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As well as promising to bring about "immediate modernisation" to the Lords by abolishing hereditary peers, Labour's general election manifesto pledged to introduce a mandatory retirement age of 80 for members of the upper house.

From BBC

The drafters of the amendment wanted to consign Dred Scott to the dustbin of history—not only by abolishing slavery, but also by compelling the government to forever recognize the equal citizenship of all people born in the U.S., so that no caste of “inferior” people could ever again be established.

From Slate

Trump downsized monuments in the West during his first term, and some want him to go further in his second — by abolishing the Antiquities Act altogether.

He has proposed making tipped income tax-free, abolishing tax on social security payments and shaving corporation tax.

From BBC

Thermostatic public opinion shifts virtually guarantee that there will be a pendulum swing against MAGA’s designs once the second Trump administration begins ramping up its mass deportation efforts, imposing inflation-spiking tariffs, replacing lifetime civil servants with Turning Point Action interns, abolishing birthright citizenship, and trying to block federal student loans from being used at universities with DEI offices, to pick a few examples from the GOP’s agenda.

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