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Doggett: Trump’s Comments About Foreign Help Should Move Dems On Impeachment | The Last Word | MSNBC
House Democrats Formally Request President Donald Trump’s Tax Returns | The Last Word | MSNBC
An ‘Impeachment Investigation’ No Matter The Name | The Last Word | MSNBC
Rep. Doggett teams with Speaker Pelosi, pushes new voter protection act
MSNBC: Dems eye new plan to circumvent Republicans on Medicaid expansion
In the Democrats’ COVID relief package, called the American Relief Plan, President Joe Biden thought he’d come up with an offer that states couldn’t refuse. As we discussed in March, the policy may sound a little complicated, but the offer was straightforward: under the ACA, the federal government already covers 90% of the costs of expanding Medicaid. As Vox explained,
NPR: House Democrats Looking At How To Alter Tax Code To Fund Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
There’s growing pressure from some Democrats, though, to just give up all of this bipartisanship talk and just kind of move on. Lloyd Doggett, who’s a Democrat from Texas, cut through the kind of friendly bipartisan talk at that Ways and Means Committee hearing this week to say that it’s useless to agree to fix roads and bridges if nobody
San Antonio Report: Colleges in San Antonio are getting $236M in federal aid. Half of it will go to students.
The $36 billion for higher education institutions nationwide is “good news for our Dreamers, who have faced so much uncertainty,” U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett said in a statement. “Dreamers” are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to stay in the country. “Wrongful Trump restrictions have been
Roll Call: Medicare cost crunch raises questions in telehealth debate
Lawmakers in both chambers are starting to move, but signs point to a limited extension of current flexibilities as the most likely outcome. The health panels of both the House Ways and Means and the Energy and Commerce committees recently held hearings on the topic, and Senate Finance Committee leaders are also having discussions. The enthusiasm is tempered by cost
San Antonio Report: Texas to release $11B in federal stimulus funds to public schools
In recent weeks, a growing chorus of educators, school advocates, business leaders, and Democratic lawmakers have called for the state’s highest-ranking Republicans to release the federal aid directly to schools, with no strings attached. They contend local school officials know how to best spend the money to suit their students’ specific needs and that the federal legislation that created these
Houston Public Media News: Texas’ Congressional Democrats Seek To Block Governor’s Grab Of COVID-19 Education Funds
The Texas Democratic congressional delegation has asked the U.S. Education Department to block the governor from potentially diverting federal COVID-19 dollars away from public schools. Gov. Greg Abbott has requested a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education that would allow him to spend the federal funds — formally known as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, or ESSER —
