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Gov. Phil Murphy is on a tight deadline for cannabis, with few good options.
The state Senate’s clean-up bills to sort out penalties for underage pot users fell apart yesterday. Now, Murphy is forced to either sign cannabis legislation sent to him in December which doesn’t include the underage penalties he wants or veto the measure altogether. Senate President Steve Sweeney has also promised to reject any conditional veto.
Pete Hegseth falsely claimed that former President
Donald Trump was spontaneously greeted by supporters who gathered to see him return from a Presidents Day golf outing in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The comments from Hegseth came as
Fox & Friends discussed the latest Gallup poll showing most Republicans think America needs a third mainstream political party. The show then aired footage of Trump’s motorcade as it passed a crowd of people cheering for him on Presidents Day.
“That was not a planned event,” Hegseth said. “That was spontaneous on Presidents Day for Donald Trump.”
The conversation went back to Gallup’s data shortly after, with Hegseth remarking that the Republican Party has been “totally transformed” by Trump, and he warned against those in the GOP who might try to pull the party away from the ex-president. The show also ran footage of
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