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11-14-25 - The Peek Perspective
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025

Lawmakers Collected $20K Each During Historic Shutdown As Americans Struggled

During the record-long government shutdown, most members of Congress continued to receive their salaries, earning approximately $20,000 each while millions of federal workers were furloughed or working without pay, the New York Post reports. This discrepancy has sparked widespread criticism and accusations of hypocrisy, as lawmakers seem insulated from the hardships felt across the nation. […]
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Zohran Mamdani’s 911 Reform Faces Trouble as Test Program Falters

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s push to replace police officers with social workers on 911 calls is drawing sharp criticism, and the evidence continues to mount that the experiment will fail—just as skeptics predicted, according to the New York Post. Despite his insistence that dispatchers and social workers possess sufficient expertise and insight to […]
The Economy Rolls Along, Depressing Trump Haters

Well, well. Notwithstanding all the gloom and doom from the leftist media, it turns out businesses in the U.S. are doing great. Actually, the economy is humming; who would have seen that coming? The FT reports: “US companies’ earnings are growing at the fastest pace in four years, defying predictions that President Donald Trump’s trade […]

