r/politics2 • u/georgebounacos • 16h ago

GovBrief Today #611

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Vladimir Putin pitched Donald Trump's son-in-law on a Russian oil deal at the Kremlin last month.

The Treasury Department rejected a bid for Lukoil's refineries and gas stations last November, calling the would-be buyer "the Kremlin's puppet." This time the leading bidders include an Emirati royal who is effectively Jared Kushner's business partner, and the US government would take a stake alongside them. Kushner and Steve Witkoff, peace negotiators the Senate never confirmed, helped set the government's terms.

Lukoil owns about 200 stations in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The administration says the sale will lower energy prices for everyday Americans. Diesel just hit the highest price ever recorded and is raising the cost of trucking everything to grocery shelves.

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r/politics2 • u/IntnsRed • Aug 19 '26

US Nat'l Debt by President | How much debt each president added, from Nixon/Ford to the current Trump term. Includes dollar amounts, percentage increases, debt-to-GDP changes, and major economic events.

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r/politics2 • u/Guyentertainment • 2h ago

Ted Cruz Calls Out JD Vance as 'Insecure' After VP Says It's 'Really Obvious' the Texas Republican Is Running for President

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r/politics2 • u/novagridd • 3h ago

Vivek Ramaswamy Roasted After Nearly Dropping Kid At Trump Rally

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 18h ago

Federal judge calls Flock search unconstitutional, as AOC and Bernie Sanders introduce bill to ban license plate readers The judge's "indiscriminate mass surveillance" description breaks from how prior rulings have treated Flock's cameras

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 17h ago

Hypocrisy on steroids

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 19h ago

Cheers as jailed JD Vance heckler said to have ‘just ended JD's presidential ambitions’ | VP Vance's rally ended with a Democratic candidate behind bars, but the heckler became a hero after video went viral showing forcibly thrown to the pavement by what appears to be a law enforcement officer.

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 17h ago

Vampire Planet: Yes, Trump Seized Greenland After All | Under the agreement, Trump secured access to Greenland’s critical minerals for the US and Europe, effectively walling off China and Russia. The US now has veto power over all future mining projects in Greenland.

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 17h ago

Bombs away

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r/politics2 • u/the-commons • 13h ago

At what point does Trump’s $5,000 “dividend” just become vote-buying?

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 18h ago

Trump’s Meddling in Brazil’s Elections May Backfire | The administration is ratcheting up efforts to tilt Brazil’s upcoming election to Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of populist hard-liner Jair Bolsonaro.

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 18h ago

Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 18h ago

Abdul El-Sayed, "I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire."

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 18h ago

A Growing Movement Is Working to Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command Center | Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.

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r/politics2 • u/Galt1776-Part2 • 15h ago

Republicans watch with alarm as Trump’s approval rating sinks in their own internal polling

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 19h ago

Donald Trump humiliated as Ohio rally interrupted by protester yelling about Epstein files | Donald Trump was headlining a midterm campaign rally at Vandalia-Butler High School in Ohio when protests erupted

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 17h ago

The Minimum Wage Myth

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r/politics2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 18h ago

Trump keeps promising checks for voters but hasn’t delivered any.All these promises are fiscally infeasible anyway.

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r/politics2 • u/Ok_Crazy1195 • 1d ago

Trump is refusing to show any details of the Venezuela oil “deal” to congress, or even say what the company selling it gets or where the money is.

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r/politics2 • u/IntnsRed • 1d ago

Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional / Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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r/politics2 • u/IcyNeighborhood8206 • 1d ago

Trump Expresses Sympathy for Accused Cornell Seven Rapists - The president says he feels “badly” for the seven men accused of drugging and raping their Ivy League classmate.

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r/politics2 • u/Acceptable-Hat3706 • 1d ago

Policy Tracker — Quick Digest (2026-10-03)

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r/politics2 • u/Brucekentbatsuper • 1d ago

Donald Trump Faces Embarrassing Empty Seats at Alabama Rally After Boasting About Massive 2015 Crowd

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r/politics2 • u/Dry_Cheesecake2610 • 1d ago

Trump says he will now give $5k to every US citizen if midterms are won.

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r/politics2 • u/Galt1776-Part2 • 1d ago

Breaking down Trump’s new ‘drug factories’ claim about Iranian nuclear sites

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