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Conservatives' ire over stopgap spending presages budget wars to come - Roll Call

GOP pushback against a stopgap funding bill is a political headache for party leaders, and could point to fiscal brinkmanship next year.

Roll Call

Rightwingers threaten legal action on Biden’s student loan debt relief

Republicans say they will seek to oppose the student loan forgiveness in the courts and are making it a key talking point in the midterm elections

The Guardian - US

“It needs to stop”: Mass shooting sparks a wave of political activism in Uvalde

The father of one shooting victim has launched a write-in campaign for county commissioner. Other parents have traveled to Austin and Washington, D.C., to pressure elected officials to support stricter gun laws.

The Texas Tribune

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Ted Cruz unfazed by Uvalde parents' plea

The senator declined and instead said “he supports increasing law enforcement presence on school campuses"

Salon

Parents of Uvalde shooting victim urge Ted Cruz to support gun control, to no avail

The senator declined and instead said “he supports increasing law enforcement presence on school campuses.”

The Texas Tribune

NRA-backed Ted Cruz blasted for speech declaring ‘there have been too many mass shootings’

There has been a number of mass shootings in Texas in recent years

The Independent UK

Gov. Greg Abbott demands Biden pull his student loan relief plan

The governor joined 21 other Republicans in denouncing the president’s plan as harming Americans who didn’t go to college.

The Texas Tribune

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Taxes won’t immediately rise from Biden student loan plan as GOP argues, experts say

WASHINGTON — Texas Republican lawmakers have been quick to attack President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan as a heavy burden for taxpayers. However, the arguments used don’t give the full picture of the situation faced by millions of families now sorting out how the forgiveness program impacts them.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Sen. Cruz inserts a poison pill into an important bill to help journalism

The Journalism Competition and Protection Act is designed to rebalance the terribly tilted scales in America’s information economy. It would create a four-year safe harbor from antitrust laws for news organizations — newspapers, websites, TV and radio stations, no matter which way they tilt politically — to come together and…

Tribune News Service

Ted Cruz: Republicans are "lying" or "idiotic" if they dismiss Trump for 2024

"The whole world will change depending on what Donald Trump decides. That’s true for every candidate. That’s true of every potential candidate."

Axios

Hillary Clinton throws shade at Ted Cruz branding him ‘the eternal blowhard’

The Texas senator fired back at the former secretary of state on social media, posting an old video clip of her

The Independent UK

How did Republican fearmongering about an IRS ‘shadow army’ go mainstream?

The party has embraced a precise brand of anti-government rhetoric, with the agency the latest target – and it’s drawing on an old playbook

The Guardian - US

Ted Cruz mocked for strange rant about ‘queer pet literature’

One social media user quipped: “Sign me the f*** up!”

The Independent UK

Ted Cruz won’t support bipartisan same-sex marriage legislation

Mr Cruz says the bill lacks protections for “religious liberty” but two of its’ co-sponsors say that is not true

The Independent UK

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Salon

Omar takes aim at "weasel" Ted Cruz

Omar blasts Cruz over GOP plan to kill student debt relief

The Texas Tribune

Ted Cruz says he will vote against bill to codify same-sex marriage protections

On an episode of his podcast Tuesday, the U.S. senator said the bill would be an attack on religious liberties.

Tribune News Service

White House press secretary rebuffs Sen. Ted Cruz's invitation to see for herself migrants walking across border

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre rebuffed Sen. Ted Cruz’s invitation to visit the U.S.-Mexico border with him to witness migrants walking across — a familiar sight for news viewers that Jean-Pierre adamantly denied takes place.

The Guardian - US

Enabling a demagogue: a new film traces Republicans’ capitulation to Donald Trump

Michael Kirk’s documentary Lies, Politics and Democracy is a chilling study in how Trump subdued the Republican party

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The Independent UK

Ted Cruz says Democrats ‘crap in the coffee cup of baristas’ days after branding them slackers

The right-wing senator has attacked Joe Biden’s plan to reduce student debt for millions of Americans

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: No, Tucker Carlson, armed IRS agents won't be coming for Amercans' money

My dad was an armed IRS agent, gun-toting for good reason. He helped bust mob figures across northern Ohio for tax evasion, from Toledo to Youngstown. He died too young (of natural causes), and his public service is among my best memories.

The Texas Tribune

Beto O’Rourke confronts a formidable GOP firewall as he woos rural Texans

Despite its dwindling population, rural Texas has consistently helped protect GOP dominance in statewide races, even as Democratic support grows in the state’s populous metro centers and suburbs.

Tribune News Service

Baristas steamed at Ted Cruz depiction as pothead slackers eager for handouts

Jacqueline Farias has spent the last five years as a barista at Merit Coffee in Highland Park while working her way through Texas Woman’s University.

The Independent UK

Republicans notably silent, split as Trump probe deepens

At first, Republicans were highly critical of the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate

Tribune News Service

What a fish fry, a Democratic bash and Ted Cruz tell us about Georgia politics

ATLANTA — In a series of fiery speeches at the party's convention in Columbus, Stacey Abrams and other Georgia Democrats pledged to complete their "unfinished business" this midterm by flipping other top state offices.

Benzinga

Sanders Claps Back At Ted Cruz For Telling 'Slackers To Get Off The Bong' And Vote

Senator Ted Cruz has a message for the working class. "If you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college studying completely useless things, now has loans, and can't get a job, Joe Biden just gave you 20 grand," the Texas Republican said in the latest episode of…

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