Jacques Abou-Rizk

@CTExaminer Washington Correspondent // Formerly @medillonthehill and @CapitolnewsIL

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The number of American students studying abroad in the Middle East is down to its lowest since the pandemic. Months of reporting culminates into this piece explaining the impact.

Read about it in US News & World Report: https://t.co/nVpGQt3p1N

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Excited to share this one — in @ctexaminer covering topics from affordable housing, to Trump’s D.C. construction projects, to high-speed rail and natural gas pipelines.

Despite disagreements, both sides want to build more, faster.

Free to read below.

https://t.co/xtOEM46nqq

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Connecticut Democratic Senators Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) and Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) held a press conference today to introduce the Living Wage for All Act, seeking to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $25 per hour over the course of the next 12 years.

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B-52 Bombers flew over Washington, D.C. today as part of the opening events of the Freedom 250 celebrations on the National Mall.

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The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution is about to begin discussing the Constitutional limits to the denaturalization of naturalized American citizens who have committed crimes. Stay tuned —
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@RepGraceMeng said after the hearing she doesn’t trust that @DAGToddBlanche will end the anti-weaponization slush fund given he refuses to put it in writing.

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@medillonthehill @RepHalRogers @rosadelauro @RepGraceMeng @DAGToddBlanche Committee adjourned at 5:56 p.m.

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🧵Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is testifying before a House DOJ oversight subcommittee at 4 p.m. today, the counterpart of last week's Senate testimony that brought criticism on the Epstein files, the anti-weaponization slush fund, and DOJ budget cuts.
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@medillonthehill @RepHalRogers @rosadelauro @RepGraceMeng @DAGToddBlanche @RepGraceMeng seemed surprised by @DAGToddBlanche's answer on the removal of the anti-weaponization fund. She's now asking about targeting hate crimes.

"There's a lot of money we have asked for to combat violent crime to combat this type of crime," Blanche @DAGToddBlanche said.

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@medillonthehill @RepHalRogers @rosadelauro @RepGraceMeng @DAGToddBlanche @johnthune @Rep_Clyde @JDVance @RepGlennIvey @RepJoeMorelle @MadeleineDean @RepDean @DAGToddBlanche is explaining that redactions of Epstein files are due to other laws, besides just victim's names.
"I advise you to look at the Epstein Transparency Act."

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@medillonthehill @RepHalRogers @rosadelauro @RepGraceMeng @DAGToddBlanche @johnthune @Rep_Clyde @JDVance @RepGlennIvey @RepJoeMorelle @MadeleineDean @RepDean in the second round of questions, explains the documents she's been holding up. She's explaining a document that allegedly Trump never asked Jeffrey Epstein to leave Mar-a-Lago.