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Katie Britt Creeps Out America | March 11, 2024

Katie Britt Creeps Out America | March 11, 2024

FromThe Heartland POD


Katie Britt Creeps Out America | March 11, 2024

FromThe Heartland POD

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80 minutes
Released:
Mar 11, 2024
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TALKIN’ POLITICSTrue Or FalseKatie Britt…https://www.axios.com/2024/03/08/katie-britt-biden-state-of-the-union-responseSen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) gave a rebuke of President Biden's border and immigration policies in her Republican State of the Union response from her home.Why it matters: The speech from the freshman senator is a stark example of how Republicans continue to make immigration and border security their top election year issue.Britt also took aim at Biden's economic record, hitting the president on inflation after he trumpeted wins on the economy in his speech.The Alabama senator criticized Biden's foreign policy even as he led his State of the Union with pushing Republicans to pass aid to Ukraine.Yeah…NoNo Labels is all in https://www.axios.com/2024/03/08/no-labels-2024-presidential-ticket  Yeah… Yeah!New Method for student loan benefits through employmenthttps://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2024/01/25/employers-can-now-match-student-loans-with-retirement-contributions/?sh=2cf4d479a331Employers Can Now Match Student Loans With Retirement ContributionsThe SECURE 2.0 Act includes a range of benefits meant to help consumers boost their retirement savings, and some of the most prominent changes have to do with required minimum distributions (RMDs), automatic enrollments in retirement plans and 529 to Roth plan rollovers. The passage of this act also makes it possible for employers to reward their workers with contributions to retirement accounts that are based on how much they pay toward student loans.MEANWHILE Millenial and GenZ feeling the pinch into adulthoodhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/millennial-gen-z-employees-admit-being-distracted-work-because-rgrwc/One in four of the country’s more than 129 million privately employed workers have student loan debt, and now that student loan payments have resumed for the first time in three years, employees are increasingly looking to their employers for help.As a result, benefits that address student loan debt and education expenses specifically will go from being a nice-to-have to a need-to-have benefit for employers to offer. Buy/SellSinema’s retirement is good for the Dem’s Senate hopes in 2024https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/05/congress/sinema-not-running-00144995Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced she will not run for reelection this year, setting up a race between Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego and Republican Kari Lake to succeed her.The first-term senator, who left the Democratic Party to become an independent, said she believes in her deal-making approach to politics, "but it's not what America wants right now."2024 Election EraBiden’s unfair pricing strike force: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/05/biden-strike-force-unfair-illegal-pricesBiden on the offensive: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/05/biden-new-strategy-attack-trump-2024-electionCame through in the SOTUTone was strong: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/03/08/bidens_state_of_the_union_address_strikes_campaign_tone.htmlPerformance was downright RNC new leadership - which is a technical title not a statement of their powerhttps://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4519117-rnc-elects-leadership-michael-whatley-lara-trump/GOP members driven out with Trumps appointment of Trumphttps://www.rawstory.com/gop-exodus-lara-trump/ The Trump/Haley/Biden voter?https://www.semafor.com/article/03/08/2024/the-man-behind-haley-voters-for-biden-on-his-post-primary-pivotTrump mocking Biden’s stutter on Saturdayhttps://www.rawstory.com/trump-rally-biden-stutter/FBI says GOP big witness in Biden probe was using his position as personalBenefit while making up stories to keep his special situation https://www.rawstory.com/biden-witness-lies/Last CallThe world with NEITHER - The CoDependents of Trump & BidenBiden and Trump are codependents https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-biden-codependency-theyre-so-weak-theyd-lose-to-virtually-anyone-else-6b9899fa?mod=opinion_lead_pos9Project 2025 seems to
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Mar 11, 2024
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