Joe Biden has come out of the starting gate with a slew of executive orders and planned legislation for the Democrat-controlled Congress to pass
We have now entered the Joe Biden presidency in the United States. Calling for a restored unity among the American people, the new president has come out of the starting gate with a plethora of executive orders and legislative policy proposals being sent to the Democratic Party-controlled Congress. Virtually all of them involve increased government spending, regulation, and planning over wider areas of economic and social life.
Among these are political interventions in the workplace. During his first day in the White House, Biden formally announced his intention to have Congress increase the national minimum wage from its current $7.25 an hour to $15 per hour. That raising an employer’s expense of hiring workers may result in some existing or potential workers being priced out of the market, especially among the unskilled and inexperi
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Seleke bounces back, lands top LEC job
Pascalinah Kabi
FORMER Lesotho National Development Authority (LNDC) chief executive officer CEO), Mohato Seleke, has been appointed as the new Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) managing director.
He replaces Leketekete Ketso who had been in charge albeit in an acting capacity.
Mr Seleke’s appointment is with effect from tomorrow. It marks an upturn in his fortunes as it comes barely two months after Trade and Industry Minister, Thabiso Molapo, refused to renew his contract at the LNDC. He had since filed a High Court application seeking the reversal of the minister’s decision.
As President Joe Biden begins his term in office and Congress convenes for another round of negotiations for a COVID stimulus package, most Americans say they want to see bipartisanship in Washington, according to a recent Monmouth University poll.
Americans are strongly interested in seeing cooperation between Republicans and Democrats. Sixty-two percent want the parties to cooperate with each other, suggesting a rising appetite for productive deliberation between factions.
Notably, 71% of Americans would prefer Republicans in Congress find ways to work with Biden, compared to the 25% of Americans who would rather they serve as a check on the president s agenda.
The News & Observer on the unified government by Democrats in Washington, D.C.:
On Wednesday afternoon, shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated as president, Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new members of the U.S. Senate, including the two Democratic winners of the recent special election in Georgia. For the first time in a decade, Democrats occupied the White House and controlled the U.S. House and Senate.
We think that’s a good thing for Washington - and for the country - after four years of mostly Republican rule.
So we mean this the most affirming way: Don’t mess this up, Democrats.