According to the White House, a family of three in North Carolina earning $44,000 annually could stand to save close to $110 per month under this new rule.
After years of claiming that border security was a “top priority” for them, House and Senate Republicans killed a long-awaited, bipartisan deal they insisted on amid pressure from former President Donald Trump.
Trump is seeking to delay a trial until after the November election. If he were to defeat President Joe Biden, he could presumably try to use his position as head of the executive branch to order a new attorney general to dismiss the federal cases he faces or potentially could seek a pardon for himself.
North Carolina Republicans redrew Congressman Wiley Nickel’s district so that he had no chance of winning re-election in 2024. That process is called gerrymandering. And its dangers are far greater than threatening individual political careers. By drawing districts that ensure Republican victories and Democratic losses, that means Congress and the North Carolina legislature are freer […]
During the pandemic, Democrats changed the child tax credit and cut childhood poverty in half. Now there's new hope for making those changes permanent, but there are skeptics.