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IRS is cracking down on WEALTHY TAX CHEATS! MAGA GOP want to protect the WEALTHY!

 

IRS is cracking down on WEALTHY TAX CHEATS!
MAGA GOP want to protect the WEALTHY!

JUST SAY NO! WE NEED THE IRS TO COLLECT TAXES & DO THEIR JOB!



IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 millionaires to collect millions in back taxes
The IRS is launching an effort to crack down on 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes

WASHINGTON -- The IRS announced on Friday it is launching an effort to aggressively pursue 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes.

IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said that with a boost in federal funding and the help of artificial intelligence tools, the agency has new means of targeting wealthy people who have “cut corners" on their taxes.

“If you pay your taxes on time it should be particularly frustrating when you see that wealthy filers are not,” Werfel told reporters in a call previewing the announcement. He said 1,600 millionaires who owe at least $250,000 each in back taxes and 75 large business partnerships that have assets of roughly $10 billion on average are targeted for the new “compliance efforts."

Werfel said a massive hiring effort and AI research tools developed by IRS employees and contractors are playing a big role in identifying wealthy tax dodgers. The agency is making an effort to showcase positive results from its burst of new funding under President Joe Biden's Democratic administration as Republicans in Congress look to claw back some of that money.

“New tools are helping us see patterns and trends that we could not see before, and as a result, we have higher confidence on where to look and find where large partnerships are shielding income," he said.

In July, IRS leadership said it collected $38 million in delinquent taxes from more than 175 high-income taxpayers in the span of a few months. Now, the agency will scale up that effort, Werfel said.

“The IRS will have dozens of revenue officers focused on these high-end collection cases in fiscal year 2024,” he said.

A team of academic economists and IRS researchers in 2021 found that the top 1% of U.S. income earners fail to report more than 20% of their earnings to the IRS.

The newly announced tax collection effort will begin as soon as October. “We have more hiring to do,” Werfel said. “It’s going to be a very busy fall for us.”
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Grover Norquist, who heads the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, said the IRS' plan to pursue high wealth individuals does not preclude the IRS from eventually pursuing middle-income Americans for audits down the road.

“This power and these resources allow them to go after anyone they want,” he said. “The next step is to go after anyone they wish to target for political purposes.”

Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the IRS' new plan is a “big deal" that “represents a fresh approach to taking on sophisticated tax cheats.”

“This action goes to the heart of Democrats’ effort to ensure the wealthiest are paying their fair share,” he said in a statement.

David Williams, at the right-leaning, nonprofit Taxpayers Protection Alliance, said “every business and every person should pay their taxes — full stop." However, “I just hope this isn’t used as a justification to hire thousands of new agents," that would audit Americans en masse, he said.

The federal tax collector gained the enhanced ability to identify tax delinquents with resources provided by the Inflation Reduction Act, which Biden signed into law in August of 2022. The agency was in line for an $80 billion infusion under the law, but that money is vulnerable to potential cutbacks by Congress.

House Republicans built a $1.4 billion reduction to the IRS into the debt ceiling and budget cuts package passed by Congress this summer. The White House said the debt deal also has a separate agreement to take $20 billion from the IRS over the next two years and divert that money to other non-defense programs.

With the threat of a government shutdown looming in a dispute over spending levels, there is the potential for additional cuts to the agency.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/irs-plans-crack-1600-millionaires-collect-millions-dollars-103025408

POLITICO Nightly: Virginia is the bellwether to watch next week

 

