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WILMINGTON, Del. - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown. ''This agreement represents a compromise, which means neither side got everything it wanted,'' Biden said in a statement. ''But it rejects extreme cuts from House Republicans and expands access to child care, invests in cancer research, funds mental health and substance...
WALKER - Despite cooler temperatures outside, the otherwise sunny weather provided a bright outlook for Leech Lake Nation on Friday as it held its 2024 State of the Band Address at Northern Lights Casino in Walker. Following a year of sweeping successes and struggles alike, the address was an opportunity for the nation to reflect on 2023 as it moves into the next nine months of 2024. Complete with song, dance and impassioned speeches, an opening song kicked off festivities followed by an...
Congress is staring down a fast-approaching government shutdown deadline, as lawmakers prepare to vote Friday morning on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan spending package to fund the federal government for the next six months. Support for the bill is hardly in doubt. President Biden, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) all back it, and it's expected to pass with wide bipartisan majorities in both chambers. But negotiators spent so much time in...
In a deeply polarized election year, President Biden and fellow Democrats wasted little time lambasting a budget proposal from a large group of House Republicans that would, among other things, raise the retirement age for Social Security and endorse a bill that would codify that life begins at conception. The fiscal 2025 budget proposal was released Wednesday by the Republican Study Committee - a bloc that includes 80 percent of Republicans in the House, including every member of House...
Behind a 22-foot-high granite wall and layers of metal security gates, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon ran through the state's voter registration rules and how to cast a ballot absentee before Election Day. His audience: more than a dozen people incarcerated at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud who will soon be released and can vote in the November election under a new state law. "The minute you step out of here, you get your right to vote back," Simon told the group,...
The killing of two police officers and a paramedic in Burnsville last month has made "straw purchases" of firearms a critical issue for Minnesota lawmakers of both parties. Rep. Kaela Berg, DFL-Burnsville, said she wanted to craft a bill to address the specific circumstances of those shootings. The gunman was not legally allowed to own firearms, and federal prosecutors said in an indictment that his girlfriend purchased the weapons. "The AR-15-style weapons that were used against the first...
The Biden administration is awarding up to $8.5 billion in grants and $11 billion in loans to tech giant Intel to support computer-chip production in several states, in one of the nation's biggest investments in high-tech manufacturing seen as crucial to national and economic security. President Biden on Wednesday joined Intel's chief executive at a massive construction site in suburban Phoenix to announce the awards, which the California-based company will use to support that project and...
The House sponsor of a sports betting bill announced a deal Tuesday to settle an electronic pulltabs matter that had the potential to scuttle the entire gambling legalization effort. Rep. Zack Stephenson, DFL-Coon Rapids, said the arrangement he brokered resolves the concerns of the Allied Charities of Minnesota (ACM) that runs charitable pulltab operations in bars and restaurants throughout the state. "We still have a lot of work to do to pass a sports betting bill, but this is a very...
WASHINGTON — Republican Donald Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, but positioning the violent siege and its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. At a weekend rally in Ohio, his first as the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee, Trump stood onstage, his hand raised in salute to the brim of his red MAGA hat, as a recorded chorus of prisoners in jail for their roles in the Jan. 6 attack s...
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin's top Republican derided supporters of former President Donald Trump who are trying to recall him from office as ''whack jobs and morons,'' predicting Tuesday that their effort would fail and they would be subject to fraud charges. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is being targeted for recall because he refused to impeach the state's top elections official or proceed with attempting to decertify President Joe Biden's 2020 victory in Wisconsin. His actions angered Trump, who...
A dispute over border security funding threatens to force a shutdown of vast swaths of the federal government in less than a week, as Congress and the White House struggled Sunday to reach a deal on long-term spending legislation. Funding for roughly 70 percent of the federal government - including the departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security as well as the IRS and Transportation Security Administration - will at 12:01 a.m. Saturday unless Congress acts before then. A prolonged...
MOSCOW - On the final day of a presidential election with only one possible result, Russians protested Vladimir Putin's authoritarian hold on power by forming long lines to vote against him at noon Sunday - answering the call of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and undercutting preliminary results Sunday night that led Putin to claim a landslide victory. Russia's Central Election Commission, which routinely bars any real challengers from running, reported late Sunday that Putin had...
