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Dollars in federal funding to people who are behind in rent because of coronavirus pandemic and its associated economic hardship. joining us now is julian castro, former secretary of housing and urban development and former mayor of san antonio, now the host of "our america" podcast. and ally mistal is also here. im going to start with this. we talked about this several weeks ago on my podcast on slate. this eviction moratorium is an absolute mess. one, theres billions of dollars of money made a...

Might take a bit longer because theres a psychological component to this. but the real issue here is that once the air mobility provided by the c130 aircraft and blackhawk helicopters provided to the afghan fors and fixed wing and rotary wing attack aircraft, once their maintenance degrades, which will happen, because were also pulling out the apparently 18,000 or so contractors that have kept their air force in the air, theres got to be some stop gap found for that, because once there is no lon...

To share three things, need to share doses, it seen progress on that although not enough, and the addition of the patents and know how soupy we can scale up manufacturing in their countries, but crucially they need to share the bill. its been estimated that its anywhere between 50 billion and 66 billion to vaccinate the world. these are the richest countries in the world and so far there seems to be no proposal for there is to pay their fair share of that bill. is it as simple as just waving the...

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The pair of orders will reportedly increase food aid and protect those seeking jobs while on unemployment.

Cancel Student Debt. President Biden should direct the Secretary of Education to cancel all student debt. Fully Cover Unemployment Insurance Through Federal Funding. President Biden should include funding for the establishment of a Federal Unemployment Insurance System in his first budget proposal. Implement a Federal Minimum Wage. President Biden can issue an Executive Order raising the minimum wage for all federal contractors to $15.00/hour, indexed for inflation. Implement Universal Paid Sic...

Nearly six-decade tradition of expressing congress bipartisan commitment to our national defense. with the senates final vote later today, well finally put this vital legislation on the presidents desk. i look forward to voting to pass the ndaa today by another overwhelming bipartisan vote for our service members and the critical missions they carry out. of course the senate needs to follow up the defense authorization bill with appropriation measures and fund our national defense and domestic p...

Expressing bipartisan commitment to our national defense. but with the senates final vote later today well finally put this vital legislation on the presidents desk. i look forward to voting to pass the ndaa today by another overwhelming bipartisan vote for service members and the critical missions they carry out. of course, the senate needs to follow up the defense authorization bill with appropriation measures. and fund our national defense and domestic priorities. insuring the federal governm...

The moment and move forward with other spending bills. the house is voting later today on the agreement which would last until december 20. >> the current stop-gap expires this thursday night. lets bring in meteorologist bill karins for a quick check of the weather forecast a lot of rain in the northeast yesterday. >> yes, not even thanksgiving yet and im asking myself why im living in the northeast. >> that usually coming in january or february. >> a little early this year. im sure im not alo...

Numbers? >> you have to have both. and i think ryan was getting to it, that biden is not a movement candidate. hes a sort of imagine who your republican friend in michigan might vote for candidate, which is not as inspiring naturally as some of these democrats. id also say the reason you didnt have a super pac before is part of an argument he made in campaigns. he was ready to not have a super pac because he thought he would make it harder to inspire people and be a credible advocate for the mid...