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Dem Candidate Alex Morse Purchased $10,000 Christmas Tree on City Tab

The Washington Free Beacon

Democratic congressional candidate Alex Morse, who was endorsed by Justice Democrats on Wednesday, used a city debit card to purchase a $10,000 Christmas tree in 2018 as the mayor of Holyoke. Morse, who announced his candidacy in late July against Rep. Richard Neal (D., Mass.), faced scrutiny last year after his office purchased a $10,000 artificial Christmas tree using the city’s debit card.

Dem Candidates Call for More Than $200 Trillion in Spending

The Washington Free Beacon

Of the 26 declared candidates…most have put enormous new government programs front and center in their campaigns. Totaling up these proposals gives taxpaying voters a sense of the budget priorities of the average Democratic candidate. That overall figure is an undercount, as it is based only on proposals for which the Free Beacon could identify actual spending estimates.

Big Tech Antagonist Elizabeth Warren Doesn’t Know What “Selfie” Means

The Washington Free Beacon

Warren, who recently participated in an MSNBC town hall in Fort Wayne, Ind., Tweeted her thanks to supporters for attending the event, and posted a short time-lapse video of the candidate posing for “selfies.” None of the so-called “selfies” in Warren’s video were actually taken by the candidate herself. In other words, they weren’t actually selfies. In the world of politics, that’s called “being out of touch.”

Warren Has Proposed or Backed Plans Totaling Roughly $129 Trillion in Spending

The Washington Free Beacon

Elizabeth Warren has won praise on the left for saying she has “got a plan” for various issues, and she has proposed an “ultra-millionaire,” 2 percent tax on Americans worth $50 million or more—it rises to 3 percent on Americans worth at least $1 billion—to pay for many of her projects, claiming it will raise about $2.75 trillion over the next decade.