BY ZACH MONTELLARO Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and his wife Suzanne Youngkin arrive to a rally on Nov. 7, 2022 in Triangle, Va. | Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images SUBURBAN SMACKDOWN — Virginia isn’t expected to be competitive in next year’s presidential election. But don’t let a sleepy presidential cycle fool you — next week’s legislative races are some of the hottest contests since President Joe Biden took office. All 140 seats across the two legislative chambers are up for grabs on Tuesday, and both Democrats and Republicans in Virginia believe they have a path to complete control of the state legislature. There’s roughly a dozen-and-a-half battleground seats between the state House and Senate, and the demographics of many of them mirror where 2024 will be fought: Swingy, suburban districts that have raced away from former President Donald Trump. What makes these Virginia districts interesting is that they’ve shown they could still vote Republican. GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin improved on Trump’s margins in basically every key district identified by the Virginia Public Access Project and outright won many of them, en route to his upset win of the governorship two years ago. Should Republicans pull off the sweep Tuesday night, they’ll have complete control of state government in a commonwealth that is fairly reliably blue on the federal level. Virginia’s off-year elections are often seen as the best bellwether ahead of the following year’s federal elections. And that’s for good reason: Both parties are testing out messages that we will almost assuredly see on a much grander scale next year. For Democrats, it has been another campaign focused on abortion rights. Democratic television ads mentioned abortion about 2.5 times more frequently than the party’s second most talked about issue, education, according to data from the advertising tracking firm AdImpact. The big difference this time is that Republicans are punching back — rather than ignoring — the issue that sank them during the midterms. Youngkin’s political operation has spearheaded a push for Republicans in the state to rally around a 15-week ban, with exemptions for rape and incest, launching a seven-figure ad campaign promoting it and calling Democrats the real extremists. Democrats shoot back that the 15-week proposal — which is more strict than the state’s current law — is really a Trojan horse for even harsher limits down the road. The messaging, Youngkin’s top aides told me and my colleague Steven Shepard last month , is not intended for Republicans to suddenly win on abortion, but to neutralize the issue. And abortion still isn’t their top issue: The bread and butter of GOP advertising remains crime and public safety in the state. Tuesday’s contests here — and in other big statewide races like Kentucky — will also stress test how much Biden’s low approval ratings actually hurt Democrats at the ballot box. Since the end of Roe, the answer has been not particularly: Democrats overperformed in the midterms and ran well ahead of Biden in a series of special elections over the last year. Biden is unpopular in Virginia; In a mid-October survey from The Washington Post/Schar School , just 43 percent of registered Virginia voters approved of the job Biden was doing, and 55 percent disapproved. But there also hasn’t been much of “Biden as the boogeyman” advertising in Virginia, a contrast to what we’re seeing in the much redder Kentucky, where Republicans are relentlessly trying to nationalize the governor race there ahead of Tuesday. But should Democrats lose on Tuesday in Virginia, it would still be an ominous sign for Biden — and the Democratic Party more broadly — for 2024. And there’s one more, ahem, 2024 elephant in the room: The push by some Republican donors to get Youngkin to launch a white knight presidential campaign in an effort to stop Trump in the primary. Setting the almost logistically infeasible move aside for a moment, the braying for Youngkin from a vocal but apparent minority of the GOP makes sense. Here’s a guy who has shown he can win in a blue-ish state, who has connections to donors (and the personal wealth) to run a huge campaign, and has demonstrated raw political talent. Youngkin has given the same answer for the last year-plus when asked about the presidency: He’s humbled, but he’s focused on Virginia’s legislative elections. You don’t have to squint too hardly to see how that’s not a no. But he’s also been disciplined about not really straying from that answer — so much so that when I joined Youngkin on the trail two weeks ago at a rally in a suburban office park parking lot outside of Richmond, none of the assembled press bothered to even ask about his aspirations for the other side of the Potomac, lest we waste our valuable gaggle time. But by this time next week, that excuse will be gone. And Youngkin will either be robbed of a political mandate by a Democratic win (or a split decision) — or the begging and pleading for him to get into the race from donors desperately looking for a savior will only grow. Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com . Or contact tonight’s author at zmontellaro@politico.com or on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @ZachMontellaro .   CONGRESS INSIDER: Congress has always been the cornerstone of POLITICO’s Washington coverage, and now we’re doubling down to ensure you have a complete picture of everything happening under the Capitol Dome, 24/7. Begin your day with Playbook AM, recharge at midday with our Playbook PM halftime report, and empower your evening convos with Huddle. Also, stay continuously updated with buzzy, real-time updates throughout the day via our new Inside Congress Live feature. Learn more and subscribe here.   WHAT'D I MISS? — Trump’s lawyers in fraud trial step up their gripes about judge’s clerk: A long-simmering spat between Donald Trump’s lawyers and the judge overseeing Trump’s ongoing civil fraud trial flared up again today when they engaged in nearly 30 minutes of debate about the judge’s principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield , who has been a target of the former president since the start of the trial. On Thursday, the judge accused Trump lawyer Chris Kise of possibly misogyny after Kise made a passing reference to Greenfield. That also prompted the judge to threaten to broaden his gag order. At the beginning of court proceedings today, Kise continued to seize on Greenfield, suggesting she has shown “demonstrable bias or at least the appearance of that,” citing a news story he eventually disclosed was from the right-wing online outlet Breitbart, drawing audible groans in the courtroom. — Santos says he’d run again if expelled: Expulsion wouldn’t derail Rep. George Santos. The Long Island Republican, facing federal fraud charges, signaled he will run again for his House seat next year if lawmakers successfully expel him from office . Santos pointed to his own victory last year for a House district won by President Joe Biden in 2020 as a sign of his political strength. “Could I have won the general election last time? Nobody said I could. But I survived,” Santos told CNN in an interview set to air Sunday. — Former Trump State Department official sentenced to 70 months for Jan. 6 assaults: A former Trump administration State Department official has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for joining the violent Jan. 6 mob that pummeled police officers in the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace tunnel . Federico Klein, a Trump-appointed official involved in U.S. foreign policy toward South America until Trump left office, was seen on video pushing against beleaguered and outnumbered officers during an hours long confrontation that was among the most violent episodes of the day. His sentence closes one of the earliest chapters in the investigation of the Jan. 6 attack, beginning with his arrest in March 2021. NIGHTLY ROAD TO 2024 CASH INFUSION — One of Mike Pence’s biggest donors is shifting his support to Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign after the former vice president suspended his 2024 run last week, reports POLITICO’s Meredith McGraw. The move is the latest among top Republican donors to Haley’s campaign, as the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador rises in the GOP primary. Investor Keith Rabois, a Florida-based venture capitalist, Texas-based real estate developer Harlan Crow and Fidelis Realty Partners co-founder Lynn Davis, have all recently hosted fundraisers for Haley. And this month, former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn is hosting a fundraiser for her in New York. CHARM OFFENSIVE — Former President Donald Trump is wooing Florida Republicans before and after this weekend’s big Republican gathering in Central Florida — his latest move to undercut Ron DeSantis in the governor’s own state, reports POLITICO’s Kimberly Leonard. DeSantis and Trump will join other GOP presidential candidates and top Florida Republicans speaking at the state GOP’s Freedom Summit in Kissimmee Saturday. Trump, who’s still dominating the polls in early states and nationally, will close out the event while DeSantis will deliver a speech earlier in the day. Trump’s team in recent days has been trying to shore up support among the