close Video Coronavirus stimulus package includes items that have ‘nothing to do with COVID’: Rep. Scalise House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., criticizes the relief plan on ‘Fox & Friends.’ Welcome to the slog. East coast Major League Baseball teams endure a slog. They have a big west coast road trip stretching out over a few weeks. Games in Arizona. San Diego. Los Angeles. San Francisco. Oakland. College students encounter the slog. That final crunch of classwork, two weeks until the end of the semester – followed by finals. And Congress is no stranger to the slog. Especially when there’s a big, expensive bill, hurtling down the parliamentary pike. That’s the case over the next couple of weeks as Congress tries to finalize the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill. BIDEN'S COVID-19 RELIEF BILL INCLUDES $300B IN UNRELATED SPENDING, ANALYSIS SHOWS Completing the fifth round of COVID aid was a slog. Talks began over the summer. Congress finally passed the bill just before Christmas. It then faced a veto threat from former President Trump. But the President signed the measure just before the new year. That was a slog. A drawn-out, slow-motion slog. The effort to pass the sixth major coronavirus package is sprint slogging. It will consume two weeks (or more) of traffic on the Congressional stage. But it will constitute a slog. Perhaps even devouring the next few weekends. Or three. The House Budget Committee formally launched the "slog" process Monday afternoon. The panel authored its special budget reconciliation measure this week to handle the $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill. "We are in a race against time," argued House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky. "Bold action is needed before our nation is more deeply and permanently scarred by the human and economic cost of inaction." WHAT'S IN BIDEN'S $1.9T STIMULUS PLAN? Think of this ...
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2021 America East Conference men’s basketball tournament: Matchups, players to know & more
close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 25 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The 2021 America East men’s basketball tournament will determine which team gets an automatic bid to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Nine of the conference’s 10 teams made the tournament, which will begin Feb. 27 and run through March 13. This time, the brackets are set up into two pods and winners of each pod take on the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds, respectively, in a bid to go to the conference finals. The New Hampshire pod includes New Hampshire, UMass Lowell and Stony Brook. The Hartford pod includes Hartford, Binghamton, Albany and NJIT. The first rounds will be played in New Hampshire and Connecticut, respectively. The rest will be played at campus sites. There will be no fans in attendance for any of the tournament games due to coronavirus restrictions. Here is the America East Conference tournament schedule. CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE MARCH MADNESS COVERAGE ** FEBRUARY 27 – FIRST ROUND (6) UMass Lowell vs. (7) Stony Brook (4) Hartford vs. (9) Binghamton (5) Albany vs. (8) NJIT FEBRUARY 28 – SECOND ROUND (3) New Hampshire vs. UMass Lowell/Stony Brook winner Hartford/Binghamton winner vs. Albany/NJIT winner MARCH 6 – SEMIFINALS (1) UMBC vs. TBD (2) Vermont vs. TBD MARCH 13 – FINALS TBD vs. TBD ** 5 PLAYERS TO KNOW Obadiah Noel, UMass Lowell : Noel is one of the best players in the conference. He is leading the America East with 21.2 points per game and is second with 3.5 assists per game. The senior has helped the Riverhawks to a No. 6 seed in the conference tournament. Ryan Davis, Vermont : Davis is second in scoring in the conference with 18.8 points per game. He is also in the top 10 in rebounding with 6.5 boards per game. He was the 2020 America East Sixth Man of the Year but ...
