Dice Senado seguirá legislando a favor dominicanos – El Nacional elnacional.com.do - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elnacional.com.do Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Schumer Says He Has Votes To Move Forward With $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
07/29/21 AT 7:26 PM
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday that he has all 50 Senate Democrats on board to move forward with the $3.5 trillion infrastructure reconciliation process.
The bill is set to include a number of top priorities such as expanding Medicare to include dental, vision, and hearing, funding childcare, healthcare, education, and combating climate change.
Schumer’s comments come after the Senate voted to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed 67-32 on Wednesday, carrying 17 Republican votes.
Schumer has been committed to passing both bills before the August recess. The reconciliation bill will require the support of all 50 Democrats, plus Vice President Kamla Harris’ tie-breaking vote in order to pass.
Navajo Nation Lifts Some COVID Restrictions On Reservation –
Associated Press
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez signed legislation Tuesday to rescind an order that closed the reservation to outside visitors.
It lifts several COVID-19 restrictions that will allow tribal parks to reopen at 50% capacity with safety protocols in place as early as Thursday and also allow schools to eventually reopen under a required safety plan.
The Navajo Department of Health will issue a new Public Health Emergency Order on Wednesday, outlining safety protocols and requirements for reopening.
The mask mandate remains in effect for the entire Navajo Nation. Our gating measures and data show a consistent downward trend in new cases and deaths related to COVID-19, and we have a large majority of our Navajo Nation residents fully vaccinated, Nez said in a statement. We continue to meet with our health experts on a regular basis and they support the reopening of parks to our residents and our
WED: 2 National Forests In New Mexico Lift Fire Restrictions, + More kunm.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kunm.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials, AOC, has slammed some Democrats for failing to support the $15 minimum wage hike that the progressive demands. AOC said they live in a dystopian capitalist nightmare, adding that the minimum wage should actually be $24 an hour, Breitbart News reported. Any person who thinks that a $15 minimum wage is the crazy socialist agenda is living in a dystopian capitalist nightmare. And we should not prop that up. We should not continue that, she said in the report.
AOC stressed that there are basic goods that people could not afford to live on a $7.25 an hour, adding that it was deeply, deeply shameful that they are having this talk in the first place.