Trump Shares Senator's Phone Number Over Daylight Saving Bill
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President Trump wants a new law about daylight saving time. This is when clocks change in spring and autumn.
Trump asked people to call Senator Tom Cotton. He wants Cotton to support the bill.
Trump shared Cotton's phone number online. This is called doxing. Doxing means sharing someone's private information without asking them first.
Senator John Kennedy did not like this. He said Trump was wrong to share the number.
Trump gave a reason for sharing the number. People think his reason was strange.
Tom Cotton is a senator from the state of Arkansas. A senator is a person who makes laws for the country.
This story shows how leaders sometimes disagree, even in the same political party. A political party is a group of people with similar ideas about government.
Vocabulary15 words
- daylight saving
- changing clocks in spring and autumn; happens twice a year
- doxing
- sharing someone's private information without asking
- senator
- a person who makes laws for a country
- political party
- a group of people with similar ideas about government
- bill
- a new law that people are talking about
- president
- the leader of a country
- criticism
- saying something is wrong or bad
- online
- on the internet
- support
- to agree with and help something
- private
- not for everyone to know
- reason
- why someone does something
- strange
- not normal; unusual
- law
- a rule made by the government
- government
- the group of people who run a country
- state
- a part of a country, like Arkansas
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1. Call Senator Tom Cotton 2. Sharing private information without asking 3. Senator Kennedy
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President Trump wants a new law about _____ time.
Trump asked people to _____ Senator Tom Cotton.
He wants Cotton to _____ the bill.
Trump shared Cotton's _____ number online.
This is called _____.
Senator John _____ did not like this.
He said Trump was _____ to share the number.
Tom Cotton is a senator from the state of _____.
People think his reason was _____.
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