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Showing posts with label NBC News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NBC News. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Friday, March 22, 2024
Compromise spending bill passes US House 286-134 bringing fiscal year 2024 federal discretionary spending to $1.659 trillion through September
WASHINGTON — The House voted 286-134 on Friday to pass a sweeping $1.2 trillion government funding bill, sending it to the Senate just hours before the deadline to prevent a shutdown. ...
The bill, released early Thursday, funds the departments of Homeland Security, State, Labor, Defense, Health and Human Services and various other agencies. Together with the $459 billion bill passed earlier this month, it fully funds the federal government to the tune of $1.659 trillion through September, after months of stopgap bills and negotiations.
More here.
The Roll Call Vote is here, if you want to check how your representative voted.
The argument is perennially NOT about deficit spending, but deficit spending on WHAT.
The projected tax shortfall for all programs for fiscal 2024 is $1.582 trillion, more than half of which will be net interest expense of $0.870 trillion on the exploding national debt. Interest payments on what we have already borrowed now exceed defense outlays of $0.822 trillion.
CBO in early February estimated fiscal 2024 discretionary spending at $1.739 trillion, so today's bill "saves" a mere $80 billion off that.
Mandatory spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. is estimated at $3.908 trillion for fiscal 2024.
It's obvious that spending should be cut and taxes raised, but no one has the courage for either.
They should just agree to do both and let the chips fall where they may. Everyone out here will be pissed, vote accordingly, and it would be a wash politically.
Current national debt is $34.5612 trillion and rising.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Joe Biden buys 78,000 more votes, total vote-buying program to date adds $144 billion to the national debt
4 million voters purchased.
Biden cancels nearly $6 billion in student debt for 78K public service workers
The
White House has approved nearly $144 billion in federal loan
forgiveness for about 4 million borrowers in total, according to the
administration.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Straight men still call all the shots, they're just more perverted now
The percentage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults in the U.S. continues to increase, reaching an all-time high of 7.6% in 2023, according to a new Gallup report. Broken down by gender, the survey of 12,000 people 18 and older across the country found that women were nearly twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ.
“Almost 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ+, most as bisexual,” Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup, told NBC News. “That’s where a lot of the growth seems to be happening.” ...
The group most likely to identify as LGBTQ, by far, was Generation Z women (ages 18 to 26), 28.5% of whom identified as LGBTQ in the survey. The lion’s share of them, of all Gen Z women surveyed, 20.7%, identified as bisexual, followed by 5.4% who identified as lesbians. Gen Z women were nearly three times more likely than Gen Z men to identify as LGBTQ. ...
Bisexuals made up the highest percentage of LGBTQ respondents, at 57.3% — or 4.4% of all adults surveyed. ...
“It’s important how much the LGBTQ community is bisexual, and that’s definitely something we see among the younger generations,” Jones said.
More here.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Justin Amash flipflops, announces he's running as a Republican for the US Senate from Michigan after leaving the Republican Party in 2019
Story here.
Last September I predicted he'd run, except as a spoiler for the Libertarian Party.
This is just more evidence that he has never been the consistent libertarian he has claimed to be. He's nothing but a climber, like all the rest.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Trump is the accidental anarchist to Biden the intentional one
Trump treating NATO like a plaything in South Carolina:
'No, I would not protect you [NATO], in fact I would encourage them [Russia] to do whatever the hell they want, you gotta pay! You gotta pay your bills.'
Also in South Carolina, Trump oblivious to Nikki Haley's husband's military deployment:
“Then she comes over to see me at Mar-a-Lago. ‘Sir, I will never run against you.’ She brought her husband. Where’s your husband? Oh, he’s away. He’s away. What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone! He knew. He knew,” Trump said.
In Michigan Ron DeSantis is still on the ballot Tuesday February 27th:
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Sunday, February 4, 2024
D.C. anarcho-tyranny proves fatal to ex-Trump U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission official Mike Gill
| UPDATE: Ex-Trump official shot in D.C. carjacking spree dies.. |
In a statement, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said the violence began Monday afternoon when an unidentified person got into a car and shot a male driver before running away. Gill's family said he was the man who was shot.
Police said the ordeal, which involved a Jeep Grand Cherokee, occurred in about three minutes. The attacker later tried and failed to steal a Mercedes-Benz, according to police. ...
The attacker, identified as 28-year-old Artell Cunningham, was fatally shot by police Tuesday in New Carrollton, Maryland, Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown said in a statement.
Monday, January 29, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Ridiculous: It was -18F in Iowa yesterday, you'd stay home too
SITTING OUT '24? CAUCUS TURNOUT MUCH LOWER THAN EXPECTED...
Old Republicans in Iowa yesterday: Why should I bother to go, Trump's just going to win anyway.
That'h eathy for you to thay:
Stupid is as stupid does.
smdh
We're $34 trillion in debt, so Congress unites to spend $70 billion more we don't have on "the children" and on "small business" because it's an election year
You have the government you deserve.
Story here.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Four gold bars in possession of Senator Bob Menendez traced to 2013 armed robbery of Fred Daibes, who is accused of bribing Menendez
Menendez has denied taking payoffs from Daibes even though prosecutors allege testing shows Daibes’ fingerprints and DNA are on some of the tens of thousands of dollars in cash found in Menendez’s home.
“For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands in cash from my personal savings account, which I have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba,” Menendez said.
Looks like they'll finally get this guy.
Friday, November 24, 2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023
US House Democrat minority leader Hakeem Jeffries crows over passage of more of the same old, same old bloated spending by continuing resolution
Looking forward to a Moody's downgrade, if they've got the guts. Congress certainly doesn't.
Senate sends funding bill to Biden’s desk, averting a government shutdown :
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill Wednesday night, punting the GOP’s spending fight and the threat of a government shutdown until after the holidays.
The bipartisan vote was 87-11, with 10 Republicans and one Democrat — Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado — voting against the bill. ...
The short-term bill, known as a continuing resolution, or CR, cleared the House on Tuesday on
a lopsided 336-95 vote, with all but two of the no votes coming from
Republicans. The funding bill next heads to President Joe Biden’s desk
for his expected signature. ...
“No spending cuts, no right-wing extreme policy changes, no government shutdown, no votes tomorrow, Happy Thanksgiving,” he said. “That is a type of report that, when you are able to give it, means morale is very high.”
Monday, October 2, 2023
Congressional Black Caucasians most hurt
The Congressional Black Caucus had urged Newsom to appoint Lee, saying she was the "only person with the courage, the vision, and the record to eradicate poverty, face down the fossil fuel industry, defend our democracy, and tirelessly advance the progressive agenda.
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Friday night news dump: IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, 38, charged with leaking tax records in New York Times and ProPublica incidents in 2018 and 2020
Littlejohn, 38, provided the public official’s tax documents to an unnamed news organization, and the tax information concerning other wealthy individuals to another unidentified news organization between 2018 and 2020, prosecutors said.
In 2020, The New York Times released a bombshell report saying that it had obtained more than two decades of Trump’s tax information and that he had paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017.
More.
The story has already been scrubbed from the lineup by the weekend kids crew at CNBC.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
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