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Will Mariannette Miller-Meeks Use This Week at Home to Keep Her Town Hall Promise?
DES MOINES, Iowa, July 8 -- The Iowa Democratic Party issued the following news:

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Will Mariannette Miller-Meeks use this week at home to keep her town hall promise?

Miller-Meeks promised Iowans she would hold an in-person town hall more than two months ago

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On Thursday, Marianette Miller-Meeks voted to threaten rural hospitals with closure, rip health care away from over 113,000 Iowans, raise home energy costs, kill jobs, and keep interest rates high by increasing the national debt by over $3 trillion. The House of Representatives now is in recess until July 14.

In April, Miller Meeks ... Show Full Article

WATCH: Sears Backs Trump's Agenda to Gut Medicaid and SNAP While Exploding the National Deficit
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:

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WATCH: Sears Backs Trump's Agenda to Gut Medicaid and SNAP While Exploding the National Deficit

Sears: Donald Trump's budget bill "does so many great things"

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After dodging questions about it for weeks, Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears is officially all-in on defending Donald Trump's disastrous budget bill that will rip Medicaid and SNAP benefits away from Virginians while exploding the national deficit, saying that it "does so many great things."Trump's Medicaid cuts that Sears is supporting will be devastating ... Show Full Article

Tudor Dixon Fires Warning Shot at John James
LANSING, Michigan, July 8 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release:

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Tudor Dixon Fires Warning Shot at John James

LANSING -- Potential Republican candidate and former Trump-endorsed GOP nominee Tudor Dixon fired a warning shot at John James last week and trashed him for leaving his House seat and running for governor. While guest-hosting a radio show and trumpeting the Republican budget bill that will gut Medicaid and SNAP benefits, Dixon said that having people like James "step out of the House to run for other offices... will be a nightmare."

DIXON, 1:56: "The ... Show Full Article

Green Party Condemns Trump Budget Bill
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Green Party of the U.S. issued the following news release:

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Green Party Condemns Trump Budget Bill

GOP Slashes Safety Net to Fund Massive Tax Cuts for the Rich, Declares War on Immigrants

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The Green Party of the United States said that the Republican Party has overturned 250 years of the Declaration of Independence, anointing Donald Trump as the new King by passing his draconian budget bill that sacrifices the well-being of average Americans to further enrich the very wealthy. Republicans voted for the bill, despite the clear harm to their constituents, many ... Show Full Article

DNC: Trump Administration on Pace to Reduce VA Workforce by 30,000, Threatening Millions of Veterans' Hard-Earned Benefits
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release:

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Trump Administration on Pace to Reduce VA Workforce by 30,000, Threatening Millions of Veterans' Hard-Earned Benefits

In response to the Trump administration celebrating the reduction of nearly 30,000 Veterans Affairs employees, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:

"Our most fundamental promise to all the men and women who put their lives on the line for our country is that we will take care of them. Donald Trump is destroying that promise. Today, Trump has sent a message to veterans ... Show Full Article

DNC: SHOT/CHASER - Trump's Attorney General Claims There's No Epstein Client List Five Months After Saying It's Sitting on Her Desk
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release:

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SHOT/CHASER: Trump's Attorney General Claims There's No Epstein Client List Five Months After Saying It's Sitting on Her Desk

SHOT: Five months ago, Donald Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had Epstein's client list on her desk.

Pam Bondi: "[Jeffrey Epstein's client list is] sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump."

CHASER: ... but now, Bondi's Justice Department is claiming there is no Epstein list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related ... Show Full Article

DNC: 1-2 Punch - Trump's Reckless Budget Bill and Erratic Tariffs Lead to Economic Chaos and Rising Costs
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release:

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1-2 Punch: Trump's Reckless Budget Bill and Erratic Tariffs Lead to Economic Chaos and Rising Costs

After Donald Trump signed the largest cuts to food assistance and health care in American history, he is continuing to bury working families in higher costs and more economic uncertainty. Trump's chaotic economic agenda is raising inflation, skyrocketing housing costs, and hamstringing business. The bottom line: Trump and his Republican lackeys are abandoning families, farmers, and small businesses ... Show Full Article