Congress approved less than 1 billion dollars for each -- short of one-tenth of the promised. According to CarbonBrief research, based on its historical share of carbon emissions, the United States should provide 39.9 billion dollars in climate aid annually, but in 2020 it only contributed 7.6...
Japan's prime ministers often say they are dissolving parliament to take a policy question to voters, though it can also be in response to a no-confidence motion brought by the opposition. The major opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is considering such a ...
“The rest of us might be like, ‘Sir, it’s a different time.’ But it only takes one utterance from Joe Biden for the ‘weaponization of government’ bullshit to become more of a reality.” 2. Let Trump hurt himself. Top Democrats believe that the spectacle of Trump’s...
The National Congress takes(1) place every five years.How(2) muchdo you know about it?Let's take a closer look. • Why is the meeting held? • To talk about the work of the Party(3) in the last five years. • To make plans about the future of the Party...
So, Senate Democrats can pass this bill. But only if they can hold together in the Senate and sidestep a filibuster. That’s where the budget that the Senate adopted comes into play. The only way for the Senate to avoid filibusters is via a special, parliamentary gambit known as budget ...
Macklemore isn't subtle about the fact that "Same Love" is a pro-gay anthem, even declaring his own stance in the song's second verse: "No freedom till we're equal/ damn right, I support it." He also uses the verses to call out...
it. They took us to the “brink” of running “off the cliff” and creating the Second Great Depression. The bizarre claim is that we should praise them because they, and Wall Street, only wrecked the economy – they haven’t (yet) utterly destroyed it. Under their metaphor, we’re ...
and that Congress heeds the request. (And let’s hope the administration makes this pitch to Congress before it tries to get more money for the bailouts of Wall Street, the automakers, life insurers, or any other industry whose bondholders and shareholders should be taking the hit rather th...
In the first article, the committee Republicans claim that Mayorkas "has repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration and border security." "His refusal to obey the law is not only an offense against the separation of powers in the Constitution of the United States, it also...
Scott Pelley: How would you characterize the consensus around this table for rate cuts? Is everyone onboard? Jerome Powell: Almost all. Almost all of the 19 participants who sit around this table believe that it will be appropriate in their most likely case for us to cut the federal funds...