N.J. Democrat who barely won re-election in 2020 already has wads of cash for 2022 race
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Rep. Tom Malinowski, barely re-elected in 2020, brought in more money than ever before as he prepares to defend his seat in 2022.
Malinowski, D-7th Dist., raised $923,020 from Jan. 1 to March 31, new Federal Election Commission filings show. That’s more than he previously raised in any three-month period during in any three-month period in either 2017 or 2019, the off-years before Election Day.
He entered April with $820,591 in his campaign bank account.
“A lot of people were exhausted by the last election but they’re still coming forward,” Malinowski said.
As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gathers his union’s executive committee this week to discuss whether or not his union will take a position in favor of eliminating the Senate’s legislative
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By Don McIntosh
President Joe Biden invited 10 top union leaders to the White House Feb. 17 for a meeting alongside Vice President Kamala Harris to talk about COVID relief and his plans to create manufacturing and clean energy jobs.
“The middle class built this country, and labor built the middle class,” Biden said in front of cameras before the private meeting began.
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka later called it the most productive Oval Office meeting for working people in years. The White House meeting coincided with several pro-union announcements, the latest in a string of overtures to America’s labor movement.
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