Six green card holders in Texas swept up in federal crackdown on illegal voting
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holders → sweep → voting
Earlier on Tuesday, Todd Blanche, the US attorney general, alerted reporters at the White House to stand by for what he called “a big development” in the federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens to be announced by Ryan Raybould, the US attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
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he → alert → Texas
While six of those charged cast ballots in the 2024 general election, the impact of their votes was almost immeasurably small, given that two of them cast provisional ballots that were not counted, and 11,388,670 other Texans voted in that election.
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Texans → charge → election
Donald Trump, whose false claim that voting by non-citizens is rampant inspired the investigation, won the state by a margin of 1,558,347 votes over his nearest rival, Kamala Harris.
Of the four illegal votes that were apparently counted in error, three were cast by green card holders from Nigeria, India and Mexico, who might have wrongly thought they were eligible to vote, and just one by an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.
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they → inspire → Mexico
Lawful permanent residents are not allowed to vote in federal elections, but they are permitted to vote in local elections in the District of Columbia and in some jurisdictions of three US states: California, Maryland and Vermont.
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they → allow → states
Still, the administration framed the criminal charges against the handful of ineligible voters in Texas as significant and even invited a Fox News crew to film the arrest of one of the green-card holders: a 27-year-old from Nigeria who allegedly voted in 2018, two years after becoming a lawful permanent resident.
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who → frame → resident
The video was broadcast multiple times on the president’s favorite network on Tuesday.
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video → broadcast → Tuesday
“I was reliably told this never happens,” the Fox host Will Cain said with sarcasm after a report on the arrest.
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host → tell → arrest
“We know now at least it’s happened seven times.”
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it → know → ?
Congressman Adam Smith, the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, expressed outrage on Tuesday at a new estimate by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that Donald Trump’s ongoing war against Iran cost American taxpayers approximately $38 billion in just the first five months, through 1 August.
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war → express → August
“The CBO’s findings underscore two important points,” Smith said in a statement.
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Smith → underscore → statement
“First, Trump’s disastrous war against Iran has exacted a staggering toll in terms of lives lost and wounded in action, as well as in the waste of hard-earned taxpayer dollars; and second, there is an overwhelming lack of transparency and level of incompetence that have together been the hallmarks of this administration.
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that → exact → administration
This report is based on the information the CBO has been able to analyze.
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CBO → base → information
Yet even the CBO has not had access to the full accounting of losses and damage to equipment and infrastructure, munitions stockpiles, materiel, and force posture.”
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CBO → have → equipment
“The CBO analysis also highlights the impact of Trump’s failed policy on the domestic and global economies, including increased inflation,” the congressman from the state of Washington added.
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congressman → highlight → Washington
“Again, the Trump Administration has refused to provide all relevant information needed to make a full assessment, information that Congress and the American public need and deserve, meaning that this cost is likely even higher.
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cost → refuse → that
A bill co-authored by Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who died earlier this year, that would give Donald Trump broad authority to tariff Russia and its trading partners will be put forward for a vote this week in a high-stakes legislative battle that could provide new sanctioning authority to the US president at a crucial moment in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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that → co → Ukraine
The bill is facing considerable pushback not only from Ukraine-sceptic Republicans, however, but also from prominent Democrats who say that the bill will give undue tariff power to the US president that could then be abused and turned against US allies.
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that → face → allies
Congressional staffers have described frenzied last-minute lobbying in the halls of Congress as the vote approached for what one Democratic staffer called the “one opportunity that we have to help Ukraine before they enter the slow winter”.
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they → describe → winter
The bill passed a vote in the House rules committee on Monday, and is due for a rule vote on the House floor on Tuesday afternoon, then a general vote on Wednesday.
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bill → pass → Wednesday
The Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026 would target Russia’s energy and defense industries, as well as the country’s “shadow fleet” of tankers skirting existing oil sanctions, and would give Trump new authority to slap 100% tariffs on top purchasers of Russian oil, including China and India.
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Act → sanction → China
But Trump’s use of tariffs against US partners such as Canada and Mexico have made expanding his powers a controversial aim – even for senior Democrats who have been stalwart backers of Ukraine.
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who → make → Ukraine
They are led by the representative Gregory Meeks; the top Democrats on the House foreign affairs committee; the representative Don Beyer of Congress’s joint economic committee; and Richard Neal, the ranking Democrat on the House ways and means committee.
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They → lead → committee
In a statement, they said the legislation would do “more harm than good”.
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legislation → say → harm
“This bill would dramatically expand presidential tariff authorities while failing to mandate sanctions on Russia, both of which are unacceptable,” they said.
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they → expand → which
“These flaws would raise Americans’ prices while undermining support for Ukraine in the long term.”
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flaws → raise → term
Six green card holders in Texas swept up in federal crackdown on illegal voting
Earlier on Tuesday, Todd Blanche, the US attorney general, alerted reporters at the White House to stand by for what he called “a big development” in the federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens to be announced by Ryan Raybould, the US attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
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he → sweep → Texas
While six of those charged cast ballots in the 2024 general election, the impact of their votes was almost immeasurably small, given that two of them cast provisional ballots that were not counted, and 11,388,670 other Texans voted in that election.
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Texans → charge → election
Donald Trump, whose false claim that voting by non-citizens is rampant inspired the investigation, won the state by a margin of 1,558,347 votes over his nearest rival, Kamala Harris.
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voting → inspire → rival
Of the four illegal votes that were apparently counted in error, three were cast by green card holders from Nigeria, India and Mexico, who might have wrongly thought they were eligible to vote, and just one by an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.
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they → count → Mexico
Lawful permanent residents are not allowed to vote in federal elections, but they are permitted to vote in local elections in the District of Columbia and in some jurisdictions of three US states: California, Maryland and Vermont.
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they → allow → states
Still, the administration framed the criminal charges against the handful of ineligible voters in Texas as significant and even invited a Fox News crew to film the arrest of one of the green-card holders: a 27-year-old from Nigeria who allegedly voted in 2018, two years after becoming a lawful permanent resident.
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who → frame → 2018
The video was broadcast multiple times on the president’s favorite network on Tuesday.
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video → broadcast → Tuesday
“I was reliably told this never happens,” the Fox host Will Cain said with sarcasm after a report on the arrest.
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host → tell → arrest
“We know now at least it’s happened seven times.”
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it → know → ?
The House of Representatives shot down an attempt to impeach Donald Trump on Tuesday, though many Democrats supported keeping the effort alive.
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Democrats → shoot → effort
By a 232-147 vote, with 47 lawmakers voting “present”, the chamber tabled the impeachment effort proposed by Democratic congressman Al Green, a fierce Trump critic who was censured by the House for disrupting a speech the president gave shortly after returning to the White House, and recently lost his primary.
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president → vote → primary
Green had proposed impeaching Trump over the killings of US citizens by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) during his second term, and accused the president of trying to create an “authoritarian regime”.
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Green → propose → regime
“President Trump has used ICE and CBP to suppress the First Amendment rights to free speech and a free press; violate the Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protections against unlawful searches and excessive force; and defy the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection by allowing and encouraging racially targeted arrests, unjustified detentions, and unjustified killings,” his resolution read.
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resolution → use → arrests
The House impeached Trump twice during his first term, but the Senate acquitted him both times, and the question of whether to impeach him again is a sensitive one for Democrats as they eye a return to the majority in Congress in the November midterm elections.
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they → impeach → elections
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