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mitty14u2

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Wed Aug 1, 2018, 02:37 PM Aug 2018

House GOP refuses to renew election security funding as Democrats fume over Russian interference

Erica Werner July 19 18

House Republicans on Thursday voted down a Democratic effort to increase election security spending, as Democrats accused the GOP of refusing to stand up to Russia over interference in U.S. elections.

In a vote along party lines, Republicans rejected Democrats’ motion for more funding, unmoved by Democrats’ vigorous pleas and chants of “USA! USA!” on the House floor.

The election security funding vote came amid a national controversy over Russian election interference, and it comes days after President Trump appeared to accept Russian President Vladi­mir Putin’s contention that Russia did not intervene in the 2016 presidential race — even though U.S. intelligence agencies say otherwise.

“Now is the time to double down on our efforts to prevent election hacking,” Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) declared ahead of the vote. “The American people are watching, and we must ensure that we — unlike our president — are on the right side of history at this pivotal moment in our democracy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/house-gop-refuses-to-renew-election-security-funding-as-democrats-fume-over-russian-meddling/2018/07/18/20761f88-8abb-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html

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House GOP refuses to renew election security funding as Democrats fume over Russian interference (Original Post) mitty14u2 Aug 2018 OP
The traitors think they can steal another election. BSdetect Aug 2018 #1
It's time for us to act, we can't trust the GOP junta to protect the US ck4829 Aug 2018 #2
"we must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately" cutroot Aug 2018 #3

cutroot

(875 posts)
3. "we must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately"
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 04:22 PM
Aug 2018

Benjamin Franklin knew that they were committing treason against England. Just like the republicans are committing treason against the USA now.

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