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Education Department Attacks Republicans, Touts Biden’s Agenda in Official Letter

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The Department of Education attacked Republicans and touted Biden’s political agenda in an official letter emailed to student-loan borrowers Thursday. 

The letter, signed by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, potentially violates the Hatch Act, which prohibits partisan political activity by executive branch employees. It comes after multiple federal courts blocked Biden’s illegal student loan forgiveness plan. 

“In recent weeks, several federal courts have issued rulings in lawsuits brought by Republican elected officials … trying to block Americans from accessing all the benefits of the most affordable student loan repayment plan in history,” Cardona wrote. “President Biden and I are determined to lower costs for student loan borrowers … no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us.”

The letter accuses Republicans of “siding with special interests” and “blocking” aid to Americans, insisting that Biden “will not stop fighting.”

Student loan forgiveness is a trademark of Biden’s presidency and 2024 reelection campaign and a frequent talking point from the White House and the campaign trail. 

“My MAGA Republican friends in the Congress, elected officials, and special interests stepped in and sued us, and the Supreme Court blocked it. They blocked it. But that didn’t stop me,” Biden said in a February press conference

But it is illegal for an executive branch employee, such as Cardona, to express partisan election sentiments in an official capacity. Biden nominated Cardona to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education in January 2021, and the Senate confirmed Cardona in March.

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New York Judge Upholds No-Excuse Mail Voting Scheme 3 Years After Voters Rejected The Idea

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New Yorkers overwhelmingly rejected a proposal in 2021 that expanded no-excuse absentee voting. But on Tuesday, the state’s highest court upheld a law passed and signed in 2023 by the state’s Democrat majority that effectively expands no-excuse mail-in voting anyway.

Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the “Early Mail Voter Act” into law in 2023. The law allows anyone to receive an early mail-in ballot with no excuse necessary. Only five Democrats in the state legislature opposed the legislation, alongside the entire Republican delegation.

New Yorkers must provide an excuse in order to receive an absentee ballot according to the state’s constitution. Members of the state’s Democrat-led legislature acknowledged this in their proposal to amend this section of state law, clarifying that the state constitution “only allows absentee voting if a person expects to be absent from the county in which they live … or because of illness for physical disability.” A ballot summary cited on Ballotpedia for the proposed constitutional amendment said the amendment would “eliminate the requirement that a voter provide a reason for voting by absentee ballot.”

But when voters had the chance to vote on the proposed amendment to permit no-excuse absentee voting in 2021, New Yorkers rejected the proposal by a 55-44 margin.

Having not gotten their way, the Democrat-led state legislature usurped the will of their constituents and passed a law in 2023 that expanded “early voting by mail,” which, effectively achieved the same end result of the amendment resoundingly rejected by New Yorkers two

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Oops: Biden Admin Admits 800,000 Jobs It Took Credit For Don’t Exist

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The Biden-Harris administration admitted on Wednesday that more than 800,000 of the jobs it claimed to have created last year don’t exist.

An annual revision by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs from March 2023 to March 2024 than originally reported. According to CNBC, “the actual job growth was nearly 30% less than the initially reported 2.9 million from April 2023 through March of this year.”

“The revision to the total payrolls level of -0.5% is the largest since 2009,” the report reads.

This review of Wednesday’s figures found that “[a]t the sector level, the biggest downward revision” came in “professional and business service,” in which “job growth was 358,000 less than initially reported.” The manufacturing; trade (including retail positions), transportation and utilities; and leisure and hospitality sectors also saw downward revisions.

[RELATED: How Kamala’s Economic Plans Would Send ‘Bidenflation’ Into Overdrive]

Wednesday’s revisions are not an anomaly, however. The Biden-Harris administration has regularly overestimated job growth in recent years, only to later revise those totals downward in the months that followed.

Last year, for example, “the government … overestimated the job growth for the 12-month period ending March 2023 by 306,000,” according to Forbes. A December 2022 analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimated that the administration overstated the number of jobs created during that year’s second quarter by more than one million, The National Desk reported.

Meanwhile, the feds “underestimated job growth [in August 2019] for

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Kamala Can’t Win Without Extreme Election Interference And That’s Exactly What’s Happening

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Everyone invested in a Kamala Harris victory in November isn’t making even the faintest attempt at taking her seriously as a presidential candidate. She’s not one because she has no reason to run for president, no vision, no interest in the job.

The whole point of this herculean, gravity-defying exercise we’re in the midst of isn’t to make Kamala president. It’s to deny Donald Trump the White House. The only way that can happen is for election interference on behalf of Kamala in ways that were once unspeakable.

We’re already seeing it with inexplicable poll numbers (literally, no one can explain them); a national news media that went from acknowledging Kamala as a perpetual screw-up to heralding her as a glamour queen; and an all-hands cleanup effort to remake her reputation from undeniably incapable to Barack Obama redux.

We’re entering a new phase where Democrats and the media will not only pretend Kamala’s last three embarrassing years in office never happened, but they will lie about anything and everything from here forward and to a degree in no way tethered to reality.

Once-great New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall this week asked a bunch of “historians” and “experts” at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and the like to envision a second Trump presidency. The result was the kind of unyielding, hysterical stream of horror fan fiction aspiring writers in high school post on internet forums at 3 a.m.

Sean Wilentz, Princeton: “The authoritarian imperative has moved beyond Trumpian narcissism and the cultish MAGA

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