Jim Spencer
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 5, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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Commentary: Are you better off than you were before? (opens the original)
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“Pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot.” This is what President Donald Trump urged voters to do at a recent rally for Lindsay Graham’s sister who is running to fill her late brother’s U.S. Senate seat. It is what voters in Virginia’s 1st and 2nd congressional districts should do in the 2026 midterm elections. Pretend Trump is on the ballot and judge Republican incumbents Rob Wittman and Jen Kiggans by their votes to support him in every major initiative of his second term. Then, ask yourself w
Commentary: Cleaning up a ‘big, beautiful’ mess (opens the original)
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The decision of the 2026 Virginia General Assembly and Gov. Abigail Spanberger to budget $350 million for a Medicaid Reserve Fund and $150 million for a Virginia Health Insurance Affordability Fund was a godsend for people living in the Old Dominion. Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” federal budget, passed in 2025, so deeply cut Medicaid that it threatened to leave thousands of sick and chronically ill Virginians without a way to pay doctors and hospitals. This will not solve Medicaid fraud as the
Column: Kiggans, Wittman advance spurious claims about immigrants (opens the original)
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U.S. Reps. Rob Wittman’s and Jen Kiggans’ defense of votes to add funding to President Donald Trump’s national purge of undocumented immigrants proves once again why constituents should question their loyalty to the people they represent. Public statements by each Republican House member relied on general statements about the danger of immigrants that facts simply do not support. Wittman said, “recent reports of increased violence in cities across Virginia and the nation are deeply disturbing, p
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