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16 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1. This is economic desperation. Americans are going hungry and dying as the president golfs, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell placates his ego.

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2. Republicans did this intentionally. Why?

What better way to demonstrate government dysfunction than by showing the government is unfit to handle a national emergency?

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3. This plays into the Republican narrative that good government is small government.

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4. In reality, Republicans have made the U.S. ungovernable, and we, the people, are living the consequences of their irresponsible rhetoric. Rhetoric and dogma doesn’t fill bellies.

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1. The Independent’s Washington Bureau Chief John T. Bennett imagined on Friday a scenario in which President Trump is met with immediate legal trouble as he returns to civilian life upon Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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1. U.S. border authorities have been expelling unaccompanied children from other countries into Mexico, violating a diplomatic agreement with Mexico and also in violation of U.S. policy.
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1. In 2018, eight Republican senators spent the Fourth of July in Moscow, despite Russia’s denials of interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
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1. Documents obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee reveal that the Trump administration’s $250 million ad campaign for rebranding the coronavirus pandemic was meant in part to help President Trump’s reelection campaign.
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