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Russell Payne is a staff reporter for Salon. His reporting has previously appeared in The New York Sun and the Finger Lakes Times.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) (C) speaks during a news conference after the House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Economists say the GOP budget would destroy Medicaid and “disproportionately benefit the 1%”

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People hold signs as they gather for a "Save the Civil Service" rally hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) outside the U.S. Capitol on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Unions sue to keep Musk’s “unqualified flunkies” out of Americans’ personal data

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Donald Trump | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“It isn’t an accident that we’re here now”: How the Supreme Court encouraged Trump to defy the law

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GOP judge Jefferson Griffin appeals North Carolina court decision that upheld his November loss

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Attorney Allison Riggs, with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, speaks to the press in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on December 7, 2022, after presenting her argument before the court in Moore v. Harper. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Republicans’ “baseless attempts” to overturn a loss in North Carolina could drag on for months

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An electric vehicle (EV) charges via a CCS DC fast charger from Electrify America at a shopping mall parking lot in Torrance, California, on February 23, 2024. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump refuses to disperse EV transportation funds, deepening concern over constitutional crisis

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US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on February 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Judge rejects Trump’s claims about birthright citizenship, says “no court” has ever endorsed them

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Elon Musk and the seal of the president of the United States (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

“What’s the point of having Congress?”: Even some conservatives now say it’s a constitutional crisis

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U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) speaks at a press conference outside of USAID headquarters on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Musk’s buyout scheme for federal employees is an “illegal scam,” Democrats charge

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US President Donald Trump speaks about the mid-air crash between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

“Fear of hunger”: Trump’s illegal effort to revoke birthright citizenship could burden new parents

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Elon musk and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Time for it to die”: Musk takes over USAID in bid to destroy the agency with Trump’s “full support”

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Tesla Founder Elon Musk walks on stage with his son, X, beside President-elect Donald Trump during a rally at Capital One Arena in Washington, on January 19, 2025. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Democrats want Trump to reveal who he’s giving security clearances to without background checks

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Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler speaks before Vice President Kamala Harris' visit at the Resch Expo in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, on Thursday, October 17, 2024. (Joel Angel Juarez for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“Are we on the side of our donors?”: DNC race puts spotlight on money and “good billionaires”

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) signs the Laken Riley Act during an enrollment ceremony with members of the Georgia delegation in the Speaker's ceremonial office at the U.S. Capitol on January 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Republican plans to cut Medicaid could cost 22 million Americans their health care

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The Heritage Foundation flag flies over the building on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Right-wing activists appear to be writing memos for the Trump White House

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U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive orders after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Boggles my mind”: Experts think Trump’s “blatantly unconstitutional” order has a chance with SCOTUS

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President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders at the White House on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“Excluding Indians”: Trump admin questions Native Americans’ birthright citizenship in court

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In this Feb. 9, 2017, photo provided U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE agents at a home in Atlanta, during a targeted enforcement operation aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens. The Homeland Security Department said Feb. 13, that 680 people were arrested in roundups last week targeting immigrants living illegally in the United States. (Bryan Cox/ICE via AP) (AP)

DOJ is trying to “scare” local Democrats into carrying out Trump’s mass deportations

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President Donald Trump signs an executive order for pardons on January 6 offenders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

“Violence will be rewarded”: Legal experts say Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons send a clear signal

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Ken Martin, the chair of the Minnesota DFL party introduces Amy Klobuchar to the people attending the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party (DFL) election watch party held at the InterContinental Hotel in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States on November 05, 2024. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Who’s Ken Martin? Supporters say the Minnesota Democrat and would-be DNC chair is ready for battle

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill on January 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Trump “will be in charge of the border,” Kristi Noem says at Senate confirmation hearing

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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bondi says she will rely “on the facts and the law” when deciding whether to prosecute Trump critics

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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Not familiar”: Pam Bondi claims ignorance of Trump’s remarks on January 6 rioters

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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bondi backs Kash Patel to head the FBI but insists she won’t have her own “enemies list” at DOJ

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