Category: Policy

US Trade Chief Tai Says She Wants to Dial Down Temperature in US-China Relations

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said her focus in engaging with China will be reducing tensions in the fraught trading relationship between the world’s two largest economic powers. Bilateral ties have come to a point where “it feels kind of like a pile of dry tinder,” Tai said at an Oct. 28 meeting at the…


Bill to Kill ‘Zombie Federal Programs’ is a ‘No-Brainer’: Sen. Joni Ernst

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) says there are far too many failed federal programs that should have been killed long ago, and adopting her proposal to make sure they are in the future should be a “no-brainer for Congress.” The Iowa Republican told reporters during a Thursday news conference that she is naming Congress as the…


Bill to Kill ‘Zombie Federal Programs’ is a ‘No-Brainer’: Sen. Ernst

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) says there are far too many failed federal programs that should have been killed long ago, and adopting her proposal to make sure that happens in the future should be a “no-brainer for Congress.” The Iowa Republican told reporters during an Oct. 28 news conference that she’s naming Congress as the…


ECB Holds Policy Unchanged, Keeping Stimulus Taps Wide Open

FRANKFURT—The European Central Bank left policy unchanged on Thursday as widely expected, holding fire before a set of crucial decisions in December on ending pandemic emergency stimulus and returning policy to a more normal setting. Confirming its policy stance, the ECB will continue to buy bonds at a “moderately lower” pace this quarter than in…


Florida Withholds Federal Grant Money From 2 Counties for Mask Mandates

The Florida Department of Education withheld more than $600,000 this month from two counties that are openly defying the state’s restriction on blanket mask mandates. The move is in open defiance of the Biden administration, which had warned in a letter on Monday that the federal government “is prepared to initiate enforcement action to stop…


Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff: Hospitals Should Hire Nurses with Natural Immunity, Not Fire Them

“Since the Athenian plague in 430 B.C. … we have known about natural immunity. So it’s strange that suddenly people are questioning that,” says Dr. Martin Kulldorff. Nurses and caregivers who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection have “stronger, longer-lasting immunity” than vaccinated individuals who have not been infected before, Dr. Kulldorff says, making these…


Alabama Governor Signs Order to Fight Federal Vaccine Mandate

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed an executive order Monday to demand state agencies do not comply with federal coronavirus vaccine mandates. Executive Order 724 declares the “nonenforcement of federal COVID-19 vaccination mandates” effective immediately across the state. “Effective immediately, no agency, department, board, commission, or other entity within the executive branch of state government…


Climate Financing Plan Won’t Help Climate, but Will Push Country to Totalitarianism: Experts

The Biden administration’s plan to impose a slew of financial regulations in order to counter climate change would end up having little impact on reducing global temperatures. But the measures would be quite effective at hurting economy, expanding government authority, and moving the country toward totalitarianism, according to several experts. Biden’s plan, sketched out in…


NYC Rally Against Vaccine Mandate; ‘Kyrie Irving Is a Hero!’: Protesters Back Irving’s Stand Against Mandates

“You’re not a hero if you’ve got a multimillion-dollar deal from Nike. You’re a hero when you stand up against the majority for what’s right, and that’s exactly what Kyrie is doing,” said NYC Council candidate Mark Szuszkiewicz, who was among the hundreds who rallied on Oct. 24 in support of Brooklyn Nets basketballer Kyrie…


Chicago Police Department Sending Workers Home If They Don’t Get the Vaccine: Fireman

Chicago city workers who are refusing the vaccine are being sent home without pay if they refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccines, a Chicago Fire Department (CFD) employee told The Epoch Times under the condition of anonymity. If they decide to take the vaccine later, they don’t return to duty right away, instead “they have…