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Just over a year ago, the Associated Press reported that the Biden Administration planned on opening up eligibility for ACA exchange, Basic Health Program, Medicaid & CHIP coverage to hundreds of thousands of Americans who have Deferred Action of...
by Brainwrap
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on Fri May 03, 2024 at 06:46 AM PDT
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The truth that sets us free from denial, media cons and corporate rented politicians is in past lessons shredded by current mind-boggling, programming blindness to our simmering Seven Days in May. We need to renew ourselves with the courage,...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Wed May 25, 2022 at 10:28 AM PDT
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President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he’s chosen Shalanda Young to direct the Office of Management, and Nani Coloretti as Deputy Director. Young has been serving as Acting Director since March. “Both Young and Coloretti have been confirmed by...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Nov 24, 2021 at 10:20 AM PST
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In the summer, when the budget figures for the U.S. Department of Defense are in the news, there is always coverage about military overspending. I just read the diary by Kos contributor annieli about ideas for cutting the behemoth U.S. defense budget....
by Goodwhich
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on Sun Jul 18, 2021 at 11:44 PM PDT
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The US Defense budget can be reduced with resources reallocated if only there weren’t so much institutional failure like previous guy claiming he increased that�budget while withdrawing forces ...
by annieli
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on Sun Jul 18, 2021 at 09:05 PM PDT
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A pair of just-issued reports show just how bad “government” was under Donald Trump. A HUD inspector general’s report shows how funds already allocated by Congress to assist in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico were delayed by by a series of Trump...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Apr 22, 2021 at 11:22 AM PDT
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Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, has withdrawn herself from consideration after her confirmation collapsed in the Senate. In a letter to Biden, Tanden...
by Charles Jay
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on Tue Mar 02, 2021 at 03:48 PM PST
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I’d been trying to make sense of Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) intention to vote ‘no’ on Neera Tanden’s nomination as director of the Office of Management and Budget (other than pure misogyny, which is very well could be). I live here, and it’s not a hot...
by danvshea
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on Wed Feb 24, 2021 at 09:09 AM PST
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Susan Collins Joins Joe Manchin to Oppose President Joe Biden's nomination of Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget. "Neera Tanden has neither the experience nor the temperament to lead this critical agency. Her past actions have...
by Sam Carpathian
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on Mon Feb 22, 2021 at 09:07 AM PST
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“It has the potential to be the most significant action Biden took on day one.” That’s what Senior Policy Analyst James Goodwin of the Center for Progressive Reform said about the executive order called Modernizing Regulatory Review (MRR)—although he...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sat Jan 30, 2021 at 06:59 AM PST
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Senate Republicans, who personified partisan hackery under Trump, call Biden Cabinet pick 'partisan' Republicans already have the knives out for President-elect Joe Biden's pick to lead the powerful White House budget office, Neera Tanden, who currently leads the left-leaning Center for American Progress. It must be the idea of Biden selecting...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Dec 01, 2020 at 11:57 AM PST
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The New York Times is unveiling some of Joe’s choices to lead his economic team and it appears to be good news: Joe Biden plans to formally name his choices this week to fill the administration’s top economic policy positions. News of his picks has...
by Dem
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on Mon Nov 30, 2020 at 04:27 AM PST
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The president watches Fox for instructions on running the government. He received his orders and passed them down to Russell Vought, OMB Director for implementation. Carlson explains how discussion of white supremacy is anti-American. It has come...
by CA148 NEWS
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on Sat Sep 05, 2020 at 09:23 AM PDT
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During a ridiculous question-and-answer session with the Oxford Union in England that The New York Times called a “wide-ranging discussion,” acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told the audience that he had no plans on getting rid of the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Feb 21, 2020 at 01:17 PM PST
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When Donald Trump handed down the demand that military assistance to Ukraine go into the freezer until he got the Biden-dirt he was demanding from the U.S. ally, someone had to carry out that order. That person was Mick Mulvaney. In his double role as...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Feb 13, 2020 at 12:56 PM PST
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Team Trump threatens to veto disaster relief for Puerto Rico after January's destructive earthquakes The steaming pile of white nationalist garbage known as Team Trump is weighing in on disaster relief for Puerto Rico after the island, still attempting to recover from the catastrophic Hurricane Maria, was struck by multiple earthquakes during December...
by Hunter
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on Wed Feb 05, 2020 at 01:38 PM PST
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A midnight court filing on Friday night revealed that the White House is refusing to release at least two dozen emails directly related to Donald Trump’s withholding of military assistance from Ukraine. The filing, authored by an attorney from the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Sat Feb 01, 2020 at 09:58 AM PST
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Guest: Martin Longman of Washington Monthly and Progress Pond... Our special coverage of the ongoing U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald John Trump continues on today's BradCast following Tuesday's marathon session that ended at nearly 2am in the...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Jan 22, 2020 at 06:55 PM PST
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— I’ve had a sick day today, so I’ve been watching the day’s political news — even more than usual. And this significant story could barely get a word in edgewise, due to the other more significant news (Senate Impeachment Trial started; the fall-out...
by jamess
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on Thu Jan 16, 2020 at 04:30 PM PST
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Cabinet Cabal. With the GAO finding that OMB violated the Impoundment Control Act, several agencies like OMB, GAO, State, DoJ need to weigh in on what could be more evidence of more high crimes by IMPOTUS. Speaker Pelosi today referred to “All the...
by annieli
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on Thu Jan 16, 2020 at 08:03 AM PST
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