Politics/Religion Consolidated Megathread Extravaganza

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Congress is inching closer to codifying the first DOGE cuts.

Vice President JD Vance had to cast another tiebreaking vote in the Senate to advance President Donald Trump's agenda.

The Senate narrowly advanced the DOGE cuts package in a 51-50 vote late Tuesday night. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted to block the DOGE cuts, prompting Vance to cast his tiebreaking vote.

The rescissions package makes $1.1 billion in cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, including PBS and NPR, which have functionally worked as left-wing organizations subsidized by American taxpayers. The package also cuts $8.3 billion to various leftist projects disguised as foreign aid programs such as the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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The Rescissions Act of 2025 promotes fiscal discipline and prioritizes domestic needs over foreign programs, cutting wasteful or needless spending at a time of record-high national debt.

"President Trump's proposed rescissions are an essential piece to implementing his agenda to protect U.S. taxpayers and enact lasting change in Washington by dealing a major blow to the weaponized foreign aid bureaucracy and public funding of woke indoctrination at NPR and PBS," Heritage Action Vice President of Government Relations Steve Chartan said in a statement.

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The Alberta NDP is even sleazier than the Saskatchewan NDP.

BREAKING:
NDP illegally inflated membership numbers prior to electing Naheed Nenshi

Elections Alberta has ruled that the NDP broke the law in order to artificially inflate their membership prior to the election of incumbent leader Naheed Nenshi.

    The NDP have been forced into a binding agreement with the Elections Commissioner to abide by the law and quit misrepresenting their membership and fundraising numbers.

Elections Alberta has determined that the NDP unlawfully manipulated their membership numbers ahead of the election of incumbent leader Naheed Nenshi.

The decision comes after the United Conservative Party lodged a complaint with Elections Alberta in February, accusing the NDP of illegally equating contributions with party membership fees, and vice versa.

The Executive Director of the UCP didn't hold back in a statement accusing the former governing party of involuntarily signing up Albertans to join their ranks.

"The NDP misled donors and involuntarily signed them up as members. They have been inflating both their membership and donation numbers, making it impossible to trust any of their claims about actual figures," Van Vugt said.

It's unclear if the illegal activity was due to negligence, incompetence, or an attempt to hide their low membership.

Before the ruling, the NDP brushed off the accusation, calling the complaint "clearly spurious." The UCP also alleged the NDP constitution violated election rules by claiming that donations over $10 to the party counts as membership renewal.

However, Election commissioner Paula Hale said on Thursday that the NDP was "not in compliance," adding, "specifically, in circumstances where memberships were being renewed as the result of an individual making a contribution in a subsequent year."