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The Lever’s daily email newsletter.🔥 Today’s Lever story: After RealPage funneled campaign cash to the GOP, lawmakers quietly slipped a line into their budget bill blocking regulators from cracking down on its alleged nationwide rent-price-gouging.
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- The inconvenient truth about the war on drugs at the border.
- Republicans’ push to legalize Big Oil bribes.
- Why tracked data from your smartphone just got sold to a fraudster.
- The drug pricing loophole Trump refuses to take on.
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TODAY'S NUGGETS
⛽ The GOP really wants Big Oil to bribe them. Republicans slipped a provision into the budget reconciliation bill this week that would create a legalized system of bribery where oil and gas giants can write a check to federal officials in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment. Those bribes could even presumably be paid in Trump’s official meme coin as an additional way to curry favor with the administration, according to an exchange during a markup meeting this week.