Sunshine State’s key Republicans. He sent invitations to local party leaders to join him at a rally in Hialeah scheduled for Nov. 8 — the same day as the Republican debate next week in Miami that he refused to attend. To entice the invitees, Trump is offering them “special guest seating” and “expedited entry” to the rally, which will be held at a stadium, and attendees can bring a guest to the event in Hialeah, a Hispanic-majority Miami neighborhood, according to an invitation viewed by POLITICO. The passes will give guests a way to skip long lines and offer better seating at the event. AROUND THE WORLD President Joe Biden listens on as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reads a statement before their meeting in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images OFFER SNUBBED — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s calls for a humanitarian pause shortly after the latter’s press conference today, saying Israel will continue to bombard the Gaza Strip with “all of its power,” writes Matt Berg . Blinken told reporters in Israel that during a meeting with Netanyahu earlier that day, he urged Israel to pursue a pause in fighting and gave advice about how to minimize Palestinian civilian deaths while targeting Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu soon after said, during his own press conference, that Israel “refuses a temporary cease-fire that doesn’t include a return of our hostages.” Over 200 hostages were taken by Hamas following the militant group’s surprise attack on Israeli soil on Oct. 7 that killed 1,400 people. It’s the latest sign of stark disagreement between the two allies, as the Biden administration has in recent weeks called for restraint from Israel as it continues a massive airstrike campaign on the Gaza Strip. Over 9,000 Palestinians have been killed over the last month, and more than half of Gaza residents have been displaced from their homes. Blinken said a humanitarian pause is needed to ensure that aid can be delivered to the territory and that the 2.3 million civilians in the Gaza Strip can find safety. During a Wednesday campaign speech, President Joe Biden said “I think we need a pause” after the event was interrupted by a protester. PRESSURE COOKER — President Joe Biden is facing growing pressure from fellow Democrats and foreign allies to flesh out an economic partnership with Latin America that the White House has promised will tackle immigration, regional trade and China’s efforts to expand its influence in the region, writes Ari Hawkins . That was on display in Washington today, as Biden hosted leaders from the Western Hemisphere to discuss the pact, which he first rolled out in June 2022. It was supposed to respond to Latin American leaders’ calls for more trade and investment opportunities with the U.S. But the lack of detail and shifting format of the agreement are drawing criticism from lawmakers and skepticism from regional leaders. The White House’s efforts to tie the agreement to its own domestic agenda — suggesting better economic integration in the region will help address the root causes of migration from the South — are likely only to deepen Latin American negotiators’ concerns that what was supposed to be an economic package for the region is getting hijacked by U.S. election politics. All the while, China continues to expand its economic reach in the hemisphere. NIGHTLY NUMBER 150,000 The number of jobs that U.S. employers added in October , a modest number that’s still a sign that the labor market remains resilient despite economic uncertainties and high interest rates that have made borrowing much costlier for companies and consumers. RADAR SWEEP YESTERDAY, A NEW AI-SONG TO PLAY — The first AI-generated Beatles song — and presumably the last song to feature all four Beatles members — has officially dropped. The four minute song, titled “Now and Then,” was released yesterday, with an accompanying music video released today. The song was considered lost, but with AI technology created during the Beatles “Get Back” docuseries, director Peter Jackson was able to salvage the song from a demo recording. Read more from WIRED’s Angela Watercutter on the new (yet old) Beatles song and the AI-saved songs to come. PARTING IMAGE On this date in 1993: The funeral of Italian film director Federico Fellini takes place in Rome, Italy. Thousands of Romans paid tribute to the movie director, who died in Rome on October 31, after two weeks in a coma. Fellini was buried in his home town of Rimini. | Roberto Mezzetti/AP Did someone forward this email to you?  Sign up here .   Follow us on Twitter Charlie Mahtesian @PoliticoCharlie Calder McHugh @calder_mchugh   FOLLOW US

