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Election News, Gridlock in DC
In politics, the biggest story of this week was the victory of former Representative Tom Suozzi in the seat vacated when George Santos was voted out of the House of Representatives. In 2022, Santos flipped the seat from Democratic to Republican, but it became clear that his candidacy was built...
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Key House special election and Senate takes up foreign aid
OLD SANTOS SEAT Tomorrow there will be an interesting special election in the 3rd Congressional district of New York for the seat of disgraced Representative George Santos. With a closely divided House each seat can have an impact on the narrow Republican Majority. Last week witnessed one of the consequences...
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Ukraine, Israel Aid Are Center Stage in DC
For weeks, Republicans insisted that any Supplemental Spending Bill with aid for Ukraine and Israel had to have border/immigration provisions. Suddenly with encouragement from former President Trump, the signals changed, and the border/immigration compromise was dropped. The Senate then returned to a “clean” supplemental that just contains foreign military and...
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Busy week with money for Israel, Ukraine, and border focus
A busy weekend in DC with the Senate bipartisan negotiators releasing their long-discussed plan to deal with the Supplemental Spending plan to give funds to Ukraine and Israel and having a major overhaul on border/immigration policy. Additionally, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that the House Republican leadership was changing strategy...
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Issue Backlog Builds in DC
The week ends with a growing list of “must do” items being added to the Congressional agenda. The list includes the Supplemental Spending Bill that has been requested by the White House to send arms to Ukraine and Israel, the crisis at the Southern border, a bipartisan tax bill that...
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Fed day and Congress deals with spending, border and taxes
Wednesday is Fed day, the first Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting of 2024. As is custom, the Fed will release a statement by the FOMC at 2:00pm, and then at 2:30 Chair Powell will have a press conference. Both the statement and the Chair’s carefully prepared comments are designed...
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Trump, Border, and Budgets Dominate DC
The victory of former President Trump in New Hampshire has solidified his position as the presumptive Republican nominee. While former Governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley got over 40% of the vote, most of her support came from independent voters and moderate Republicans. Exit polls showed that over 70% of...
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NH votes tomorrow, DeSantis out, Congress has new budget deadline
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dropped a political bombshell when he suspended his race for the Republican Presidential nomination on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. DeSantis saw the handwriting on the wall with polls showing him at single digits in NH, and no sense that any of the Super...
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Shutdown Threat Delayed
Facing a midnight deadline tonight, and a dreaded DC snowstorm, Congress acted quickly yesterday to pass a government funding bill that pushes big spending decisions off until the first week of March. When Mike Johnson became Speaker, he initiated an idea to break up the 12 spending bills so that...
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Trump win, Budget deadline Friday
After months of polls and campaigning, former President Trump showed that he indeed is the leader of the Republican Party and will likely be the nominee. An interesting tidbit: Donald Trump will be the third major party candidate to be nominated three times. The other two are FDR and Richard...
