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| May 7, 2024 | Inside Bernie Sanders' decision to run again | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is not ready to step away from the national political stage without a clear successor to his progressive throne, Axios has learned.
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| Apr 16, 2024 | Trump allies encourage Mar-a-Lago visits with foreign leaders months before election | Former President Donald Trump's allies have been encouraging foreign countries to send diplomats and official emissaries to Mar-a-Lago to reconnect ahead of another potential Trump stint in the White House, sources with direct knowledge of ... |
| Apr 6, 2024 | Don't expect the Mayorkas impeachment trial to last long | Politics Don't expect the Mayorkas impeachment trial to last long
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| Sep 16, 2023 | Former GOP Sen. Bob Corker says he's not surprised Mitt Romney isn't running for re-election because politics are 'not as conducive' to problem-solving as they once were | Former Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee. AP Photo/Richard Drew
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Ex-Sen. Bob Corker said he wasn't surprised to hear of Mitt Romney's retirement from the Senate.
"I understand why he might want to spend time doing other types of t... |
| Sep 14, 2023 | Mitt Romney doesn't respect JD Vance — but he sure is willing to work with him | Republican Sens. JD Vance of Ohio and Mitt Romney of Utah. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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Sen. Mitt Romney said he couldn't "disrespect someone more" than his GOP colleague, JD Va... |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Will Utah's Great Salt Lake disappear? | Utah's Great Salt Lake doesn't look so "great" these days. This place where tourists once bobbed up and down like corks in water far saltier than the ocean is now quite literally turning to dust.
This story hits close to home: I g... |
| Jan 19, 2023 | The Clock Is Ticking On Raising The Debt Limit. Here's How To Follow Along. | Capitol Hill is the center of the upcoming fight over raising the debt limit (Photo by Drew ... [+] Angerer/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Nov 3, 2022 | Neither Party Has A Good Plan For Social Security And Medicare | It’s abundantly clear that neither party has a good plan to secure Social Security and Medicare for ... [+] current and future beneficiaries. getty |
| Nov 2, 2022 | The Debt Limit Crisis, Season 102 | NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - 2018/03/23: The National Debt Clock is a very very large digital ... [+] display of the current gross national debt of the United States. It is mounted on a western facing wall in a wide covered alley in the mi... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee urges Mitt Romney to back his reelection campaign against Evan McMullin: 'Please get on board' | Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. AP Photo/George Frey
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GOP Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday urged fellow Utahn Mitt Romney to back his reelection campaign.
During a Fox News interview, Lee said that Romney's support could help the GOP win back the ... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | Signs of a midterm backlash are mounting for the GOP after Roe was overturned. Here are 3 proposals put forward by Republicans to support families. | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) departs the US Capitol on April 27, 2022. STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images
Republicans face a potential backlash in November after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
A new WSJ poll s... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | Covid-19 as a political football: Government funding for more vaccine, treatment supplies stalls | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Wednesday had to pull out $15.6 billion in coronavirus relief funds from a massive trillion-dollar spending bill to avert a government shutdown as her colleagues revolted against paying for ... |
| Mar 4, 2022 | White House transparency disputes imperil funds to buy Covid therapeutics | WASHINGTON — The White House hasn’t publicly detailed exactly how it’s spent the more than $4 trillion Congress authorized for Covid-19 relief — and now, that lack of transparency could imperil its request for more money to fight the pandem... |
| Feb 15, 2022 | Should Congress Trade Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF) For A Child Allowance? | WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) talks to reporters before heading into the ... [+] weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol January 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. Senators will vote Tuesday on the rules... |
| Apr 14, 2021 | Mitt Romney and Kyrsten Sinema partner on a bipartisan proposal to hike the minimum wage | Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT). Scott J. Applewhite/AP
Sens. Mitt Romney and Kyrsten Sinema are working together on a minimum wage proposal.
Romney confirmed their collaboration on a bill to reporters on Wednesday.
