Tag: biden administration

Republicans Confront FTC Over Proposed Non-Compete Ban

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are challenging the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent proposal of a national ban on non-compete agreements. In a Feb. 14 letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan and other commissioners, Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.) argued that…


VP Harris Says Downing of Spy Balloon Shouldn’t Impact Relations with China

Vice President Kamala Harris doesn’t think the United States’ decision to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon will impact relations between the two countries. “I don’t think so, no,” Harris told Politico in a Feb. 14 interview, during which she addressed an array of topics from the war in Ukraine and judicial reforms in Israel…


Biden Administration Allowing States to Spend Medicaid Money on Food, Housing

The Biden administration has started to grant states’ requests to utilize Medicaid funding to pay for nonmedical but health-related needs like groceries and housing support in order to decrease the need for medical intervention. In October last year, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a section 1115 demonstration initiative (pdf) for Arizona, allowing the state to use…


Border Patrol Encounters With Chinese Nationals at Southern Border up 719 Percent

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered 2,999 Chinese nationals at the southern border so far in fiscal year 2023—a 719 percent increase year-over-year, according to CBP data released on Feb. 10. The total also exceeds the amount recorded for the entirety of fiscal year 2022 (Oct. 1, 2021–Sept. 30, 2022), during which 2,176…


LIVE NOW: Unidentified Flying Objects Being Shot Down; US Accused of Destroying Nord Stream Pipeline

Unidentified flying objects were shot down by authorities in Canada and Alaska. The Chinese regime says it is also planning to shoot down a flying craft near its borders, and other odd incidents are being reported elsewhere. While details are thin on what the flying crafts were, this comes soon after the United States shot…


Unidentified Flying Objects Being Shot Down; US Accused of Destroying Nord Stream Pipeline

Unidentified flying objects were shot down by authorities in Canada and Alaska. The Chinese regime says it is also planning to shoot down a flying craft near its borders, and other odd incidents are being reported elsewhere. While details are thin on what the flying crafts were, this comes soon after the United States shot…


LIVE 10:30 AM ET: Unidentified Flying Objects Being Shot Down; US Accused of Destroying Nord Stream Pipeline

Unidentified flying objects were shot down by authorities in Canada and Alaska. The Chinese regime says it is also planning to shoot down a flying craft near its borders, and other odd incidents are being reported elsewhere. While details are thin on what the flying crafts were, this comes soon after the United States shot…


LIVE 2/13, at 10:30 AM ET: Unidentified Flying Objects Being Shot Down; US Accused of Destroying Nord Stream Pipeline

Unidentified flying objects were shot down by authorities in Canada and Alaska. The Chinese regime says it is also planning to shoot down a flying craft near its borders, and other odd incidents are being reported elsewhere. While details are thin on what the flying crafts were, this comes soon after the United States shot…


DHS Hires Outside Legal Counsel Ahead of Possible Mayorkas Impeachment

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has hired outside legal counsel in anticipation of potential impeachment proceedings against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “The Department of Homeland Security has retained outside counsel to help ensure the Department’s vital mission is not interrupted by the unprecedented, unjustified, and partisan impeachment efforts by some Members of Congress, who…


State AGs Seek Answers From FBI, DOJ Over Targeting of Traditionalist Catholics

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 other Republican state attorneys general expressed “outrage and alarm” Friday following the Feb. 8 leak of an internal FBI memo that characterized Catholics as “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.” Seeking answers, Miyares pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland for information on how the…