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During an interview with SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” that took place on Thursday and aired on Friday, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said that we have “a government-induced inflation crisis, starting in March of 2020,” with spending under the CARES Act and other spending in 2020 by the Trump administration that President Joe Biden added to when he took office. DeSantis also argued that “We would not have had the inflation that we had had they not done the Fauci lockdowns and the CARES Act and all this other stuff.” DeSantis said, “Well, first of...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sang her colleague Justice Clarence Thomas’s praises on Thursday for his dedication to the court’s integrity. Speaking at the American Constitution Society on Thursday, the liberal Sotomayor hailed her colleague as a “man who cares deeply about the court as an institution.”

Former President Bill Clinton is arguing President Biden does not care about his popularity with the American people and is focused instead on solving problems the country faces. “In his first 16 months in office, Joe Biden has done exactly what he said he would do if elected—help America overcome an unprecedented pandemic, rebuild a battered economy from the bottom up and middle out so that it works for all of us, and restore our standing in the world,” Clinton said in a write up about Biden for TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022.

"At least $63 billion of the $630 billion in disbursements" from CARES Act funds "has been misspent" in the state of California, with the full scope of the loss of taxpayer funds likely to be more than $100 billion, according to state officials. According to a new report from NBC News, "The scale of the fraud in the unemployment program created by the CARES Act has reached a staggering level." The Justice Department has assembled a task force research and prosecute the fraud in all 50 states and US territories.

"It sucks because we just put this up and it's like all new and everything," says Jasmine Kamali of 71 Saint Peter Restaurant on San Pedro Street in San Jose. Sadness among many workers who will now be out of a job. Those like Ann Truong at O Beauty Studio who is already five months behind on her rent. "If this closing keeps happening I can't afford to pay rent, I might have to close down my business and take the loss," says Truong.

State and local governments are racing to spend millions in CARES Act funding before it reverts back to the federal government — and they're finding unexpected ways to use it, from "trunk-or-treating" in northeast Ohio to an experimental basic income program in St. Paul, Minn. The CARES Act provides $139 billion in payments to states and local governments. Those payments have funded things like increased police budgets to offset coronavirus costs and rent and utility assistance for struggling residents. However, blue states and Democratic mayors are also using the money for their pet causes.

The death of those extra $600 weekly unemployment payments now seems imminent. Republicans are intent on ending the enhancement to jobless benefits, created by the CARES Act in late March to prop up household income for the millions who've lost their jobs to the coronavirus pandemic.

YRC Worldwide (NASDAQ: YRCW) unveiled plans of a new $700 million lending agreement with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which in turn will receive a stake of nearly 30% in the company. The July 1 press release outlines the latest lifeline for the less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier. The loan comes from a federal lending program under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), which is intended to help businesses survive the economic downturn caused by COVID-19 and maintain employment for their workers. The lending agreement will allow YRC to repay recently deferred health and welfare and pension...

A lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., alleges that a provision in the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package unconstitutionally denies stimulus checks to U.S. citizens married to undocumented immigrants. The CARES Act provides $1,200 payments to those who earn up to $75,000. But both spouses in families filing joint tax returns must have Social Security numbers, unless one is a member of the military, in which case the requirement is waived. The plaintiff in this class action suit, filed Friday, is a citizen who alleges he was denied the...

CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund china Harvard Yale University, received nearly $7 million in aid, boasts a $30.3 billion endowment. Stanford University received $7.4 million from the package maintains a $27.7 billion endowment Harvard University, received $9 million endowment last valued $40.9 billion. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/4/21/harvard-stimulus-funds-financial-aid/ Harvard Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged The Department of Justice announced today… Dr. Charles Lieber, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, along with Yanqing Ye, and Zaosong Zheng, making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement, visa fraud, making false statements, acting as an agent of a...

