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Mar 06 2023
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Social Security, Medicare clash comes down to what constitutes a ‘cut’
The coming battles over the nation’s safety-net programs are beginning with an early clash over a thorny question of semantics: What constitutes a cut?
In the eyes of many Democrats, any change to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security that erodes benefits provided under current law would be considered a cut — and therefore stands as a nonstarter with liberals as Congress seeks ways to
The HillOct 20 2022
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Heritage Foundation Releases 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength, Gives U.S. Military First-Ever ‘Weak’ Overall Rating
For the first time, The Heritage Foundation’s Index of U.S. Military Strength finds that as currently postured, the U.S. military is rated “weak” and at significant risk of not being able to meet the demands of a single major regional conflict while attending to various presence and engagement activities.
Heritage released the 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength on Tuesday. The release
The Heritage FoundationMar 13 2023
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McCarthy and Jeffries forge relationship amid partisan fire
The working relationship between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is notably different than the one the top House Republican had with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the last Congress — most simply, that they have one at all.
Pelosi once called McCarthy a “moron” and McCarthy reportedly joked that it would be hard not to hit
The HillFeb 14 2023
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Biden to sell 26 million barrels more from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Biden administration on Monday announced another sale of oil from the Dept. of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), with 26 million barrels set to be delivered to the market from April 1st to June 30th which will take the number of barrels in the reserve to a new low dating back to 1983.
Unlike the largest-ever drawdown of the SPR that Biden announced in response to Russia's
Fox BusinessJan 26 2021
Headline Roundup
Democrats Introduce Bill To Raise Minimum Wage To $15 by 2025
Democrats in the House and Senate reintroduced legislation on Tuesday that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. If passed, the Raise the Wage Act would eventually more than double the current $7.25 federal minimum wage and tie it to median wage growth beyond 2025. While the bill passed in the House in July 2020, it is unlikely to pass in the Senate without using
Axios Bloomberg Fox News (Online News)Feb 24 2023
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Biden Administration Unveils $10 Billion Ukraine Aid Package As War Enters 2nd Year
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the U.S. will send $10 billion in aid to Ukraine.
The aid package includes financial support to the Ukrainian government as well as energy assistance for its citizens “suffering from Russia’s attacks,” including on Ukraine’s power grid and infrastructure, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in a statement Friday afternoon.
ForbesApr 23 2021
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Republicans Look to Slash the Size of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
Working to avoid being cut out of the process, they presented a $568 billion blueprint that is a fraction of the size of President Biden’s proposal.
Senate Republicans on Thursday offered a $568 billion counterproposal to President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, laying out a marker they hoped would kick-start bipartisan negotiations to vastly scale back the president’s plan
New York Times (News)Feb 03 2023
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OC Executive Neuhaus Says State’s Withholding Federal Medicaid Dollars Hurts Taxpayers
Orange County, New York, Executive Steve Neuhaus said Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to boost state Medicaid spending comes at a cost to local taxpayers.
In her newly released state budget, Hochul proposes a stop to passing enhanced federal Medicaid dollars to 57 county governments; instead, the money will be used for increased state-level spending.
The proposed withholding is
The Epoch TimesOct 06 2021
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: The Senate's Debt Ceiling Standoff
Despite warnings that inaction could lead to an economic crisis, the U.S. Senate has reached a partisan impasse on suspending the debt ceiling. A short-term offer from Republicans to extend the debt limit into December is likely to be accepted by Democrats, but doesn't solve the issue of how the limit will be raised. Senate Republicans have promised for months to vote against and filibuster
538 (ABC News) New York Times (Opinion) Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Mar 24 2023
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Can AI programs be trusted to report the news?
As local newspapers grapple with dwindling budgets and overloaded journalists, some newsrooms are experimenting with an idea that skeptics say threatens the very role of reporters: integrating artificial intelligence into the newsroom.
Editors remain cautious about the use of AI in reporting, one major reason being that it cannot distinguish between fact and fiction. But used
Christian Science Monitor