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<title><![CDATA[Hayes Brown - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/35695.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Hayes Brown]]></description><category domain="35695">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Most Self-Aware Question Trump Has Ever Asked]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-time-interview-white-house-ballroom</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I say to people, am I a better builder or politician?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One Thing GOP's Massive Midterms Cash Pile Can't Buy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/republicans-midterms-money-economy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP holds a major cash advantage over Democrats, but there's likely no amount they can spend to persuade voters to ignore their own economic pain.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Really Wants To Rename Lake Ontario]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-lake-ontario-america-rename</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An executive order to rename Lake Ontario is a bandage on a wounded ego, not the power move Trump seems to think it is.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hubris of Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/donald-trump-historical-figure-powerful</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president reportedly thinks that he is a Top 10 world historical figure who is meant to change the world. That level of self-aggrandizing often doesn't end well.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gig Workers More Reliant Than Ever on Government Benefits]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/gao-amazon-doordash-uber-lyft-snap-medicaid</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new government report shows just how many gig workers still require SNAP and Medicaid benefits to make ends meet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Last Minute Priorities Are Horribly Misplaced]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/midterm-elections-house-war-funding-iran</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican lawmakers never seem to have a problem finding money for war, only for everything else.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biggest Problems With Trump's Primetime Address Tonight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-primetime-speech-elections-iran</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This primetime address promises to be a presidential clip show, stitching together something not fully satisfying out of old material.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What SCOTUS Election Ruling Means for Trump's Tantrums]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/supreme-court-mail-voting-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans lost a bid to throw out Mississippi's three-day grace period for absentee ballots, but the president is still itching for a fight.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Turns Congress' Housing Boom Bill Into a Bust]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-congress-housing-cost-mortage-bill</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president can't fathom the point of Congress passing a law that doesn't provide instant results and gratification.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump's First-Year Blitzkrieg Stalled Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-first-year-blitzkrieg-stalled-out</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A combination of overreach from the administration, war with Iran and presidential distraction has left the White House's lightning pace slowed to a crawl.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[UFC Fight at WH a Grand Pageant for 80-Year-Old Boy King]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/white-house-ufc-match-trump-birthday</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A $60 million price tag outstrips even the most lavish spectacles that medieval tournaments provided for feudal lords.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Most Dangerously Sycophantic Promotion Yet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/bill-pulte-trump-national-intelligence</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump has put the boy who cried mortgage fraud as the (acting) overseer of America's intelligence agencies. That can't end well for anyone.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's GOP Victories Could Be Headaches in November]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-gop-primary-paxton-texas</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president doesn't seem to care who can actually win in Texas, leaving the GOP's Senate majority at risk.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Trying To Fool Americans With Gas Tax Holiday]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/gas-tax-pause-prices-trump-iran</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pausing the 18-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax will barely make a dent in the surge in costs since the war in Iran began.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House's 'Two Kings' Post Is More Truth Than Troll]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-king-approval-iran-tariffs</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When every decision comes from one person, there's only one person to blame when everything is going wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Battle Royal Over Re-Opening DHS]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/gop-budget-reconciliation-dhs-ice-funding</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Embattled GOP lawmakers trying to re-open DHS find themselves besieged on all fronts by their fellow GOP lawmakers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is the World's Worst Friend]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-war-allies-nato-hormuz</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Real friends tell the truth, they don't enable you when you launch unprovoked wars of aggression against Iran.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Have Another Reason To Doubt GOP Governance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/mike-johnson-dhs-shutdown-tsa-ice</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The split between House and Senate Republicans showcases how ill-equipped the modern GOP is to govern.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Some GOP Senators Have Become Anti-Filibuster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/mike-lee-fix-senate-filibuster-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some Senate Republicans are making the case to weaken the filibuster in order to make it harder for millions to vote.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Aren't Stressing the Partial DHS Shutdown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/democrats-dhs-shutdown-ice-demands</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While time is usually on the status quo's side, Senate Democrats' unity gives them room to dig in on their demands to rein in ICE and Border Patrol.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jack Smith Is No Robert Mueller]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/jack-smith-house-testimony-robert-mueller</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former special counsel wanted the chance to tell the story of President Donald Trump's crimes in public. Now he's got it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Giving Denmark and Greenland an Impossible Choice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-greenland-denmark-meeting</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even as diplomats try to tone down heated rhetoric, Trump keeps making any option other than surrender impossible for Denmark and Greenland.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Wants To Make Imperialism Great Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/donald-trump-imperial-maga-venezuela</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president has moved on from the isolationism of his first term.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters May Not Want To Hear GOP's Midterm Message]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/gop-midterms-messaging-mike-johnson-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's refusal to talk about affordability isn't helping Republicans wanting to sell voters on keeping the House in the 2026 midterms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Has Gotten Bad at Being Congress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/congress-few-laws-passed-trump-johnson-thune</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mike Johnson and John Thune have presided over an unproductive trifecta, despite Republicans running Congress and Trump in the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Indiana Republicans Said No to Gerrymander]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/indiana-senate-gerrymander-redistricting-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In rejecting Trump's redistricting demands, Hoosier state senators demonstrated what should happen when fair elections are treated as an afterthought.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Farmer Bailout Doesn't Add Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-tariff-bailout-farmers</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The $12 billion aid package announced at the White House is far less than farmers have had to pay in increased prices this year thanks to Trump's tariffs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Schumer Doesn't Deserve This Heat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/senate-shutdown-deal-chuck-schumer-rcna243015</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Senate minority leader didn't vote to end the shutdown but is still getting the blame for his members caving.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why DOJ Election Monitors in CA &amp; NJ Are Setting Off Alarms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/doj-election-monitors-california-new-jersey-are-setting-alarms-rcna240353</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The circumstances surrounding a normally routine deployment of Justice Department lawyers to Democratic-led states are raising a lot of red flags.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Photos of East Wing Demolition Have Struck a Chord]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-destroying-entire-white-house-east-wing-feed-ego-rcna238970</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hayes Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sudden destruction of the White House's East Wing to make way for a massive gilded ballroom is a huge departure from previous remodels and renovations.]]></description>
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