Mayoral candidate Michael Blake has secured $2 million in public matching funds approved by the city’s Campaign Finance Board — a significant but belated cash infusion for the longshot campaign. With just five days left in the primary race, the new cash influx infusion likely comes too late for Blake, a former Bronx assemblyman, to
MADISON (WKOW) — Renewed budget talks between Gov. Tony Evers and legislative Republicans appear to have fallen apart again. The Joint Finance Committee’s executive session to discuss the state budget was put on hold Thursday. Just a few minutes before it was scheduled to start at 1 p.m., Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostbug) sent
MADISON (WKOW) — Renewed budget talks between Gov. Tony Evers and legislative Republicans have fallen apart again. The Joint Finance Committee’s executive session to discuss the state budget was canceled Thursday, shortly before it was scheduled to start. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostbug) sent out a statement saying JFC was “paused.” “Conversations between legislative
In a 68-30 vote on Tuesday evening, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the GENIUS Act with bipartisan support. Eighteen Democrats joined the majority of Republicans in passing the bill, which is the first to establish a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, crypto tokens that are pegged to the value of the US dollar. Its passage had
A child during his father’s first term, Barron Trump has become a political advisor—and business partner—to the president. GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images Barron Trump was all in on cryptocurrency before his father knew hardly anything about it. “Barron knows so much about this,” the president said during an interview in September, when the Trump
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order paving the way for a Nippon Steel investment in U.S. Steel, so long as the Japanese company complies with a “national security agreement” submitted by the federal government. Trump’s order didn’t detail the terms of the national security agreement. But the iconic American steelmaker
LANSING, Mich. (WJRT) – State Rep. Angela Rigas and State Sen. Jonathan Lindsey introduced new legislation aimed at closing a loophole in Michigan’s campaign finance laws. House Bill 4642 and Senate Bill 422 seek to hold the Secretary of State accountable for campaign finance violations by including penalties for any violations. Attorney General Dana Nessel
By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked an effort by Democrats to temporarily block arms sales to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in response to President Donald Trump’s dealings in the region. Democrats forced two procedural votes Wednesday to protest Qatar’s donation of a $400 million plane to be used
Republicans, however, challenged Biden’s assertion of executive authority over the loan program and won a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that vastly scaled back debt forgiveness. Now, under the Trump-backed budget bill pending before the Senate, the loan program would be simplified and its terms made less generous to borrowers. (The House already passed the bill
House Speaker Shekarchi describes priorities in new $14.3B RI budget House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi describes the priorities in new $14.3B state budget Rhode Island House Democrats proposed a $14.3 billion budget that increases health care funding without raising income taxes on the wealthy. The budget includes a tax on second homes valued over $1