Tag: Policies & Impacts

LIVE 3/28, at 10:30 AM ET: Russia Moving Nukes to Belarus; ‘Pax Americana’ Being Overtaken by ‘Multipolar’ Order

Russia will move tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, bordering Ukraine. The announcement from Russian President Vladimir Putin signals his growing threat on the possible use of nuclear weapons, and a tool the country is using to threaten the United States and its NATO allies. Meanwhile, the “Pax Americana” or “peace under America” may be coming…


Supreme Court Leaves Trump’s Steel Import Tariffs Intact

The Supreme Court decided on March 27 not to take up an industry challenge to steel import tariffs that then-President Donald Trump launched in 2018 on U.S. national security grounds. President Joe Biden has left the tariffs, which Trump said were needed to assure robust levels of domestic steel production, largely intact. The Biden administration…


House Committee Members Question VA’s Proposed Use of $20 Billion From Toxic Exposure Fund

During its March 23 hearing on the assessment of the Biden administration’s funding proposal for 2024—and advance appropriations request for 2025—members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs gave particular focus to a $20 billion item in the $325.1 billion 2024 budget. And they questioned Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough over plans to…


VA’s Proposed Use of $20 Billion From Toxic Exposure Fund Questioned by House Panel Members

Members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs focused on a $20 billion item in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) $325.1 billion 2024 budget request during a March 23 hearing to assess the Biden administration’s fiscal 2024 funding proposal for the department—and advance appropriations request for 2025. Panel members questioned VA Secretary Denis McDonough over plans…


Minnesota Bill Would Restore the Doctor-Patient Relationship Corroded by Socialized Medicine

Legislators in the Minnesota Senate presented a bill written to restore the doctor-patient relationship corroded by the socialization of medicine, the hazards of which were brought into focus with the COVID-19 pandemic. “During COVID, people gave up a lot of freedom,” state Sen. Jim Abeler told The Epoch Times. The freedom to assemble, to go…


LIVE 10:30 AM ET: NY Case Against Trump Begins to Crumble; AG Says Trump Spread Arrest Rumors

The New York case against Donald Trump is beginning to crumble. A Grand Jury weighing the case heard testimony from former federal prosecutor Robert Costello on Monday. It was alleged that the evidence has dramatically changed the case. Afterwards, District Attorney Alvin Bragg canceled a follow-up hearing without initially stating a reason. Now, DA Bragg…


LIVE NOW: NY Case Against Trump Begins to Crumble; DA Says Trump Spread Arrest Rumors

The New York case against Donald Trump is beginning to crumble. A Grand Jury weighing the case heard testimony from former federal prosecutor Robert Costello on Monday. It was alleged that the evidence has dramatically changed the case. Afterwards, District Attorney Alvin Bragg canceled a follow-up hearing without initially stating a reason. Now, DA Bragg…


NY Case Against Trump Begins to Crumble; DA Says Trump Spread Arrest Rumors

The New York case against Donald Trump is beginning to crumble. A Grand Jury weighing the case heard testimony from former federal prosecutor Robert Costello on Monday. It was alleged that the evidence has dramatically changed the case. Afterwards, District Attorney Alvin Bragg canceled a follow-up hearing without initially stating a reason. Now, DA Bragg…


LIVE 3/27, at 10:30 AM ET: NY Case Against Trump Begins to Crumble; AG Says Trump Spread Arrest Rumors

The New York case against Donald Trump is beginning to crumble. A Grand Jury weighing the case heard testimony from former federal prosecutor Robert Costello on Monday. It was alleged that the evidence has dramatically changed the case. Afterwards, District Attorney Alvin Bragg canceled a follow-up hearing without initially stating a reason. Now, DA Bragg…


Resistance to Offshore Wind Is Growing on US Coasts

A growing chorus of interest groups is calling for a pause in offshore wind activities to allow further assessment of the sector’s impacts on the marine ecosystem. Congressman Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, a Republican, introduced a congressional resolution on March 21 to halt work on east-coast offshore wind projects until investigations into its…