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The Metro: Michigan Republican Tom Barrett disagrees with Trump’s war. Can he keep his seat?

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Sam Corey

One of the most watched races across the country is in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. That area includes Lansing, East Lansing, and the farm counties and exurbs around them, out to Livingston County and the edge of Oakland County.

Republican Congressman Tom Barrett won the seat two years ago by less than four points, and both parties think it could decide who has a majority in the House of Representatives. Barrett’s opponent is progressive Democrat Will Lawrence. The Metro spoke with him last week.

Barrett spent 22 years in the Army. He was deployed to Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, and served nearly a decade in the state legislature before going to Washington.

Since then he’s done something most Republicans haven’t. Four times, he’s voted to say only Congress can authorize war with Iran, and he’s kept President Donald Trump’s endorsement anyway.

Over the weekend, President Trump rejected an Iranian offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The war has continued, and so has the increasing cost of gas prices.

Congressman Barrett joined The Metro‘s Robyn Vincent to discuss where his positions overlap — and don’t — with President Trump’s, and what his plans are if he’s able to keep his seat.

In the conversation, Congressman Tom Barrett said that over 10 million undocumented immigrants flooded across our border when then-President Joe Biden was in office. 

Research from the conservative Cato Institute estimates that the net increase in the undocumented immigrant population during the Biden administration was closer to about 5.5 million people. That’s because millions of people were expelled, deported or returned to their home country or Mexico before President Donald Trump took office.

Hear the full conversation using the media player above.

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John James and Tom Barrett are keeping campaign cash from a Republican accused of burning his ex-wife and holding a gun to her head

✇Detroit Metro Times
Steve Neavling

U.S. Rep. Max Miller, a Republican from Ohio, is accused of holding a gun to his ex-wife’s head, burning her with hot water, and injuring their 2-year-old daughter, allegations that have prompted several fellow Republicans to call for his resignation.

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Michigan Republicans face heat over utility donations as DTE and Consumers seek rate hikes

✇Detroit Metro Times
Steve Neavling

As Michigan’s two largest utilities seek nearly $1 billion in electric rate hikes, a climate advocacy group is calling attention to campaign donations from the utility industry to two Republican congressmen who supported President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending law.

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