Tag: Policies & Impacts

DC Council Moves Closer to Banning Natural Gas Heating, Appliances in New Buildings

The District of Columbia Council is considering a proposal that would help residents toward ridding the nation’s capital of all fossil fuel-burning appliances and systems, including gas stoves. The Healthy Homes Residential Electrification Amendment Act of 2023, which was introduced by Ward 6 Council Member Charles Allen earlier this year, includes amended laws for energy…


Yellen Calls for a Different System to End ‘Tremendously Damaging’ Debt-Ceiling Standoffs

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday called for a different system of managing the country’s finances in order to prevent future debt-ceiling standoffs that she said were “tremendously damaging,” while reiterating her view that, in the near term, the only way to avoid the looming debt default is for Congress to lift the borrowing cap….


US Failure to Recognize Natural Immunity Negatively Affected Pandemic Response: NIH Scientist

The failure to recognize how post-infection immunity is similar or superior to that bestowed by vaccination led to prolonged school closures and other problems, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientist was set to tell Congress on May 11. U.S. health agencies “chose to disregard natural immunity,” leading to “lost jobs, staffing shortages, children kept…


IN-DEPTH: Cartels Stand to Win Big When Title 42 Ends, Immigration Experts Say

Immigration experts say that the impending end of Title 42 immigration enforcement will serve to benefit cartel drug and child trafficking operations at the expense of Americans. Lora Ries, a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the Epoch Times that the coming influx of illegal immigrants will strip critical tools from Border…


House Oversight Subcommittee’s Hearing on ‘Investigating Pandemic Immunity: Acquired, Therapeutic or Both’

U.S. House Oversight Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic holds a hearing on “Investigating Pandemic Immunity: Acquired, Therapeutic or Both” at 10:00 a.m. ET on May 11. Dr. Marty Makary, Chief, Islet Transplant Surgery & Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Margery Smelkinson, Research Scientist; and  Dr. Tina Tan (Minority Witness), Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, will…


LIVE 10 AM ET: House Oversight Subcommittee’s Hearing on ‘Investigating Pandemic Immunity: Acquired, Therapeutic or Both’

U.S. House Oversight Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic holds a hearing on “Investigating Pandemic Immunity: Acquired, Therapeutic or Both” at 10:00 a.m. ET on May 11. Dr. Marty Makary, Chief, Islet Transplant Surgery & Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Margery Smelkinson, Research Scientist; and  Dr. Tina Tan (Minority Witness), Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, will…


LIVE NOW: House Oversight Subcommittee’s Hearing on ‘Investigating Pandemic Immunity: Acquired, Therapeutic or Both’

U.S. House Oversight Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic holds a hearing on “Investigating Pandemic Immunity: Acquired, Therapeutic or Both” at 10:00 a.m. ET on May 11. Dr. Marty Makary, Chief, Islet Transplant Surgery & Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Margery Smelkinson, Research Scientist; and  Dr. Tina Tan (Minority Witness), Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, will…


Yellen Says Congress Risks Creating a Self-Made Crisis With ‘Unthinkable’ Debt Default

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen accused the Republican-controlled House of creating a self-made crisis over its stance on the debt ceiling. Yellen, who was attending a Group of Seven (G7) conference in Niigata, Japan, called on Congress to raise the $31.4 trillion federal debt limit to avert a U.S. government default that would trigger a global…


LIVE 9:45 AM ET Q&A With Josh: Biden Family Received $10 Million in Payments From China, Foreign Interests: Congress

Join us for this recap and live Q&A with Joshua Philipp on the previous episode of Crossroads Tonight! – President Joe Biden is being accused of money laundering and influence peddling. This is the latest chapter in the Hunter Biden saga, where the president’s son was suspected of selling his father’s influence to foreign governments…


LIVE 10AM ET Q&A With Josh: Biden Family Received $10 Million in Payments From China, Foreign Interests: Congress

Join us for this recap and live Q&A with Joshua Philipp on the previous episode of Crossroads Tonight! – President Joe Biden is being accused of money laundering and influence peddling. This is the latest chapter in the Hunter Biden saga, where the president’s son was suspected of selling his father’s influence to foreign governments…