The Small Business Owner’s Guide to the CARES Act The programs and initiatives in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was just passed by Congress are intended to assist business owners with whatever needs they have right now. When implemented, there will be many new resources available for small businesses, as well as certain non- profits and other employers. This guide provides information about the major programs and initiatives that will soon be available from the Small Business Administration (SBA) to address these needs, as well as some additional tax provisions that are outside the scope...

My first of two posts on the breakdown of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or CARES Act. This one pertains to business owners and employees and those seeking grants, funding, and loans as a result of COVID-19. Contact your lender today if you're a business owner and take advantage of these methods to continue paying your employees and operating expenses. This will open up a wide array of new lenders not already under the SBA program. THERE IS LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR: 1. Payroll costs 2. Mortgage interest 3. Rent 4. Utilities There is also a tax abatement...

Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested. Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.

"He (GOD) appointeth the number of THE STARS; He calleth them all by their names. GREAT IS OUR LORD, and of great power: His understanding is infinite" (Psalm 147:4-5). There Really Is A God After All! He is an AWESOME GOD who finds His galaxies a very small expression of His great Person. God is beyond and bigger than His finite universe. Yet GOD CAN HEAR your cry, your whisper, your silent thought. GOD CAN SEE so small a tear: GOD CAN TACKLE so big a problem. "Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear Him, upon...

"He (GOD) appointeth the number of THE STARS; He calleth them all by their names. GREAT IS OUR LORD, and of great power: His understanding is infinite" (Psalm 147:4-5). There Really Is A God After All! He is an AWESOME GOD who finds His galaxies a very small expression of His great Person. God is beyond and bigger than His finite universe. Yet GOD CAN HEAR your cry, your whisper, your silent thought. GOD CAN SEE so small a tear: GOD CAN TACKLE so big a problem. "Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear Him, upon...

I need no outside reference for right and wrong, I know right from wrong, and Rudy just may as well Kiss My Ass! Hell, if Rudy had shown up claiming to be a child of my daddies loins, I reckon that daddie would have reconsidered abortion! Best damn thing I can suggest for Rudy is to grab as much of his money as he can, and haul ass with it!

Marine Sgt. Scott Reckefus, a 23-year-old native of Manassas, Va. folds a flag over a transfer case, which is used to protect the remains of service members during transit July 19. Story and photo by Cpl. Stephen Holt1st Marine Logistic GroupWhen Cpl. Julian A. Ramon was killed while fighting terrorists in Ramadi July 20, he began the long journey home to where he’d be laid to rest. The process of getting Ramon to his loved ones and final resting place started that night in an old Iraqi Air Force hangar surrounded by his fellow warriors who would make sure he...

WASHINGTON, June 2, 2006 – Staff Sgt. Aeyne Anne M. Dizicksa's cats are her family, so their welfare was her top priority when she faced deployment. Sweet Magnolia rests on the dryer in the home of Susan Hagrelius, her foster owner of more than a year. The 8-year-old cat will soon reunite with her owner, Staff Sgt. Aeyne Anne M. Dizicksa, a deployed Army reservist in the 719th Veterinary Medical Detachment who will return later this month. Courtesy photo   "I knew that if I had them to return to, everything else was irrelevant - just another passing episode in...

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2006 – The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, sparked a fire in Carolyn Blashek to do something to show servicemembers in harm's way that somebody cares. She tried to join the military, but the Army Reserve wouldn't accept her. "I was too old," she said. Soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq pose together for a picture to say thank you to Operation Gratitude for care packages the organization sent to them. Courtesy photo   About a year and a half after Sept. 11, a conversation with a despondent soldier rekindled the desire of the...

Sierra Vista is a military town, finding its foundation linked to Fort Huachuca. That brings pride to the city, along with jobs. Sierra Vistans are people who are giving and caring about the men and women deployed overseas. Jana Proctor is one example of this. In the past year, she headed the effort to raise money to buy misters to give to soldiers in Iraq and the Middle East. The purpose of the misters is to keep the troops cool in the desert heat. And when the first drive reached its goal, another was recently launched to provide even more...