Four hundred and fifty U.S. diplomatic officials and employees attended two U.N. climate conferences but nobody in the State Department knows how much greenhouse gases were emitted as a result despite President Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order directing the federal government to measure its emissions, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office…
State Department Not Measuring Its Greenhouse Gases Despite Biden Executive Order: GAO Report
June 29, 2023
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Retiring GOP Senators Left Congress With $1.5 Billion in Earmarks in 2022 Spending Package
Three retiring Republican senators—Roy Blunt of Missouri, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Richard Shelby of Alabama—received more than $1.5 billion in earmarks contained in the Omnibus Spending Bill of 2022, according to a new analysis by a nonprofit government watchdog. The Republican trio’s pork barrel projects were among the 7,506 in the bill, worth a…
Retiring GOP Senators Left Congress With $1.5 Billion in Earmarks for Their States
Three retiring Republican senators—Roy Blunt of Missouri, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Richard Shelby of Alabama—received more than $1.5 billion in earmarks for projects in their states as part of last year’s spending bill, according to a new analysis by a nonprofit government watchdog. The Republican trio’s pork barrel projects were among the more than…
US Federal Debt Will Soar Despite GOP-Led Cost-Cutting Efforts: CBO
June 28, 2023
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America’s public debt is projected to rise to record levels over the next three decades, according to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis, which noted that the government’s finances have improved a bit thanks to the GOP-led debt ceiling deal but overall remain “challenging.” The new forecast, released on Wednesday by the non-partisan spending…
Top House Republicans Pledge Investigation Into IRS Whistleblower Allegations
Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Jason Smith (R-Mo.), who head up three important panels in the House of Representatives, on June 28 released a joint statement promising a full investigation into whistleblower allegations made against the Justice Department’s Hunter Biden probe. Each of the three has led different investigations into President Joe…
White House Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling to Reject South Carolina GOP’s Election Law Theory
During a White House press briefing on June 27, Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton was asked about the Supreme Court decision that rejected a bid by South Carolina Republicans to give state legislatures sweeping authority in drawing congressional maps and regulating federal elections. …
New Law Makes It Harder for Online Criminals to Sell Fake or Stolen Products
June 28, 2023
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A new federal law will make it harder for online criminals to sell fake or stolen products in the wake of shoplifting gangs selling products on e-commerce sites. The INFORM Consumers Act, which went into effect on June 27, is intended to limit the sales of stolen and counterfeit products online, said the Federal Trade…
‘Are You Familiar With That Meeting?’ Rep. Tiffany Questions Durham About White House Meeting of Obama, Biden, Comey
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) questioned Special Counsel John Durham at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on June 21 about a reported 2017 White House meeting between former President Barack Obama, then Vice President Joe Biden, former FBI Director James Comey, and others. …
Top US Officials Have ‘First-Hand Knowledge’ of Secret UFO Program: Rubio
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has claimed that multiple senior government officials—including Pentagon employees with “high clearances”—are aware of a secret UFO craft crash retrieval program being run by the United States. The Republican lawmaker made the claims in an interview with NewsNation on June 26, shortly after Air Force veteran and former intelligence officer David Grusch alleged…
Defense Bill’s ‘Pacific Deterrence Initiative’ Puts Focus on Growing China Threat
June 27, 2023
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The proposed United States’ $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 defense budget features a $9.1 billion program designed to beef up allied operational efficiencies and fortify installations to counter aggression in the Western Pacific by China’s growing military. Both Senate and House armed services committees last week adopted the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) within their Fiscal…
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