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American shame: U.S. far right becomes model for insurrectionists around the world

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The New Rules Package That the Republicans Are Agreeing to Is a Sleeper

The Republican agreement to cap all federal spending at levels set two years ago could conceivably have big consequences for the operations of the US government, including the military. But that's only if they hold themselves to it. There's nothing holding Republicans to actually following that rule. If Republicans do go through with this committee to try to create a new system of oversight of the Justice Department that includes their ongoing criminal investigations, I mean, we can't expect that the Justice Department wouldn't just roll over and go along with it. And what would happen if two branches of our government went to war over active criminal investigations into a former President that could potentially put him in prison? What if it gets left to

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