by Cassidy Wang | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Rachel Fey remembers struggling to get health insurance to cover her birth control costs – more than $400 out of pocket for three months of her pills. For some women, paying for food and shelter often doesn’t leave enough left over to pay for birth...
by Cassidy Wang | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Even before he was appointed secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson called President Barack Obama’s 2015 rule requiring communities to comply with fair housing obligations by submitting plans a “failed socialist...
by Cassidy Wang | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Both Democrats and Republicans vehemently criticized two former Wells Fargo board members Wednesday for not changing practices after repeated management failures that have led to consumer abuses and compliance breakdowns. Former board members Elizabeth...
by Cassidy Wang | Mar 4, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Topics
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina–Former Vice President Joe Biden won the North Carolina Democratic primary on Tuesday in decisive fashion, capturing over 40% of the state’s vote while overtaking the national delegate lead and putting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign on the...
by Cassidy Wang | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON –The unprecedented number of injunctions issued by federal district judges during the Trump administration, prohibiting the government from enforcing laws, invigorated Republican senators to demand curbing this authority on Tuesday, but Democrats said...
by Cassidy Wang | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –A federal judge sentenced Roger Stone, a friend of President Donald Trump, to 40 months in jail after he was convicted of impeding a congressional investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, despite Trump’s tweets suggesting the...
by Cassidy Wang | Feb 14, 2020 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON—Democrats challenged Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to explain the Trump administration’s attempt to cut Medicaid funding in the proposed fiscal 2021 budget, which they said would further undermine health care coverage, at a Senate Finance...
by Cassidy Wang | Feb 12, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau is falling behind on recruiting workers and community partners for the 2020 count ahead of the start of self-response mailing next month, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office Wednesday during a...
by Cassidy Wang | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON — Democrats on Wednesday criticized a Trump administration plan to change the measure for determining whether someone is poor, making it harder to qualify for public assistance progrms. The House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing was held to...
by Cassidy Wang | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON – Georgetown University students and community members gathered to watch President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address said the most memorable parts of the event may be Trump’s seeming snub of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the outset and her ripping...
by Cassidy Wang | Jan 29, 2020 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee grilled Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting Wednesday on his proposal to modernize the Community Reinvestment Act, saying he didn’t collaborate with Congress or provide transparency, and...
by Cassidy Wang | Jan 25, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — After a mere two hours, President Donald Trump’s defense team concluded their first day of oral arguments in the Senate impeachment trial. The lawyers said they do not believe Democrats met the burden of proof and neglected to cite certain key pieces of...
