Poli Alert Politics & Civics

Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current On a campaign stop in Las Vegas Friday, President Joe Biden reclaimed “Bidenomics,” announcing billions of dollars in new infrastructure spending on high-speed rail in Nevada and nationwide. The president kept jabs toward his predecessor Donald Trump relatively light, instead highlighting his own administration’s economic accomplishments, …

By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked the state Supreme Court to intervene and stop a Dallas woman from having an abortion. Paxton’s office petitioned the high court just before midnight Thursday, after a Travis County district judge granted a temporary restraining order allowing …

Jimmy Williams Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, has been indicted on nine tax charges in California, adding to the legal challenges he faces. The charges, including three felonies and six misdemeanors, are part of a broader investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings. Special counsel David Weiss, leading the …

Samantha Dietel, Florida Phoenix The U.S. House voted Thursday to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York. The House voted 214-191 along party lines on a resolution to censure Bowman for pulling a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building on Sept. 30 while the House considered legislation to prevent a government …

Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder The U.S. Senate failed to move forward Wednesday with a $111 billion spending package that would have bolstered aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the Southern border amid deep disagreement about immigration policy. The 49-51 procedural vote, which needed at least 60 senators to advance the …

Samantha Dietel, Iowa Capital Dispatch Democratic leaders on Wednesday called on Congress to pass President Joe Biden’s $16 billion supplemental child-care funding request. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York and Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts gathered with child-care activists and other House Democrats at a press conference outside …

Jimmy Williams, Polialert In a move to provide further relief to borrowers, the Department of Education announced on Wednesday the approval of nearly $5 billion in federal student loan cancellations. This brings the total student debt relief granted under the Biden administration to an impressive $132 billion, benefiting more than …

Former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Wednesday joined the growing list of Congress members heading for the U.S. Capitol exits. McCarthy’s planned departure by year’s end, following the expulsion of disgraced New York Republican Congressman George Santos, will leave the House GOP with a razor-thin majority in 2024. The California …

Ariana Figueroa, Arkansas Advocate The success of the U.S. Senate in passing a $106 billion global security supplemental aid package hinges on a bipartisan agreement about U.S. border security, but any deal was at an impasse Tuesday. “There will not be a national security bill unless and until there is …

Jimmy Williams In a significant development on Capitol Hill, the Senate has greenlit the confirmation of more than 400 military nominees. The breakthrough came after Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama announced that he would be lifting the majority of his holds, marking the end of a lengthy campaign that lasted …

Brett Wilkins Scores of independent reproductive health centers have been forced to close or stop offering abortion care, with 14 states now having no abortion clinics, a report published Tuesday revealed. Abortion Care Network (ACN) released its annual Communities Need Clinics report, which details how “abortion bans, extremist harassment, and …

Kim Lyons, Pennsylvania Capital-Star The campaign of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) paid ousted Congressman George Santos of New York to record a video taunting Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). The video appeared on the Cameo platform, where celebrities record short videos for a fee, typically for fans. “I thought my …

Lynn Bonner, NC Newsline A group of Black and Latino voters in North Carolina say in a lawsuit that four of the state’s new congressional districts are racial gerrymanders. They are asking a panel of federal judges to declare it unconstitutional. The lawsuit filed Monday focuses on Districts 1, 6, …

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams The U.S. Congressional Progressive Caucus said Monday that most of its 103 members would oppose an emergency spending package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan that empowers the Republican House majority to undermine protections for asylum-seekers, reinstate Trump-era travel bans, and implement other anti-immigrant policies. “As Congress …

Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum announced Monday he would end his campaign to become the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. In a statement on suspending his campaign, Burgum criticized the Republican National Committee’s debate structure, saying the fundraising and polling criteria “ensure advantages for candidates from …