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On the recordMarch 24, 2026
however bad you think the corruption is in Washington, I promise you it is worse. At the Department of Homeland Security, Corey Lewandowski allegedly demanded that companies pay him a fee in exchange for taxpayer contracts and Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting $50,000 of cash in a paper bag from undercover FBI agents. The President himself has made billions selling cryptocurrencies since he took office. We don't even know who he sold it to. Meta, X, and Paramount gave $63 million to the President's library fund, which was then dissolved. Where did that money go? It disappeared. Meanwhile, Members of Congress can trade stocks of companies that we vote to regulate and can go to online prediction markets to bet on whether bills that we wrote are going to pass or not. If you want to know why big corporations are given a free pass by Washington to jack up prices and gouge people, this is why. If you want to know why the oil and gas companies make billions while people can't heat their homes or why the cost of food and healthcare is out of control, it is because of the corruption. Mr. Speaker, enough is enough. We need to crack down on this.
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Seth Magaziner
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Addressing corruption in Washington and its impact on the economy and public welfare.

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