(The Center Square) – More than 300,000 Illinois residents stand to be cleared of all outstanding medical debt through the creation of the Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program Fund ready to be sent to the governor. Sponsored by state Sen. Mike Simmons, D-Chicago, House Bill 5290 seeks to alleviate medical debt for families across the […]
(The Center Square) – Arizona lawmakers narrowly passed a budget on Saturday after hours of negotiations into the night on Friday. The budget was one that entailed many cuts and fund transfers to combat a $1.4 billion deficit. Cuts were made across agencies, and several amendments were made between the original budget draft and the […]
The Indiana Republican Party is moving forward with plans to appoint a new GOP candidate after the primary race for a U.S. congressional seat was won by a woman who passed away months before the election. Jennifer Pace won a GOP primary for Indiana’s 7th Congressional District on May 7 with 31.2% of the vote, […]
The second of three rounds of June’s Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for those who retire at 70, will be sent out to retirees on June 18. Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of the month will be receiving their payments in just two days. The third round of payments will be sent on June 26 to […]
Georgia voters will head back to the polls on Tuesday, and while most of the Peach State’s primary action was decided back in May, a trio of results will help shape the future makeup of the state’s congressional delegation. There is no U.S. Senate or governor’s race in Georgia this year, but there is still […]
First lady Jill Biden made her first public comments about Hunter Biden’s conviction on felony gun charges on Saturday while in Phoenix for a campaign event. The first lady was in Arizona to court senior voters in the swing state before joining her husband, President Joe Biden, at an event with former President Barack Obama, […]
Anthony Scaramucci, a former Trump White House communications director, called out some attendees of this week’s Business Roundtable meeting for supporting his former boss in the 2024 presidential election. The meeting came Thursday while former President Donald Trump visited Washington and featured prominent CEOs such as Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, Apple’s Tim Cook, and JP Morgan […]
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is coming up short in fundraising for his campaign despite trying a myriad of strategies. Kennedy has sold $10 raffle tickets for excursions with him and his wife, comedian Cheryl Hines, but has not seen growth in the number of small donations, which currently make up over one-fourth […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was in Detroit on Saturday when he referenced musician Taylor Swift during a speech. Gaetz predicted that President Joe Biden will lose his reelection bid in November during a Turning Point USA event. Biden will likely face off against former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. “Taylor Swift has been […]
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) dismissed polls suggesting that incumbent President Joe Biden is losing black support to his opponent, former President Donald Trump. Clyburn scoffed at questions surrounding Biden’s polling during an interview on the Playbook Deep Dive podcast that aired Friday. In particular, host Ryan Lizza pointed to a Wall Street Journal poll from April found 30% of Black voters were […]
