Former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Saturday that state coronavirus vaccination plans are “getting too granular,” in turn slowing distribution. Leavitt, who is also the former Governor of Utah and former EPA administrator, said that he’s less concerned with manufacturers being able...
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Biden Cabinet nominee hired convicted domestic abuser who punched woman for refusing sex
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, the nominee to be President Joe Biden’s Labor Secretary, briefly hired former Massachusetts state representative Carlos Henriquez to be a special assistant in 2018, despite Henriquez’s conviction years earlier for assaulting a woman who refused to have sex with him. Henriquez was...
Democrats looking to introduce bill that would offer families at least $3G per child
House Democrats are working on legislation that would permanently expand the child tax credit to provide thousands per year per child to tens of millions of Americans in the form of monthly recurring payments. Under the American Family Act, tax credits would be “fully refundable”...
Biden administration defends removing Churchill statue from Oval Office
The Biden administration on Friday defended the decision to remove a bust of former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office — creating a bright video designed to remind people “what the Special Relationship is truly about.” “We’ve seen some discussion about the Churchill...
Ohio restaurant owner rips Biden’s embrace of $15 minimum wage as bad for business
An Ohio restaurant owner is warning that any hikes in the minimum wage now will only hurt small businesses more. President Biden signed executive orders Friday that would increase food aid, protect job seekers on unemployment and clear a path for federal workers and contractors...
Biden tells Mexican president he will end Trump’s ‘draconian’ immigration policies
President Biden on Friday told Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that he will reverse the Trump administration’s “draconian” immigration policies — in a week in which the new U.S. president has signed a flurry of immigration orders. A readout from the White House said...
Jill Biden brings cookies to troops, thanks National Guard for ‘keeping my family safe’ during inauguration
First lady Jill Biden surprised National Guard members at the U.S. Capitol on Friday and delivered cookies, a gesture of kindness “for keeping me and my family safe” during President Biden’s inauguration earlier this week. “I just want to say thank you from President Biden and the...
Trump’s lawyers must get 72-hour warning if Treasury turns over president’s tax returns to Democrats: judge
The U.S. Treasury Department must grant former President Trump’s lawyers a 72-hour warning if it allows his tax returns to be released to Democrats, a judge ruled Friday, according to a report. U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is...
LIVE UPDATES: Trump impeachment trial delayed until February
Lawmakers will wait several weeks before carrying out former President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial following a brief standoff on Capitol Hill over timing, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday. Earlier in the day, Schumer said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., intended to deliver the article of...
‘Squad’ members rip Trump death-penalty ‘carnage,’ urge Biden to commute killers’ sentences
All 49 remaining death-row inmates in federal prisons should have their sentences commuted by President Biden, two members of the progressive “Squad” group of Democrats urged Friday. The demand by U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Cori Bush, D-Mo., came in a letter sent to Biden that was...