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Washington Post: "Republicans Struggle to Explain Shutdown of the House"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Washington Post: "Republicans Struggle to Explain Shutdown of the House"
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As Speaker Mike Johnson keeps the House closed for business while more and more Americans blame House Republicans for their shutdown, the Washington Post declares: "So far, Johnson's plan has failed."
On day 24 of the GOP shutdown, tens of millions of Americans face looming skyrocketing health care costs and Republicans - under the direction of Speaker Mike Johnson - refuse to come to work. Recent reporting
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Washington Post: "Republicans Struggle to Explain Shutdown of the House"
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As Speaker Mike Johnson keeps the House closed for business while more and more Americans blame House Republicans for their shutdown, the Washington Post declares: "So far, Johnson's plan has failed."
On day 24 of the GOP shutdown, tens of millions of Americans face looming skyrocketing health care costs and Republicans - under the direction of Speaker Mike Johnson - refuse to come to work. Recent reportingfrom the Washington Post takes a closer look at Johnson's failing strategy, shining a light on how he's losing the plot.
First, Johnson and House Republicans are losing the public at large:
A new Reuters poll this week found 50 percent blamed Republicans and 43 percent blamed Democrats.
Just as bad for Mike Johnson, he's also losing his own own rank-and-file members:
"This shutdown strategy is old and Republicans need to have new tactics," Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) told House Republicans on a private call Tuesday afternoon, as federal agencies passed their third week without funding.
Mike Johnson doesn't seem to care. The Washington Post column best summarizes the state of play:
But Johnson has not altered his strategy. The shutdown of the House has now reached almost five weeks.
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"That has given Democrats an opening to go on the offensive, targeting Johnson over his refusal to call the House back into session.
DCCC Spokesperson Viet Shelton :
"The American public and even Mike Johnson's own members all agree: House Republicans should get back to work - because what they are doing now isn't working."
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/washington-post-republicans-struggle-to-explain-shutdown-of-the-house/
The Lombardo-Trump Way: Inflation Has Increased Every Month Since Trump Started His Erratic Trade War
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 24 -- The Nevada Democratic Party posted the following news release:
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The Lombardo-Trump Way: Inflation Has Increased Every Month Since Trump Started His Erratic Trade War
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New reports show that inflation has increased every month since Donald Trump kicked off his erratic trade war. Lombardo said himself Nevadans should " feel a little pain " from Trump's tariffs and now working families and small businesses are drowning in sky-high costs. According to the Consumer Price Index report, inflation increased to 3.02%, the highest rate since May 2024. On top of rising
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 24 -- The Nevada Democratic Party posted the following news release:
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The Lombardo-Trump Way: Inflation Has Increased Every Month Since Trump Started His Erratic Trade War
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New reports show that inflation has increased every month since Donald Trump kicked off his erratic trade war. Lombardo said himself Nevadans should " feel a little pain " from Trump's tariffs and now working families and small businesses are drowning in sky-high costs. According to the Consumer Price Index report, inflation increased to 3.02%, the highest rate since May 2024. On top of risinginflation, Nevadans' health insurance premiums are set to increase by 26% on average an extra $147 a month due to Republicans allowing the enhanced tax credits to expire.
Thanks to Lombardo and Trump's cost-raising agenda, Nevadans are dipping into emergency savings to keep afloat and donating blood just to afford rent. Data from the the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that under Lombardo, Nevada had the worst unemployment rate of any state in the nation for the first half of 2025 higher than when he took office.
This is the "pain" Joe Lombardo was talking about:
Beef prices are at an all time high
Energy services are up 6.4%
Rent costs at up 3.4%
Renter and home insurance rates are up 7.5%
Car repair and maintenance costs are up 11.5%
Daycare and preschool costs are up 5.2%
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Original text here: https://nvdems.com/the-lombardo-trump-way-inflation-has-increased-every-month-since-trump-started-his-erratic-trade-war/
NOTUS: "Winsome Earle-Sears' Official Schedule Is Empty for Months at a Time"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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NOTUS: "Winsome Earle-Sears' Official Schedule Is Empty for Months at a Time"
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A new report from NOTUS reveals that Winsome Sears' official schedule shows she went "months" with "no meetings, events or governmental engagements" illustrating how Sears has failed to deliver for Virginians and hides when asked basic questions about her taxpayer-funded job.
