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A Democratic majority on the board could fire DeJoy. Democrats are making filling the board a top priority. An aide to Sen. Gary Peters, ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the USPS, told The Wall Street Journal that they want a new leadership that moves away from the “cost…

Other advocates have similarly pressed for protections for separated families. Last month, Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Joaquin Castro urged the incoming administration to allow families to return to the U.S. Along with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, he last year also introduced legislation that would put families on a path to legal status. “[T]here’s a question then, once they’re reunited, where…

“From the very beginning of the campaign, when President-elect Biden rolled out his climate plan, he made it clear he sees this as an all-of-government agenda, domestic, economic, foreign policy,” Stef Feldman, campaign policy director for Biden, told the Post. In a sign of how Biden has already elevated the issue, he discussed the topic…

In the nine states that responded about SNAP benefits — Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee and Washington — Walmart was found to have employed about 14,500 workers receiving the benefit, followed by McDonald’s with 8,780, according to Sanders’s team. In six states that reported Medicaid enrollees, Walmart again topped the list,…

The Alliance for American Manufacturing is once again out with its Made in America Holiday Gift Guide, with something made in every state. You can get home decor signs made in Delaware; Baby Yoda-themed insulated tumblers made in Florida; recycled wool mittens, scarves, and hats made in Maine; espadrilles made in Puerto Rico by a company that…

The law instructs the GSA administrator to ascertain the “apparent successful candidate” to start the formal presidential transition. Until Murphy takes that action, President-elect Joe Biden’s team doesn’t have access to the federal funds set aside for the transition or to key briefings and meetings with existing officials to coordinate a smooth process in January.…

Giuliani has two children from his second marriage—Caroline and Andrew—and a step daughter from his third marriage. Keep up! Caroline has been very public in her emotional and political estrangement from her ambitiously monstrous father, while Andrew seems to be cut from the same cloth that Donald Trump was cut from. Sort of big, plays…

Members of the Wolverine Watchmen, as the plotters called themselves, conducted paramilitary training sessions to prepare for the dual attacks. Many of them had participated in a number of anti-Whitmer protests, calling her a “tyrant” for her COVID-19 pandemic public health measures such as business and school closures. These were protests at which violent rhetoric threatening…

Early on, Biden is likely to take on the global gag rule that bars the federal government from funding foreign NGOS that provide abortions or even discusses them with patients. That rule, originally known as the Mexico City Policy, was first imposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, rescinded by President Bill Clinton, reimposed by President George W. Bush, rescinded by…

Asked whether or not Tuberville thought that Republicans and Democrats could work more harmoniously this coming 2021, Senator-elect Tuberville explained that government, voting, elections, and stuff is totally gonna happen, and things. TUBERVILLE: Yeah and that’s how our government was set up. You know, our government wasn’t set up for one group to have all…