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“Make no mistake: This is not only the Republican budget, this is the Trump budget.”
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Critics have panned the event as a “corrupt scheme,” and some are hoping for a last-minute court order to stop the event altogether
“The question really isn’t, ‘Where do voters stand on this? Where are Arizonans?’ It’s about why are Republican politicians standing in the way of access to basic healthcare rights?”
Republicans hope to slash the maximum ticket from $250 and bar both the MVD and insurers from using the citations in their decisions
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“It’s a big deal, and it’s all that matters in this budget,” one of the GOP's budget architects said of adopting Trump's tax cuts. “Everything else is small potatoes.”
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It's the GOP strategy since 2020: “Whenever they don’t like the outcome of an election, they spread lies about the election.”
“Protesting against any political thing does not become a religious service because somebody says a prayer in the middle of a protest,” the GOP sponosr said. “That’s not a religious service, that's a political protest.”
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At least 20 books have been banned from Mohave County libraries because Republican leaders deemed LGBTQ+ characters “inappropriate”
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The CFTC would ban betting on war, terror and assassinations but allow most other contracts, including elections and reality TV outcomes
“States that choose to sue their fellow basin states over Colorado River operations should not expect Congress to reward that decision with additional federal funding. Federal taxpayers should not be asked to subsidize litigation among the states.”
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The Mohave County Board of Supervisors removed books from the library it deemed inappropriate without triggering the policy normally used
The Trump administration Wednesday proposed new regulations for online prediction markets that would ban bets on war, assassination and other extreme events, but still allow many sports bets to operat...
The chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee warned Arizona and two other states that rely on Colorado River water that they will lose access to hundreds of millions in conservation ...
