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Legislature agrees on operating budget for 2023–2025 and sends it to Governor...
The Washington State House of Representatives and Senate voted in quick succession to approve a final operating budget for the upcoming biennium this afternoon, completing the essential work of the...
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House Republicans’ “Default on America Act” would devastate services like...
Our Republican members of the United States House of Representatives offer up press releases and tweets every day of the year paying tribute to America’s servicemembers and veterans, stressing a...
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Biden, McCarthy say they’ve reached a deal to respond to Republicans’ ransom...
The White House announced late Saturday night that it has reached a deal with Kevin McCarthy and his deputies in the United States House of Representatives to avert a fiscal crisis that Republicans...
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U.S. House votes to raise debt ceiling, impose Republican-demanded austerity...
The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives tonight voted somewhat along the inverse of party lines to pass a deal that once again raises the nation’s debt ceiling, but at a steep...
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U.S. Senate sends bill to raise debt ceiling, satisfy Republican ransom...
The United States Senate voted tonight to go along with the House of Representatives in passing legislation negotiated by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden that raises the debt ceiling in...
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Putting a right wing poll of Washington State under the microscope: An...
This week, the right wing group Future42 — a “capacity group” of the right wing political infrastructure initiative Project 42 formed not long ago by former Washington Policy Center CEO Dann Mead Smith...
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U.S. Senate passes its version of the 2024 NDAA, with PNW Democrats split yea...
The United States Senate today voted overwhelmingly to approve a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024 that is drastically different from the horrific version passed by the...
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New fiscal dashboard proposed by NPI and Senator Kuderer goes live for...
Good news, Washingtonians! A new open government tool proposed by the Northwest Progressive Institute and Senator Patty Kuderer has recently gone live and is now available to help anyone interested in...
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Kevin McCarthy, House Republicans can’t even agree on how to waste time anymore
The U.S. House of Representatives, which succeeded the Congress of the Confederation of 1781–1789 following the ratification of the Constitution of the United States, is supposed to be the country’s...
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Shutdown averted: Surprising pundits, Congress adopts clean continuing...
To the astonishment of many pundits, who often lack imagination, Congress today voted to keep the federal government open and buy more time to pass a slew of longer-term appropriations bills — time...
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U.S. House passes another stopgap spending bill to avert shutdown, thanks to...
The United States House of Representatives today voted to keep the federal government open for several more months after new Speaker Mike Johnson orchestrated a vote on a stopgap spending bill not...
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Congress sends President Biden a new stopgap bill to keep federal government...
A partial federal government shutdown has been once again been averted thanks to the eleventh hour passage of a bill in Congress to keep public agencies and the United States military humming for...
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Initiative 2109 (repealing billions of dollars in education funding) gets...
The fourth of six submitted initiatives to the 2024 Washington State Legislature sponsored by Republican State Party Chair Jim Walsh and funded by right wing multimillionaire Brian Heywood was...
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Initiative 2111 (prohibiting fair taxation based on ability to pay) gets...
The fifth of six submitted initiatives to the 2024 Washington State Legislature sponsored by Republican State Party Chair Jim Walsh and funded by right wing multimillionaire Brian Heywood was certified...
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The right wing Washington Policy Center preaches fiscal responsibility, but...
Visit the website of the right wing Washington Policy Center, one of this region’s best known think tanks, and you can find any number of commentaries complaining that public expenditures are too high...
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Direct File is becoming a permanent filing option, IRS announces
The Internal Revenue Service has decided to make its successful Direct Filing option permanent and expand it to all fifty states, in a huge win for taxpayers. The agency announced its decision in a...
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Unsurprisingly, Jim Walsh wants to evade an NPI-championed law that requires...
In a tacit admission that he’s very worried about the electoral prospects for a slate of destructive initiatives that he and multimillionaire funder Brian Heywood managed to purchase votes on last...
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Judge Allyson Zipp incinerates Jim Walsh’s shameful lawsuit to hide fiscal...
A legal challenge filed last month by two prominent Republican party officials that shamefully sought to evade Washington’s new law requiring fiscal transparency in initiative descriptions received a...
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Judge Chris Lanese dismisses Tim Eyman’s groundless legal challenge to...
Former prolific initiative promoter and office chair pilferer Tim Eyman suffered another total defeat in court last Friday when his groundless lawsuit challenging the legality of Secretary of State...
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“We’ll pay more”: Defend Washington’s newest ad emphasizes that Brian...
The coalition working to protect Washington from this year’s crop of bad statewide initiatives unveiled its latest TV spot today. It shares some visuals with its older siblings, but unlike them, it is...
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