Sears' lack of transparency and accountability raises questions like "whether she sometimes sought to keep her whereabouts as lieutenant governor
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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NOTUS: "Winsome Earle-Sears' Official Schedule Is Empty for Months at a Time"
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A new report from NOTUS reveals that Winsome Sears' official schedule shows she went "months" with "no meetings, events or governmental engagements" illustrating how Sears has failed to deliver for Virginians and hides when asked basic questions about her taxpayer-funded job.
Sears' lack of transparency and accountability raises questions like "whether she sometimes sought to keep her whereabouts as lieutenant governora secret, or conversely, if she spends long periods not actively working in an official capacity."
Both Sears and Governor Youngkin's staff were unable to explain how she spends her time. As NOTUS reports, "Earle-Sears did not respond to several phone and email messages left by NOTUS with her gubernatorial campaign and Virginia lieutenant governor's office," adding that a spokesperson for Youngkin "did not reply to inquiries from NOTUS about how the lieutenant governor spends her time on the job."
While Sears has refused to show up for Virginians, she has made time to go to the White House to beg for Donald Trump's support and has defended Trump's deeply unpopular cuts to Virginians' jobs and health care.
Read more from NOTUS on Sears failing to deliver for Virginians:
* Unredacted calendar documents obtained this month by NOTUS via the Virginia Freedom of Information Act show large gaps sometimes weeks, other times months where Earle-Sears lists no meetings, events or governmental engagements on her official schedule.
* Earle-Sears did not respond to several phone and email messages left by NOTUS with her gubernatorial campaign and Virginia lieutenant governor's office.
* Earlier this year, Earle-Sears declined to offer specifics when public broadcaster VPM, which obtained a partial version of her schedule, asked her to describe and detail her role in the Youngkin administration.
* Government officials' schedules "have always been really sensitive and places of combat, but as a citizen, I'd like to know a little bit more of what she's doing," said Megan Rhyne, executive director of the nonpartisan Virginia Coalition for Open Government.
* The Earle-Sears calendar documents, which are public records under Virginia law, cover the period between January 2022 and September 2024. Initially, they were packed with activity.
* By early 2023, however, Earle-Sears' schedule grew bare.
* Official schedules help confirm how government leaders spend their time when entrusted with power by constituents. Taken together, Earle-Sears' schedules do not indicate whether she sometimes sought to keep her whereabouts as lieutenant governor a secret, or conversely, if she spends long periods not actively working in an official capacity.
* A representative for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who campaigned for Earle-Sears as his successor, did not reply to inquiries from NOTUS about how the lieutenant governor spends her time on the job.
* "At the end of the day, they're working for the people who put them there," J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia Center for Politics said of the state's elected officials. "The average voter would probably want more transparency."
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Original text here: https://democraticgovernors.org/updates/notus-winsome-earle-sears-official-schedule-is-empty-for-months-at-a-time/
Mike Lawler Rolls Out The Red Carpet For MAGA Extremist Ted Cruz
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Mike Lawler Rolls Out The Red Carpet For MAGA Extremist Ted Cruz
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Cruz shut down the government in 2013 in an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act
As federal workers miss their first paycheck and New Yorkers across the state brace for more expensive groceries and skyrocketing health care premiums, Mike Lawler isn't in Washington trying to reopen the government - he's bringing MAGA extremist Ted Cruz home with him to rub elbows with high dollar donors in Rockland.
