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• W.Va. Gov. Justice: State 'Will Keep Lining Up Body Bags' Until More Vaccinated
  
  West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Friday his state "will keep lining up body bags" until more people get vaccinated against COVID-19.
• Rep. Louie Gohmert to Newsmax: Biden's Call to Tax the Rich Will Hurt Poor
  
  President Joe Biden's call to tax the wealthy, as well as the energy provisions included in the Democrats' $3.5 trillion spending bill, will hurt the nation's poor, while barely affecting the nation's richest people, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, insisted Saturday to Newsmax.
• Police Overestimated 'Justice for J6' Rally Security Force
  
  Police vastly outnumbered protesters around the U.S. Capitol on Saturday at a rally by supporters of the people who breached the building Jan. 6, trying to overturn former President Donald Trump's election defeat.
• Rep. Rosendale to Newsmax: Unvetted Afghan Refugees Shouldn't Be Let In
  
  The Biden administration is using the withdrawal from Afghanistan as an excuse to bring more than 100,000 refugees into the United States, but as they're not being vetted properly, "they shouldn't be allowed on U.S. soil," Rep. Matt Rosendale said on Newsmax Saturday. "I've...
• Fred Fleitz to Newsmax: WH Must Keep Biden From Doing Things 'Just Plain Bonkers'
  
  President Joe Biden needs to clean house at the White House and find capable advisers amid myriad early administration missteps, according to former National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz on Newsmax.
• Rep. Perry to Newsmax: Austin, Blinken Should Resign Before They're Impeached
  
  If Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had any respect either for themselves or for the United States, they'd resign before they are impeached, "which is what needs to happen with each of them" after the "epic failure" in the pullout from...
• Florida Democrat Joseph Abruzzo Hits Biden on Tax Plan
  
  Progressive forces are moving Democrats further away from center, particularly on taxation and spending and the tax hikes in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill, a Florida Democrat lamented Friday to Newsmax.
• NC Judges Reject Voter ID Law, Claiming It Is Racist
  
  North Carolina judges struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law Friday, agreeing with minority voters Republicans rammed through rules tainted by racial bias as a way to remain in power.
• Ken Paxton to Newsmax: Situation at Del Rio Bridge Shows Border Crisis Worsening
  
  The thousands of migrants that have converged under the bridge that connects Del Rio, Texas and Mexico's Ciudad Acuña, creating a makeshift camp with few basic services in intense heat is proof of a continuing problem at the border that is just getting worse under the Biden...
• Poll: Virginia Governor Race Neck-and-Neck
  
  The race for Virginia's next governor is neck-and-neck between Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin, according to a Washington Post/Schar School poll.
• Admin, Under Fire, Plans to Fly Haitian Migrants Back to Haiti
  
  The Biden administration worked Saturday on plans to send many of the thousands of Haitian immigrants who have gathered in a Texas border city back to their Caribbean homeland.
• Nikki Haley to Newsmax: US 'Embarrassing' to the World Under Biden
  
  Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley told Newsmax Friday that the United States looks ''embarrassing'' in the eyes of the world after several foreign policy debacles by the administration of President Joe Biden. Haley, who served in the administration of President...
• Pennsylvania Democrats Sue Over GOP's 2020 Election Audit
  
  Democrats in Pennsylvania's state Senate sued Friday evening in a state court to block a Republican-approved subpoena seeking voter information and to put a stop to what Republicans call a "forensic investigation" of last year's presidential election.Democrats had said they...
• McCarthy Urges Biden WH to Deploy National Guard Amid Haitian Migrant Surge
  
  The Biden administration ''must recognize'' the Haitian migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas, as a national security crisis and deploy the National Guard to help Border Patrol agents with ''more resources to control the situation,'' House Minority ...
• Capitol Police Chief Defends Rights of J6 Rally Attendees
  
  U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger said Friday that he supported the rights of people who may attend the Justice for J6 protest rally scheduled for Saturday in Washington.
• Fla. Lt. Gov. to Newsmax: Feds Cutting COVID Treatments 'Political Power Play'
  
  Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez told Newsmax that the Biden administration's decision to ''reallocate'' COVID-19 antibody treatments to other states is a ''political power play'' against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, and that the administration wants to ''see Floridians in ...
• Louisiana AG Landry: Biden Mandate Divisive, Doctors Should Be Able to Practice
  
  Doctors should be able to practice medicine based on what's best for their patients and the U.S. government should be educating people, not creating divisive mandates, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, one of 27 Republican attorneys general vowing to fight President ...
• Two Large Polluter Nation Leaders Skip Climate Change Follow-up
  
  While they did send representatives, the leaders of India and China, two of the world's largest contributors to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, were noticeably absent from a follow-up video conference on climate change Friday, hosted by President Joe Biden. India's Prime...
• HHS to Texas Abortion Providers: 'We Have Your Back'
  
  The Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday it will take action to protect women seeking abortions and abortion providers in Texas, The Hill reports.
• DOJ Reviewing Policies on Housing Transgender Federal Inmates
  
  The Biden administration is reviewing its policies on housing transgender inmates in the federal prison system, reports The Associated Press. The Trump administration rolled back protections for transgender prisoners, saying housing facilities would be assigned based on...
• 13 Dems Push for Expanded Unemployment Insurance in Spending Plan
  
  Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are calling on Democratic leaders to add unemployment insurance reforms to their forthcoming $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act spending plan, according to a report in The Hill.
• Hoyer: House to Hold Vote to Avoid Debt Default, Shutdown
  
  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said on Friday that the lower chamber will vote next week on measures to prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its debt and a potential government shutdown in October, Politico reports.
• France Recalls Ambassadors to US, Australia Over Sub Deal
  
  French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday evening that France is immediately recalling its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia in a backlash over a submarine deal.Le Drian said in a statement that the decision, on request from President Emmanuel Macron, "is...
• Pentagon Now Says Kabul Drone Strike Killed 10 Civilians in 'Tragic Mistake'
  
  The U.S. military said on Friday that a drone strike in Kabul last month killed as many 10 civilians, including seven children, and it apologized for what the Pentagon said was a tragic mistake.Senior U.S. officers had said the Aug. 29 strike that took place as foreign...
• North Carolina Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law
  
  North Carolina Superior Court judges on Friday struck down the state's voter identification law, ruling that the measure discriminates against Black voters.

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