December’s Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943, will go out to millions of people in six days. The next set of SSI payments will be distributed on Nov. 29 because Dec. 1 is a Sunday. The check is the second one sent in November but won’t affect the total received from the Social Security Administration for the year. […]
The final round of November’s Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, will go out to the third group of retirees in four days. Here is all you need to know about this month’s Social Security payments, which go out in three rounds. What is it? President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the […]
Senate Democrats are set to rekindle their love for the very procedural tool they spent years trying to weaken: the filibuster. Soon to be in the minority, Democrats are ready to use whatever tactics are at their disposal to put up roadblocks for Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump — including the 60-vote threshold many have […]
President-elect Donald Trump made major inroads with union voters this year, and has now picked union-friendly Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) as labor secretary to match. “Lori has worked tirelessly with both Business and Labor to build America’s workforce, and support the hardworking men and women of America,” Trump said as part a flurry of Friday […]
Three people were arrested after pro-Palestinian and anti-NATO protests in Montreal turned violent on Friday, police said. Protests denouncing NATO occurred in the city all day as it hosts the 70th annual session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from Friday to Monday. The protests turned violent, however, after demonstrators began to throw objects at police and two […]
President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly set to fire the entirety of special counsel Jack Smith’s team as well as use the Department of Justice to investigate the 2020 election. Trump plans to eliminate the entirety of Smith’s team, including career attorneys typically protected from political retribution, according to a report from the Washington Post. Smith […]
President-elect Donald Trump named a number of key nominations to his administration on Friday night. Notable nominations include hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to serve as the secretary of the Treasury Department, outgoing Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) to be the secretary of the Department of Labor, and former Texas state Rep. Scott Turner for secretary […]
President-elect Donald Trump nominated outgoing Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) to be secretary of the Department of Labor. Chavez-DeRemer has been described by the New York Times as a “a mainstream Republican” who pitches herself as an independent thinker. Trump, in his nomination, said her appointment “will achieve historic cooperation between Business and Labor that will […]
A bipartisan group of nearly 40 members of Congress is requesting Secretary of State Antony Blinken to provide “immediate classified briefings” on “Turkey’s growing relationship with Hamas.” The letter, led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Dan Goldman (D-NY), and Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and co-signed by 34 other representatives in the House, is […]
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget, a position he previously held during the first Trump administration. Trump announced the decision on Friday evening. Vought, 48, was the budget director from 2019 to 2021, when Trump first departed from office. “Russ has spent many […]
