Dems Seek $300 Million in Taxpayer Dollars for CDC Gun Research Democrats this week introduced bicameral bills to Congress that aim to give the Centers for Disease Control big bucks to support research into guns. The Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2021 would appropriate $50 million to the CDC each fiscal year from 2022 through 2027, for the purpose of conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention. The legislation was introduced jointly by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., who were not coy about what laws the research would be used as justification to enact. We know of the commonsense solutions like the need for better and more robust background checks and the need to renew the assault weapons ban, but we must also seek other solutions,” said Maloney in a statement. And we do that by studying gun violence like the public health crisis it is.
The White House on Wednesday said it was disappointed that the U.S. Senate has not moved on President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
Okonjo-Iweala on verge of becoming WTO leader
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Quick Fix It’s all but official. Former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is set to become the first woman and first African to lead the WTO after the Biden administration dropped the block imposed by its predecessor.