President Biden notched record fundraising receipts in February with donations from nearly half a million people, overcoming poor polling to end the month with $155 million in the bank. The strong results bolstered the Biden campaign's argument that grass-roots energy will swell as the November election approaches and voters come to terms with the choice between Biden and Donald Trump. Biden and Trump - who both became their party's presumptive nominees last week - are locked in a rematch of...
After sitting through hours of jokes about his age at Saturday's Gridiron Club and Foundation dinner, President Biden turned the tables on the journalists putting on the skits. "The big news this week is, two candidates clinched their parties' nomination for president. One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president," Biden said. "The other is me." Of all the president's jokes, that one landed best here at the Independence Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt downtown. It's the annual...
The presidential race is official, with President Biden and former president Donald Trump clinching their parties' nominations Tuesday. But this year, Democrats are clear: They do not want a rerun of 2016, when third-party candidates got millions of votes, leading many political observers to say even today that those votes helped Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. This time, Democrats are prepared. The Biden campaign and the political apparatus hoping to defeat Trump are taking third-party...
The Service Employees International Union, which represents about 2 million health-care, property service and government workers, plans to spend $200 million to boost President Biden and Democrats in electoral battlegrounds across the country this year, officials at the group told The Washington Post. The union is making its largest investment ever - after spending roughly $150 million in the 2020 presidential cycle - as it aims to reach 6 million voters of color and, more broadly, turn out...
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WASHINGTON ? The White House knew it had a political problem on its hands when a special counsel report questioned President Joe Biden's memory last month, but Biden saw a much more personal affront as well. Robert Hur, who had been appointed to investigate whether Biden mishandled classified documents, wrote that the president couldn't recall in an interview with prosecutors the date when his adult son, Beau, died of cancer. It was a shocking contention about a keystone event in Biden's life,...
The Democratic leader of the Minnesota Senate lashed out at Republican members this week for trying to end the practice of remote voting while a DFL senator is undergoing cancer treatment. GOP state Sen. Steve Drazkowski proposed a motion to eliminate remote and proxy voting during a rules committee meeting last week. Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, legislators are still allowed to cast votes remotely under certain circumstances. On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy,...
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has announced new legislation aimed at funneling more money into Indian Country housing and other services through the Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service programs. Under the Tribal Rural Housing Access Act, the USDA would be required to set aside 5 percent of its funding under certain Rural Housing Service programs for use by tribes, tribally designated housing entities, tribal members, and tribal-owned entities. The legislation proposes...
When Robert K. Hur testifies to Congress on Tuesday about his investigation of President Biden's handling of classified documents, he is expected to defend a special counsel process created to shield fraught cases from political interference. But Hur's testimony will also highlight how Attorney General Merrick Garland's use of special counsels to handle the most politically sensitive cases has calcified tensions between the White House and the Justice Department. It will be the first time Hur...
The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee - handpicked by former president Donald Trump - started firing dozens of employees days after taking over, according to three people familiar with the firings who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly. About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes. One of the people familiar with the firings said data, political and...
These hidden fees pop up at the end of a transaction, right at the moment a consumer is about to purchase a product. "Think about the last time you went out for dinner, or ordered online and saw a convenience fee, a service fee, a wellness fee that you weren't quite sure what that was for," said Rep. Emma Greenman, DFL-Minneapolis. She's carrying a bill this year to rein in the proliferation of businesses adding so-called hidden "junk fees" at the end of purchases, which have driven up the...
MANCHESTER, N.H. ? President Joe Biden on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at getting voters' attention: It would offer tax breaks for families, lower health care costs, smaller deficits and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Unlikely to pass the House and Senate to become law, the proposal for fiscal 2025 is an election year blueprint about what the future could hold if Biden and enough of his fellow Democrats win in November. The president and his aides previewed parts of...
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies. The legislation's success gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year. The measure contains six annual spending bills and had already passed the House. In signing it into law, Biden thanked leaders and negotiators from both parties in both chambers for their work,...
