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Conservatives are pushing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for deep reductions, while the White House is offering a spending freeze. Conservatives are pushing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for deep reductions, while the White House is offering a spending freeze. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful…

WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. government could become unable to pay all of its bills on time as soon as June 1 if Congress doesn’t first raise the debt limit. The new forecast released Monday gives Republicans and Democrats a matter of weeks to reach an agreement on raising the nation’s roughly $31.4 trillion borrowing limit.  WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. government could become unable to pay all of its bills on time as soon as June…

WASHINGTON—Republicans finally found a tax increase they can support.  The party, united for decades around the view that net tax increases are unacceptable, on Wednesday advanced debt-ceiling legislation that would raise taxes by more than $300 billion over a decade, according to official congressional estimates.  WASHINGTON—Republicans finally found a tax increase they can support.  The party, united for decades around the view that net tax increases are unacceptable, on…

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) said House Republicans plan to pass legislation raising the debt ceiling and curbing federal spending in the coming weeks, moving to establish a solidified GOP position in the negotiations with President Biden over the nation’s borrowing limit.  In a speech Monday at the New York Stock Exchange, Mr. McCarthy laid out House Republicans’ demands for agreeing to a debt-limit increase: They want Congress to place limits on federal spending, claw back Covid-19 aid…

Self-described libertarian, Kentucky Senator, and messy yard dispute loser Rand Paul has broken with fellow Republicans and become possibly the sole GOP voice opposing a national TikTok ban. In his view, banning TikTok would violate Americans’ right to free speech and would make vindictive US lawmakers no different from their Chinese counterparts who’ve moved to ban US social media firms like Facebook and YouTube. Paul’s recent statements come just days after House lawmakers from both parties laid into TikTok CEO Shou Zi…

In 2020, former President Donald Trump kicked off a worldwide frenzy about TikTok over the app’s potential security concerns. TikTok is now banned on government devices in the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, and elsewhere, and American lawmakers have their eyes on a national ban for consumers. The French, apparently, are the only adults in the room. As the Register first reported, France just banned all recreational apps from government phones, not just TikTok.“The government has decided to ban the downloading and installing…

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that the House will move forward with a proposed TikTok ban bill after the social media platform’s CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress on Thursday.  “It’s very concerning that the CEO of TikTok can’t be honest and admit what we already know to be true—China has access to TikTok user data,” McCarthy wrote in a tweet on Sunday.  “The House will be moving forward with legislation to protect Americans from the technological tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party.”…

Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Staff (Getty Images)At several points, Chew avoided direct questions about whether TikTok sells the data it collects.“I believe we do not sell data to any data brokers,” Chew said in response to a question from Rep. Frank Pallone. “I didn’t ask you about data brokers,” Pallone said. “Do you sell it to anyone?”“Congressman, I actually am in support of some rules...” Chew responded before another interruption from Pallone. “I didn’t ask you about rules, I asked you whether the company TikTok would…

Passengers wearing protective masks are seen aboard before a JetBlue flight to London at JFK International Airport in the Queens borough of New York City, August 11, 2021.Jeenah Moon | ReutersThe Biden administration is asking Congress to pass legislation that would ban airlines from charging fees for families who are traveling with children under the age of 14 to sit together, its latest attempt to crack down on add-on charges for consumers, the Transportation Department said Monday."Upon review of the airlines' seating…

Donald Trump’s account was recently unbanned on Twitter, though he’s been restricted in posting due to an ongoing deal with his company Truth Social.Image: kovop (Shutterstock)Twitter has seen its share of political bot campaigns, but since spring 2022 there’s been a long-running, highly prolific bot campaign proliferating through Twitter to support former President Donald Trump. Even if you first thought it’s just the Russians again, a new report suggests these fake accounts were created a little closer to home.A report…