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Rep. Ilhan Omar, elected on a $174,000 salary, now reports a net worth between $6 million and $30 million. That is not drift. That is detonation. “Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s net worth reportedly skyrocketed to upwards of $30 million in 2024 after claiming she’s ‘barely worth thousands’ earlier this year,” reports IJR. source The …
Members of Congress are paid $174,000 annually. That figure has not changed in more than a decade, but the value of the job keeps growing in ways most Americans never see. Lawmakers only work roughly 160 scheduled days in-session per year. That includes time spent in hearings, debates, and votes, but excludes weekends, holidays, and …
A new study just flipped the script on diabetes treatment. Researchers tracked 174,458 patients with type 2 diabetes and found that GLP-1 receptor agonists cut dementia risk more effectively than metformin. The data spans 20 years. The results aren’t subtle. The study pulled anonymized health records from the Trinetx global network. Each drug cohort had …