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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
@police.takomaparkmd.gov The air quality is really bad on sligo creek parkway between maple and Houston. Kids and adults are exercising and the air feels and smells really unsafe. Can someone add warnings or close it until the gas leak nearby is resolved, if that's the cause?
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is wild. The AI summary of this NPR article that showed up on my Google news feed said that AI innovations were improving efficiency by 25%, when the article was actually about how AI data centers could raise consumer bills by 25%! Doubt this is a random error! search.app/qVsMw
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So the man who's never pumped gas in his life & promised to half energy bills is RAISING gasoline bills. Contrary to this headline, gutting CAFE actually hurts gas vehicles--drivers will have less $ to buy new gas vehicles & EVs have even higher relative savings. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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Trump proposes slashing fuel economy rules in boost for gas vehicles
President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed slashing fuel economy standards that former President Joe Biden had finalized last year, in a push to make it easier for automakers to sell gasoline-powere...
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15/11/2025
Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to: 1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies 2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
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POLITICO Pro: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding
DOT recently sent two proposals to the White House budget office seeking to pare back transit money.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 12/11/2025
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Sounds like a man with nothing to hide. Trump pushes GOP to block House move forcing Epstein files disclosure share.google/IYgXZnOBRqNs...
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Trump pressures Boebert, Mace to back down on Epstein files
If any GOP member were to remove their name, the petition would no longer have the necessary support.
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
@police.takomaparkmd.gov my daughter tells me a black and white cat followed her from Piney Branch park in case anyone is missing it
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Trump’s goons are using chemical weapons against the public.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Maybe the declaration of independence is next
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
They are mixing up their false narratives--DEI/green scam/etc. Oh I see, they are just stealing $ from blue states, which already pay more into federal taxes. x.com/russvought/s... $8 billion in "Green New Scam" funding cancelled ... CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
As the government shutdown begins, remember that one of the biggest deficit drivers of the past 20 years are Republican tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations. The issue isn't programs that help millions of Americans, it's giveaways to the rich.
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I hope in 2026/28, more people can connect the dots that Republicans took away healthcare from Americans and tanked the U.S. economy while lying about trans people and "illegals" to distract them.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Republicans clearly flunked civics in high school. Undocumented immigrants CAN'T get Medicare, Medicaid, or healthcare tax credits. It’s against the law. These guys lie because the facts are not on their side.
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Explaining the G.O.P.’s Misleading Talking Point on the Looming Shutdown
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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 24/09/2025
Donald Trump promised lower costs. Instead, his policies are hiking energy prices and squeezing working families. While billionaires and fossil fuel companies reap the rewards, Trump is dismantling clean energy projects while Americans are left paying more just to keep the lights on.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Again, the biggest crime hot spot in DC is the Trump White House. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump publicly pushes Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political foes
Alongside the extraordinary demand, the president also named his former defense attorney late Saturday to replace the head of a key prosecutor’s office he forced out a day earlier.
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Electricity and natural gas bills are rising for millions of Americans. A new column from @AmProg explains how Trump's actions are only making the problem worse: www.americanprogress.org/article/resi...
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Residents in at Least 41 States and Washington, D.C., Are Facing Increased Electric and Natural Gas Bills
Energy bill tracker documents rate increases and proposals that would go into effect in 2025 or 2026. The Trump administration’s actions to discourage clean energy projects could send rates even highe...
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Another example of LNG terminals damaging livelihoods and quality of life. insideclimatenews.org/news/0709202...
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Fishermen in Southwest Louisiana Say LNG Terminals Are to Blame for Shrimp Harvest Decline - Inside Climate News
Commercial fishermen are leaving what was once the seafood capital of America in search of shrimp as LNG export terminals move in.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We're hitting the streets tomorrow and marching to the White House to make it clear once and for all: federal forces OUT of DC NOW!!! #FreeDC Make sure to RSVP: freedcproject.org/event-list/w...
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Disturbing to see National Park Service participating in removal of people's belongings outside a church on New York Ave. @freedcproject.bsky.social #FreeDC
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A simple thought exercise to share w/ anyone who thinks authoritarianism is too "abstract" or that it's "just" a problem for non-citizens or criminals. How would you really prove you are who you know you are?
