Biden to Rely on Executive Orders, Appointees to Push Progressive Agenda
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While former Vice President Joe Biden is set to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 as the nation’s 46th president and the Democrats will control both chambers of Congress, that doesn’t assure smooth sailing for his policy agenda, according to experts on both sides of the partisan aisle.
Biden’s problem is the numbers: His party controls the Senate by one vote, that of Vice President Kamala Harris, but only when there’s a split among the upper chamber’s 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans.
That means if, for instance, Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia goes against the grain of his partisan colleagues, Harris won’t be called on to break a tie on the issue at hand.
<p><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/17260318/biden-2-trillion-dollar-plan 350x219.jpg" alt="$2 trillion COVID plan" class="ImageFloatRight"/>President-elect Joe Biden's plan to combat the coronavirus and help the economy had people talking over the weekend, and a non-partisan organization that "will hold politicians accountable for the effects of their policies on the size, scope, efficiency and activity of government and offer real solutions to runaway deficits and debt" hopes people will share their two cents with legislators.</p>
Guest Editorial Week of 1/18/2021 Published by news@presspubli. on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 4:00pm
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Expecting the same waste at agriculture department The federal government certainly has no issue spending taxpayer money these days. The budget deficit for 2020 surpassed $3 trillion, a level far beyond any the nation has seen. For perspective, this is the largest deficit relative to the size of our economy since World War II and the largest raw number deficit in our nation’s history. The next administration is going to inherit an increasingly urgent spending problem that has plagued the United States for decades. Despite these alarming numbers, President-elect Joe Biden seems intent to nominate for his cabinet some of the same officials who helped get us into this mess. Perhaps none are more emblematic of this trend than the prospective new Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack. Vilsack previously served as head of the Department of Ag
Ante Up Magazine Takes Hiatus, Plans to Return
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Ante Up canceled its February print edition, but its co-founder tells CardsChat that it hopes to be back up and running when the COVID-19 pandemic dies down.
Ante Up magazine won’t publish its February issue due to a lack of distribution channels because so many poker rooms remain closed. (Image: Ante Up)
The magazine, which has published for 12 years, recently sent out a notice to its customers saying that not enough of its distribution locations have reopened, and it will not publish its planned February issue.
“We’ll continue to hope our country can turn the corner on this terrible virus to allow enough poker rooms to reopen for us to be able to return to producing the quality product we insist on producing,” the notice reads.
Gallaher said his delays haven’t been too extreme, and that his regular carrier is “pretty good.” But he believes the post office should still be doing a better job.
“Regular first-class mail is doing pretty well, but packages have been slow due to large numbers of workers having to quarantine,” he said. It has been a fiasco, he added. It really is rooted in the coronavirus pandemic.”
Kim Miller, president of Keystone Area Local 1566 APWU, which represents postal service employees, said 568 positive cases of coronavirus existed among postal workers in the central PA region as of Jan. 7. The area is considered to be made up of the Lehigh Valley, Harrisburg, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport, Reading, Hanover, Lancaster and York.