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WASHINGTON — Some Democrats don’t think it’s a coincidence that President Donald Trump ordered the razing of the East Wing of the White House in the midst of the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

“How do you make sure he doesn’t do this to other monuments?” Raw Story asked.

“I think this is the point for what's happening right now,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said....

Mack Schroeder, a Department of Health and Human Services employee who was unceremoniously fired as part of Elon Musk's DOGE cuts, appeared on CNN to hit back at a senator's reaction to his plight.

Schroeder took part in protests on Capitol Hill Wednesday when he approached Sen Jim Banks (R-IN) as the Republican made his way toward a congressional elevator.

"Hi, I was a worker at HHS. I was fired illegally on February 14th," Schroeder said as the incident was caught on tape. "There are many people who are not getting social service programs, especially people with disabilities. Are you going to do anything to stop what's happening?"...

A political action committee for a ubiquitous home improvement company is doing some financial renovations in the wake of fraud, according to a new financial filing.

The Home Depot Inc., PAC reported to the Federal Election Commission that it experienced theft of $7,500 in December due to an "erroneous bank debit."

"The PAC has taken action to prevent this from happening in the future by closing that bank account and opening a new account," said a report to FEC from May 8. "In addition, the PAC is using positive pay through the bank to prevent any future occurrences."...

The Republican Party of Wisconsin has vowed to not get fooled again — at least not like it did in October 2020, according to a letter the party committee sent the Federal Election Commission on Friday night.

After initially losing more than $2.3 million to hackers just days before Election Day 2020, the Republican Party of Wisconsin told the FEC that it's taken "concrete steps" to better defend against fraud after falling victim to one of the nation's largest cybertheft incidents that targeted a political committee.

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The Lincoln Project — a super PAC that ranks among former President Donald Trump’s leading antagonists — lost $35,000 in what it described to federal regulators as “fraudulent” transactions committed by cyberthieves, Raw Story has confirmed.

The Lincoln Project, which has produced a torrent of anti-Trump ads and whose leaders are fixtures on cable news, blamed the lost money on “hackers” who targeted a committee vendor.

“A vendor’s email was hacked, with the hackers producing authentic-looking invoices that were sent from our vendor’s legitimate email account. The hack affected multiple clients of the vendor, including Lincoln Project,” spokesman Greg Minchak told Raw Story, adding that the “transactions did not impact our operations in any way in the fight for a democratic future for our nation.”...

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), who’s running for the U.S. Senate, had a check for almost $40,000 stolen from his campaign organization and cashed — the latest in numerous thefts from political campaigns.

A Raw Story review of Federal Election Commission records shows that the Banks for Senate committee attempted to pay a $39,328.60 bill to Steve Brown Direct Marketing, a campaign contractor. But the paper check the campaign marketing firm via the U.S. Postal Service in July was stolen in transit, the records indicate.

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