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Florida GOP Rep. Maria Salazar says her pending Dignidad Act is intended to deliver “cheap labor” to all sectors of the economy. “When people tell me that I am trying to help big business to have cheap labor, I’m going to answer them: It’s not [just] big business, it’s not only agricultural or construction or hospitality or health care or manufacturing — it’s more,” Salazar told a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday. She added: Who else? The farmers, people in the dairy business. We all like milk, right? Well, there are 150,000 jobs available in agriculture right now … Manufacturers!…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) argued that “Donald Trump weaponized redistricting, first in North Carolina in 2023, and the three seats that he stole were the margin of victory for the reconciliation bill” and said that “in Republican states that have followed Donald Trump’s effort to rig elections, they’ve done it in the back room.” Kaine said, “[W]hen Donald Trump weaponized redistricting, first in North Carolina in 2023, and the three seats that he stole were the margin of victory for the reconciliation bill that kicked 80,000 Virginians off the SNAP food benefit…

President Donald Trump’s redistricting war now rests on Florida — and his onetime primary rival Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Sunshine State is the GOP’s likely best remaining chance to claw back an edge to keep their House majority, after voters approved a gerrymander in Virginia that will allow Democrats to pick up as many as four new seats. Now all eyes are on Florida to deliver a new map that could net the party anywhere from three to five seats, with legislators scheduled to hold a special session next week. National and state Republicans are counting on DeSantis to deliver…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Amb. Nathan Sales, who served as Coordinator for Counterterrorism during the first Trump administration, said that Iran has violated the ceasefire “from the moment the ink was dry on the agreement” by failing to actually open up the Strait of Hormuz like they agreed to. Sales said, “Well, Laura, they’ve been violating the ceasefire from the moment the ink was dry on the agreement. The trade was, the United States stops its punishing and crippling military offensive against the Iranian regime, and, in return, the regime opens up the Strait, and…

HBO late-night host Bill Maher and actor Woody Harrelson blasted the Democrat-controlled state of California, saying the state “deserves to be shit on” over its tax policies while discussing the struggles in owning a cannabis store in California. “It’s not easy to make a business work in California,” Maher said at the beginning of Monday’s Club Random podcast episode, while explaining why he decided to record the April 20 show at, The Woods, a cannabis store he co-owns with Harrelson. The True Detective actor concurred, adding, “California just messes with every business.” “I mean, I don’t want to, like, start this off… well, why not? Like,…

If you’re a Cabinet official thinking of pursuing a new professional opportunity, Senate Republicans have a request: Now’s the time to call it quits. The departure this week of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who is following former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi out the door, has some GOP lawmakers pondering a larger Cabinet shakeup and what that could mean to an unsettled Senate floor schedule. Senate Republicans are already trying to juggle a shrinking window for lawmaking before the November midterms — including at least one potential party-line budget reconciliation bill, a litany of measures…

Four trips, dozens of deals, and one message: Madrid is moving closer to Beijing – on its own terms When Spain’s Pedro Sánchez arrived in Beijing in April for his fourth visit in four years, he did so for a tightly choreographed round of high-level meetings with Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials, alongside business and academic engagements.Officially, the visit revolved around cooperation: trade, green energy, technology, and multilateral governance. Spain, Sánchez reiterated, rejects the fashionable rhetoric of “decoupling” and instead champions interconnected supply chains. He urged China to take on a greater role in global governance, from climate change…

European Union ambassadors in Brussels agreed on Wednesday to approve a 90 billion-euro loan to Ukraine and a further round of sanctions against Russia, after outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lifted his threat of a veto. The funding, which was initially approved in December, had been held up from reaching Kyiv over objections from Budapest, which argued under Prime Minsiter Orbán that the EU should focus their efforts on achieving a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine rather than plunging the bloc deeper into the conflict in his country’s Eastern neighbour. The final formal approval of the money will…

Abortion giant Planned Parenthood honored pop star Pink at a gala in New York last week, after the organization released its annual report bragging about performing a record number of abortions.  Pink, a Grammy-winning artist whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore-Hart, received the “Catalyst of Change Award” at the Planned Parenthood of Greater New York’s “Spring Into Action Gala.” The event’s “honorary committee” included a long list of other Hollywood celebrities, including Meryl Streep, Amy Poehler, Molly Ringwald, Patricia Arquette, and Christiana Hendricks.  In a comment to Vogue backstage at the event, Moore-Hart called Planned Parenthood staff “warriors.” “I…

While most reports of drone sightings have been proven false, some appeared “plausible” even despite lack of any evidence, Theo Francken insists Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken has defended the costly drone scare, which cost some €50 million (some $ 58.5 million) in emergency spending, and offered a lackluster apology for personally disseminating images purporting to picture the UAVs, which turned out to be false.The drone craze gripped the country, as well as several other EU nations, late last year with numerous sightings of mysterious UAVs reported from military and critical infrastructure sites. The Belgian government declared an emergency situation…