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What Is Happening With Mike Johnson’s Money? A new report reveals House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t have a single bank account. So where the hell is his money?

 What Is Happening With Mike Johnson’s Money?

A new report reveals House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t have a single bank account. So where the hell is his money?


https://newrepublic.com/post/176550/where-mike-johnson-money-bank-account


What’s Up With Mike Johnson’s Very Shady-Seeming Financial Disclosures?

What’s Up With Mike Johnson’s Very Shady-Seeming Financial Disclosures?

The new House leader lists no bank accounts, including checking or savings, on financial disclosure forms going back to 2016.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/mike-johnson-financial-disclosures

This has more details.

New Speaker Mike Johnson: no assets, lots of debt

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-speaker-mike-johnson-no-assets-lots-of-debt/ar-AA1iQkc6

November 3, 2023 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

 

November 3, 2023 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON NOV 4 Today, Representative Ryan Zinke (R-MT), who was former president Trump’s Interior Secretary until he left under accusations of misconduct, introduced a bill to ban Palestinians from the United States and to revoke any visas issued to Palestinians since October 1 of this year. Although the U.S. has resettled only about 2,000 Palestinians in the last 20 years, ten other far-right members of the House signed onto Zinke’s bill, which draws no distinction between Hamas and Palestinian civilians. This blanket attack on a vulnerable population echoes Trump’s travel ban of January 27, 2017, just a week after he took office. Executive Order 13769 stopped travel from primarily Muslim countries—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—for ninety days. The list of countries appeared random—Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, countries from which terrorists have sometimes come directly to the U.S., weren’t on the list—and appeared to fulfill a campaign promise and assert a new view of executive power. Insisting that immigrants endanger the country is a key tactic of authoritarians. Excluding them is a central principle of those eager to tear down democracy: they insist that immigration destroys a nation’s traditions and undermines native-born Americans. With tensions in the nation mounting over the crisis in the Middle East, this measure, introduced now with inflammatory language, seems designed to whip up violence.  Representative Greg Landsman (D-OH) called out his Republican colleagues on social media. “Un-American and definitely NOT in the Bible, [Speaker Johnson],” he wrote. “You going to tell them to pull this bill?” But, far from trying to work across the aisle, Johnson has been throwing red meat to his base. In the last two days, for example, the House has voted to slash 39% of the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and 13% of the budget of the National Park Service. It voted to require the Biden administration to advance oil drilling off the Alaska coast. It has voted on reducing the salary of the EPA administrator, the director of the Bureau of Land Management, and the Secretary of the Interior to $1 each. Yesterday, Johnson told reporters he considers extremists Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) close friends and said “I don’t disagree with them on many issues and principles.” To direct his communications team, Johnson has tapped Raj Shah, a former executive from the Fox News Corporation, who was a key player in promoting the lie that Trump won the 2020 presidential election. As the head of the “Brand Protection Unit,” Shah demanded that the Fox News Channel continue to lie to viewers who would leave the station if it told the truth. Johnson has hired Shah to be his deputy chief of staff for communications and, according to Alex Isenstadt of Politico, “help run messaging for House Republicans.”  The extremists are doubling down on Trump and his election lies even as his allies are admitting in court that they are, indeed, lies. Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows is in trouble with the publisher of his memoir after admitting that under oath that the election had been fair. The publisher is suing him for millions in damages for basing his book on the idea that the election had been stolen and representing that “all statements contained in the Work are true.”  The publisher says it has pulled the book off the market.  House extremists continue to back Trump even as he is openly calling for an authoritarian second term. In September, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley had to take “appropriate measures” for his own security after Trump accused him of disloyalty to him, personally, and suggested that in the past, such “treason” would have been punished with death.  On Wednesday, Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage, and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times reported that Trump was frustrated in his first term by lawyers who refused to go along with his wishes, trying to stay within the law, so Trump's allies are making lists of lawyers they believe would be “more aggressive” on issues of immigration, taking over the Department of Justice, and overturning elections.  They are looking, they say, for “a different type of lawyer” than those supported by the right-wing Federalist Society, one “willing to endure the personal and professional risks of association with Mr. Trump” and “to use theories that more establishment lawyers would reject to advance his cause.”  John Mitnick, who served in Trump’s first term, told the reporters that “no qualified attorneys with integrity will have any desire to serve as political appointees” in a second Trump term. Instead, the lawyers in a second term would be “opportunists who will rubber-stamp whatever Trump and his senior White House staff want to do.”  