It comes as Democrats discuss th... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | It’s Time for a New Policy on Confucius Institutes | On March 5, the U.S. Senate voted to deny Department of Education funding to universities that host Confucius Institutes (CIs)—the controversial Chinese language and culture centers partially financed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Sen. Mitt Romney predicts Trump will win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination ‘in a landslide’ | Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said he believes Trump will win the GOP nomination in 2024.
Speaking to The New York Times Tuesday night, he said Trump would win “by a landslide.”
Romney is the lone GOP... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | The benefits of Biden's child allowance could be worth 8 times its cost, new report finds | President Joe Biden. Angela Weiss/AFP
A new report found that the benefits of Joe Biden's proposed child allowance is worth eight times its cost.
The benefits include money back to taxpayers that would result from increases in childrens' he... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | The benefits of Biden’s child allowance could be worth 8 times its cost, new report finds | President Joe Biden. Angela Weiss/AFP
A new report found that the benefits of Joe Biden’s proposed child allowance is worth eight times its cost.
The benefits include money back to taxpayers that would result from increases in childrens’ he... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Republicans see Democrats’ $15 minimum-wage increase and counter with $10 instead | Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton at a news conference in 2014. Danny Johnston/AP Photo
Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and Mitt Romney propose raising the minimum wage to $US10 ($13) an hour by 2025.
Biden has proposed a Bernie Sanders-backed $US15 (... |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Congress Is Considering 2 Plans to Get More Money to Parents. Here's How Each Would Work | One of the few things that everybody in the U.S. still agrees on is that a country that seven of the world’s 10 richest people call home should not have nearly one in six of its children living in poverty. Another is that the largest econom... |
| Feb 5, 2021 | Romney proposes a plan to provide up to $350 in monthly child benefits | Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks during a news conference with a group of bipartisan lawmakers to unveil a COVID-19 emergency relief framework in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Caroline Brehman/CQ... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Romney: Let’s Pay Your Family Up To $15,000 A Year | Sen. Mitt Romney (Photo by Mark Makela/Corbis via Getty Images)Corbis via Getty Images |
| Jan 18, 2021 | Biden national security advisor calls for Russia to immediately release detained Putin critic | President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, called for Russian authorities to immediately release Alexei Navalny.
Navalny, a top opposition leader, was detained in Moscow after returning to Russia from Ber... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | Chris Christie says GOP lawmakers’ objection of electoral college certification ‘will go nowhere’ | Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images
Former Republican Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie said that Republican efforts to stop the certification of the Electoral College will “go nowhere.”
“The... |
| Jan 3, 2021 | Mitt Romney and other GOP senators say they will oppose an effort by their colleagues to challenge the election results | Sen. Mitt Romney criticised the efforts of some of his colleagues, including Sen. Ted Cruz. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Republican Sens. Mitt Romney, Pat Toomey, and Lisa Murkowski have said they will oppose an effort by... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | Northern Virginia Technology Council Urges Congress to Enact Targeted COVID-19 Emergency Relief Package and Liability Protections | The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the trade association representing the Northern Virginia technology community. “A failure to reach an agreement now would lead to unnecessary hardship, not only for our workforce and small ... |
| Aug 2, 2020 | Next Stimulus Check Update: Some “Progress” But No Agreement Yet | WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 30: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is swarmed by reporters as ... [+] he leaves the Senate floor and walks to his office at the U.S. Capitol on July 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. Republicans and Democrats ... |
| Aug 2, 2020 | With The $600 Unemployment Benefit Gone, Here’s What Aid May Be Coming Next | More than 30 million out-of-work Americans will be seeing a significant drop in their unemployment benefits. That’s because the $600 weekly supplemental federal unemployment benefit passed by Congress in March as part of the CARES Act to ad... |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Mitt Romney Proposes To Extend Unemployment Benefits | Sen. Mitt Romney (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Where Is The Senate GOP’s $1 Trillion HEALS Act? Here’s What We Know About The Mysteriously Splintered Proposal | Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Next Stimulus Bill Must Be Negotiated In Just 15 Days | WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 30: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a press ... [+] conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon in the Hart Senate Office Building on June 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. M... |
| Feb 8, 2020 | Americans are losing interest in at-home DNA ancestry testing | Millions of Americans have purchased DNA kits over the past decade, drawn by the idea of delving into their lineage. But what once seemed like the start of a new industry based on powerful, and increasingly affordable, genetic testing techn... |
| Mitt Romney introduces new plan to send most parents up to $350 monthly checks per kid | Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah at a hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022. Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Romney rolled out a measure to provide up to $350 monthly checks to most families with kids.
