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Trump accepted this $400M 'palace in the sky' jumbo jet from Qatar in May btw

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A dispirited Trump ignores questions from the press pool as he departs for his second 'routine yearly checkup' of 2025

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Sen. Warnock describes a hospital in rural Georgia facing cuts due to Trump's budget bill:

"They're going to see a $3 million cut to their hospital. They may have to close their ICU. This is unsustainable, it's unjustifiable... Republicans need to focus on the people and not the politics."

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Reporter: This report really signals that the US economy is still not working for many Americans. Consumer sentiment has fallen year-over-year 22%. That is the seventh weakest reading since World War II.

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Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.

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Mamdani: Trump ran on three promises. He ran on the punishment of his political enemies, easing the cost of living crisis, and mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. Yet he's unwilling to deliver on that because he's beholden to billionaires

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a tenth day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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Leader Jeffries: Republicans don't want to call us back into session, because that would require that Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva be sworn in, and she will be the 218th signature needed to trigger a vote on the release of the Epstein files

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Leader Jeffries: We're not gonna be intimidated. We don't work for Donald Trump. We don't work for JD Vance. We don't work for corrupt billionaires. We work for the American people. I'm so thankful for my colleagues who continue to defend the health care of the American people

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Nobel Committee Chair explains why Trump did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize:

"All laureates [have] both courage and integrity... We base our decision on the work and will of Alfred Nobel."

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2h

Donald Trump has failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize after months of desperate public campaigning.

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Soybean farmer: We're not doing well at all as an industry. We have zero sales on the books of this new crop to the Chinese, who are our biggest export customer historically. And right now, with them being a big zero in the purchase column, that's a five-alarm fire for our industry.

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Soybean farmer: Unfortunately, there's not enough market competition right now due to the trade war. This package is being proposed is really just putting a band-aid on an open wound. We are bleeding economically. We need a level playing field, and we get that by not having tariffs.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2h

Trump, 79, will visit Walter Reed today for a ‘routine yearly checkup’ despite having his last annual checkup 6 months ago.

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VA Gov. candidate Abigail Spanberger: My opponent has said she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Winsome Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination!

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15h

VA Gov. candidate Spanberger: When I served as an agent at CIA and then in Congress, I always put Virginians first. As governor, I will do the same thing. When we are seeing attacks on Virginia's health care, workforce, and tariffs wreaking havoc, my opponent has put her allegiance to Trump first

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16h

GOP candidate Winsome Earle Sears continually interrupts and talks over Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger during the Virginia gubernatorial debate.