Social Security Administration urging budget anomaly to avoid ‘devastating’ impacts

The Social Security Administration is ringing alarm bells over what would be “devastating” impacts of flat agency funding, as Congress looks to hammer out a continuing resolution by the end of the month and avoid a government shutdown. During a hearing Wednesday, SSA Commissioner Martin O’Malley urged lawmakers on the Senate Budget Committee to include the White House’s full fiscal 2025 budget request of $ 15.4 billion for SSA operations as a budget anomaly in the case of a stopgap spending agreement. Currently, SSA is operating under a budget of…

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‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover From as a Doctor’

Photographs by Bethany Mollenkof This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Kylie Cooper has seen all the ways a pregnancy can go terrifyingly, perilously wrong. She is an obstetrician who manages high-risk patients, also known as a maternal-fetal-medicine specialist, or MFM. The awkward hyphenation highlights the duality of the role. Cooper must care for two patients at once: mother and fetus, mom and baby. On good days, she helps women with complicated pregnancies bring home healthy babies. On bad days,…

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Tim Walz Appointed Member of Political Party ‘Loyal’ to Chinese Communists to State Board

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, appointed a member of a political faction that has pledged loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party to a state board that advises the government on Asian American affairs, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. Walz first appointed Chang Wang, a Minnesota-based attorney, to the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans in May 2020. Wang now serves as the “interim chair” of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, which advises the governor, Legislature, and other state agencies by promoting the “economic, social,…

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NEW: MoveOn Launches Ice Cream Truck Tour to Give Away Free Ice Cream and GOTV for Harris and Democrats

Founders of Ben & Jerry’s, Jeni’s, and Malai partner with MoveOn to “Scoop the Vote” SEE OUR STOPS AND ICE CREAM RAFFLE AT MOVEON.ORG/SCOOP WASHINGTON, D.C. – As reported in USA Today, MoveOn Political Action will kick off a get-out-the-vote “Scoop the Vote” tour on September 16, where they will travel to key swing states and districts in an ice cream truck handing out free ice cream with special guests in their continued efforts to reach and engage voters. Throughout this tour, MoveOn is engaging in various partnerships at the…

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House Republicans lead $3B VA supplement to fix year-end budget shortfall

House Republicans are leading a supplemental funding bill to address a multi-billion-dollar budget crunch at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Leaders of the House Appropriations and House VA committees introduced a bill Friday that would give the VA $ 3 billion to ensure the department can keep paying benefits to veterans for the rest of the fiscal year. The Veterans Benefits Continuity and Accountability Supplemental Appropriations Act would ensure the VA has enough funding to keep paying veterans’ compensation, pension and readjustment benefits for the rest of fiscal 2024. The…

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