WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats spent two more years in control of the House Tuesday, but with a potential razor-thin majority, last week’s election final from which they split and less than the margin of error to move forward on their agenda. According to the Associated Press, the party has now …
Read More »Bernie Sanders seeks support to lead Biden’s Labor Department
The longtime senior labor leader told CNN on Tuesday that Sanders had personally called union leaders to seek personal support, but his dismissal had received a mixed response. Sanders’s push comes from within the labor movement, holding a jock over the position of the powerful cabinet. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumpka, …
Read More »Biden will deliver the Obamacare speech as the Supreme Court weighs in on the future of the law
Biden’s transition team scheduled an ET speech at 2pm on the Affordable Care Act in Wilmington, Delaware. Supreme Court judges are hearing oral arguments in a case where the speech comes on the same day that the landmark health reform law seeks to be invalidated. They will likely take a …
Read More »James Anderson: Top Pentagon policy official resigns second day after Trump fired Secretary of Defense
Policy Andersen has served as the policy’s under-secretary since John Rudd was fired by the Trump administration in February over disagreements over policy issues. It was not immediately clear if Anderson was asked to resign. Anderson, who has been at the Pentagon since 2018, first served as assistant secretary for …
Read More »G.O.P. The election results give Trump a fight to fight the transition
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration has shaken up the president’s transition, with President Donald Trump authorizing government officials to investigate the unwarranted allegations of voter fraud to President-elect Joe Biden’s team and associate attorney general William Barr. Some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, backed Trump’s efforts to …
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