The Association of Alaska School Boards is deeply concerned about the governor’s veto of SB 140. This veto sabotaged several weeks of hard work and bipartisan collaboration by the legislature to provide a significant investment in public education that would have benefited every school district and student in the state. Instead, the governor has decided […]
THE WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Joe Biden laid out his 2025 government spending priorities on Monday in a $7.3 trillion plan that has little chance of being enacted by the politically divided Congress. Biden touted the proposal as he traveled to New Hampshire to sell Americans on his plan to increase taxes on the wealthy […]
As I enter my sixth year as Alaska’s governor, the Fiscal Year 2025 budget introduced this past week reflects a continuing policy to be guided by priorities rather than the price of oil. Alaskans well understand how quickly prices can swing in either direction, and the past five years have offered no shortage of reminders […]
“MAGA Mike Johnson and his fellow Republicans desperately want this commission to give bipartisan cover to benefit cuts,” said Social Security Works. “Democrats must stand united against it.” The Republican-controlled House Budget Committee is set to convene a hearing Wednesday to examine legislation that would establish a so-called fiscal commission for the U.S. debt, a proposal that […]