Governor Mike Dunleavy has issued a state disaster declaration to deal with the food security issue as a result of inaction on the federal budget in Washington D.C. The Governor will declare a 30 day disaster declaration that ensures food security in two ways for the thousands of Alaskan households that utilize Supplemental Nutrition Assistance […]
“Do not go down in history as the first president to manufacture a hunger crisis in the richest country on Earth,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Release these funds.” Senate Democrats on Wednesday accused the Republican Party of “weaponizing hunger” after Senate Majority Leader John Thune blocked an effort to pass a standalone bill to keep federal food assistance funded through November, and […]
Washington, D.C. – Monday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Mark Warner (D-VA) reintroduced the Telehealth Response for E-prescribing Addiction Therapy Services (TREATS) Act. This bipartisan legislation addresses regulatory hurdles to accessing telehealth services for opioid use disorder by making permanent the resources that were made available during the […]
“The solution is straightforward, and the deadline is imminent,” state lawmakers write in a new letter to Republican leaders, blaming them for the “manufactured healthcare crisis.” Dozens of US state legislators have signed a scathing letter pushing congressional Republicans to immediately back an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to lapse at the end of the […]