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Meghan McCain dons 'Big Bad John McCain' shirt as veterans troll Trump's July 4 parade
By BrieAnna J. Frank · AZ Central ·Meghan McCain on Thursday posted a picture of herself wearing a shirt in honor of her late father John McCain that is being handed out by veterans at President Donald Trump's Fourth of July celebration in Washington,...
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NBC 4 Washington ·Volunteers handed out 5,000 free T-shirts emblazoned with "USS John McCain" ahead of President Donald Trump's "Salute to America" celebrations on the National Mall. VoteVets, a left-leaning group founded by veterans, teamed with Rags of ...
Tanks, Flyovers And Heightened Security: Trump's 4th Of July Ups Taxpayer Cost
By Claudia Grisales · NPR ·American taxpayers are looking at a bigger bill for this year's Independence Day party in the nation's capital. For this Fourth of July, President Trump has added an address from the Lincoln Memorial, tanks stationed in the area, an exte...
Veterans will give out USS John McCain T-shirts at Trump's July 4th event
By Jason Silverstein · CBS News ·Before President Trump holds his Fourth of July "Salute to America" celebration on the National Mall — complete with tanks and military aircraft flying overhead — a veterans group will hand out thousands o...
Veterans to hand out John McCain shirts at July Fourth celebration in DC
By Nikki Wentling · Stars and Stripes ·WASHINGTON — A group of veterans plans to hand out thousands of T-shirts during President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July event in Washington that feature one of Trump’s political rivals — the late Sen. John McCain....
Would Trump Send Muslim Countries Aid After Natural Disaster?
An MSNBC guest questioned during a segment on MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle on Thursday whether President Donald Trump would send the military to bring aid to Muslim-majority countries after a natural disaster. Host Stephani...
C-SPAN: Dan Caldwell and Jon Soltz on Veterans' Issues
By Washington Jounal · C-SPAN ·Concerned Veterans for America’s Dan Caldwell and Vote Vets' Jon Soltz talked about veterans issues and their collaboration on changes to war authorization measures in Congress.
Conservative and liberal veterans groups launch lobbying campaign to end the 'forever wars'
By James Clark · Task & Purpose ·On Tuesday, two political veterans groups, one on the left, the other on the right, announced a new lobbying campaign aimed at ending America's 'forever wars.' In a video tied to the announcement, Dan Caldwell, the senior adviser t...
Two Veterans Groups, Left and Right, Join Forces Against the Forever Wars
By Jennifer Steinhauer · New York Times ·WASHINGTON — The relationship began in the most Washington way ever: on the set of C-Span. Will Fischer, then the director of government relations for VoteVets, the liberal political action committee, was tapped to face off&nb...
These Female Veterans Reached Congress. Now They Want to Recruit Others.
By Jennifer Steinhauer · New York Times ·WASHINGTON — Marrying the growing political muscle of women and veterans in American politics, a group of female freshman lawmakers who served in the military and intelligence agencies are helping recruit more like them to run for ...