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Ridgewood NJ, With President-elect Donald Trump poised to take office in January, Democrats are grappling with tough questions about what went wrong and how to rebuild. Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 election has left the party at a crossroads, with no control over the presidency, Congress, or the Supreme Court.
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Ridgewood NJ, oil and gas companies operating on federal lands will face higher costs and stricter requirements under a final rule issued by the Biden administration on Friday.
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Ridgewood NJ, a recent AP-NORC survey conducted shortly after the removal of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy found that a significant 78% of U.S. adults believe the country is moving in the wrong direction. In contrast, only 21% expressed the belief that the U.S. is heading in the right direction. This represents a decline from a month earlier when 75% of Americans thought the country was on the wrong track, compared to 25% who believed it was headed in the right direction. The poll reflects the most negative sentiment about the country’s direction since May, coinciding with the time of the debt ceiling crisis. President Biden received a net job approval rating of 38% and a net disapproval rating of 61%. Furthermore, a net 54% of respondents viewed President Biden unfavorably, while 42% viewed him favorably. These results demonstrate a widespread sense of dissatisfaction with the country’s current trajectory.
Continue reading Overwhelming Majority Continue to Say Country is Heading in Wrong Direction
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Ridgewood NJ, President Biden claimed in his State of the Union speech the U.S. economy has emerged from the pandemic “stronger than when we entered it.”
Too bad voters aren’t buying it. A new Gallup poll finds 50 percent of Americans says they’re financially worse off now than last year. That’s the highest percentage since the Great Recession of 2008.
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Ridgewood N J, President Biden officially announced on Wednesday that his administration is forgiving up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 annually and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, marking the largest forgiveness of federal student loans per individual to date. In addition to forgiving up to $20,000 in student debt for Pell recipients, will also cancel up to $10,000 in student loans for individuals making less than $125,000 a year,
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Washington DC, President Biden admitted that high gas prices are all part of the master plan and the “pain” that we all have to face to get to the left’s green utopian dream of zero fossil fuels.
Continue reading President Biden Praises High Gas Prices as Part of ‘incredible transition’
