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Coins and a banknote in a glass jar are placed on a textbook. (Getty Images file) 19 Apr 2021 Jennifer Barnhill is a freelance writer with a focus on military family advocacy, a Navy spouse of 15 years and mother of three. She is the chief operating officer for Partners in PROMISE, a Secure Families Initiative volunteer and serves on the National Military Spouse Networks Day of Advocacy steering committee. The Biden administration recently released its fiscal 2022 Discretionary Spending Reques...

>> the use of powers to the powers is. >> a spending request is designated as an emergency only, only if the need for spending met five-part test. it had to be necessary, sudden, urgent, unforeseen and not permanent. his decision to fund a border wall through a national emergency declaration, would never pass all of this five-part test. >> after the vote the president tweeted he looked forward to vetoing the resolution. nancy pelosi said this is not an emergency and the congress

Staff worked hard to pressure republicans before the vote and actually did manage to turn around one republican senator who very publicly had declared and put it in writing that he would vote against the president but one was not enough. 12 republican senators voted against the president and helped the democrats win the vote 59-41. here is the sample of republican senators who voted against the president today. >> never before has a president asked for funding, the congress has not provided it a...

Quote, we have to work something out and look at the whole debt structure. the trump administration will send congress a $29 billion supplemental spending request. he knows a lot about debt. perhaps he can help puerto rico handle theirs. >> he is someone who was buried under debt in the 1990s. he had a personal bailout. he could be a very, very wise counsel for puerto rico, as it tries to restructure its debt. interesting. thanks, dave. russian-rinked facebook ads targeted michigan and wiscons...

The $3.7 billion request. many say the measure is too costly and needs to include tougher immigration laws to win their votes. the white house indicated the new laws to fast track deportation proceedings, but not likely to reduce the size of the presidents spending request. the white house spent the weekend meeting with dozens of governors seeking support from states being asked to host children who crossed over the mexican/u.s. border. some of the states not so receptive to the idea in califo...

There is little doubt of its passage. >> this is a tremendous need for the state. we spoke about the scale of the damage. which is just devastating. people are still reeling from this trauma. and new york needs help and new york has been there for other parts of the country when they have needed help and thats what were asking for the same today. >> reporter: its a different story in the house where republicans indicated that fema has enough money in reserves to last through the springtime. also...