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2 days ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
On the conservative talk show Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, U.S. Representative Randy Weber (R-TX) commented on the Department of Homeland Security’s offer to migrants who are in the U.S. illegally to self-deport — with an incentive of $1,000 and a plane ticket.
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2 days ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has been on a “Fight Oligarchy” tour around the U.S. aimed at disempowering the billionaire “broligarchy” that had front row seats at President Trump’s second inauguration, dropped an X post excoriating the favoritism the billionaires are lined up to receive in the new GOP budget.
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3 days ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is trying this week to push through President Donald Trump‘s “big beautiful bill,” which Republicans say would save billions of dollars by imposing work requirements for Medicaid recipients who are not employed. A partial Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis being amplified by Democrats found the GOP proposal would cause 8.6 million people to become uninsured.
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3 days ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is criticizing President Donald Trump for saying he would accept a luxury jumbo jet (valued at $400 million) as a gift from Qatar, and for reportedly accepting $2 billion from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) via the Trump cryptocurrency.
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5 days ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
Former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) responded to the Vatican announcement naming American Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new Pope. The vocal Trump critic wrote on X: “In an era that looked as if it might be defined by an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption, and shame, what a magnificent thing the Catholic Church has done.
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6 days ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) first introduced the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed (MOMS) Act in May 2024 during the Biden administration. The bill proposes creating a federally funded website (pregnancy.gov) that will provide grants to nonprofit organizations that “support, encourage, and assist women— (A) to carry their pregnancies to term; and (B) to care for themselves and their babies after birth.”With President Donald Trump back in the White House and Robert F.
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6 days ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
Last week on the Piers Morgan show Uncensored, President Donald Trump‘s former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, a conservative Catholic, discussed the Roman Catholic Cardinals who were being considered to replace Pope Francis.
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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
On May 8, billionaire Richard Branson described Europe’s Victory Day as “a day of liberation and victory over the murderous Nazi regime,” and compared aspects of World War II to modern day geopolitics. Branson started a long thread on X by writing: “In #Russia, this is a day of particular importance, as no country had suffered greater losses during World War II, following Hitler’s unprovoked invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
Florida State Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo (a Democrat) announced in April that “the Democratic Party in Florida is dead,” and that he would become an Independent rather than a Republican because “the Republican Party has a lot of problems.” (Note: Pizzo is reportedly considering a run for governor in 2026, as is DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis.
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1 week ago | 
2paragraphs.com | Lisandra Gomez-Tate
U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reported after a meeting of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, that she “pressed the NBA on their shady ties to Communist China.” As seen in the video below, Blackburn addressed representatives from the National Basketball Association at the meeting, including President of Global Content & Media Distribution Bill Koenig: “I’ve, through the years, looked into the NBA’s relationship with an oppressive regimes around the globe.
