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1268 episodes transcribedBiden released a 200-page national plan yesterday to centralize the COVID response effort, along with a flurry of executive orders and directives targ...
Yesterday was inauguration day, which saw President Biden give his first speech as president on themes of unity, the division in our country, and a ne...
Trump leaves office today after four years of hellish incompetence. We reflect on the challenges President Biden and Vice-President Harris will inheri...
Over the weekend, Biden’s team announced the president-elect’s agenda for the first ten days of his term, plus a dozen or so executive actions Biden i...
Biden unveiled his proposal for a $1.9 trillion COVID rescue package yesterday, which includes $1,400 stimulus checks, an increase in federal unemploy...
The House voted to impeach Donald Trump for the second time yesterday, making him the first president to be impeached twice. Soon-to-be minority leade...
The House is planning to vote on impeachment today. Democrats and some number of Republicans are expected to support it, like Wyoming Representative L...
The business community is responding to the siege on the Capitol by suspending contributions to lawmakers who didn’t vote to certify the election resu...
This week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will try to pass a resolution to get Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, and if he doesn...
After Trump incited an attack on the nation’s Capitol, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi want Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the President,...
Violent mobs broke into the nation’s Capitol yesterday in a failed coup attempt, which was incited and encouraged by President Trump and many other Re...
Votes are coming in from the Georgia runoff elections, with the results generally looking positive for Democrats… but we’re still waiting on the final...
Today's Senate runoffs in Georgia will determine control of Congress, the future of economic relief, and the country’s response to existential threats...
In a leaked phone call from this weekend, Trump used every line he could to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger to overturn the sta...
The future of our democracy hinges on the outcome of two Senate races in Georgia, a state that shocked the nation by flipping for the first time in ne...
Congressional leaders are putting together the final pieces of an emerging deal on COVID relief, but the negotiations could continue into the weekend....
Congressional leaders think they could pass a roughly $900 billion stimulus bill by the end of the week, which might include direct payments, but won'...
Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg was announced as Biden’s nominee for transportation secretary yesterday, and former Michigan governor Jennifer...
The first coronavirus vaccines were administered in the US yesterday, and public education efforts also got underway with the HHS and CDC emphasizing...
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was authorized by the FDA on Friday evening, and the first shipments went out on Sunday. Most state governments intend to...
