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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,...
President Biden in his State of the Union address Thursday laid out broad new policy goals for a second term, with aims to use tax hikes on major corporations and the wealthy to make new investments in child care and eldercare, affordable housing and education. The speech, and the debates over policy over the course of the 2024 election, signal the start of a massive struggle facing Congress and the White House next year, as trillions of dollars in tax cuts pushed in 2017 by President Donald...
On Saturday, President Joe Biden signed into law a six-bill funding package that will fund programs for the current year's federal budget. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee. "This bipartisan bill delivers essential funding to help keep our promises to Tribes and to support Tribal communities and families-including by continuing to provide advance appropriations so the Indian Health Service can serve patients with certainty." Sen. Murray said in a statement....
President Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address Thursday night, making a forceful case for a second term while attacking former president Donald Trump as a threat to individual rights, freedom and democracy. Biden engaged in repeated exchanges with Republican lawmakers in the House chamber, at times, turning the address into a form of political theater as he seemingly taunted his opponents in an attempt to spotlight policy disagreements on the economy, immigration and abortion....
As political leaders and guests shuffled into the U.S. Capitol for President Biden's high-stakes State of the Union address Thursday night, overhead views of the chamber revealed a sea of white. Several Democratic congresswomen donned the color in what they said was a statement about reproductive rights. The show of unity comes at a time when abortion access has been restricted across the country in the fallout of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, and after a Alabama Supreme Court decision...
Minnesota regulators are pushing a bill that would give aspiring cannabis business owners who meet social equity criteria a head start in the state's recreational marijuana market. Leaders of the state's Office of Cannabis Management at a news conference Thursday called for several changes to Minnesota's marijuana law, including one that would grant temporary business licenses as early as July to social equity applicants ahead of the anticipated 2025 market launch. Social equity applicants...
On Thursday night, the White House released the prepared remarks for President Joe Biden's third State of the Union address. Biden used his speech that lasted just over an hour to make comparisons to his predecessor 13 times. The president talked about the threat to democracy, specifically the January 6 attack on the nation's Capitol. Biden mentioned Native Americans as he talked about the immigration issue. "We are the only nation in the world with a heart and soul that draws from old and new....
There are so many "firsts" in our generation that sometimes they fly by without notice. Let's change that for this International Women's Day and note that there are now five Indigenous women who serve as heads of state, including the president of the most populous nation on the planet. Here are the five women who are the personal representatives of sovereignty. Droupadi Murmu is the president of India – the largest country in the world with 1.43 billion citizens. Her official biography says s...
President Biden's campaign aides have long said that once the presidential race becomes a clear contrast between two choices, their electoral prospects would brighten as voters come face to face with the stark prospect of Donald Trump's return to the White House. With the Super Tuesday contests completed and Trump's last major GOP rival, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, suspending her campaign, Biden's allies now have their chance - and eight months of political combat - to prove their...
The Supreme Court has scheduled argument for April 25 to review Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The case will be heard on the final day of the court's argument calendar and will determine whether and how quickly Trump faces trial in D.C. for allegedly trying to block Joe Biden's election victory. The high court's decision to consider Trump's claims, rather than letting stand a lower court...
Republican presidential primary voters showed a split between greater Minnesota and the metro with their votes Tuesday. Donald Trump is all but certain to become the Republican nominee, but in Minnesota, the places where former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley had a strong showing during Tuesday's Republican primary show where Trump might run into trouble. Haley pitched herself squarely at suburban voters, independents and moderate Republicans turned off by Trump. She got over 97,000 votes -...
Presidential Fifteen states across the nation are voting and a third of delegates are at stake in the Republican nominating contest. Former president Donald Trump had a wide lead in delegate totals so far, but the Associated Press has projected that the earliest he can clinch the nomination is on March 12. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is his main competition. President Biden is also on the ballot and is seeking to dispatch with his competition. AP reports he cannot win the...
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump easily won their respective Democratic and Republican primaries in Minnesota on Tuesday, setting up an increasingly inevitable rematch in November. The Associated Press called the races for Biden and Trump shortly after polls closed in Minnesota on Super Tuesday, when the nation learned the results of presidential primaries in 16 states. Biden and Trump had already been cruising to the nominations of their parties for weeks despite voter...
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, were sweeping the coast-to-coast contests on Super Tuesday, all but cementing a November rematch and increasing pressure on the former president's last major rival, Nikki Haley, to leave the Republican race. Biden and Trump had each won Texas, Alabama, Colorado, Maine, Oklahoma, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts. Biden also won the Democratic primaries in Vermont and Iowa. Haley's...
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) on Tuesday announced $72 million to help provide electricity to homes in several tribal communities. The funds come from President Biden's Investing in America agenda from the Inflation Reduction Act.Across Indian Country, more than 16,000 Tribal homes and 54,000 residents lack electricity, with a majority of unelectrified homes located in the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe. Tuesday's announcement was for the first round of funding from...
When 2024 dawned, the presidential race appeared destined to play out as much in the courts as on the campaign trail. Former president Donald Trump faced a pair of federal indictments. Two state cases brought the total criminal charges against him to 91. Challenges to his ballot eligibility proliferated, with the Supreme Court being asked to weigh in on whether Trump could even be a candidate. Two months later, the federal cases have been slowed to the point where verdicts before November are...
Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley won her first contest in the Republican presidential nomination race on Sunday after triumphing in D.C.'s primary. It is not likely to change the contest's trajectory. After three days of voting, polls in the Washington race closed at 7 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday. Though only 19 delegates were at stake, Haley perhaps had her best chance of defeating Trump, as he performed poorly in the last competitive GOP presidential contest in 2016. That year, he...
In the next four months, the Supreme Court will resolve a huge number of highly consequential cases - as many as the justices might typically confront across several years. Their decisions will address some of the nation's most pressing issues and influence the course of this fall's presidential election. The most closely watched question: whether Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The court's announcement...
MINNESOTA - On February 29, 2024, the majority of Minnesota's Republican congressional delegation - Representatives Brad Finstad, Michelle Fischbach, and Pete Stauber - joined an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to restrict access to the abortion drug mifepristone. "Once again, Minnesota Republicans are disregarding the needs and wants of millions of Minnesotans in favor of extreme and dangerous restrictions on abortion," said Marissa Luna, executive director of Alliance for a Better Minnesota. "A ban on abortion medication would be...
BROWNSVILLE, Tex. - President Biden and former president Donald Trump visited separate Texas border towns 300 miles apart on Thursday, blaming each other for a surge in illegal immigration and seeking to take the offensive on an issue that is shaping up to be a critical and volatile factor in this year's presidential contest. Biden used his visit to Brownsville, a Democratic stronghold, to blame Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, for killing a bipartisan border bill that would...
