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I want American companies building the cars of the future, right here, with American workers and American innovation. Walking away from that race is a ridiculous self own, and our competitors couldn't be happier about it. This is patently stupid policy.

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EV sales are surging globally, and China already has dramatically accelerated the production of electric cars and batteries. Every year we pull back is another year Chinese automakers pull further ahead and American workers fall further behind.

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Congress created these standards in 1975, after an oil embargo showed how dangerous it is to depend on volatile foreign oil. Fifty years later, with Trump’s unauthorized war in Iran pushing prices higher, he’s forgetting that lesson entirely. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is moving fast.

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Gas prices are soaring nationwide, and families feel it every time they fill up. So what does the Trump administration do? It guts the fuel economy standards that help Americans burn less gas in the first place. That means more money out of your pocket at the pump for years to come.

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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)

Fast-tracking favors for politically connected companies while gangsters take their cut betrays our values. This is corruption, plain and simple. Congress needs a full, independent investigation into how these deals were made and whether any laws were broken. I won't stop until we get answers.

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The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.

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Now hundreds of millions worth is sitting in U.S. warehouses because reputable refiners won't touch it. Americans play by the rules and expect their government to do the same.

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The Trump administration has cleared the way to import gold from a Venezuelan state company our own government labels a national security threat. The Times found some of it is tied to miners who pay protection money to a local gang.

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You need to read this story from the NY Times. For years, we've blacklisted Venezuelan gold because it funded gangsters and corrupt military officials. Now, rather than fighting gangs and corruption, Trump has decided to do the opposite.

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Families already stretched thin are about to feel it again in the price of food, deliveries, and just about everything else. Whether you drive a big rig or a minivan, we all want the same thing, prices we can afford and leaders who take our cost of living seriously.

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Trucking costs are up about 14% since January, and economists expect those costs to keep showing up at the checkout line for months.

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Diesel just hit a record average nationwide. It can be easy to miss, but diesel moves almost everything we buy. The trucks that stock our grocery stores, the equipment that powers our farms, even the tankers that deliver gasoline to your neighborhood station.

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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress

I'll keep fighting to restore these funds and close this loophole for good. Congress writes the budget, and it's time more of my Republican colleagues stood up and said so. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.

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I sit on the House Appropriations Committee. Under the Constitution, Congress decides how taxpayer dollars are spent. Republicans and Democrats negotiated these bills in good faith. If a president can erase any spending law by running out the clock, the power of the purse means nothing.

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The White House sits on money for months, then sends Congress a cancellation request so late in the fiscal year that the funds simply expire on September 30. Last year they used the same move to wipe out $4.9 billion.

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Last night, with no vote and no debate, Trump canceled nearly $1 billion that Congress passed and he had previously signed into law. The trick is called a "pocket rescission."

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Russ Vought is Donald Trump's budget director and the most dangerous person you've never heard of. He helped write Project 2025, and he has spent years arguing that a president should be free to ignore spending laws he doesn't like. Now he's doing exactly that.

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Administration's pro-Trump TV ad is taxpayer-funded

This week the Trump administration ran a 30-second campaign spot on Fox News and Newsmax, labeled "Paid for by the U.S. Government." This kind of propaganda using taxpayer dollars is unacceptable and very likely illegal.

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The Trump administration is running a pro-Trump ad on cable news featuring Trump boasting about his record and vowing the US "will never be a communist country."

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 26/09/2026

Today's order pauses that ruling while the case continues. Our Constitution gives states the lead role in running elections, and using SAVE is each state's choice. Federal law also bars most states from systematic purges in the last 90 days before an election.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 26/09/2026

A federal judge blocked the expanded database in June, ruling it broke federal privacy laws and warning it could lead to eligible voters being wrongly removed.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 26/09/2026

Today the Supreme Court allowed the use of a revamped Homeland Security database called SAVE to check the citizenship of people on their voter rolls.

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As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I believe this ad crosses a clear line, and federal employees who helped produce it may have run afoul of the Hatch Act as well.

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An actual PSA teaches people something useful. This shameless ad’s only purpose is to make Trump look good, just weeks before an election.

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Administration's pro-Trump TV ad is taxpayer-funded

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The Trump administration is running a pro-Trump ad on cable news featuring Trump boasting about his record and vowing the US "will never be a communist country."

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Yesterday, when I heard Donald Trump address the UN and say "to the victor goes the spoils," I thought about my grandfather who served in World War II. Conquest for plunder was the logic of the adversaries the Greatest Generation defeated.

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Contractors behind the Lincoln reflecting pool mess have admitted in writing they were responsible. Trump owes the former Olympian he tried to prosecute an apology. Congress should get every document related to this debacle.

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This November, you can help put an end to it.

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expanding Stephen Miller’s mass deportation agenda, and funding the president’s own vanity projects, while doing nothing to lower your grocery bill or make your life more affordable.

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Daily reminder that Trump and Republican leadership are spending billions of your tax dollars on military operations against Iran that Congress never authorized,

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That choice made us the world's most powerful and respected nation for 80 years. Americans of both parties built that order, from Truman and Eisenhower to Reagan. Iwant my kids and grandkids to inherit an America the world still trusts, one that leads by building partnerships and keeping its word.

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When World War II ended, America had every chance to take whatever it wanted from a broken world. Instead, we helped rebuild former enemies, wrote rules that applied to the strong and weak alike, and led the effort to create the UN so borders would no longer be redrawn by force.

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This week the database lowered its numbers and then stopped updating altogether. Strikes since May are being filed as overseas operations rather than as part of this war.

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This follows a troubling pattern. In July, the Pentagon's own public database dropped four service members whose deaths the department had already announced. In August, a government official described the new counting method as designed to obscure the count.

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Instead, Pete Hegseth gave us a social media post calling the report disgusting and fake and comparing the Washington Post to Iranian state media. Hegseth hasn't held a press briefing at the Pentagon in several months.

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I have the honor to represent thousands of Marines, Sailors and families who serve. I take nothing about their safety lightly. When the Washington Post reported Friday that at least 22 Americans have died in the Iran war, four more than the Pentagon has acknowledged, that demands a serious answer.

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Trump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party

Don Jr.'s own statement called Kremlev's money an extraordinarily generous gift from a friend and made no mention of giving it back. This all just raises more questions than it answers. What was Kremlev hoping to buy? What did the president know about this, and when did he know it?

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Who told us? His father, in the Oval Office, who said the money had been repaid and then, moments later, said it was still being repaid.

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