“President Biden can’t stand for this any longer. He must protect Social Security beneficiaries by firing Saul and Black immediately.” House Democrats and progressive activists are accusing the leadership of the Social Security Administration—currently headed by Trump holdover Andrew Saul—of slow-walking the Biden administration’s effort to distribute direct coronavirus relief payments to tens of millions […]
“Trump’s biggest regulatory attack on SNAP is officially dead and buried.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday announced the official end of a Trump-era policy that could have stripped federal food benefits from more than a million people during the coronavirus pandemic by imposing more draconian work requirements on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients. A federal court allowed […]
SEOUL – North Korea conducted an apparent short-range ballistic missile test early Thursday, its first such launch during U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration. The North fired two ballistic missiles that fell outside Japan’s waters, according to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense said the two projectiles were launched from South […]
“Historian of the 20th century South here. I dispute Mitch’s statement. The filibuster has a ton of ‘racial history.’” Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday made the sweeping claim that the legislative filibuster has “no racial history at all” and further insisted that historians don’t dispute his view—an assertion that historians immediately disputed. […]
