December 7, 2023

Politics update

Roll Call: Rep. Kathy Manning announced Thursday she will not seek reelection next year, a change of plans after a new map drawn by Republicans in the North Carolina legislature would have left the Democrat with an uphill climb to winning a third term. “I won’t file for re-election in the egregiously gerrymandered Congressional districts,” Manning wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called his Republican presidential rival, Vivek Ramaswamy, the “most obnoxious blowhard in America” during a heated exchange at the GOP primary debate Wednesday night.

The White House on Wednesday announced $4.8 billion in student debt relief for some 80,300 people,” Axios reports. “That brings the total approved student debt cancellation by the Biden administration to $132 billion for more than 3.6 million Americans.”

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