Trump has also made it clear he and his allies want to gut the nonpartisan civil service and fill tens of thousands of government positions with his own loyalists. Led by Russell Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, Trump’s allies believe that agencies like the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission should not be independent but should push the president’s agenda.  This week, Trump vowed to take over higher education too. In a campaign video, he promised to tax private universities with large endowments to fund a new institution called “American Academy.” The school, which would be online only, would award free degrees and funnel students into jobs with the U.S. government and federal contractors. “We spend more money on higher education than any other country, and yet they’re turning our students into communists and terrorists and sympathizers of many, many different dimensions,” Trump said. “We can’t let this happen.” In his university, “wokeness or jihadism” would not be allowed, he said. In admirable understatement, Politico’s Meridith McGraw and Michael Stratford noted: “Using the federal government to create an entirely new educational institution aimed at competing with the thousands of existing schools would drastically reshape American higher education.” Trump has made no secret of his future plans for the United States of America.  Meanwhile, Republicans appear determined to push their agenda over the wishes of voters. In Ohio, where voters on Tuesday will decide whether to amend the state constitution to make it a constitutional right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” Republicans first tried to make it harder to amend the state constitution, and then, when voters rejected that attempt, the Republican-dominated state senate began to use an official government website to spread narratives about the constitutional amendment that legal and medical experts called false or misleading.  Adding reproductive health protections to the state constitution is popular, but In an unusual move, the Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose, quietly purged more than 26,000 voters from the rolls in late September. LaRose is a staunch opponent of the constitutional amendment and is himself running for a seat in the U.S. Senate.  In Virginia, where Republicans are hoping to take control of the state legislature to pass new abortion restrictions as well as the rest of Republican governor Glenn Youngkin’s agenda, a study by the Democratic Party of Virginia shows that officials are flagging the mail-in ballots of non-white voters for rejection much more frequently than those of white voters. As of today, 4.82% of ballots cast by Black voters have gotten flagged, while only 2.79% of the ballots of white voters have been flagged. In Richmond, The Guardian’s Sam Levine reported, city officials flagged more than 11% of ballots returned by Black voters but only about 5.5% of ballots cast by white voters. After the ballots are fixed, or cured, the rate of rejection for Black voters remains more than twice as high as that of white voters.  Virginia officials also reported last week that they had accidentally removed more than 3,400 eligible voters from the rolls. — Notes: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081180054/ryan-zinke-interior-investigation-ig-report https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/02/01/2017-02281/protecting-the-nation-from-foreign-terrorist-entry-into-the-united-states https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ryan-zinke-republicans-expel-palestinians_n_65454496e4b01b258583b5de https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases/zinke-introduces-bill-expel-palestinians-united-states https://apnews.com/article/election-2023-ohio-abortion-amendment-misinformation-6b870f06abe5d70e8aa0a535b2e9dd1a https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Issue_1,_Right_to_Make_Reproductive_Decisions_Including_Abortion_Initiative_(2023) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/03/ohio-republican-election-secretary-of-state-voter-purge https://www.bw.edu/news/2023/fall/10-bw-ohio-pulse-poll-shows-ohio-voters-favor-issues-1-and-2 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/03/virginia-election-mail-in-ballots-democrats https://apnews.com/article/virginia-election-state-legislature-what-to-watch-f5901d85cec6081d6c0409321a908d63 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/01/youngkin-virginia-election-voters-removed https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4291864-house-gop-approves-cutting-epa-budget-by-nearly-40-percent/ https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/raj-shah-fox-exec-exposed-dominion-lawsuit-lead-house-gop-comms https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/31/congress/johnsons-comms-hire-00124592 https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-meadows-publisher-sues-for-millions-over-election-lies-in-book https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-trump-flip-book-election-fraud-claims-lawsuit-2023-11 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/us/politics/trump-2025-lawyers.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-milley-60-minutes-trump-treason-1.6980752 https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/30/us/palestinian-refugees-gaza-war-cec/index.html https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1192432628/conservatives-mull-how-2nd-trump-presidency-could-reshape-the-federal-government https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/01/trump-free-online-university-00124905 Twitter (X): RepGregLandsman/status/1720608841144967407 RepGregLandsmankl/status/1720621459926597653 MeidasTouch/status/1720207570571497948 atrupar/status/1720085524042686582 tedlieu/status/1720266896254148679 Mediaite/status/1720545948533653832