Adam Schiff defended Pelosi’s bill as Senate Democrats blocked emergency relief: “We want to make sure that we provide that people can vote by mail, and have early voting.”
Aside from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, here is a list of the other politicians opposing the emergency relief bill for extraneous reasons.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s new stimulus bill would mandate nationwide “ballot harvesting,” allowing party operatives to return other people’s ballots to polling places without “any limit” on the number of ballots.
For once, I agree with Romney… As cynical as I can be, never in a million years did I expect Democrats to screw the country with a kamikaze stunt like this one.
House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) reportedly told Democrats on a conference call last week that the party should exploit the coronavirus stimulus: “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”
The Hill reported Sunday that one of the reasons bipartisan support for a massive coronavirus stimulus package has fallen apart is, once again, because Democrats want the bill to prop up Planned Parenthood.
Nancy Pelosi has attempted to ensure a Hyde Amendment loophole is included in a coronavirus economic stimulus proposal.
Stocks around the globe are falling as fears of coronavirus continue to weigh on markets.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced an NIS 10 billion ($2.8 billion) aid package to help the Israeli economy make it through the coronavirus crisis.
Most American workers pay more in payroll taxes than in federal income taxes, so this would be a huge tax cut.
A raucous day in the stock market as investors weighed economic stimulus plans and Democrat opposition to a payroll tax cut.
Obama’s message on Twitter was not just a nostalgic look back on his presidency, as he specified that his spending package was responsible for “more than a decade” of growth, despite only being president for eight years.
The Washington Examiner reported Thursday that Rosemont Capital, a company led by Hunter Biden’s business partners, received $130 million in federal bailout loans while Joe Biden was in office as vice president in 2009.
Baltimore received $1.8 billion from former President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), but the city has largely failed to see significant improvements from the massive investment.
Trump on canceled bullet train: “They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars.” Gavin Newsom: “This is CA’s money.”
The government of South Africa announced on Friday that President Cyril Ramaphosa secured another $10 billion in Chinese loans during his trip to Beijing last week, bring South Africa’s total economic stimulus and infrastructure financing from China up to $25 billion.
The media’s framing for former President Barack Obama’s first 100 days began with the premise that his very presence in the White House was “historic.” Obama was praised for aggressively pursuing a bold policy agenda and reversing the policies of his predecessor.
How does President Donald Trump’s presidency stack up against his predecessor 100 days in? Obviously, that’s a highly subjective question, since an observer who disagrees strongly with Trump’s policy agenda will find little reason to applaud his “successes,” and likewise with critics of Obama. We can compare a few metrics between the two presidencies, however.
Trump has signed over a dozen laws reversing Obama-era regulations, marking the most substantial legislative achievement of his first 100 days in office.
President Obama and his mouthpieces have embarked on a bizarre scheme to hypnotize America into forgetting the many scandals of his presidency. They seem to think that intoning “this administration hasn’t had a scandal” over and over again will make history disappear. It’s the lamest Jedi Mind Trick ever, and is being pushed on people who know Star Wars is just a movie.
On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’ “Washington Week,” New York Times National Correspondent Jackie Calmes argued that while after the Great Recession, “a lot of the good jobs” didn’t return, and were replaced with jobs that had lower pay, “even as there’s been
What broke it? Both parties acquiesced in bank liberalization, in open-borders immigration, and in Wall Street bailouts. But the most acute challenge was Barack Obama’s direct attack on the constitutional framework itself. Obama sought to transform America, and believed that the ends would justify the means.
During the third presidential debate, Hillary Clinton praised President Obama’s economic performance, adding: “He has cut the deficit by two-thirds.”
Those who work for Carrier have learned the costs of global trade on a personal and financial level after the company suddenly announced a move to Mexico.
Germany is against the world’s top 20 economies launching a fiscal stimulus package in the face of slowing global growth, its finance minister said Friday, as the major powers disagreed on the best approach. Government attempts to boost their economies
Democrats and Republicans have united in criticizing Carrier Corporation after the company announced it will move 1,400 jobs from Indianapolis to Mexico.
Carrier officials will meet with union members to discuss the HVAC manufacturer’s decision to layoff 1,400 employees and move the jobs to Mexico.
Heating and air-conditioning company Carrier, which has announced it will move 1,400 Americans’ jobs to Mexico, received $5.1 million from the Obama administration.
Gary Kaltbaum, president of Kaltbaum Capital Management and a Fox News contributor, appeared on Breitbart News Saturday to discuss the state of the economy. He advised against buying into the media spin that recent economic news has been good for the Obama legacy.
As President Barack Obama departed for the climate summit in Paris, he faces a new “Solyndra” scandal as Spain’s Abengoa SA, which received $3 billion in administration sustainable energy loans and Export-Import Bank guarantees, announced that it has started bankruptcy proceeding and may soon default on its debt.
Despite El Niño generating three times the amount of snow in Mammoth in the first half of this month as it did for the entire month of November last year, California’s failure to build infrastructure means most rain will be lost to run-off and flooding.
Michigan’s Alpena Biorefinery announced that it is taking a “sabbatical,” after drinking $22 million of taxpayers’ stimulus cash and after consuming unknown amounts of additional and indirect taxpayer funding—all just to show it could convert wood chips into pure alcohol.
Investors hope the U.S. and European markets are stabilizing after Monday morning’s free fall, but China’s stock market dropped again on Tuesday. It looks as if the parachutes are finally popping, as the AP reports the Shanghai Composite rallied from a 6.4% drop on Tuesday morning to a 4.3% loss by midday. This follows an 8.5% plunge on Monday, the worst performance in eight years.
The Internal Revenue Service erroneously provided billions of dollars in educations tax credits to ineligible students, according to a new government watchdog report.
California farmers are now suing the state over the high-speed rail project, refusing to have their land sold for pennies-on-the-dollar. And with a 12-year estimated project delay, the contractor is threatening to sue the bullet train for delay penalties.
Diana Choyleva of Lombard Street Research, who produces an “unmassaged” calculation of China’s true economic growth, just reported that China’s fourth quarter GDP growth plummeted to 1.7 percent, versus the official 7.4 percent rate.
