Biden admin seeks to exhaust CHIPS Act funding before Biden leaves office
The Commerce Department is calling for all dollars allocated under President Biden's CHIPS and Science Act to be spent before President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said. He said this in an interview this week. As told to Politico, Raimondo said the agency's goal is to “actually oblige almost all […]
Wrangling over whether to punt government funding to Trump heats up
As lawmakers rush toward the next shutdown deadline, a debate within the Republican Party rages over whether to release government funds into the new year. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said this week that lawmakers are running out of time before the Dec. 20 deadline, and that passing an extension until early 2025 would benefit […]
Speaker Johnson’s government funding play hits the rocks within House GOP
House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to introduce a short-term bill to begin debate on government funding early next year is receiving harsh reactions from a wide range of House Republicans. “That’s not my preference at all,” Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), President-elect Donald Trump’s former Interior Secretary, told Fox News Digital. Zinke said the short-term bill, […]
Corporate America Touts Funding Employee ‘Abortion Travel’ But Is Largely Silent On Child Care Benefits, Report Finds
A report released Tuesday found that many Fortune 100 companies offer paid “abortion travel” benefits but do not publicly share childcare benefits. At least 42 Fortune 100 companies, including Walmart, Amazon, and Walt Disney, have publicly said they pay for employees to travel out of state to obtain abortions, but they do not offer child […]
Biden asks Congress for $98 billion in Helene, Milton disaster relief funding
President Biden is asking Congress to approve nearly $100 billion in emergency funding to support recovery efforts from recent deadly storms that hit parts of the South. Biden on Monday sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) urging him to immediately take up requests for additional disaster assistance specifically aimed at helping those […]
Biden touts six-fold climate funding increase under his administration
President Biden boasted of meeting his goal of providing $11 billion a year in climate funding, a six-fold increase starting in 2021. Biden's comments came during a historic trip to South America's Amazon rainforest over the weekend, during which he declared that “no one” can reverse the “clean energy revolution” underway in the United States. […]
Tory donor Lord Bamford funds helicopter flight for Nigel Farage | Party funding
A company run by Tory mega-donor Anthony Bamford has funded Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's helicopter trip with £8,000. Lord Bamford, who was a Tory peer until he resigned from the House of Lords this year, has donated millions of pounds to the Conservative Party and is a close ally of Boris Johnson, providing accommodation […]
After $1 Billion Failed To Stop Trump, Lib Donors Balk At Funding ‘Resistance’
Many of the groups working to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump's first term in office have attacked donors over funding, and Vice President Kamala Harris has threatened to defeat Trump with a $1 billion war chest. It was reported that the government was met with a lukewarm response following the failure to do so. New York […]
Senate Democrat sees ‘a chance’ of more Ukraine funding in lame duck session
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Wednesday that Congress could pass additional funding for Ukraine ahead of the transition to a Republican-led Congress and President-elect Trump's administration. He said there is. , likely to oppose further aid to Kyiv. Mr. Kaine said that any package approved by the […]
Congressional Report Slams State Department for Funding Atheism Abroad
The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has released a damning report revealing that the U.S. State Department is promoting atheism abroad in the name of “religious freedom.” At the culmination of a two-year Congressional investigation into the State Department's funding of “ideologically charged foreign aid projects,” Chairman Michael T. McCall wrote in […]