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You've Paid $1,341 in Tariffs And Congress Just Left for Summer
The House of Representatives left for summer recess today. In their final 48 hours they passed three bills and sent them to the Senate.The continuing resolution: the government stays funded at current levels until December 4th, kicking the budget fight to just before the holidays, again. The stock trading ban: it bans members of Congress from buying stocks but not selling them, which is where the money is made, and Republicans slipped a federal voter ID mandate into the bill specifically to make Democrats vote against it. Thomas Massie said so publicly on Twitter. The war powers resolution…
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