by Jim Heath | Dec 27, 2020 | 2020, Congress, Headlines, Trump
President Trump late today signed the stimulus bill into law, averting a Tuesday government shutdown. His decision to back down and sign the measure will release $900 billion in stimulus funds into the economy that had been held up for nearly a week. WAPO: Three...
by Jim Heath | Dec 27, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Trump
Some Republicans and conservatives, faced with a likely government shutdown due to Donald Trump’s refusal to sign a bill his Treasury Secretary negotiated, are turning against the defeated one-term president. Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger said today...
by Jim Heath | Dec 27, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Congress, Headlines
The Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, the Democratic challengers in the Senate runoffs in Georgia, have each raised more than $100 million since October. Enormous sums that surpassed their Republican opponents by a significant margin and underscored Democrats’...
by Jim Heath | Dec 22, 2020 | 2020, Headlines
A Dominion Voting Systems employee is suing the Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell as well as news networks OANN and Newsmax over alleged defamation. Eric Coomer, director of product strategy and security for the company, filed the lawsuit in Denver,...
by Jim Heath | Dec 22, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Trump
Lame duck Donald Trump, in his final days, is turning bitterly on virtually every person around him, griping about anyone who refuses to indulge conspiracy theories or hopeless bids to overturn the election. Targets of his outrage include Vice President Pence, chief...
by Jim Heath | Dec 22, 2020 | 2020, Congress, Headlines
Alex Padilla, California’s secretary of state, has been appointed to fill the Senate seat held by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today, capping months of intense political jockeying among Democratic factions in the state. NYTimes: The...