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Not shocking that fossil fuels are hazardous, but it's upsetting that @govwesmoore.bsky.social approves coal export permits despite reasoned & moral pleas from Curtis Bay community to stop the harms from coal exports @sbclt @coalfreecurtisbay.bsky.social www.baltimoresun.com/2025/08/18/s...
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Cargo ships blocked after coal carrier explosion near site of Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapse
The main channel used by cargo ships to enter and exit the Port of Baltimore was still shut down Tuesday morning as the Coast Guard probed the cause of a Monday evening explosion on board a coal ca…
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
As summers bring dangerous heat to more places across the U.S., federal, state & local leaders must step up with extreme heat plans, worker protections, access to cooling centers & other ways to keep people safe as temps keep rising. 🌡️
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Despite ‘No Tax on Tips,’ Trump’s Bill Is Bad for Tipped Workers. The legislation is especially harmful to working families--cuts to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) total $900 billion, or 28 times the impact of “no tax on tips." www.americanprogress.org/article/desp...
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Despite ‘No Tax on Tips,’ Trump’s Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill Is Bad for Tipped Workers
“No tax on tips” is a symbolic tax break that is very limited and poorly targets the workers who need tax relief the most. Many among the small number of workers who will benefit will also face the bi...
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New from @lucerowx.bsky.social and the team at @americanprogress.bsky.social: a timeline for implementation of the "one big beautiful bill" that will bring so much unnecessary harm to America. See details and filter by topic area here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law—enacting the largest-ever cuts to basic needs programs in U.S. history in order to fund tax cuts for the ultrawealthy. The law’s provisions have dozens of staggered beginning and ending dates over the next decade. Below is a timeline that details the enactment dates of cuts to health care and food assistance, the cancellation of policies to make American-made energy more affordable, the implementation of tax changes, and the enactment of policies that will raise the costs of higher education.
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Margaret Cooney @savestomatopods.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
NEW @americanprogress.bsky.social piece by me & my colleague @codyhankerson.bsky.social to highlight the dangers of cutting jobs, budgets, & research for NOAA and NWS, as climate disasters like the TX floods are getting more frequent, intense, & catastrophic: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Lasting Threat of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NWS on American Communities
The Trump administration’s cuts to NOAA and NWS staffing and research capabilities are hindering the nation’s ability to prepare for and respond effectively to extreme weather events—such as the recen...
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
10 Egregious Things You May Not Know About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. (because stripping away health care, food, and clean energy to give more $$$ to the top 1% wasn't enough for Republicans) www.americanprogress.org/article/10-e...
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10 Egregious Things You May Not Know About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Congressional Republicans’ radical budget and tax bill includes several less-known provisions that will increase costs, fuel the Trump administration’s overreach, and waste taxpayer dollars.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Dr. Coni: One patient had been receiving treatment with eye drops, but then I didn’t see her for months.. I wondered what had happened to her. When she finally returned, she told me she had lost her Medicaid coverage and couldn’t afford her drops. As a result, she had gone blind in one eye.
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Senate Republicans barely passed their big, awful bill. Hiking electricity prices and taking away health care and food to transfer wealth from the working class to giveaways for billionaires. Just awful. Republicans are blatantly serving the wealthy against the interests of working Americans.
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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 30/06/2025
Republicans' "Big Beautiful Bill" raises our costs so they can cut billionaires' taxes—spread the word.
Black background. Center text reads: The more you know, the more you'll hate it. Red boxes surrounding it describe parts of Republicans' "big beautiful bill": Nationwide increases in energy bills, 16 million kids lose free school meals, Increases in gas prices, 16 million Americans lose health care, The largest cut to Medicaid in history, Cuts tax credits for buying electric vehicles, More than $3.5T added to the national debt, Billions for surveillance & deportation, cuts to food support for veterans, billionaires get massive tax breaks, new student loan borrowers pay more, largest transfer of $$ from the poor to the rich in history. Text at bottom reads: Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on Trump and Republicans "Big, Beautiful Bill." (202) 224-3121
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Employers are THE problem in suppressing American wages by exploiting immigrant workers and offshoring to countries with low wages & weak worker protections. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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ICE is arresting migrants in worksite raids. Employers are largely escaping charges.
