It is important to understand that Medicaid provides 2/3 of medical costs for eligible individuals up to the maximum ‘pot’ of money allocated by Congress, with the state providing the other 1/3. However, if the state cannot prove that it has 1/3 of the costs it is claiming, Medicaid will not pay the full 2/3
There are 24,667 households in Florida’s 17th Congressional District currently receiving Food Assistance with an average family size of 3 individuals.(1) The maximum benefit for a family of 3 is $768 per month.(2) The reality is that most families receive less due to deductions taken for a variety of factors, so the average benefit for
By Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana (ProPublica), CNN.com, November 3,2024 Editor’s note: This story was originally published by ProPublica. Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood
By Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, October 19,2024 WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday accused former President Donald Trump of accepting “hundreds of unconstitutional and ethically suspect payments’’ through the Trump International Hotel in 2017 and 2018, moving weeks before the election to remind voters of the ethical issues raised by his refusal to
By Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, CNN.com, October 18, 2024. “To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid.” That’s what a federal judge wrote Thursday as he sided with local TV stations in an extraordinary dispute over a pro-abortion rights television ad. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker of the Northern District
By Adam NagourneyRuth Igielnik and Camille Baker, The New York Times, October 8, 2024. Voters are now more likely to credit Vice President Kamala Harris than Donald J. Trump with representing change and caring about people like them, as Ms. Harris takes a slim lead nationally in the race for the White House, according
By Jim Puzzanghera, The Boston Globe, September 24, 2024 WASHINGTON — Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld said he felt pretty lonely in 2020 as a Republican openly opposed to then-president Donald Trump, running a quixotic primary campaign against him and then announcing he voted for Democrat Joe Biden. Four years later, Weld’s got more company.
The team at Red Wine & Blue have put together a 5-page guide to the massive Project 2025 manifesto that will drive Republican decision-making and governance if they win the White House in November. Click here to read, download and share.
By Charlie Savage, Reid J. Epstein, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, The New York Times, June 16, 2024. Opponents of Donald J. Trump are drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in November and carries out mass deportations, as he has vowed. One group has hired a new auditor to withstand any attempt by a second Trump administration to unleash
To: Interested Parties From: Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Biden-Harris 2024 Campaign Manager Subject: President Biden’s Opening in Florida Date: April 1, 2024 Team Biden-Harris enters the general election cycle in a position of strength. Because our agenda is strong and a proven winner, because our coalition is broad and diverse, and because of our strong financial
Unattributed, AP as reported in The Charlotte Sun, February 3, 2024. ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The nation’s employers delivered a stunning burst of hiring to begin 2024, adding 353,000 jobs in January in the latest sign of the economy’s continuing ability to shrug off the highest interest rates in two decades. Friday’s government report showed
By Matt Ott, Associated Press, January 19, 2024. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell to its lowest level in more than a year, underscoring the resilience of the labor market despite elevated interest rates that are intended to cool the economy. Jobless claim applications fell to 187,000 for the week
By, ELAINE ALLEN-EMRICH, STAFF WRITER, The Daily Sun, Jan 2, 2024. PUNTA GORDA — A request for a nonprofit group to operate the Cooper Street Recreation Center is on the Punta Gorda City Council agenda for Wednesday. Despite the New Cooper Street Board of Directors supplying the city with required documentation, the City Council last
By Noah Weiland, New York Times as published in the Boston Globe, December 22, 2023. More than 15 million people have signed up for health insurance plans offered on the Affordable Care Act’s federal marketplace, a 33 percent increase compared with the same time last year, according to preliminary data released by the Biden administration
Opinion in landmark case widely expected to be appealed to U.S. Supreme Court. By CHASE WOODRUFF , Florida Phoenix, DECEMBER 19, 2023. Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright, front, questions an attorney as Justice William W. Hood, III, looks on during a hearing before the court on Dec. 6, 2023, in Denver. Oral
By Stephen Collinson, CNN, December 19, 2023 Donald Trump’s extreme rhetoric reminiscent of Nazi propaganda and his penchant for siding with America’s adversaries and autocrats pose a unique challenge to his Republican opponents and, ultimately, US voters. The ex-president, who has a good chance of being the next commander in chief, warned over the weekend that
The following Letter to the Editor was published in The Daily Sun on Dec 15, 2023. Fox News personality Sean Hannity recently asked Presidential candidate Donald Trump, “Do you in any way have any plans whatsoever if reelected president to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people?” Trump
By BOB MUDGE Senior Writer, The Venice Gondolier, Dec 14, 2023. Ukrainian-Americans Ivanka Olesnycky, left, Inia Tunstall, Mykola Kompanijec and Alfred L. Kolodziej, and Pam Nolan, who said she’s one of Rep. Greg Steube’s constituents, turned up at his “mobile office’ hours in Venice Thursday to urge continued financial aid for Ukraine. SUN PHOTO BY
Members of the Charlotte County Democratic Party Club, DEC and Democratic Women’s Club of FL had a good time being loud and proud at the 2023 holiday parade!
By Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Columnist, December 7, 2023. No wonder MAGA Republicans hate Liz Cheney. No Republican is as articulate, persuasive and passionate as the former Wyoming congresswoman in describing the threat four-time-indicted former president Donald Trump and her own party as currently constituted pose to the future of American democracy and international security. Her new
By MITCH PERRY – The Florida Phoenix, Dec 7, 2023. The chair of a legislative committee that oversees spending on homeless programs in Florida says he wants to know if the “substantial amount of taxpayer dollars” the state devotes to those programs are providing a worthwhile return on investment. Clay County Republican Sam Garrison is chair