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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The campaign of Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase, a Republican seeking her party’s nomination for governor, spent hundreds of dollars in campaign funds for a Washington hotel stay and parking the night after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.Chase appears to have used the funds, at least in part, to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally earlier in the day when then-President encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol in protest of an election that he and Chase claimed was stolen.AdvertisementChase, who...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The campaign of Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase, a Republican seeking her party’s nomination for governor, spent hundreds of dollars in campaign funds for a Washington hotel stay and parking the night after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.Chase appears to have used the funds, at least in part, to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally earlier in the day when then-President encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol in protest of an election that he and Chase claimed was stolen.AdvertisementChase, who...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.Virginia Lt. Gov. (D) compared himself to George Floyd and Emmett Till, a teenage victim of lynching in the Jim Crow South, during Virginia’s live Democratic gubernatorial primary debate on Tuesday night.Responding to a question about how to address racism in policing following the police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis last May, Fairfax argued that his political rivals had subjected him to the same racist refusal to grant Black men due process that Floyd and Till died from.AdvertisementTwo women Fairfax of...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.Virginia Lt. Gov. (D) compared himself to George Floyd and Emmett Till, a teenage victim of lynching in the Jim Crow South, during Virginia’s live Democratic gubernatorial primary debate on Tuesday night.Responding to a question about how to address racism in policing following the police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis last May, Fairfax argued that his political rivals had subjected him to the same racist refusal to grant Black men due process that Floyd and Till died from.AdvertisementTwo women Fairfax of...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementMeredith Wisner, chair of the Rockland County Working Families Party, a progressive group, said Cuomo’s “personal animosity towards Ed Day” is “the only logical explanation” for the lack of a state-run mass vaccination site in the county.And New York Assemblyman Mike Lawler, a Republican who represents Rockland County in the state legislature, offered a similar assessment.Advertisement“We’re an incredibly diverse county that deserves a mass vaccination site and it appears as if the...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementMeredith Wisner, chair of the Rockland County Working Families Party, a progressive group, said Cuomo’s “personal animosity towards Ed Day” is “the only logical explanation” for the lack of a state-run mass vaccination site in the county.And New York Assemblyman Mike Lawler, a Republican who represents Rockland County in the state legislature, offered a similar assessment.Advertisement“We’re an incredibly diverse county that deserves a mass vaccination site and it appears as if the...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“To him, it was a political ploy, a political game and he controlled every part of it.”- Cecilia Tkaczyk, former New York state senatorDemocrats in the legislature had long wanted to enshrine federal abortion rights into state law and pass other feminist legislation. But Republican control of the state Senate continually stopped them ― and Cuomo seemed, at best, noncommittal about helping Democrats retake the state Senate.In 2012, Cuomo allowed...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“To him, it was a political ploy, a political game and he controlled every part of it.”- Cecilia Tkaczyk, former New York state senatorDemocrats in the legislature had long wanted to enshrine federal abortion rights into state law and pass other feminist legislation. But Republican control of the state Senate continually stopped them ― and Cuomo seemed, at best, noncommittal about helping Democrats retake the state Senate.In 2012, Cuomo allowed...WW…

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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×A growing bipartisan backlash is emerging against the possibility that Congress would lower the income eligibility for proposed $1,400 , reducing or eliminating benefits for many middle-class households.Like previous relief payments, President ’s would begin phasing out cash payments for individuals earning more than $75,000 a year and married couples earning $150,000 a year. AdvertisementBut the White House and several Democratic lawmakers have to lowering the income threshold for the drawdown of benefits to...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×A growing bipartisan backlash is emerging against the possibility that Congress would lower the income eligibility for proposed $1,400 , reducing or eliminating benefits for many middle-class households.Like previous relief payments, President ’s would begin phasing out cash payments for individuals earning more than $75,000 a year and married couples earning $150,000 a year. AdvertisementBut the White House and several Democratic lawmakers have to lowering the income threshold for the drawdown of benefits to...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisement“This is a test of principle over partisanship, and Democrats are woefully failing it.”- Glenn GreenwaldTwenty House Democrats to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) in October 2019 to warn that they would withhold support for the reauthorization of absent major reforms. That section provided the supposed legal justification for the first and most prominent mass surveillance program that Snowden uncovered with his 2013 leaks: the NSA’s collection of virtually...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisement“This is a test of principle over partisanship, and Democrats are woefully failing it.”- Glenn GreenwaldTwenty House Democrats to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) in October 2019 to warn that they would withhold support for the reauthorization of absent major reforms. That section provided the supposed legal justification for the first and most prominent mass surveillance program that Snowden uncovered with his 2013 leaks: the NSA’s collection of virtually...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The rumored prospect of a Cabinet seat for former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is threatening President-elect ’s fragile peace with the left flank of his party.So far, Biden, who had clinched the Democratic nomination by proudly defying pressure from his left, has managed to strike a balance with his personnel choices, eliciting praise and more than a few sighs of relief from progressives. AdvertisementProgressives have applauded his pick of Janet Yellen for treasury secretary. Progressive Sens. of Massachusetts...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The rumored prospect of a Cabinet seat for former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is threatening President-elect ’s fragile peace with the left flank of his party.So far, Biden, who had clinched the Democratic nomination by proudly defying pressure from his left, has managed to strike a balance with his personnel choices, eliciting praise and more than a few sighs of relief from progressives. AdvertisementProgressives have applauded his pick of Janet Yellen for treasury secretary. Progressive Sens. of Massachusetts...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“Even when we don't win every race, we believe it's really important to be recruiting, investing early and helping our progressive candidates in races across the country run strong races.”- Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.)“Even when we don’t win every race, we believe it’s really important to be recruiting, investing early and helping our progressive candidates in races across the country run strong races,” Jayapal said.Due to retirements, Cabinet appointments,...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“Even when we don't win every race, we believe it's really important to be recruiting, investing early and helping our progressive candidates in races across the country run strong races.”- Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.)“Even when we don’t win every race, we believe it’s really important to be recruiting, investing early and helping our progressive candidates in races across the country run strong races,” Jayapal said.Due to retirements, Cabinet appointments,...WW…