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In announcing her departure from politics, Ms Cusack said: 'The idea that being a flood victim in a National Party-held seat makes you more worthy than a flood victim who is in the Richmond electorate...
Keisha Lance Bottoms says a stray bullet nearly hit her nephew after it penetrated his bedroom wall and landed beside his bed in Atlanta - just years after another nephew was tragically shot and killed.
'Until we deal with the systemic issues of gun violence in this country - how easily young people with mental illness can access guns in this country, I'm afraid that this will not be the last summer that we are having this conversation,' Bottoms told .
'And normally in natural disasters there's a lot of bipartisanship, people work together, but unfortunately over the last three-and-a-half years they've tried to use it to have a crack at me on every occasion.'
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The White House accuses Republicans of 'endangering public safety, raising costs for families, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and undermining American workers, weakening national security, and hurting seniors.'
As LA battles rising crime, critics are blaming Gascon's 'soft' policies, and an effort to recall him is underway - which on Friday saw a former LAPD chief who previously endorsed him rescind his support.
'People underestimated what the House Republicans could accomplish, and we've really set the agenda,' the third highest ranking House Republican said. 'We are playing our role as the as the last backstop for the American people from single party Democrat rule.'
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'While people in northern NSW aren't able to work, are still clearing out their homes and businesses, the extra two $1000 payments we're rolling out to eligible families and individuals will support our communities as they start to rebuild their lives,' she said.
Scott Morrison told Weekend Today the idea his cabinet has been too slow to respond to emergencies was nothing more than a 'Labor narrative' - despite criticisms being levelled by members within the Coalition.
Earlier on Thursday, Social Services Minister Anne Ruston announced the government would provide an additional $9million to 83 emergency and food relief services supporting flood victims in northern NSW and Queensland.
President Joe Biden is ramping up his attacks on House Republicans, claiming their budget proposals will hurt American families, as both sides prepare to do battle over spending by the federal government before it runs out of money sometime this summer.
'They tired of people pretending the way to end racism is by categorizing everybody by their race,' she continued. 'They're tired of politicians who tell parents they should sit down, be silent and let government control their kids education and future.'
'When you're talking about the investments of hundreds of millions of dollars - and indeed billions now - then people would expect this to go through the proper assessment of the proposals which we did yesterday,' Mr Morrison told reporters in Perth.
'As MAGA House Republicans go to Florida for their retreat, the White House and Congressional Democrats are going on offense, slamming the Freedom Caucus's MAGA Budget Proposal as a Five-Alarm Fire for hardworking families.
The former mayor also said the pandemic 'left a lot of people battered and bruised, not just physically, but also emotionally,' which led to an increase in personal disputes that could easily be exacerbated by guns.
The White House is focused on a budget plan from the conservative Freedom Caucus that would cap overall discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for 10 years while allowing for 1 percent growth per year, which would be a $131 billion cut from current levels.
U.S. Capitol Police officers stand guard near the Capitol Building Tuesday morning as a security perimeter has been erected around the building for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday night
Bottoms, who served as mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022, previously blamed the 50 percent increase in homicides in 2021 on lax gun laws, teenagers having too much free time on their hands and the state lifting its COVID-19.