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"I think the way Judge Crawford ran her race was disgusting...I'm not looking forward to working with her," Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley said. "She's bought and paid for by the Democratic Party."

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Yes, it’s true. Every VOA employee I know, including myself, has been placed on administrative leave for now. Does VOA need reforms? Absolutely—it’s long overdue in many ways. Let’s hope current pause is only temporary, before big changes. VOA was founded in 1942 and has been broadcasting American news to 49 countries around the world. As of November 2022, its reporting reached 326 million adults per week across all platforms. The people who watched us loved VOA and had deep admiration and respect for the United States. P.S. During the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, many Ukrainians first learned about it through VOA radio broadcasts from the U.S. The Russian-Soviet government never told its people they were slowly dying from radiation exposure. P.P.S. Thank you for all the words of support—I truly appreciate them. It is so nice to know, how many people followed our work.

Several Senate Democrats privately signal after lengthy closed-door lunch they expect that enough of their colleagues will vote to break a Democratic filibuster and let the House GOP stop-gap plan become law. Everything is very fluid, so it's still unclear how this plays out and could change again. But there's a growing belief that there will at least eight Dems who will vote to break a filibuster. Vote scheduled for tomorrow. Schumer going to the floor soon to lay out his latest thinking. Meantime, a warning from some Ds not to capitulate to the GOP demands, as they argue the CR is worse than a shutdown and would give Trump more power. Booker: "This is saying, let's just give up even more of our Constitutional authority, because, hey, he can do a lot worse later on. And so to me, that's capitulating to someone who's already showing that he's reckless and willing to do a lot of destruction... We are in a perverse bizarro land where we're having to decide between letting Donald Trump wreck the government this way or wreck the government that way."