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WASHINGTON, D.C. - FEBRUARY 27: President Joe Biden address the Nation on his push for a new coronavirus relief package from the Rosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 2020. NYTVIRUS WASHINGTON, D.C. - FEBRUARY 27: President Joe Biden address the Nation on his push for a new coronavirus relief package from the Rosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 2020. NYTVIRUS
Where Things Stand: Committee-less And Bored, Greene Annoys Her Own Colleagues Prime Badge
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03.10.21 | 1:51 pm

Forty of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) Republican colleagues voted against her motion to adjourn the House this morning, a wave of intra-party pushback on a pellucid delay tactic designed to do little but stall the passage of the crucial COVID-19 relief bill.

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Where Things Stand: The GOP’s Alternate Universe Prime Badge
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03.09.21 | 1:43 pm

The House is set to vote on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill tomorrow, sending it to the President’s desk. The bill is stuffed with a litany of underreported positives for the progressive agenda — putting more than $7,000 into the pockets of the average family of four, reducing health care costs, and at least temporarily addressing child poverty.

Yet the Republican rhetoric surrounding the bill has become increasingly bizarre — perhaps that’s how you know it’s good.

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