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President Donald Trump was lining his pockets and simultaneously making MAGA lawmakers pay up for their stays at his Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami this week, according to reports Wednesday.

The four-star luxury resort has rooms starting at $600+ per night, and "nothing was on the House" during the Republican policy retreat this week in Florida, according to The Swamp, The Daily Beast's Substack.

"America is at war and casualties are mounting, gas prices and the cost of living are skyrocketing, and federal workers forgotten in a government shutdown are wondering when they’ll get their next paycheck," The Swamp reported. "So what better for GOP lawmakers to do than to head for the Miami sunshine for the annual House Republican policy retreat?"...

Legislation in the Ohio House and Senate would make sweeping changes to the way Ohioans vote and how those votes are counted. Despite sterling post-election audits in Ohio and the arrival last year of strict new photo voter ID requirements, backers insist more must be done to secure the state’s elections.

Among their demands are provisions allowing hand-counted ballots, and new voting machine requirements that could force counties across the state to replace the voting machines they have. Moreover, certified voting machines don’t exist that would meet the bill’s standards, and hand-counting has been shown to be more time consuming and less accurate than the currently certified voting machines that do exist. The bill would also extend photo ID requirements to absentee voting — making voters include a photocopy of their ID with their completed ballot.

And the drafters have plans for in-person voting as well. The bill directs county boards to include a voters’ photograph in the pollbook, so poll workers won’t simply compare a photo ID to person standing in front of them, but also to a photo on file from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. ...

Republican lawmakers in Michigan set off a firestorm when a state capitol reporter tweeted a photograph of male House members reading fashion magazines with the caption, "Don't say we don't understand women."

Just six people managed enrol in Obamacare on day one of the health plan's troubled rollout, documents released by Republican lawmakers showed, in a new embarrassment for the White House.

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel slammed Republican lawmakers as "astoundingly irresponsible" for threatening to shut down the government over a short-sighted political whim.

Virginia state Sen. Janet Howell (D) thinks that if the government is going to force women to undergo medically unnecessary tests, then it is only fair to apply the same standards to men.