By Tyler Pager, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden and his top staffers are discussing whether to grant preemptive pardons to figures who might face the hostility of the incoming Trump administration, concerned that President-elect Donald Trump and others in his circle have threatened to go after their political adversaries. Among those […]
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Trump’s defense pick Pete Hegseth treads water on Capitol Hill
By Liz Goodwin, Marianne LeVine, Leigh Ann Caldwell · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump’s embattled pick to lead the Department of Defense continued his outreach on Capitol Hill on Thursday, picking up words of praise from Republican senators but not significant new pledges of support. With his wife by his side, the former Fox News personality […]
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Trump’s defense pick Pete Hegseth treads water on Capitol Hill
By Liz Goodwin, Marianne LeVine, Leigh Ann Caldwell · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump’s embattled pick to lead the Department of Defense continued his outreach on Capitol Hill on Thursday, picking up words of praise from Republican senators but not significant new pledges of support. With his wife by his side, the former Fox News personality […]
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Here’s what happened the last time Trump moved federal jobs out of D.C.
By Todd C. Frankel, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters say they want to move 100,000 federal jobs out of Washington to places that they describe as less expensive, closer to stakeholders and, as Trump put it in a campaign video, “filled with patriots who love America.” Trump tried to […]
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Here’s what happened the last time Trump moved federal jobs out of D.C.
By Todd C. Frankel, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters say they want to move 100,000 federal jobs out of Washington to places that they describe as less expensive, closer to stakeholders and, as Trump put it in a campaign video, “filled with patriots who love America.” Trump tried to […]
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NM’s behavioral health administrator suggests lawmakers use better data to inform decisions
By Daniel Montaño, KUNM Lawmakers heard arguments recently on how to use data to better deliver behavioral healthcare across the state. The company Falling Colors has administered New Mexico’s behavioral health care system since 2017. That can include paperwork, customer service and processing claims. And by the numbers, it’s doing a good job. It pays […]
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NM’s behavioral health administrator suggests lawmakers use better data to inform decisions
By Daniel Montaño, KUNM Lawmakers heard arguments recently on how to use data to better deliver behavioral healthcare across the state. The company Falling Colors has administered New Mexico’s behavioral health care system since 2017. That can include paperwork, customer service and processing claims. And by the numbers, it’s doing a good job. It pays […]
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What Trump’s second administration could mean for environmental justice
Amudalat Ajasa, Anna Phillips · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Over the past four years, the Biden administration said it has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to help towns and neighborhoods most harmed by pollution. The money, largely through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, paid for electric school buses to replace diesel-burning vehicles, brought […]
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What Trump’s second administration could mean for environmental justice
Amudalat Ajasa, Anna Phillips · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Over the past four years, the Biden administration said it has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to help towns and neighborhoods most harmed by pollution. The money, largely through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, paid for electric school buses to replace diesel-burning vehicles, brought […]
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Romney denounces politicians who ‘tear at our unity’ in farewell Senate speech
By Maegan Vazquez, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who later criticized fellow Republican Donald Trump, delivered his farewell address on the Senate floor Wednesday, stressing the importance of bipartisanship and promising to be “a voice of unity and virtue” after he leaves Washington. “There are […]