Walton Goggins On ‘The Unicorns’ Final Few Episodes Of Season Two: ‘You Will Laugh, There Will Be Moments Where You’ll Cry’
(CBS) – The Unicorn is back with another new episode titled “In Memory Of…”. In tonight’s chapter a memorial is planned for Wade’s (Walton Goggins) late wife that leads daughter Natalie to discover that she is starting to lose some memories about her mother that the family has to come to terms with. CBS ‘ Matt Weiss spoke to Goggins about this week’s episode, working with both of his “TV daughters” and what fans can expect for the rest of season two. READ MORE: 39,725 Minutes! Painfully Long Waits On Vaccine Website As Thousands Of New Appointments Are Filled MW: Walton, good to see you my man. How’s everything going? WG: Good buddy. Good MW: We’re in season two of The Unicorn now and I’m curious to hear from your perspective. What’s the difference in the second season versus the first season, if any? WG: Well, I am lucky to have been in the second season for a number of shows now, and so I’m familiar with what can happen if you do it right. I think the thing that’s happened on The Unicorn is you don’t have to spend time setting up the situations that these people find themselves in and trying to understand who they are as people. In the second season you just know who they are and it makes it just much easier to slip right into their point of view. I think that’s what most shows do or become with the first season under their belt. The writers understand who you are as a person and they start writing to your personalities. That’s sometimes dangerous; getting so close to the writers and they become your really good friends. Then they start mining your life and using your own ticks. [laughs] That’s kind of what’s happened in season two, everything is just gotten more focused. These characters are more three-dimensional. The stakes that we deal with on our show are just more familiar to the audience. The lessons that we’re learning as people have gotten even deeper. I’m really proud of it. I can’t tell you enough with the world and ...
Biden’s Pentagon can exploit China’s population decline
China conducted its seventh national population census in November and December. The results are startling. China’s downward human spiral is accelerating, according to the government’s new numbers . This isn’t just a social and economic problem for China. It threatens the country’s geostrategic position in the long term and international security in the short term. U.S. foreign and defense policymakers should pay close attention to how Beijing responds to the news. Chinese mothers bore fewer babies in 2020 than in any year since 1961. Some provinces reported a 30 percent drop. This, on top of nearly a decade of contraction in working-age Chinese citizens is speeding up the pace of population aging. By 2050, a Chinese government think tank announced , there will be only one worker supporting each dependent old person; today there are two workers supporting each elderly person. By comparison, China’s old-age dependency ratio, a key indicator of future economic stability, has grown twice as fast as that of the United States since 1971. ADVERTISEMENT China’s main state pension fund and urban worker pension fund are projected to run out of money by 2035, according to reports, threatening a humanitarian crisis. Beijing’s response has been too little, too late. In 2015, the Chinese Communist Party announced it would change its draconian one-child-per-family mandate into a two-child policy. Birth rate increases were small and short-lived. The fertility rate continued to fall. The impact of the coronavirus lockdown may have resulted in even fewer births than we know. Figures are expected in April, but birth registration data show a 15 percent decrease. This should be a warning to other regimes who believe they can buy economic growth on the backs of young working couples. Too many countries try to emulate China by chasing some “demographic dividend,” while telling couples to postpone and curtail their desired family life. Population planning is ...
Shelby endorses Shalanda Young for OMB director should Biden pull Tanden’s nomination
Sen. Richard Shelby Richard Craig Shelby On The Money: Senate panels postpone Tanden meetings in negative sign | Biden signs supply chain order after 'positive' meeting with lawmakers Passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is the first step to heal our democracy Shelby endorses Shalanda Young for OMB director should Biden pull Tanden's nomination MORE (R-Ala.), the top Senate GOP appropriator, said this week that he would back Shalanda Young to head up President Biden Joe Biden Klain on Manchin's objection to Neera Tanden: He 'doesn't answer to us at the White House' Senators given no timeline on removal of National Guard, Capitol fence Overnight Defense: New Senate Armed Services chairman talks Pentagon policy nominee, Afghanistan, more | Biden reads report on Khashoggi killing | Austin stresses vaccine safety in new video MORE ’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) if the Senate does not confirm his current nominee, Neera Tanden Neera Tanden Klain on Manchin's objection to Neera Tanden: He 'doesn't answer to us at the White House' On The Money: Senate panels postpone Tanden meetings in negative sign | Biden signs supply chain order after 'positive' meeting with lawmakers Biden's picks face peril in 50-50 Senate MORE . “I believe she would be good in that role," Shelby said in a statement to The Hill on Wednesday. "She’s smart, she knows the process inside-out, and she’s an honest broker who has demonstrated the ability to work with both sides and get things done." "She would have my support, and I suspect many of my Republican colleagues would support her, as well. But that’s up to the Biden administration," he added. ADVERTISEMENT Young, who has served as the House Appropriations Committee’s Democratic staff director since 2017, was nominated last month to be deputy director of OMB. She has emerged as a potential contender to lead the agency as Tanden struggles ...
