Politics update

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), who ran against then-candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary, is now urging his fellow Americans to get behind his former rival in order to save the country. In a recent interview with the Guardian, Sanders warned that if sent back to the White House for a second term, former President Donald Trump would use the opportunity to fundamentally and perhaps permanently change the United States' form of government.

Republican governors in more than a dozen states are shutting out more than 8 million children from a new federal food assistance program to support lower-income families this summer. Thirty-five states, including 13 states with GOP governors, have enrolled in the plan, which provides an additional $120 per child to buy food during the summer months when such assistance is not available in schools, where many American children rely on free or reduced lunch programs.

Roll Call - A consistent drip of members announcing they will not seek reelection combined with a desire to portray Capitol Hill as a toxic place everyone wants to flee can create a narrative that there’s a mass exodus underway from the House. But that’s not the real story, at least not yet. Up to this point, 38 House members have decided not to seek another term. Indiana Republicans Greg Pence and Larry Bucshon and Colorado Republican Doug Lamborn were the latest to announce, just in the last few days. Overall, that’s just a few more than average, and that’s with an asterisk.

A majority of Americans—56%—are willing to see Donald Trump kicked off some or all state ballots, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll 

Thom Hartmann - Following Trump’s new religion, Republicans are spitting in the face of Jesus. In the Sermon on the Mount and the Parable of the Sheep and Goats, Jesus told his followers that the only way to join him in heaven was to feed the hungry, heal the sick, house/clothe the homeless/naked, and have compassion on those in prison. Trump’s GOP has now fully rejected all of these commandments. Most recently, the Biden administration (led by a man who actually attends mass every weekend) has again offered to expand Medicaid to every state in the union and also put $2.5 billion on the table for states to expand free meals to poor children during the summer months when school lunches are not available. Almost every Red state has rejected the Medicaid money and fifteen of them have turned down the money for kids to eat this coming summer. But the GOP and televangelists across the nation continue to tell anybody who’ll listen that they’re the “Party of Christ.”

Every State Has Kept Ineligible Candidates off the Ballot