Mona

@Monaheart1229

Political Writer, reaching for an MSW, mostly politics these days... Personal account. Opinions are my own.

Kent, CT
Joined August 2015

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  1. 1 hour ago

    As said yesterday, "Know your 'why', understand it..." And embrace it! Be not afraid of power, and do not let the OWG's fear hold you back. Pelosi said, "Don't bother yourself with that.." And she was right!

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    We know he is full of shit. What's wrong with everyone else? If you're over 18 and you've never said 'fuck' it's about time.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    48-"detention from April 19 to Sept. 30 of last year. That’s a small fraction of the 107,000 families apprehended in the last budget year, which ended Sept. 30." ~APNews, 1/5/19

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  4. 2 hours ago

    47-"falsely claim to be theirs, so that they won’t be detained under a no-child-separation policy. But such cases of fraud are rare. According to the Homeland Security Department, about 500 immigrants were found to be not a “legitimate family unit” and thus separated upon

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  5. 2 hours ago

    46-"This has been going on for years. This isn’t unique to us. But we want to stop it.” — Cabinet meeting Wednesday. THE FACTS: This does happen, though it’s not as common as Trump suggests by talking about it so often. He is referring to adults who come with children they

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  6. 2 hours ago

    45-"weakening U.S. economy. TRUMP: “The coyotes are using children to gain access into this country. They’re using these children. They’re not with families. They’re using the children. They’re taking the children. And then they dispose of the children after they’re done.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    44-"and 22 million, significantly lower than Trump’s claim of 35 million. According to Pew, the number of immigrants in the U.S. illegally had reached a height of 12.2 million in 2007, representing about 4 percent of the U.S. population, before declining in part because of a

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  8. 2 hours ago

    43-"the U.S. illegally in 2016, the most recent data available. Advocacy groups on both sides of the immigration issue have similar estimates. At a House hearing last month, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen acknowledged the number was “somewhere” between 11 million

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  9. 2 hours ago

    42-"anything about it.” — Cabinet meeting Wednesday. THE FACTS: It’s nowhere close to 30 million to 35 million, according to his own Homeland Security secretary as well as independent estimates. The nonpartisan Pew Research Center estimates there were 10.7 million immigrants in

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  10. 2 hours ago

    41-"all the time. It would always stay right at 11. I said, ‘Does it ever increase or go down?’ ‘No, it’s 11.’ Nobody knows. It’s probably 30, 35 million people. They would flow in, mostly from the southern border, they’d come in and nobody would talk about it, nobody would do

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  11. 2 hours ago

    40-"of January, prices have increased on more than 250 different products,” said Michael Rea, CEO of Rx Savings Solutions. The average increase is about 6 percent, he added. IMMIGRATION: TRUMP, on the number of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally: “I used to hear 11 million

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  12. 2 hours ago

    39-"price increases this month. Separately, a data firm whose software can help patients find the most cost-effective medications says its information shows price increases on many commonly used drugs for conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes. “In the first two days

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  13. 2 hours ago

    38-"1,179 product price changes. Of those, 30 were price cuts and the remaining 1,149 were price increases, with 328 of them between 9 percent and 10 percent. All but one of the rest were by lower percentages. Elsevier spokesman Chris Capot said more companies will be announcing

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  14. 2 hours ago

    37-"Prices continue to rise. Administration policies announced last year and currently being completed don’t seem to have shifted that trend. Figures on U.S. prescription drug price changes compiled by health data company Elsevier show that from Dec. 20 through Jan. 2, there were

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  15. 2 hours ago

    36-"commander of the military’s Central Command. He departed a few months earlier than expected in 2013, in part because of disagreements over Iran. DRUG PRICES: TRUMP: “I think you’re going to see a tremendous reduction in drug prices.” — Cabinet meeting Wednesday. THE FACTS:

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  16. 2 hours ago

    35-" withdraw 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria. Mattis said he would stay on the job until the end of February. Three days later, Trump said he was replacing Mattis with the second-ranking defense official, Pat Shanahan, on Jan. 1. As to the tenure under Obama, Mattis served as

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  17. 2 hours ago

    34-"Cabinet meeting Wednesday. THE FACTS: Actually, Mattis resigned as defense secretary in protest over Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria. The retired Marine general announced on Dec. 20 in a resignation letter that he was stepping down after Trump’s decision to

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  18. 2 hours ago

    33-"occurred in part because of the president’s tariffs. But it amounted to just 0.16 percent of federal spending. MATTIS: TRUMP, on Jim Mattis: “I wish him well. I hope he does well. But, as you know, President (Barack) Obama fired him and essentially so did I. I want results.”

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  19. 2 hours ago

    32-"balance sheet. The U.S. government spent $4.1 trillion last fiscal year and the budget deficit shot up, according to Trump’s own Treasury Department. Customs and duties generated $41.3 billion in revenues last year, up from $34.6 billion in 2017. That $6.7 billion increase

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  20. 2 hours ago

    31-"going on.” — tweet Thursday. THE FACTS: Trump is off on two major issues. First, tariffs are taxes paid largely by U.S. business and consumers, not foreign countries. And while Trump’s “MANY billions” might sound like a lot, it’s doing little to nothing to improve the federal

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