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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

US Speaker Kevin McCarthy Brags Dems ‘Backed Off’ On Their Debt Limit Stance

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-california.) boasted that United States President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) are negotiating with Republicans on a bill to raise the US federal debt ceiling.



“The president Biden and Leader Schumer have finally backed off their idea that they will not negotiate,” McCarthy declared at a news briefing on Wednesday. “They finally backed off the insane, un-rational, un-sensible idea that you just raise the country's debt ceiling.”

If the Congress fails to raise the US debt ceiling sometime next month, the federal government will be unable to borrow money to cover its expenses, resulting in an unprecedented federal default that could hurt the economy.

Dems have said Congress should just raise the US debt ceiling to avoid hurting the our economy, but Republicans have refused, arguing that Congress shouldn't raise the ceiling without reducing the future growth of debt by cutting US spending. Since Republicans control the US House of Representatives and Dems control the Senate, the two sides will need to cut a new deal.

President Biden and speaker McCarthy met last week and again on eighteen may Thursday, and members of their staffs have been continuously talking. Speaker McCarthy’s triumphant tone on Wednesday marked a shift from Monday when Speaker complained that “it just seems like they want to look like they are in a meeting, but they are not talking anything seriously.”

But president Biden insisted Wednesday that he is not actually negotiating about the US debt ceiling, just the federal budget, even though to Republicans, the two things are essentially the same time.

“To be clear, this negotiation is about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not about whether or not we are going to, in fact, pay our debts,” Biden said.

A key GOP demand is to add stricter “work requirements” to US federal programs that help low-income American population afford food and health care system. The president Biden said Wednesday he would be open to stricter rules, just not “anything of any consequence.” It is not clear what president Biden meant by the statement; GOP proposals for stricter rules in three federal programs would affect millions of American people.

When asked about president Biden’s comments at his press briefing, Speaker McCarthy and a group of House and Senate Republicans surrounding him broke into laughter, with one unknown lawmaker saying, “Loser!”

“Anything that has consequence? This is a US senator who voted for work requirements US economy,” Speaker McCarthy said, referring to the our president’s time as a senator. (Biden voted for work requirements as part of a welfare reform bill in year 1996.)

Speaker McCarthy claimed boosting work requirements would help American people escape poverty and ease pressure on the economic supply chain of country.

The United States Congressional Budget Office has found that work requirements of essentially limits on benefits to the unemployed Americans may spur some people toward gainful employment opportunity is, but not most. Overall, the increase in earnings does not make up for the loss in more benefits.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Lawmakers Seek Details on Cuomo's Book Deal


Scrutiny over how New York counted nursing home deaths during the pandemic last year is also falling his book about the crisis. State lawmakers say what the governor earned from the public should be released to the public. 

Assemblyman Ron Kim and several lawmakers on Tuesday backed calls for the governor to release the details of contract for the book American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

"So the public can decide and for the media as well whether there was a financial motivation," he said in an interview. 

Kim's concern stems from a July report on nursing home deaths released by the Cuomo administration.


Tuesday, March 2, 2021

'Read Across America Day,' once synonymous with Dr. Seuss, is diversifying. Here's why things have changed.

Monday marks the start of National Reading Month – with celebrations across the nation planned for "Read Across America Day" on Tuesday.

The day will look a little different this year, with many U.S. students learning virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the National Education Association has planned a variety of virtual events – not just in March, but all year – to mark the occasion.

That's not the only difference: The NEA has pivoted from popular children's author Dr. Seuss to a focus on diverse children's books, a decision that has generated controversy on social media. 

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How Cuomo's sexual harassment, nursing home scandals unraveled

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s make-or-break political moment amid allegations he sexually harassed young women — including two former aides — and downplayed nursing home death numbers follows a tumultuous year since the first coronavirus case hit New York.

The saga spanned long-simmering accusations that his administration intentionally undercounted nursing home COVID-19 deaths to defend state policies, as well as mounting claims of an history of abusive behavior by Cuomo and his aides towards lawmakers, government officials and reporters.

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All our recent progress with Covid-19 could be wiped out by variants, CDC director says. 'Please stay strong'

The US is at risk of losing all its recent gains in the battle against Covid-19 as highly contagious variants take advantage of Americans getting lax with safety measures.

"Please hear me clearly: At this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Whole towns are refusing Covid-19 vaccines in Mexico

For Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, vaccinating all Mexicans is a matter of responsible national health policy as well as social justice.

"Vaccines will start arriving little by little," he said on February 15, during his daily morning press conference, a week after returning to public activities after contracting Covid-19.

"Today we launched our vaccination plan and it won't stop. We will press ahead with the goal of vaccinating all the people, according to pre-established priorities," the President added.

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