Trump waited nearly a week to deploy federal resources to help with flood rescue and recovery. One emergency management expert called it “absolutely insane.” A nearly week-long funding delay by President Donald Trump, as well as cuts to federal weather forecasting personnel, likely exacerbated the devastation caused by the historic storm that hit Alaska earlier this month, a […]
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Washington, DC – Friday, U.S. Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK) and Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-AK) welcomed a federal disaster declaration following Juneau’s floods in early August. President Biden’s declaration comes after dogged advocacy from the Alaska delegation along with community leaders to ensure Juneau residents would have federal support to recover from the […]
“I reckon the U.S. Supreme Court does not like millions of people being able to afford to make payments on their student loans,” said one journalist who had benefited from the SAVE program. Millions of student loan borrowers whose monthly payments had been reduced by U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest attempt to achieve debt relief […]