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This pride season, we saw the federal government do its best to address some of the harm being done in statehouses across this country.

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This past week former President Barack Obama made his first trip to the White House since leaving in 2017, to support the announcement of an administrative rule change or government clarification of policy to fix the so-called 'family glitch' in Obamacare.

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