Biden Actions on Food Stamps, Obamacare, Student Loans to Hike Deficit
A letter from the Congressional Budget Office in response to an inquiry by a Republican congressman from Missouri confirms that the Biden administration’s executive actions will increase cost to federal taxpayers and fuel rising deficits. The response to Rep. Jason Smith from the CBO highlights three major actions taken by the Biden administration—on food stamps, […]
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Democrats Temporarily Lose Senate Majority as Leahy Heads for Hip Surgery
The Democrats in Congress have temporarily lost their slim majority. Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont will be going into surgery on Thursday after breaking his hip. A statement from Leahy’s office said the 82-year-old lawmaker “will undergo surgery to repair a broken hip that he suffered as a result from a fall at his house […]
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Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Pat Cipollone, Former Trump White House Counsel
The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021’s attack on the U.S. Capitol Building has subpoenaed Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel, to discuss matters related to his work under former President Donald Trump. In a joint statement from committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming), the committee said […]
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Sweeping Supreme Court Ruling Curbs EPA’s Power to Limit Carbon Emissions
In a sweeping Thursday ruling that some experts warn could endanger a host of environmental and public health protections, the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority declared that federal environmental regulators cannot take the dramatic action necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and protect the public from climate disasters without new legislation from a […]
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Biden Reportedly Cuts Deal With Mitch McConnell to Nominate Anti-Abortion Judge
President Joe Biden reportedly reached a deal with Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in order to nominate an abortion lawyer to a lifetime federal judgeship for Kentucky. This news comes less that a week after the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right to abort. According to Louisville’s Courier-Journal, Biden has agreed to nominate […]
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Overturn of “Roe” Shows How Extreme an Outlier the US Has Become
An NPR/Ipsos ballot launched in January revealed that the overwhelming majority of People consider that U.S. democracy is “in crisis and at risk of failing.” What the ballot doesn’t disclose, after all, is the anomalous scenario of the USA compared to different democracies. For starters, the U.S. is a really conservative and militaristic nation, with […]
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Nothing Ends With the Law. Let’s Talk About Life After “Roe.”
Abortion rights supporters march whereas protesting towards the latest U.S. Supreme Court docket choice to finish federal abortion rights protections on June 27, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.Mario Tama / Getty Photographs “It’s about 5:30 in Alabama on the primary morning of there being no authorized abortion when our clinic must be open. And it’s […]
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Scully announces interim compensation for PO Horizon scandal
In a statement to the House of Commons, BEIS minister Paul Scully announced “interim payments of compensation” to postmasters impacted by the post office Horizon scandal. Scully told the House that he has been “moved” by the impacts of these events on paymasters. Shadow minister Chi Onwurah welcomed the announcement, praising the minister for making […]
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UK remains ‘safe haven’ for ‘dirty money’ despite Russia sanctions
MPs have today accused “morally bankrupt” billionaires of using the UK as a “laundromat” for illicit finance despite a slew of fresh sanctions. In a new report: “The Cost of Complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine”, the foreign affairs committee urges the government to act now, while sanctions against Russia are in place, […]
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Truss says Johnson won’t face stitch-up over whether he misled Commons
The foreign secretary has denied claims Boris Johnson could face a “kangaroo court” style investigation as MPs probe allegations he may have misled the Commons over “Partygate”. The probe by the cross party privileges committee of MPs is expected to be completed sometime in the fall. Four of the seven members are Conservative. Speaking with […]
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