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Rep. Liz Cheney was officially ousted from her Conference Chair role Wednesday after months of high drama among GOP House leaders that sometimes played out in public over whether she should remain in her leadership position considering her focus on relitigating Trump’s presidency and the Capitol riots took precedence over helping present a united front against the Pelosi/Biden agenda going into the 2022 midterms.
One of the many things that rankled conservatives about Cheney in recent weeks was her penchant for depending on liberal media outlets typically hostile to the GOP to help her get her “message” out. In addition to that were her epic lapses in judgment in relying on “bombshell” news reports from those same outlets about Trump that often turned out to be fake news.
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Since the interest rate on federal student loans will climb by 0.98%, the rate on new undergraduate Stafford loans will rise to 3.734%, up from 2.75% for 2020-2021. This will increase monthly loan payments on a 10-year repayment term to $99.99 from $95.41 for every $10,000 in debt borrowed that academic year, according to Kantrowitz.
For graduate students, Kantrowitz projects that Stafford loans will come with a 5.284% interest rate, compared with 4.3% now. This would
push up monthly loan payments on a 10-year repayment
term to $107.46 from $102.68 per $10,000 in debt borrowed, he noted.
Lastly, he expects PLUS loans for graduate students and parents will have a 6.284% interest rate, an increase from 5.3%. As a result, monthly loan payments on a 10-year repayment term will increase to $112.45 from $107.54 for each $10,000 in debt borrowed, Kantrowitz said.
Colonial Pipeline is still struggling with a cybersecurity attack that forced its entire system offline last Friday and triggered widespread fuel shortages in the Southeast. The company restarted operations Wednesday afternoon but said the system won t return to normal for several days. This has been a wakeup call on how actors anywhere in the world can impact us right here at home, Buttigieg said during an interview on CNBC s Squawk Box. He added that the all-of-government response to the hack has really paid off.
Buttigieg s remarks came a day after President Joe Biden signed an executive order to help strengthen U.S. cybersecurity defenses.