President Joe Biden on Friday signed a bill into law averting the threat of another government shutdown just hours before a midnight deadline. The stopgap measure approved Thursday by Congress will keep the government funded for just a few more weeks however, with the first batch of appropriations packages set to expire on March 8 […]
Republican legislators in Kentucky are working to ensure Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) is stripped of his power to fill a Senate vacancy amid Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) decision to step down from his post as the upper chamber’s GOP leader. The state House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee voted on Thursday to […]
In 14 days, 100 low-income entrepreneurs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will receive monthly payments for March of $528 each as part of the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor program. The University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions team, a two-year pilot program, started distributing payments in January to selected applicants. Kristin Seefeldt, the associate director of […]
The House Administration Committee released 5,000 hours of additional security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as part of House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) promise to make all surveillance videos available for public access. Johnson said in a statement on Friday that the committee will no longer plan to blur the faces of […]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended his policy that uses taxpayer dollars to fund debit cards for immigrants as a cost-effective measure of responsibility. “The reason it’s created such controversy is because [of] how it has been reported and distorted,” Adams told CNBC on Friday. “We are required to feed migrants and asylum-seekers, as […]
Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) urged the Social Security Administration to crack down on overpayment errors in a letter on Thursday. The senators wrote the overpayment problems, which can take years to spot, can place financial hardships on millions of recipients, including seniors and disabled people. Recipients who are overpaid are expected […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that it is dropping several guidelines specific to COVID-19, including the five-day isolation policy after testing positive for the virus. These changes mark the first time that the CDC has revised its COVID-19 guidelines since 2021. “We’re in a different situation,” CDC Director Mandy Cohen […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was accused of baking in an exception for a big donor this week. A new California law raises the state’s minimum wage from $16 per hour to $20 per hour, except for restaurants that have an on-site bakery and sell bread as a stand-alone item. That clause appears to do a big […]
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that potentially hundreds of defendants charged for their actions at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot had their sentences improperly lengthened, raising the possibility that many will have to be resentenced. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Jan. 6 defendants who […]
Former President Donald Trump said Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is “absolutely” on his list of contenders for vice president during his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday. In a sit-down interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Thursday evening, Trump said he is considering the governor as a possible vice presidential pick, adding that […]
