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Millions Stunned As Tax Refunds Shrink

It’s tax filing season, and the American people are seeing the impact of the GOP tax scam in the form of smaller tax refunds.
 

So much for that postcard...

We’re old enough to remember when Republicans said their tax scam would “simplify” the tax code.
 

Questions about climate change? Thanks for asking.

Climate change was conspicuously absent from Tuesday’s State of the Union address, and call us nostalgic for a bygone era (read: two years ago) when science was valued and not feared, but we wanted to be sure you saw NASA’s announcement that 2018 was the fourth warmest year on record.

SOTU Round-up: "Unity — On His Terms" Edition

The White House billed the President’s State of the Union address as unifying and a call for bipartisanship, but – no surprise here – it fell short of that.

Stunned.

Here’s your shockingly out of touch Republican comment of the day (but it’s still early!). Perhaps this is why Republicans have yet to show any urgency to reopen the government?

Day 33

Today is Day 33 of the Trump shutdown, the longest in our nation’s history, and the impacts of the shutdown are growing. From undermining law enforcement efforts and delaying tax refunds to cutting off revenue for small businesses and putting vulnerable Americans at risk of being evicted, the shutdown is affecting Americans across the country. Take a look: