The House is set Wednesday to consider a major bipartisan proposal that would expand the child tax credit and renew key business investment deductions. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) added consideration of the legislation, H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, to the schedule for Wednesday. The floor vote was highly anticipated and […]
A voting rights group founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is drastically cutting back and laying off staff amid significant debt as contributions fall. Fair Fight was started in 2018 to advocate less restrictive voting laws, particularly in the court system. The group’s previous CEO, Lauren Groh-Wargo, who left to manage Abrams’s second […]
EXCLUSIVE — A South Dakota state legislator is taking aim at a key argument in favor of legal abortion by combatting misinterpretation and confusion of the state’s restrictions on abortion. Republican state Rep. Taylor Rehfeldt, who holds a doctorate in nursing and practiced as a nurse anesthetist until she took office in 2021, introduced the […]
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee pushed forward two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas early Wednesday morning, setting up a full House vote on the matter. The GOP has called for Mayorkas’s impeachment for months, alleging he has neglected his duty to secure the southern border, but impeaching the head […]
(The Center Square) – A group of Democratic senators is calling on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates as a way of addressing housing affordability. U.S. Sens. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., sent a letter to Chair Jerome Powell on Monday, just before the Fed is scheduled to meet on […]
Former President Donald Trump has allegedly made private remarks about his greater popularity than pop megastar Taylor Swift as speculation of her possible endorsement of President Joe Biden in 2024 takes off. The former president reportedly claimed he was “more popular” than the singer, per the Rolling Stone, citing sources close to Trump. He further […]
(The Center Square) – Montana plans on suing the federal government over its recent decision to list wolverines as a threatened species. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks on Friday filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after the agency in November moved to list wolverines in the contiguous U.S. as […]
(The Center Square) – Consideration of a proposed ban on sales of new gas-powered vehicles in Connecticut could happen in regular legislative session, but will not happen in a special called one. House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, says the new legislative session gets started on Wednesday of next week. Formal consideration of a proposal to adopt […]
(The Center Square) – A group of 22 Democratic attorneys general is urging a federal appeals court to allow the federal government to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour for some federal contractors. President Joe Biden’s executive order in April 2021 increased the minimum wage, which was set at $10.10 per hour in […]
“Bidenomics” isn’t working well, and now there’s proof. Despite records being broken on Wall Street, those on Main Street are living and working for their next paycheck and have little saved for an emergency. In the latest Issues and Insights/TIPP poll, released early Wednesday, 64% said they are “living ‘paycheck to paycheck’ these days.” Even […]
