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Aug 03 2022
Analysis
Red States Are Booming While Blue States Have Yet To Recover Post-Pandemic. Here’s Why
Red states have fared better economically than blue states post-pandemic thanks to an influx of new businesses and growing populations of remote workers from other parts of the country, economists told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Republican-led states have added 341,000 jobs and grown economically compared to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, while blue states are still short 1.
The Daily CallerJul 19 2019
News
WH projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019
The White House projects that the federal deficit will surpass $1 trillion this year, the only time in the nation's history the deficit has exceeded that level, excluding the four-year period following the Great Recession.
"The 2019 deficit has been revised to a projected $1.0 trillion," the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wrote in its midyear review.
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The HillAug 05 2022
News
Democratic economic package adds 87K new IRS agents
(NewsNation) — A large cash infusion for the Internal Revenue Service is part of the economic package Democrats are working to push through Congress before their August break.
Under a deal worked out by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would spend an extra $79.6 billion on the agency over the next 10 years.
NewsNationMar 17 2013
News
Sen. Bob Corker: Grand bargain fiscal deal possible
Sen. Bob Corker Tennessee Republican said Sunday that his GOP colleagues would support a grand bargain a long-term deal addressing the countrys fiscal problems that includes additional tax revenue if President Obama and the Democrats will back substantive reform in entitlement programs.
Washington TimesJan 14 2022
News
Left-wing group secured $158 million taxpayer-funded contract to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation
A progressive group that views immigration enforcement agencies as a "threat" to civil liberties secured a $158 million taxpayer-funded contract to help unaccompanied minors avoid deportation, records show.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded the Vera Institute of Justice, a left-wing nonprofit that backs defunding the police, the contract in 2021 to "provide
Fox News DigitalAug 25 2022
News
What can America expect from the Supreme Court’s next term?
THE SUPREME COURT is changing America. In its last term, it eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, loosened gun laws and eroded the separation of church and state. Host Jon Fasman asks Eric Segall, professor of law at Georgia State University, what will happen in the upcoming term and whether the court could be reformed. They also discuss the role of “originalism”, the judicial
The EconomistJun 13 2022
Analysis
Senate compromise on guns is a real breakthrough -- yet a tenuous and modest step
Ten Republican senators appear ready to answer pleas from anguished relatives of recent mass shootings to "do something" by defying their own party's dogma on gun reforms.
The group struck a deal with Democrats on Sunday that could lead to more spending on mental health care, school security, extra scrutiny of young gun buyers and incentives to states to temporarily confiscate weapons
CNN DigitalAug 12 2022
News
House passes Democrats' health care and climate bill, clearing measure for Biden's signature
The House of Representatives voted Friday to pass Democrats' $750 billion health care, energy and climate bill, in a significant victory for President Joe Biden and his party.
Now that the Democratic-controlled House has approved the bill, it will next go to Biden to be signed into law.
Final passage of the bill marks a milestone for Democrats and gives the party a chance to
CNN DigitalJun 23 2023
Perspectives Blog
America Grapples With Abortion Issue One Year After Roe v Wade Overturned
It has been one year since the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, placing the legislative responsibility of governing abortion at the state level. The ongoing debate about abortion in America was fiercely reignited with legal, legislative, political, healthcare, and human implications.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that abortion was not a federal right did not settle the
AllSides StaffDec 10 2022
News
Big Tech critics running low on time for major legislation
Proponents of legislation challenging Big Tech's market presence are uncertain if there is enough time in Congress's lame-duck session to pass anything of substance.
With Congress's lame-duck session ending in early January, the window is shrinking for lawmakers to pass legislation that would regulate companies like Facebook or Google, or that would implement new privacy regulations.
Washington Examiner