Biden: Strong jobs numbers show economic plan is working
President Biden on Friday pointed to stronger-than-expected job gains in May as evidence that his economic plan is working. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...How about evidence-based policy making not just for you, but for Congress?
A bipartisan resolution aims to bring more evidence-based policy making to Congress. It would establish a commission to, in the words of the sponsors, “facilitate the integration of robust data in the legislative process.” For more about what that would do, Federal Drive with Tom Temin talks with one of the main backers of the resolution, Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And tell us exactly what you envisioned for a commission to establish evidence-based policymaking on the Hill. Derek Kilmer Let’s just start with the problem statement,…
Read More...Inside the Meltdown at CNN
Photographs by Mark Peterson This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. “How are we gonna cover Trump? That’s not something I stay up at night thinking about,” Chris Licht told me. “It’s very simple.” It was the fall of 2022. This was the first of many on-the-record interviews that Licht had agreed to give me, and I wanted to know how CNN’s new leader planned to…
Read More...‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgery Leaves People Lonelier and Depressed, Study by Transgender Surgery Department Chairman Finds
The head of a facility that carries out so-called “gender-affirming care” has published a study confirming that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether. “In our study, the level of life satisfaction in transgender people was not increased in transgender people who had undergone gender-affirming surgery as compared to those who were unoperated,” says a study published Tuesday in BMC Public Health, a peer-reviewed scientific journal. “[O]ur data indicate that transgender and gender-diverse people, who have undergone gender reassignment surgery…
Read More...Biden and Dems Protect the Country From MAGA Default Extremism
Washington – In response to the passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting released the following statement: “President Biden and Democrats did the work both to stop a MAGA-led push for default that would have dragged America into a terrible recession, and to prevent MAGA Republicans from gutting the social and economic progress that MoveOn members have fought for over the last two years. The budget deal that President Biden secured is by no means perfect, but it protects jobs, veterans’ benefits,…
Read More...Biden’s lofty EV goals face big barriers as federal funds flow to new chargers
The Biden administration can’t say how much progress, if any, it is making on a $ 5 billion federal initiative to build new EV chargers along America’s sprawling interstate highway system, according to several government agencies. The Washington Times stories: White House
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