Yes, that
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Mike Lawler Rolls Out The Red Carpet For MAGA Extremist Ted Cruz
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Cruz shut down the government in 2013 in an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act
As federal workers miss their first paycheck and New Yorkers across the state brace for more expensive groceries and skyrocketing health care premiums, Mike Lawler isn't in Washington trying to reopen the government - he's bringing MAGA extremist Ted Cruz home with him to rub elbows with high dollar donors in Rockland.
Yes, thatTed Cruz - the anti-abortion, election-denying, far-right senator who literally led a government shutdown of his own in efforts to destroy the Affordable Care Act.
As Mike Lawler unleashes a health care crisis of his own on the Hudson Valley, it's no wonder Ted Cruz traveled all the way to Lawler's district to prop up his fellow Trump lackey's extremist campaign.
Lawler's embrace of MAGA poster boy Ted Cruz, who fought to repeal the Affordable Care Act and rip health care away from Americans for more than a decade, only further proves his eagerness to rubber stamp Donald Trump's out-of-touch agenda, regardless of how it hurts Hudson Valley families.
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
"As federal workers miss paychecks and New Yorkers prepare to miss meals due to Republicans' shutdown, Mike Lawler inviting shutdown crusader Ted Cruz up to rub elbows with big donors is a slap in the face to his constituents. It's clear who Mike Lawler is standing with - and it's not Hudson Valley families."
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/mike-lawler-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-maga-extremist-ted-cruz/
Farmers "Outraged" As Michael Whatley's Trade War Leaves Them Behind
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 24 -- The North Carolina Democratic Party issued the following news:
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Farmers "Outraged" As Michael Whatley's Trade War Leaves Them Behind
In new reporting from Newsweek, farmers and agricultural groups are "outraged," saying Washington Republicans' chaotic trade policies have "set us up and sold us out" and are "putting America's farmers out of business."
DC insider Michael Whatley has cheered on the trade war that is "squeezing farmers' budgets" and "hurt[ing their] bottom line," calling it "record setting in terms of [...] effectiveness" and supporting
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RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 24 -- The North Carolina Democratic Party issued the following news:
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Farmers "Outraged" As Michael Whatley's Trade War Leaves Them Behind
In new reporting from Newsweek, farmers and agricultural groups are "outraged," saying Washington Republicans' chaotic trade policies have "set us up and sold us out" and are "putting America's farmers out of business."
DC insider Michael Whatley has cheered on the trade war that is "squeezing farmers' budgets" and "hurt[ing their] bottom line," calling it "record setting in terms of [...] effectiveness" and supportingit "wholeheartedly."
Now, Michael Whatley is staying silent as farmers get left behind by his trade war.
"Nothing stops Michael Whatley from prioritizing DC insiders over North Carolinians - even as farmers across the state get hit with soaring costs and worry if they'll be able to get by," said Mallory Payne, senior communications advisor at the North Carolina Democratic Party. "If Michael Whatley is in the U.S. Senate, he will never do what's right for North Carolina."
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Original text here: https://www.ncdp.org/media/farmers-outraged-as-michael-whatleys-trade-war-leaves-them-behind/
Dave Min Stands Up for Health Care, Invests in California Families
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Dave Min Stands Up for Health Care, Invests in California Families
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As working families face the devastating impacts of GOP cuts to health care, Congressman Dave Min is calling for House Republicans to get back to work.
In a new interview with the Orange County Register, Min outlined his priorities: fighting for real solutions that support Californians like restoring funds for Medi-Cal, and pushing back on GOP cuts to clean energy tax credits that have spurred hundreds of billions
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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Dave Min Stands Up for Health Care, Invests in California Families
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As working families face the devastating impacts of GOP cuts to health care, Congressman Dave Min is calling for House Republicans to get back to work.
In a new interview with the Orange County Register, Min outlined his priorities: fighting for real solutions that support Californians like restoring funds for Medi-Cal, and pushing back on GOP cuts to clean energy tax credits that have spurred hundreds of billionsof dollars in clean energy investment across California.
"I was not elected to exclusively represent those who voted for me. I represent everyone equally, and I hope to continue having thoughtful and meaningful conversations about the issues that matter most to my constituents." - Rep. Min
Read more about Min's priorities for Californians...
