Fiscal Service using death data to reduce improper payments

The Bureau of Fiscal Service in the Treasury Department has a stretch goal — help prevent $ 12 billion in improper payments by 2029. Luckily for the bureau, Congress gave it some much needed help to improve its Do Not Pay database. The Fiscal Service now has access to the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File, which contains over 83 million records of deaths that have been reported to SSA. Tim Gribben, the commissioner of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, said Congress gave the agency access on a pilot…

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Elon Musk Bends the Knee to Donald Trump

Have you ever watched a crowd go wild for a PowerPoint slide? After a few introductory hellos yesterday in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump gestured to a screen showing the same graph on illegal immigration that he had been talking about when he was nearly assassinated in July and delivered his real opening line: “As I was saying …” The audience loved that. The rallygoers had waited in line for hours in the hot sun to get into the field, and this was their reward. They had made it through warm-up…

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Many US Muslims Deny Israel’s Right to Exist, Say US Shouldn’t Help Israel if Attacked by Iran

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—One year after Hamas terrorists in Gaza invaded Israel, raping women and slaughtering more than 1,100 people, including infants, and after video evidence of the slaughter has spread across the world, a shocking percentage of American Muslims deny these facts and harbor disgusting antisemitic attitudes, a new poll shows. When asked which statement “comes closest to your view,” more American Muslims selected “Hamas did not commit murder and rape in Israel on October 7” than “Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7.” More…

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MoveOn Slams Jill Stein for Downplaying January 6 Insurrection

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, MoveOn rebuked Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein for downplaying the January 6 insurrection. On a newly unearthed podcast, Stein said she is open to pardoning the individuals who attacked the Capitol on January 6 at Donald Trump’s direction and says the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election was “blown up for political reasons.”  “Not only do Jill Stein and Donald Trump share the same Republican operatives, they even share the same dangerous opinions about the deadly insurrection,” said Britt Jacovich, MoveOn Political Action spokesperson. “Stein’s…

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Another federal rule lands in court

A Supreme Court decision earlier this year overturned the notion that courts should defer to federal agency regulatory authority when agencies make rules to carry out vaguely-written laws. It was known as the Chevron doctrine. The case that sparked the change is known as Loper. Loper is the fishing boat operator that didn’t want to pay for a federal monitor it was forced to let aboard its boat. Now several parties are suing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency that made the rule that sparked the Loper case.…

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