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ICYMI: MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting Appears on Meet The Press NOW Discussing MAGA Chaos

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VIDEO: Click here to watch Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press NOW to discuss the GOP’s MAGA extremism and why it is backfiring with Americans. MAGA Republicans in Congress are pursuing a radical agenda including a baseless and partisan impeachment inquiry and wanting to shut down the government. “Republicans have been on the ‘we’re going to impeach Biden’ beat since day one,” said Epting when discussing the impeachment inquiry, “What this really is, is they’re trying to distract from the fact that Trump has…

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The Bidens will travel to Maui to meet with wildfire survivors and first responders

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are traveling to Maui on Monday to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires that ripped through the western part of the Hawaiian island earlier this month, as his administration responds to the devastation whose full scope is still unknown. The Washington Times stories: White House

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VHA on track to meet 2023 staffing targets, but House lawmakers urge further hiring reforms

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Ongoing recruitment challenges for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health care workforce are gaining more attention — and concerns — from Congress. The Veterans Health Administration is on track to reach its year-end target increase for its total number of employees. But problems persist in VHA’s hiring and onboarding processes, lawmakers on the House Veterans Affairs Committee said. “We all know that this is a crisis situation. It was a crisis before COVID. It’s a bigger crisis now. And we have to treat it accordingly and work on this in…

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Meet the guy who oversaw the recovery of more than a billion dollars of stolen pandemic relief

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Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. The government showed how fast it could spend money when  Congress printed trillions for pandemic relief. Well, now it’s the morning after. Our next guest led a nationwide criminal investigation that so far has clawed back more than a billion dollars anyway, awarded to frauds under the Paycheck Protection Program and prevented maybe twice that much from going out in the first place. He’s an assistant special agent in charge with the…

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