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It’s that time again when the Trump Cabinet of Curiosities and Whackos makes their way to Capitol Hill to justify their budgets, give updates, and answer questions. It’s going exactly as you would expect with an especially stressful and ridiculous performance by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. She was hit by the Democrats on the HLS Committee with a barrage of questions on her many trips cosplaying jobs, ignorance of due process for deportees, and the behavior of ICE agents. She didn’t answer any of them. Fred chats with Representative Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island’s 2nd District who sits on the Homeland Security Committee and is the leader of the effort to ban stock trading by members of Congress as well. He goes into all of those issues and the current Republican tax bill as well on an all new ‘On Democracy with FPWellman.’ Catch this and all of Fred’s shows on the ‘On Democracy’ channel and Substack as well.

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