Month: March 2021

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has rescheduled a hearing on statehood for D.C. for March 22, according to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. The hearing was initially scheduled for March 11. Last year, the same committee passed a bill for D.C. statehood, sending it to the House floor for the first time since 1993. The House …

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A Facebook executive has been caught on tape sounding the alarm about how “powerful” the company has gotten and calling for the federal government to intervene and break up the tech giant. Newly released recordings from the right-wing guerilla news outlet Project Veritas show Benny Thomas, Facebook’s Global Planning Lead, speaking candidly with undercover journalists over the past several weeks. “I work for a …

“I Work for a Company that is Doing a Lot of Damage in the World” – Project Veritas Records Facebook Executive on Tape Sounding the Alarm Read More »

Pfizer executives said recently that there could be a “significant opportunity” to hike prices of the company’s Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, according to an Insider report early Tuesday. During last week’s Barclays Global Healthcare Conference, Pfizer CFO Frank D’Amelio and Senior VP of Investor Relations Chuck Triano told company investors that there could be a “significant opportunity” …

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Washington, D.C. has once again ranked among “the most desired domestic destinations” during 2021, according to AAA. The ranking comes as COVID-19 restrictions in the District begin to loosen and more Americans become vaccinated. According to AAA, amid the coronavirus pandemic, it was thought it would take at least five years before the tourism industry …

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President Joe Biden is pushing Congress for a higher corporate tax rate to reform the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, but some experts are concerned about the impact that would have. The Tax Foundation analyzed the effects of what would happen if the rate increased from 21 percent to 28 percent and a 15 percent …

Experts: Biden’s Tax Hike Would Destroy 159,000 Jobs Read More »

Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday issued an emergency order prohibiting garnishment of Economic Impact Payments provided under H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Read the governor’s order. “For more than a year now, COVID-19 has caused incredible hardships for the people of our nation and our state,” said Hogan. “This funding is intended to support …

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The feds have created a way to see when your third coronavirus stimulus check will arrive — but it’s far from foolproof. The Internal Revenue Service reopened its “Get My Payment” tool so taxpayers can track the status of the $1,400 payments that started hitting bank accounts over the weekend. The tool should be familiar to anyone who received either …

How to track the third stimulus check and find your payment’s status Read More »

The Washington Post issued a stunning “correction” Monday afternoon about President Donald Trump’s December 2020 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his chief investigator Frances Watkins. The paper originally claimed Trump “pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction” and said the investigator needed to …

The Washington Post Story About Trump ‘Pressuring’ Georgia Election Officials Was Total Garbage Read More »

Comedian and longtime progressive Democrat Sarah Silverman says partisanship in America is hindering discourse in the country, and she is not sure she wants to be affiliated with a party at all at this point. In a video shared by The Post Millennial on Friday, Silverman says of Democrats, “It’s the absolutist nest of the party that …

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It is no secret that Joe Biden is not in charge of the executive branch. Nor does it come as a surprise. The only observable difference between 2020 presidential hopeful Joe and 2021 President Joe, is his change of address. He moved from a basement somewhere in Delaware to a basement at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. …

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