Only families earning at ... |
| Mitt Romney and fellow Republicans introduce bill that would stop Biden from canceling student-loan debt | Mitt Romney speaking to reporters outside the Senate Chamber during a series of votes in the US Capitol on May 11 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Five Republican senators introduced a bill this week that would prohibit stude... |
| Democrats are set to release a $3,000-per-child direct benefit plan for families | Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., left, and other members conduct a news conference on December 10, 2019. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
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| Romney child-payment proposal would spend more than Biden plan — but also aims to cut welfare programs | GOP Sen. Mitt Romney unveiled a plan to give households up to $4,200 annually for each young child, offering a Republican answer to President Biden’s calls for more support to families with children.
While Romney is calling for even more ai... |
| Battle over tax hikes muddies the GOP’s post-Trump push to be the party of the working class | The battle over President Biden’s economic recovery plan may undermine the Republican Party’s attempt to rebrand itself as the party of the working class.
Trump’s presidency, the pandemic relief bills and recent GOP policy plans have all he... |
| How raising minimum wage to $15 per hour could affect workers and small businesses | The debate over raising the minimum wage is gaining steam, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle weigh the benefits and consequences of boosting the lowest pay to $15 per hour.
“We want to see Americans’ wages go up, we want to see more j... |
| Mitt Romney proposes giving American families an extra $3,000 a year | Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) unveiled a plan on Thursday that would provide American families with a bigger financial boost than what’s proposed in the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion relief package. But both plans fail to completely c... |
| Leaders on both sides evaluate policy through an Econ 101 lens, but cost-efficiency isn't the best measurement of effective policy | People with National Nurses United march in support of Medicare for all in Miami in 2019. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast.
He spoke with sociolo... |
| New Republican plan calls for renewing monthly child tax credit payments — but there are 'significant' trade-offs, one report finds | Monthly child tax credit checks for up to $300 per child expired last December.
Now, a new Republican plan calls for sending parents monthly sums once again.
But some families may actually end up worse off, according to an analysis of the p... |
| Democrats push forward with temporary $3,000 child tax credit, but some want to make increase permanent | In the latest stimulus package, Democrats are moving ahead with plans to provide American families with $3,000 per school-aged child over the year next. Although the increase would be temporary, some lawmakers want to see a permanent boost ... |
| There’s new optimism the $300 monthly child tax credit checks can be renewed — but the relief may look different | Monthly child tax credit payments of up to $300 per child ended last year.
While past efforts to renew the policy fell apart, there’s new optimism something could come together soon.
Advocates hope an enhanced child tax credit can be includ... |
| How this child tax credit proposal could give some families monthly $300 checks | President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief plan calls for a one-year expansion of the child tax credit.
Some lawmakers plan to call for a long-term change that would provide monthly checks.
“For families, monthly payments make a big differenc... |
| Biden’s budget pushes to renew bigger child tax credit payments for families | President Biden has called for renewing enhanced child tax credit payments for parents as part of the family policies in his budget unveiled this week.
But getting Congress to sign off on the terms may not be easy. |
| Conservatives tossed out Roe v. Wade. Now some are pressuring the GOP to soften its resistance to financially supporting families or risk a 'severe' backlash. | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
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| New Zealand Orders Staff to Return to the Office | The government of New Zealand has announced that it wants its staff back in the office.
In a statement, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis said that the government is following the path of many a private company in insisting its employee... |
