by Jordana Choucair | Mar 24, 2022 | D.C. News
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson concluded her two days of questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee late yesterday. Today is set to be the final day of hearings and will feature a number of legal experts to testify about her qualifications for...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 23, 2022 | D.C. News
The White House said it will end its program to pay for COVID-19 treatments and testing for uninsured people within weeks due to a lack of funds. To date, the federal government has paid about $20 billion to help cover vaccination, testing, and treatment costs for...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 23, 2022 | D.C. News
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer said he is working with Republicans to try to find a way to pay for new COVID-19 relief funding. Congressional leaders initially agreed to include roughly $15 billion in the government funding bill for new funding for vaccines,...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 22, 2022 | D.C. News
The White House again urged Congress to allocate $22.5 billion in supplemental COVID-19 aid without offsets. According to the administration, it has about $300 billion in unspent COVID-19 funding, of which $240 billion is fully and publicly allocated, including $105...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 21, 2022 | D.C. News
Confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will kick off later today. Jackson is a former federal public defender who has sat on lower U.S. courts for nearly a decade. Early in her career, she also served as a law clerk to retiring...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 17, 2022 | D.C. News
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients will step down in April and be replaced by Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. President Joe Biden said Jha, who has expertise in pandemic preparedness and response,...
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