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year i reduced the deficit by $350 billion! and you know how much i'm going to reduce the deficit this year? $1,500,000 reduction in the deficit. and, by the way, just by dealing with allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices, it means medicare doesn't have to pay out that many tax dollars to buy them. that alone is going to reach over time $300 billion reduced in the deficit. you would think the republicans really cared about reducing inflation, they would vote for the inflation reduction act, but every single republican in the house and senate voted against it. now, i admit someon...

A unionization effort is underway among employees of Amazon.com's Iowa warehouses, with organizers threatening a strike. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 238 Organizing Director Buzz Malone said Friday that he has been recruiting workers to organize since November. He said the union has approached "400 to 500" current or former employees, primarily tied to Amazon's distribution centers in Grimes and Iowa City. "We're going to continue to organize them and turn them into a cohesive group to fight for their wages and conditions here," Malone said. An Amazon spokesperson did not imme...