When President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive student loan debt, he noted its intersection with another issue — Black and Hispanic homeownership. Biden said on Aug. 24 that many people cannot qualify for a mortgage because of student-loan debt, and the burden of student debt is “especially heavy on Black and Hispanic borrowers.” He […]
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The Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law earlier this month, delivered an unprecedented $369 billion to put the nation on the path to steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Central to the plan is the expansion of renewable power, and President Joe Biden put some ambitious numbers on the table. “By 2030, we’ll have […]
Gov. Greg Abbott has focused on border security as a top policy issue since President Joe Biden took office and has made it a central issue in his reelection campaign. While border security is historically a federal responsibility, Abbott has poured nearly $4 billion into Texas border enforcement, bused migrants to Washington and New York City […]
President Joe Biden has made a long-awaited decision on how to handle student debt. On Aug. 24 Biden announced that his administration will waive student loan debt for qualifying Americans — $10,000 for individuals earning less than $125,000, plus an additional $10,000 for those who had received Pell Grants, which support tuition for lower-income students. […]
After U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist clinched the Democratic gubernatorial nomination for Florida governor, the Republican Party of Florida aired an ad bashing his support of President Joe Biden. The 30-second ad, which aired in English and Spanish, tied Crist to Biden on crime and new money for the IRS. “Charlie Crist thinks Joe Biden is […]
As soon as President Joe Biden announced his plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of Americans, facts and figures streamed across the internet projecting the plan’s impact. The loan relief “will literally change my life,” tweeted one Pell Grant recipient. “More needs to be done before we’ve sufficiently pulled multiple generations out of […]
Editor’s note, Aug. 26, 2022: This article has been updated to include additional details made available by the court’s Aug. 26 release of the Justice Department’s affidavit requesting a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago. Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Aug. 12 to complain about the FBI’s unannounced search at his Mar-a-Lago home in […]
President Joe Biden has called for 50% of all cars sold in the United States to be electric by 2030. The Inflation Reduction Act aims to help that goal by including a $7,500 tax credit to encourage Americans to buy electric cars. In a July 19, 2022, House hearing, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg lauded Biden’s […]
In New York, left-leaning politicians talk about how progressive their state is. But when it comes to voting, the Empire State has been slow to adopt voter access measures that have been passed elsewhere for decades. In California, voting by mail without having to come up with an excuse to do so started four decades […]
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When the major Democratic bill on climate change, health care and corporate taxation was being finalized, its Senate backers settled on a title that reflected the reality that inflation was at a 40-year high. They called it the Inflation Reduction Act. But as the legislation was being debated — and after it passed on a […]