Most American small businesses say they oppose President Joe Biden’s employee vaccine mandate, and they say the rule will make it harder for them to find workers. Meanwhile thousands of federal employees will peacefully march in protest of the mandate.
A fight over voting legislation has reached a climax in Washington, D.C., where Democratic leadership is making passage of laws to federalize elections their top priority by even threatening to “nuke” the filibuster to make it happen.
Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced the creation of the new unit in his opening remarks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. Many lawmakers and national security officials are calling the Trump rally on Jan. 6 “domestic terrorism.”
Vermont residents will have access to 500,000 rapid COVID-19 tests in a new partnership with the National Institute of Health, Gov. Phil Scott said.
New Hampshire’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives has approved a plan redrawing the state’s two congressional districts, brushing aside claims from Democrats that the political maps were gerrymandered. The reconfigured maps could hurt Democrat U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas.
“We cut the rooms and meals tax to its lowest level in over a decade and yet we still sent even more money back to cities and towns,” Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said in a statement. “Instead of downshifting costs, we downshifted cash, giving cities and towns extra flexibility — a win for our citizens.”
Americans’ approval of the FBI has declined over the past two years, with many voters believing the agency acts on behalf of Biden, according to the results of a Rasmussen Reports national survey.
“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business — not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”
Schumer brought voting bills to the Senate floor throughout 2021, only to see them fall to Republican filibusters who painted them as nothing more than a federal takeover of elections. He promised to bring them to the floor once again after the Senate returned from its winter recess.
As inflation continues to raise concerns about the state of the economy, new polling shows voters are doubtful about whether President Joe Biden is taking the issue seriously enough.
This mandate could result in more than a hundred thousand people being disciplined or fired for refusing to comply, even if those workers are otherwise excellent employees or if their loss will severely disrupt the government’s ability to function.
A quarter of New York’s counties are refusing to enforce a new mask mandate imposed by Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. The governor ordered every indoor business in the state to either check vaccine status at the door or require masks, with fines of up to $10,000 per violation.