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Biden Thanks Tlaib for Being a Fighter After She Accuses Him of Taking Orders from Netanyahu
On 5/18/21 at 5:52 PM EDT
Democratic President Joe Biden called Democratic Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib a fighter a day after she accused him of taking orders from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid the escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I tell you what Rashida, Biden said, addressing her directly during their visit to a Ford auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan on Tuesday. I want to say to you that I admire your intellect, I admire your passion and I admire your concern for so many other people.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Jahana Hayes (CT-05)
College students became eligible for expanded SNAP benefits temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic. This bill would make that expansion permanent and provide other supports for students’ basic needs.
Washington, D.C. – Today, United States Representatives Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.), Al Lawson (D-Fla.), and Norma Torres (D-Calif.) and United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the
Student Food Security Act of 2021, bicameral legislation to address food insecurity on college campuses by enabling more low-income college students to access the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and pushing the federal government, states, and colleges and universities to take a more proactive role in addressing student food insecurity. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Dick D