Four Simple Questions for Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s critics are starting to think they got her all wrong. “You are a very different person than I thought you were,” The View’s Sunny Hostin marveled last week, when the Georgia representative joined the show for a largely genial discussion. Recently, Greene has criticized the GOP’s shutdown strategy, lack of a plan to address health-care costs, and refusal to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. This turnabout has excited some liberals and media outlets, sometimes to the point of credulity. Greene sits on the potent House Oversight and…

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BREAKING: MoveOn Calls for Schumer to Step Aside as Leader

Over 80% of MoveOn Members Believe Schumer Is Failing to Lead Opposition Against Trump  WASHINGTON – As a result of 80% of its members calling for Senator Chuck Schumer to step aside as minority leader in response to Senate Democrats backing away from protecting ACA subsidies to make a deal with Republicans and the Trump administration to end the government shutdown, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Katie Bethell released the following statement: “With Donald Trump and the Republican Party doubling health care premiums, weaponizing our military against us, and ripping food…

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Tentative Senate deal reaffirms back pay, reverses RIFs for federal employees

The Senate’s initial agreement toward ending the longest-ever government shutdown includes provisions that would secure back pay for all federal employees, as well as reverse the Trump administration’s recent reductions in force. Though much is still up in the air and subject to possible changes, the early steps in the process indicate that, if the Senate bill’s current language is maintained, both excepted and furloughed federal employees would receive back pay dating to Oct. 1, the day the shutdown began. Federal employees, regardless of whether they are furloughed or excepted,…

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Why They Mask

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A few days after President Donald Trump took office, I got an invitation from ICE officials to observe the administration’s new “surge operations” in New York City. They told me to show up at 4 a.m. at the downtown federal building where the agency has its holding cells. Officers in body armor huddled in the basement parking garage, then headed to the Bronx in a caravan of unmarked cars.   The trip wasn’t particularly…

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