“Ebola during pregnancy is catastrophic, w/ a nearly 100% fetal loss rate & catastrophic…mortality risk due to severe hemorrhaging” Sens Lisa Murkowski & Jeanne Shaheen urged Rubio “to release hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to help women & infants affected by an Ebola outbreak in E. Africa”
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Esther Be Good!
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“Senators on the Appropriations Committee…agreed to a funding bill that would prevent a Gov shutdown at the end of September & fund the government through” December 11. “An initial procedural vote is scheduled for Monday night, with Senate leaders eyeing to pass the bill before going on recess.”
The DOJ admitted that a Donald’s $14+ million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in D.C. “was flawed, & is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing from DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.”
The transfer of wealth from the middle class & poor to the rich continues. DJT’s Gov “said it…end a Biden-era Medicare premium subsidy program, alleging it benefited ins. companies more than enrollees.” “…Medicare Part D subsidies will expire at the end of the year & no longer be offered in 2027.”
The “Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday. Ahead of the meeting, investors had not ruled out a rate hike.” “Fed officials continue to monitor stubborn inflation as the war with Iran clouds the economic outlook.” www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/b...
“Republicans raised the debt limit by $5 trillion last year. Now they are already thinking about how to head off another dive over the fiscal cliff on President Donald Trump’s watch.” www.politico.com/live-updates...
One year into America First Foreign Assistance replacing some USAID programs & the report card does NOT look good. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The DOJ moved to dismiss charges against “David Huerta,…president of Service Employees Int’l Union U.S. Workers West,…arrested at a [6/25 protest] in LA & [who] has been fighting the charges…since.” This was the 1st high-profile arrest of an ICE protester, a felony reduced to a misdemeanor, & now….
Recently, “Rena Dixon, the head of Fact Forward, a SC nonprofit that offers adolescent health & sex education classes, got a letter from the Trump administration….The Gov was terminating the organization’s $1.6 million grant from a federal program to reduce teen pregnancies, effective immediately.”
“The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants “solely because” the projects were connected to states that voted against President Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
“The Trump administration has abandoned its quest to force the University of Pennsylvania to turn over names of Jewish people on campus, according to a court filing on Thursday.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
“The House…narrowly passed a resolution [214-208] to halt US military action in Iran, sending a warning to…Donald…for the 2d time as the war has escalated & the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain. “…the Senate is expected to consider a similar resolution later” today.
This Is Unfortunate. NJ “mistakenly registered 6,600 apparent noncitizens to vote over the course of a year, including hundreds who went on to improperly cast ballots, according to…Mikie Sherrill” The fault was not of those registering to vote, who IDed as non-citizens. It was caught w/i a year.
Jon Ossoff vowed Dems rebue of DJT if Dems gain control of both chambers. “Our answer will be massive. Our answer will be decisive….We won’t just restore checks & balances….We will rebuke him so decisively that no president will dare try this kind of brazen corruption & abuse again for centuries.”
US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín (NDCa) issued a TRO “barring Paramount from closing the transaction, a corporate tie-up that would unite 2 movie studios, 2 streaming platforms & 2 news organizations under the control of David Ellison,” granting a request from a coalition of 12 state” AGs.