#Former Pence aide calls Trump’s mug shot ‘tragic’

#Former Pence aide calls Trump’s mug shot ‘tragic’

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff on Friday called former President Trump’s recent mug shot “tragic” and suggested he’s been receiving a lot of “bad counsel” lately. “I think it’s tragic, Jake,” Marc Short said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. While Short went on to say the former president had treated…

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#Former Pence aide calls Trump’s mug shot ‘tragic’

#Former Pence aide calls Trump’s mug shot ‘tragic’

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff on Friday called former President Trump’s recent mug shot “tragic” and suggested he’s been receiving a lot of “bad counsel” lately. “I think it’s tragic, Jake,” Marc Short said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. While Short went on to say the former president had treated…

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#Carbon capture is bad climate policy

#Carbon capture is bad climate policy

White House officials and Democratic lawmakers spent weeks celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, a legislative package that has been dubbed the most ambitious climate legislation of all time. While that is technically correct — it’s a low bar to meet — the political and practical benefits of the law are hard…

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#Oh, SNAP: Is Biden’s food stamp expansion inflating grocery prices?

#Oh, SNAP: Is Biden’s food stamp expansion inflating grocery prices?

Since President Biden entered the Oval Office in January 2021, spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, has increased by 27 percent. This giant increase in SNAP funding has unsurprisingly coincided with a steep rise in food prices. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “Average annual food-at-home prices were 11.4 percent…

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#Stop playing politics with Palestinian lives 

#Stop playing politics with Palestinian lives 

One wouldn’t know it from the headlines, but the next violent eruption in the Gaza Strip may be just around the corner. As most of Washington remains mired in its traditional August doldrums, yet another a potential crisis is brewing in the already isolated and impoverished Gaza Strip. For the past several months, $75 million…

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