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Marjorie Taylor Greene Explores Motion to Vacate Johnson Over ACA Dispute and Leadership Failures

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was reportedly working in mid-December 2025 to gauge Republican support for a motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson from the speakership, seeking the nine Republican co-signers now required under new House rules to trigger such a vote. The reported effort represents what …

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ACA Subsidies Discharge Petition Reaches 218 Signatures as Four Republicans Defy Leadership

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Four House Republicans—Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Mike Lawler (NY), Rob Bresnahan (PA), and Ryan Mackenzie (PA)—signed onto a Democratic-led discharge petition on December 17, 2025, bringing the total to 218 signatures and forcing a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years. The …

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Resignation from Congress After Trump Feud Over Epstein Files

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday, November 21, 2025, that she would resign from Congress effective January 5, 2026, following a bitter public falling out with President Donald Trump over her advocacy for releasing full Jeffrey Epstein investigation files. The announcement came one …

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Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History at Day 36

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The Trump administration’s government shutdown reached its 36th day on November 5, 2025, officially surpassing the previous record of 35 days set during the December 2018-January 2019 shutdown under Trump’s first term. Over 1 million federal employees continued working without paychecks, …

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Trump Posts AI Video Dumping Feces on 7 Million "No Kings" Protesters, Defended by Johnson and Vance as "Satire"

| Importance: 9/10

On the evening of October 18, 2025—the same day approximately seven million people participated in “No Kings” protests across 2,700 events in all 50 states—President Donald Trump posted a 19-second AI-generated video to Truth Social showing himself wearing a crown, piloting a fighter jet …

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Trump Calls Own Supporters "Weaklings" and "Selfish People" After Demanding Epstein File Transparency

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On July 12, 2025, five days after the Department of Justice released a memo stating no Jeffrey Epstein “client list” existed—contradicting Attorney General Pam Bondi’s February claim that the list was “sitting on my desk”—President Donald Trump attacked his own …

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