groundwork as Trump weighs 2024 run Nonprofit also developing policy for Republican-led Congress A group of Donald Trump’s former aides is preparing a turnkey administration for his return to the White House, as the embattled former president hints that he’s preparing to make a third run for the nation’s highest office.

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