Orange County Register: Rep. Dave Min answers questions about clean energy and working with Huntington Beach leaders
Rep. Min on the Republican government shutdown:
* Most of the people I've heard from are gravely concerned about the impacts of the massive cuts to health care that Republicans have pushed forward...including the termination of the ACA enhanced premium tax credits....
* The $900 billion cuts to Medicaid...are already wreaking havoc on people's health care, with significant increases to premiums and copays already starting to be announced...
* "The termination of the ACA tax credits will leave an estimated 15 million additional Americans without health insurance, including 30,000 families I represent.
* Covered California just announced that...the premiums for those purchasing health insurance through exchanges will increase by between 50% and 200%, hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month for the average family. No one except billionaires can afford these types of massive cost increases. Many people will have to choose between health insurance and putting food on the table. That's wrong.
Rep. Min on Energy Policy:
* I am actively having conversations with my Republican counterparts about the importance of the clean energy sector not only for reducing carbon emissions and bending the curve on climate change, but also for economic growth and national security purposes.
* I am also trying to find areas of common ground with Republicans to try to pass bipartisan bills. I am proud to serve on the House Natural Resources Committee, where I am focused on advancing legislation to mitigate the consequences of the climate crisis for our community.
* Just this month, my bipartisan, bicameral bill, the Digital Coast Reauthorization Act of 2025, passed unanimously out of the House Natural Resources Committee, which is the final step before this bill can move to the floor for a vote and hopefully, become law.
Rep. Min on the Big, Ugly Law:
* This bill is a devastating blow for patients, providers and hospitals. There are no real solutions that can address the massive cuts to Medicaid...and the gaps in coverage these will create.
* That is why congressional Democrats are insisting that any funding packages we approve include measures to offset some of the devastating provisions in the Republicans' budget package earlier this year, which kick 15 million Americans off their health insurance plans.
* While we will unfortunately see significant increases in our health insurance costs and large cuts to health care services in the meantime as insurance providers and healthcare providers plan out their budgets, if Democrats retake control of Congress in 2027, we may be better positioned to fight for legislation that fully funds Medi-Cal and CalOptima and lowers health care costs for families in Orange County.
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/dave-min-stands-up-for-health-care-invests-in-california-families/
Andy Biggs Calls Democrats "Domestic Terrorists" in Dangerous Rant
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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Andy Biggs Calls Democrats "Domestic Terrorists" in Dangerous Rant
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A new report from Arizona's Family revealed GOP gubernatorial candidate Congressman Andy Biggs going on a dangerous rant and calling Democrats "political terrorists, just like they are domestic terrorists."
An Arizona Republican consultant called Biggs' extreme comments "well beyond the pale of what is common sense and decency." Reached for comment, Biggs' campaign refused to take accountability.
Biggs' comments are pushing the
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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Andy Biggs Calls Democrats "Domestic Terrorists" in Dangerous Rant
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A new report from Arizona's Family revealed GOP gubernatorial candidate Congressman Andy Biggs going on a dangerous rant and calling Democrats "political terrorists, just like they are domestic terrorists."
An Arizona Republican consultant called Biggs' extreme comments "well beyond the pale of what is common sense and decency." Reached for comment, Biggs' campaign refused to take accountability.
Biggs' comments are pushing thealready chaotic primary with Karrin Taylor Robson and David Schweikert even further to the right.Notably, this comes as Biggs has not shown up to work in nearly a month after he voted to cut health care and is refusing to work across the aisle to lower health care costs.
"Andy Biggs referring to his political opponents as 'domestic terrorists' is alarming," said DGA Communications Director Sam Newton. "Biggs' refusal to take accountability for these dangerous comments is the latest proof that he's too extreme and should never be governor of Arizona."
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Original text here: https://democraticgovernors.org/updates/andy-biggs-calls-democrats-domestic-terrorists-in-dangerous-rant/
