Tag: Policies & Impacts

Biden, McCarthy Have ‘Productive’ Meeting But No Deal Yet on Debt Ceiling

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Joe Biden clearly defined their areas of disagreement over raising the debt ceiling and cutting federal spending, paving the way for negotiators from both sides to iron out a deal. Emerging from a 90-minute conversation at the White House on May 22, McCarthy described the meeting in positive…


States Living Off Depleted Colorado River All Agree to Landmark Water Cuts

California, Arizona, and Nevada have come together in a plan to protect the Colorado River Basin and reduce their water use from the river to save it from current drought conditions over the next three years, the southwestern states announced on Monday. The southwestern states have agreed to cut at least 3 million acre-feet of water through 2026—a…


[PREMIERING 7:00PM ET] The Gates-Epstein Connection Highlights Major Accusation Against the Deceased Child Sex Trafficker

Bill Gates’s past with Jeffrey Epstein is again boiling to the surface. It was already known that Gates had connections to the accused sex trafficker and convicted pedophile. In fact, Gates’s wife previously said this was a key reason she divorced him. But the new evidence is exposing even more. Not only is it now…


The Gates-Epstein Connection Highlights Major Accusation Against the Deceased Child Sex Trafficker

Bill Gates’s past with Jeffrey Epstein is again boiling to the surface. It was already known that Gates had connections to the accused sex trafficker and convicted pedophile. In fact, Gates’s wife previously said this was a key reason she divorced him. But the new evidence is exposing even more. Not only is it now…


Senators Receive ‘Precautionary’ Satellite Phones Just Before Hurricane Season

Members of the Senate have been given satellite phones by the chamber’s sergeant-at-arms. “Satellite phones are important precautionary communication devices that provide critical lifelines during disasters that impact local communication capabilities (such as cellular and landline phones, and/or internet),” an official with knowledge of the matter informed The Epoch Times in a May 22 email….


Supreme Court Won’t Hear Florida Democrat’s Defamation Appeal

A defamation lawsuit that controversial former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) brought against independent political groups over the 2018 election was dismissed by the Supreme Court on May 22. The formerly high-profile, left-wing, ex-lawmaker represented Florida’s 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2017. He sought the Democrats’ nomination for the seat in August 2018 but lost…


The Gates-Epstein Connection Highlights Major Accusation Against the Child Sex Trafficker

Bill Gates’s past with Jeffrey Epstein is again boiling to the surface. It was already known that Gates had connections to the accused sex trafficker and convicted pedophile. In fact, Gates’s wife previously said this was a key reason she divorced him. But the new evidence is exposing even more. Not only is it now…


Supreme Court Overturns Lifetime Ban for Michigan Bank Executive

The Supreme Court unanimously reversed a lower court’s order that a banker be banned from the financial services industry for life on May 22. Harry C. Calcutt III was president and CEO of Traverse City, Michigan-based Northwestern Bank before it was purchased by a competitor. The government alleged Calcutt participated in improper lending practices that…


Florida Bathroom Requirements to be Based on Biological Sex

Florida legislators have passed a bill, approved by the governor, that will require bathroom use to be based on biological sex. According to a May 17 press release, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis received “one bill from the Florida legislature” in addition to a collection of bills dubbed the “Let Kids be Kids” package, already signed…


What Are the Consequences of the White House’s Illegal-Immigrant Strategy?

Joe Biden has long promised to flood America with a river of illegal immigrants—and now it’s happened. In less than three years, 6 million have crossed the U.S. southern border illegally. “The Invasion,” as some call it, will lower wages for working Americans, raise taxes for all, change the electorate, and destabilize the country—and there’s…