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Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has been appointed to oversee the investigation of Russian interference with the election. Trump says that the probe will find no collusion between his campaign and foreign countries and called the investigation a “taxpayer funded charade.” (source)

An audio recording has been obtained by the media that shows House Majority Leader, Republican Kevin McCarthy, talking about Trump being paid by Russian President Vladimir Putin. McCarthy says in the tape that he thinks that Putin pays Trump and said he “swears to God,” after some lawmakers laughed at the statement. Paul Ryan is also a part of this conversation and instructs those in the conversation to keep everything being said private.  (transcript of the audio) (source)

Republicans and democrats in both the House and Senate want Comey to testify about his interactions with Trump and whether Trump tried to obstruct the probe into Michael Flynn. (source)

Trump gave a speech to Coast Guard cadets graduating where he went on to tell them that “life is not always fair.” He then went on to whine about how he gets treated and that no politician in history has been treated as unfairly and bad as he is by people and the media. (source)

Sheriff David Clarke has accepted a job at the Department of Homeland Security. Clarke is well known for being a Fox News contributor, Trump fan, and for openly calling for the illegal patrolling of Muslim neighborhoods. He’s also currently in hot water for deaths that have occurred in his jail - including a baby and a man that that deliberately kept dehydrated for days until he died. Clarke has also made comments like “Let me tell you why blacks sell drugs and involve themselves in criminal behavior instead of a more socially acceptable lifestyle — because they’re uneducated, they’re lazy, and they’re morally bankrupt.” (source)

Budget documents regarding education show that the administration is planning on major cuts to public school programs and seeks to expand private and religious schools. Funding for college work-study programs would be cut in half, public-service loan forgiveness would end, and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would be gone. (source)

Current and former U.S. officials are saying that the life of a spy inside ISIS is at risk after Trump disclosed classified information in a meeting with Russian officials last week. The spy is from Israel and the intelligence was shared with the U.S. on the condition that it remain confidential. (source)

Rep. Robert Fisher, aka the lawmaker that was found to be the creator of the violently misogynistic reddit forum The Red Pill, has resigned. On the forum he frequently talked about the need to oppress women and take away their autonomy, he also defended rape and statutory rape. (source)

Chelsea Manning has finally been released from prison after serving seven years, a large portion that was in solitary. Manning would have served 35 years but her sentence was commuted before Obama left office. She says that she will continue to fight to have her sentence overturned entirely. (source) (Chelsea’s welcome home gofundme)

Russian LGBTQ rights groups have been trying to help those being persecuted in Chechnya escape. A spokesperson for the Russia LGBT Network told the media that they are having trouble securing them visa to flee and that the U.S. has also denied their requests. “We were informed that the U.S. is not going to issue visas for people from Chechnya.” The State Department issued a statement saying that they are still concerned about the situation in Chechnya but cannot comment if visa are being denied. (source)

$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290

$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160

That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88.  Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so let’s double it to get the budget. $543.75. That’s GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so we’ll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, we’ll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2  = $839. 

Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.

But again, you seem to think that’s fair. So let’s proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work. 

Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesn’t despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.

Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 you’re lying.

You are so focused on rent that you aren’t thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and it’s not possible to live off that in 2017 America. 

And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably won’t qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they won’t help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month. 

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