White House extends Affordable Health Care Act to DACA recipients The federal government is giving some migrants healthcare benefits, starting November 1. President Biden says he's extending the Affordable Care Act to DACA recipients, who are migrants brought here ... 05/3/2024 - 1:13 am | View Link
Biden to Make DACA ‘Dreamers’ Eligible for Subsidized Federal Health Care Coverage Illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children will be eligible later this year for federal health care coverage under the Biden administration. The White House announced a new rule ... 05/2/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Did the health care of immigrants illegally in the country cost Florida taxpayers $566 million? Immigrants in the country illegally cost "Florida taxpayers $566 million for 54,000 hospital visits," Steube said in an April 14 post. "Biden's open border policies make every state a border state, ... 05/2/2024 - 10:03 am | View Link
Study finds major gaps in cancer screening use in Federally Qualified Health Centers A national study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and The University of New Mexico (UNM) Comprehensive Cancer Center found major gaps in breast, cervical and ... 04/29/2024 - 7:46 am | View Link
Feds establish new rules for health care staffing and pay Other new federal requirements aim to bolster pay for providers — many of whom are low-income immigrant women. 04/24/2024 - 2:41 am | View Link
“Fresh from his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump delivered a frustrated and often profane roughly 75-minute speech at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, attacking one of the prosecutors pursuing him and comparing President Biden’s administration to the Nazis,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “These people are running a Gestapo administration.”
“In his speech, he complained repeatedly about the criminal trial in Manhattan, to which he will return on Monday, insisted that Democrats use ‘welfare’ to cheat in elections and said he would need an attorney general with ‘courage’ as he mocked his former attorney general, William P.
Young America's Foundation, the American version of Hitler's Youth, and the college Republicans at the University of Wisconsin in Madison had collaborated to throw a wild shindig at the Library Mall in Madison. The invitation that they were sharing was something to behold:
They promised there would be American flags, free t-shirts, popsicles, Toby Keith and Freedom!
Well, isn't that interesting?
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune
April 29, 2024
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The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 5:25 p.m.: A proposed excise tax on guns and ammunition to pay for victim services cleared a key Senate committee Saturday afternoon after Democrats turned on their own over its movement through the chamber.
The measure would create a 6.5% tax on gun and ammo dealers and raise an expected $39 million a year, according to sponsor Sen.
Since Mark Hamill's White House visit tells us how woke Star Wars has gotten, and we all know about wokester Star Trek, Starship Troopers and Helldivers are better choices.