Trump has focused workplace raids on small businesses as part of his administration’s push to ramp up arrests of unauthorized migrants.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 30/06/2025
"To take away the cheapest, quickest way to put more electrons on the grid, solar, makes no sense." @schumer.senate.gov called out Trump and Congressional Rs' war on clean energy that will take away family's jobs and increase costs. The Senate must reject Republicans' Big Ugly Bill.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
– New taxes on clean energy investment. – Termination of the Fuel Economy Standards for new cars and trucks. – A new tax subsidy for coal. It's a collection of the worst, most harmful ideas you can imagine. And the Republican Senate is voting for them now.
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The Senate's "trillions for billionaires" bill just got even worse, kicking more people off medicaid and ⬆️ utility bills for families by hundreds of $$$. The Republican rate hike bill even adds higher taxes to solar and wind while giving more $ to coal and oil companies. Corrupt, reverse Robin Hood.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 28/06/2025
The Republican Rate Hike — their Big Ugly Bill — would kill over 840,000 jobs and raise our energy bills by hundreds of dollars a year. This bill would be a total disaster for our communities, planet, and wallets. 📱 Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to kill this extreme bill.
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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Don Berwick points out many of the administration’s actions under the guise of “making America Healthy Again (MAHA)” will in fact make Americans’ health worse. He argues for following the science and investing in what drives health. www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
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How To Make America Sick
The Trump administration’s plan to “Make America Healthy Again” will make Americans’ health worse.
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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 23/06/2025
While billionaires are getting tax cuts, Trump is raising your bills.
A graphic features two headline excerpts at the top against a dark city street background. The first, from The New York Times, reads: "Electricity prices are surging. The G.O.P. megabill could push them higher," with "push them higher" highlighted in orange. The second, from Reuters, reads: "Trump tax bill squeeze on clean power could raise energy bills," with "raise energy bills" also highlighted. Below these headlines are black and white photos of Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, on the left and Donald Trump on the right. A concluding statement at the bottom of the graphic says, "Many Americans already struggle to pay their energy bills. The “Big, Beautiful Bill” will make it even harder," with "Big, Beautiful Bill" highlighted in yellow.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 14/06/2025
In a Gangster State, the dear leader wastes other people's money on military parades to broadcast his fake strength, attacks the legislative branch and destroys programs that benefit the people.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Trump just invited the CEO of Hess Corp. up to the podium to speak about the action revoking California clean vehicle waivers The president is literally catering to the interests of #BigOil
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Great news! California is continuing its progress on clean cars and trucks in the face of Trump's illegal attempts to preempt state action. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/12/g...
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Governor Newsom signs executive order doubling down on state’s commitment to clean cars and trucks, kickstarts next phase of leadership | Governor of California
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The technology exists to clean up pollution from power plants, but it costs money so the gas industry told Trump it wants to skip out on pesky air pollution controls and clean technologies--just make Americans pay for it with our health instead. www.edf.org/media/trump-...
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Trump EPA Proposals Would Eliminate Protections Against Power Plant Pollution
The Trump EPA today announced proposals to eliminate two vital clean air protections for power plant pollution.
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Yet another brick in the "Make America Sick Again" wall. More people will get sick and die from air pollution and Trump is suppressing the science explaining why and what to do about it. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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POLITICO Pro: Trump EPA shutters premier air pollution research facility
Experiments conducted at the Human Studies Facility have helped pinpoint the health effects caused by dirty air and pushed EPA to ratchet down pollution limits.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Shocker. A former autodealer in public office still acting in autodealer interests--penalizing EV and hybrid drivers since they don't have to waste money on maintenance at the dealership. www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
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Ohio senator wants auto tax changes in Trump’s megabill
Sen. Bernie Moreno is circulating several proposed changes, he told Semafor.
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