The Treasury’s chief did not rule out the possibility that the Biden administration would impose tariffs or other trade barriers on China. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has arrived in China for a 6-day visit, a trip she said was necessary to “advance America’s economic and national security interests.” Ms. Yellen landed in the southern
Kansas Republicans wanted to enact a 'flat' tax rate, but faced with the possibility of a veto from Gov. Kelly, came to a compromise to ensure at least some cuts went through.
‘The real problem is that the underlying process to produce the bills is fundamentally flawed,’ Rep. Robert Aderholt wrote. A top Republican appropriator has called for a delay in picking who will succeed Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) as House Appropriations chair. In a letter to colleagues, Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), who is the chairman of
Rep. Eric Sorensen (D., Ill.) is praising an LGBT clinic in his district that is raising funds to administer sex change drugs to minors, applauding the nonprofit for providing vital “health care” that helps his district “thrive.” Sorensen has fiercely defended transgender treatments for minors, even as those treatments have faced increasing scrutiny from medical
A group of Republican senators on Wednesday opened a probe into the Biden administration’s decision to unlock upwards of $10 billion in frozen funds for the Iranian government, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The 13 lawmakers, led by Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.), are pressing the State and Treasury Departments to detail exactly how
When public hospitals purchase medical equipment or rely on outside doctors, they typically consider the price and quality of each vendor. In Tarrant County, Texas, they consider something else, too: the race and gender of the vendor’s owners. Tarrant County’s public hospital system, JPS Health, evaluates bids for contracts on a 100-point scale that gives
Senate Democrats up for re-election in swing states are in a difficult position when it comes to the impeachment trial for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.