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Work requirements on Medicaid

jeudi 30 décembre 2021 à 02:21

Biden has put an end to the Republican plan to attach work requirements to Medicaid, state by state.

Proving citizenship

jeudi 30 décembre 2021 à 02:21

Texas has a new effort to remove voter registrations from people who fail to prove their citizenship when challenged. While it is true that non-citizens have no right to vote in the US (except in certain local elections in places that have granted them the right to vote), it is easy to abuse a program like this to prevent some citizens from lawfully voting. They may have moved and not get the letter. Poor people often have to move frequently. They may get scared of any sort of "trouble", especially if they belong to dis-privileged racial or ethnic groups.

In addition, the agency carrying out the purge has opportunities to do racial profiling when choosing whom to challenge.

Manchin's fossil fuel income

jeudi 30 décembre 2021 à 02:21

Manchin's blind trust, meant to reduce his conflicts of interest, does not contain all his income from the fossil fuel stock he owns.

That means it fails to eliminate his conflict of interest.

Urgent: Ban on landmines

jeudi 30 décembre 2021 à 02:21

US citizens: call on Biden to reinstate the ban on landmines.

Urgent: Overturn sale of fossil fuel leases

jeudi 30 décembre 2021 à 02:21

US citizens: call on Interior Secretary Haaland to overturn the recent sale of fossil fuel leases. Phone 1-866-834-8040.

I also said that the Interior Department should block all drilling that it can block, because there is no room for it in the carbon budget.