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Jun 11 2021
News
Democrats wary of emerging bipartisan infrastructure deal
Progressive Democrats are wary of an emerging deal on infrastructure being negotiated by five Republican and five Democratic senators, fearing it could make it tougher to get prized priorities to President Biden’s desk.
The progressives are specifically worried that passing a bipartisan infrastructure package consisting of the most popular infrastructure spending priorities — such as
The HillSep 05 2017
News
Trump administration ends DACA, with 6-month delay
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced the “orderly wind down” of the Obama-era program that gave a deportation reprieve to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children – putting pressure on Congress to come up with a legislative alternative.
Fox News DigitalSep 05 2017
News
Trump Signals End to DACA Protection for Immigrant Children
President Trump on Tuesday signaled an end to the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, hinting in a tweet that he plans to terminate the policy but give Congress six months to replace it with legislation.
New York Times (News)Apr 28 2021
News
Biden to push trillions in investment, plead for police reform in Congress speech
U.S. President Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping $1.8 trillion package for families and education in his first joint speech to Congress on Wednesday, as he stresses the need to invest to compete with China, the White House said.
Biden will argue that the new package – which together with an earlier infrastructure and jobs plan totals around $4 trillion, rivaling the annual federal
ReutersDec 22 2017
News
Trump signs tax, government spending bills into law
U.S. President Donald Trump signed Republicans’ massive $1.5 trillion tax overhaul into law on Friday, cementing the biggest legislative victory of his first year in office, and also approved a short-term spending bill that averts a possible government shutdown.
ReutersMar 12 2017
News
Trump adds to chaos of health care deliberations
Still fewer than five days old, the House Republican bill to repeal Obamacare has an uncertain legislative path ahead. And no small part of the blame goes to President Donald Trump.
CNN DigitalJul 18 2019
News
House passes bill to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
The House of Representatives approved the Raise the Wage Act Thursday, which would boost the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade.
In a 231-199 vote along party lines, the House passed the legislation that would increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, more than double the current rate of $7.25. In an even more drastic increase, the bill calls for having the same minimum
Fox News DigitalFeb 02 2021
Opinion
Biden's Orders Continue the Presidency's Slide Toward Elective Monarchy
"Ease up on the executive actions, Joe," The New York Times urged recently inaugurated President Biden last week. While supportive of the president's broadly progressive agenda, the newspaper's editorial board found his flurry of executive orders and other unilateral actions both troubling and vulnerable to easy reversal by future presidents. "This is no way to make law," the Times added.
ReasonSep 27 2019
News
Dem Report: NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' for Russia
The National Rifle Association was a "foreign asset" for Russia as the 2016 presidential election neared — and the gun-rights group underwrote political access for convicted spy Maria Butina and others despite knowing their Kremlin ties, according to a Senate Democratic report Friday.
"NRA officers' apparent use of the NRA for personal gain fits a larger pattern of reported self-dealing
Newsmax (News)Jul 14 2021
News
Biden to rally Senate Democrats on spending goals after they reach $3.5 trillion budget deal
President Joe Biden is set to meet with the Senate Democratic caucus Wednesday to shore up support for his sweeping infrastructure and economic investment goals, hours after the lawmakers announced they had reached an agreement on a multitrillion-dollar budget resolution.
That budget accord, which would spend $3.5 trillion over the next decade, will be added to the roughly $600 billion
CNBC