Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) trashed his congressional colleague, Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), for challenging President Joe Biden. Garcia said he is looking forward to when Phillips has to drop out of the presidential race, making the comment in reaction to a clip of the Minnesota Democrat warning that Biden will lose to […]
Technology companies are starting 2024 by laying off thousands of workers, continuing a trend of job cuts in 2022 and 2023. Nearly 11,000 employees were laid off in the first month of 2024, according to Layoffs.fyi, a continuation of cuts that began in 2022. The latest wave of job cuts is the technology companies “trying […]
Former President Donald Trump is flaunting confidence ahead of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, predicting a big win over former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley as the contest largely shapes up to be a two-person race. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) abruptly exited the GOP primary over the weekend, leaving Haley as […]
Former President Donald Trump’s niece isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to her famous uncle, writing on social media that he should just cut E. Jean Carroll a blank check for defaming her and then lying about it on camera. Mary Trump, the daughter of the former president’s older brother Fred Trump Jr., called […]
A coalition of nine Democratic governors have united to demand President Joe Biden and Congress give them more federal resources to help with the immigration crises in each of their states. The governors, led by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), urged Washington to pass a legislative package that would include funds for their states, along with […]
Every Alaska household receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will collect February payments in nine days. Alaska sends payments to every SNAP-participating household, regardless of case number or last name, on the 1st of each month. North Dakota, Rhode Island, and Vermont will also send out all payments on Feb. 1. About 12% […]
The share of workers in the United States who are union members dropped to 10% in 2023, a record low, even as organized labor received outsize attention. The decline was a subtle drop from the year before, when union membership sat at 10.1%. The total number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions in […]
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre went after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Republican lawmakers on Tuesday for “getting in the way” of negotiations in the Senate on a deal linking new Ukraine aid to border security policy reforms. President Joe Biden met with Johnson and the other “Big Four” congressional leaders at […]
The White House is scolding House Republicans who are encouraging Texas to ignore the Supreme Court‘s decision regarding the use of razor wire along the border. Reps. Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Chip Roy (R-TX) are among the lawmakers who have criticized the Supreme Court for siding with President Joe Biden‘s administration in permitting Border Patrol […]
Starting in January, monthly payments of $528 will be sent out to 100 entrepreneurs with low incomes in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The two-year guaranteed income pilot program, called Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor, is led by the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions team. The program has been allocated $1.6 million in federal American Rescue […]
