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The White House is focused on a budget plan from the conservative Freedom Caucus that would cap overall discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for 10 years while allowing for 1 percent growth per year, which would be a $131 billion cut from current levels.

That's the whole appeal behind the iPhone SE. It's not about providing cutting edge tech like a depth scanner, multilens camera or vibrant OLED screen. It's for people who just want an iPhone for basic everyday tasks at the lowest price possible.

While there are already work requirements for most able-bodied adults between 18 and 49, the bill raises the age limit to 54, but has an expiration date and would lower the age right back down to 49 in 2030.

'As MAGA House Republicans go to Florida for their retreat, the White House and Congressional Democrats are going on offense, slamming the Freedom Caucus's MAGA Budget Proposal as a Five-Alarm Fire for hardworking families. 

President Joe Biden is ramping up his attacks on House Republicans, claiming their budget proposals will hurt American families, as both sides prepare to do battle over spending by the federal government before it runs out of money sometime this summer.

'Instead of moving America forward, it feels like President Biden and his party have sent us back in time to the late '70s and early '80s,' Reynolds said. 'When runaway inflation was hammering families, a violent crime wave was crashing on our cities, and the Soviet army was trying to redraw the world map.'

'It's the debt ceiling negotiations that oftentimes force the biggest budget reforms, which have been really important for our country,' Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, a member of GOP leadership, said to Punchbowl News on Monday.

'People underestimated what the House Republicans could accomplish, and we've really set the agenda,' the third highest ranking House Republican said. 'We are playing our role as the as the last backstop for the American people from single party Democrat rule.'

It is unusual to find a celebrity who's willing to admit they're desperate to win these sorts of things. ‘Is it a British thing, do you think?' he wonders. ‘That reluctance to say you're competitive.

The screen can also boost its refresh rate up to 120Hz for smoother scrolling -- a feature that was previously reserved for only the most expensive phones. The iPhone SE, by comparison, has just one standard 12-megapixel camera lens. The $1,000 iPhone 13 Pro and $1,100 iPhone 13 Pro Max are the only phones in Apple's current lineup that can crank up their screens' refresh rates. 

In their single paragraph ruling, the student jury wrote: 'We the judges of this trial panel find that your actions on July 17th were shameful and put members of the community at risk. You yourself acknowledged saying "it's a good thing you are here because, otherwise, these people would have been speed bumps."' 

When Bettinger arrived for the 5pm hearing, her lawyer, counselor, and Bryant's lawyer and counselor was pulled into a meeting to discuss the instruction, but it was later dismissed and the panel continued with the instructions they were given. 

EOCR found that three of the five accusations could not be corroborated and Bryant herself later admitted she may have misheard the 'speed bumps' claim she attributed to Bettinger, which saw her reputation destroyed.

Freedom Caucus members who balked at suspending the debt ceiling until 2025, as agreed to in the deal, have floated the idea of invoking a motion to vacate - in which one member can force a vote on the House floor to oust McCarthy. 

'Regardless of whether your classmate made the remark, and whatever one's views on the legal limits of free speech, its substance and import must be unconditionally condemned….No academic institution or program dedicated to free and open reflection on our deepest public disagreements can condone such an attitude,' the teacher said, according to Reason. 

'Based on Bryant's immediate and surprised tone following the second third party's reply, EOCR finds it more likely than not that it was at that moment Bryant first learned that [Bettinger] made a statement about protestors making speed bumps,' the report, obtained by

The 'conservative alternative' would increase the debt ceiling by only $500 billion and kick the can down the road on some other provisions by requiring a return to the negotiating table in a few months to work out the spending reforms.

Afterward, she walked around the truck to get a look at the protesters who noticed her and began to film. She snapped a photo and returned to her car to call her mother, but a few of the protesters began to follow her. 

The White House accuses Republicans of 'endangering public safety, raising costs for families, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and undermining American workers, weakening national security, and hurting seniors.'

The bill also expands work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) - even though the changes are a pared-down version of what conservatives really want.
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