President Biden marked the grim milestone of 500,000 COVID-related deaths in the U.S. with a moment of silence and a candle light ceremony at the White House.
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A day after the Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona had to delete a tweet that claimed Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson had used an altered photo of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), fill-in host Mark Steyn lampooned the “impeccably progressive, woke-stapo” Baragona’s epic fail on Thursday as having been bathed in the “sewer of pathetic contemptible Hispanic ophthalmophobia.”
In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected President on the pledge to “end welfare as we know it.” At that time, the welfare state was clearly failing: One of every seven children in the U.S. was dependent on the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. Work among recipients was very low, and the typical family received AFDC benefits for 14 years. Unwed childbearing had been rising for decades.
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she has now raised $2 million in less than 24 hours for Texas relief. Ocasio-Cortez said she is adding more organizations to split the donations, in addition to the five organizations she and her team are working with for on-the-ground relief in the state.
She added that she will be flying to Texas on Friday to help distribute supples to those in need.
Previously.
It started with a simple request: If you re able, please donate here, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez implored her 12.4 million Twitter followers. Just hours later, the New York congresswoman raised $1 million for Texas relief as residents of the state face loss of heat and electricity amid a massive storm.