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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 28

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    AnthonyB
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    Gerry Connolly to step down as top Democrat on house oversight panel Trying my best not to get too hopeful that they make the right choice this time around.

    Gerry Connolly to step down as top Democrat on house oversight panel

    Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives’ key oversight committee, has announced he will not run for re-election and resign his committee post, citing a return of the cancer for which he previously been successfully treated.

    The Virginia Democrat was elected as the party’s ranking member on the high-profile committee last December, after its former chair, the Maryland representative Jaime Raskin, moved on to the judiciary committee.

    He beat off a challenge from the progressive New York member of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for a position that would be in the vanguard of scrutinizing the incoming Trump administration, aided by Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, who was understood to have lobbied members to vote for Connolly, who at 75, was more senior.

    Trying my best not to get too hopeful that they make the right choice this time around.

    8 votes
    1. elight
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      Dem leadership seems so milquetoast. They don't want to take a stand for fear of alienating this magical "undecided voter". Maybe if said voter heard an unfiltered vision of what this country...

      Dem leadership seems so milquetoast. They don't want to take a stand for fear of alienating this magical "undecided voter".

      Maybe if said voter heard an unfiltered vision of what this country could be, if only they got down from their fence sitting, we'd all be better off (except for the greediest).

      Kamala was a step in the right direction yet she was still too much of a compromise candidate. We deserved a Bernie, an AOC—someone clearly enough of a contrast to Trump and his band of hate, who clearly care about the whole damn country and not how to turn it into a fortress or prison or another Turkey or Nazi Germany.

      If only.

      3 votes
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    hobbes64
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    This is economic news but I’m posting it here because it’s a direct result of Trump’s tariffs Empty shelves, trucking layoffs lead to a summer recession in Apollo’s shocking trade fight timeline...

    This is economic news but I’m posting it here because it’s a direct result of Trump’s tariffs

    Empty shelves, trucking layoffs lead to a summer recession in Apollo’s shocking trade fight timeline

    Apollo Global Management is a private equity firm who is predicting a summer recession caused by the tariffs and supply issues in both exports and imports.

    6 votes
    1. Raspcoffee
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      Ive heard before that it usually takes about a month for supply chain issues to get around, two months to get fully kicked in... Which is about in line with what we're seeing here. As the first...

      Ive heard before that it usually takes about a month for supply chain issues to get around, two months to get fully kicked in... Which is about in line with what we're seeing here. As the first 100 days are nearly done, the economic effects are going to kick in.

      3 votes