Retiring Senate spending chiefs go for broke

Retiring Senate spending chiefs go for broke

Leahy and Shelby have just a few weeks to determine whether their negotiations succeed or fail, meaning they would have to keep the government on inefficient autopilot or, in the worst case scenario, risk a shutdown. The two top appropriators are still battling over the GOP’s longtime demand that military and non-defense funding get hiked … Read more

Emergency Politics Podcast: Justice Breyer Is Retiring

Politics Podcast: Adam Schiff Is Worried About American Democracy

US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is planning to retire at the end of the court’s current term, clearing the way for President Biden to appoint a new justice. Biden said during a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina that if elected, he would nominate a Black woman to the nation’s highest court, … Read more