[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #591: House of Carbs

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The CODEL to Afghanistan included a required stop in Brussels for pilot rest. In Brussels, the delegation was scheduled to meet with top NATO commanders, U.S. military leaders and key allies–to affirm the United States’ ironclad commitment to the NATO alliance. (1/4)

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NEW: @NoahGrayCNN @KateBennett_DC @ElizLanders report @FLOTUS is currently in the air on her way to Florida for a pre-scheduled trip... on a government plane.

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And the movement has come from within key portions of his base. He is:

Down significantly among suburban men, a net-positive approval rating of 51-to-39 percent to a net-negative of 42 percent approve, 48 percent disapprove. That's a net change of down 18 percentage points.
Down a net of 13 points among white evangelicals, from 73-to-17 percent approve to 66-to-23 percent approve.
Down a net of 10 points among Republicans, from 90-to-7 percent approve to 83-to-10 percent.
Down marginally among white men without a college degree, from 56-to-34 percent approve to 50-to-35 percent approve, a net change downward of 7 points.

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Op donderdag 17 januari 2019 23:26 schreef Ulx het volgende:
En dat lijkt te kloppen, want niet vliegen wegens de shutdown.....

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Op vrijdag 18 januari 2019 00:12 schreef john2406 het volgende:

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Vliegen mocht wel hoor commercieel zoals ik begrepen heb, corrigeer mij als ik het fout hebben doe.

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Op vrijdag 18 januari 2019 00:16 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Een van de topmensen van het land met een lijnvlucht naar Kaboel sturen is vragen om een aanslag.

En waarom vliegt Melania wel met een overheidstoestel naar hlMar-a-Lago als het zo duur is tijdens de shutdown?

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JUST IN: President Trump cancels his delegation's trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum out of consideration the "great American workers not receiving pay and to ensure his team can assist as needed," WH press secretary Sarah Sanders says https://t.co/gH6A5ZlJ8J https://t.co/4Zmc0rIebg

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"I agree with Adam Schiff that the President is acting like a fifth-grader. Although that insults fifth-graders. But clearly we do not have an adult in the White House." - Sen. Mazie Hirono on President Trump denying Nancy Pelosi a military plane for a trip to Afghanistan https://t.co/06zG1VT05U

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New: Trump startled by AG nominee Barr’s account of close relationship with Mueller -⁦@jeffzeleny⁩ ⁦@Kevinliptakcnn⁩ ⁦@kaitlancollins⁩ reporting https://t.co/ST4aWebrjB

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Anastasia Vashukevich, the model from Belarus who claimed to have recordings involving Oleg Deripaska that she said would shed light on the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, has been detained at a Moscow airport on prostitution allegations, WaPo reports. https://t.co/tb1zFYV5ZM

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With the U.S. Department of Agriculture shuttered in the dispute over funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall, school districts across the country could be faced with scraping together emergency funds to feed low-income public schoolchildren if the shutdown continues another two months.

Rural districts with smaller budgets and more limited options to scrimp may be hit especially hard, but even New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned Thursday of a coming crisis for his city’s more than 1 million students.

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New York City, which spends $43 million a month for the school lunch program for more than 1 million students, could also lose funding for its lunch program starting in March. At a City Hall press conference Thursday, de Blasio said, "The crisis could literally mean that foods are taken out of mouths of children."

In the tiny Prairie Hills district in Kansas, “I really don't know how we'll be able to continue feeding them without the meal reimbursements we get from the federal government, and I don't know many other school food programs that would be able to either,” said Brook Brubeck, the food service director. “It's so frustrating and saddening. We just want to be able to feed kids.”

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The 50,000 retired members of the U.S. Coast Guard are at risk of not receiving their pension payments in two weeks as the longest government shutdown in history continues with no end in sight, a congressman told @NBCNews. https://t.co/FIOIOwGo9Y