House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are currently negotiating once again for a new coronavirus stimulus package. The updated HEROES Act would cost $2.2 trillion (vs. $3.4 trillion for the original bill) and would include a second round of $1,200 economic impact payments. Both Democrats and Republicans stand to gain by passing …
Two events that almost never happen simultaneously in the US are conspiring together to all but destroy any chance of Congress passing a new stimulus bill that appropriates funding for new stimulus checks. Those two events are a highly contentious presidential election that may not even be settled on Election Day, because of such issues as …
The latest coronavirus stimulus bill update we have for Friday, August 7, was supposed to be a lot different. Congress, by now, was supposed to have at least the framework of an agreement in place, so it could quickly vote and get new benefits and funding to the people and places it all needs to …
Millions of Americans are still waiting to receive their coronavirus stimulus check from the federal government, a process the IRS says could take many more weeks to be completed — but some national lawmakers are already talking about a stimulus check round two. House Democrats have already passed a massive new coronavirus stimulus package, which …
A week ago, we learned that there is in fact a microphone Google included with its Nest Secure home security system that the tech giant says it forgot was there and thus forgot to tell anyone about. You could argue there are serious privacy implications inherent in a slip-up like that, which is precisely why …
The James Webb Space Telescope is progressing nicely. Just kidding! It’s actually a total disaster of epic proportions that has outpaced its proposed budgets so many times that it’s laughable. The project was originally scheduled to end with a launch planned for 2007 and a price tag of around $500 million. It’s now (barely) on …
In a surprise announcement early Tuesday morning, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) became the first Republican member of the House of Representatives to sign onto a Democrat effort to roll back FCC net neutrality rule changes. In addition to offering support to the Democrat bill, which would simply reverse last November’s FCC vote, Coffman also introduced his …
In a hearing that was scheduled to last two hours yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg ended up answering questions from the US Senate committee members for over five hours about Facebook’s responsibility to safeguard user privacy and the Cambridge Analytica data breach that has dominated headlines for weeks now. But even after a marathon session yesterday, Zuckerberg …
It’s not often that a Senate hearing is must-watch TV (at least, it wasn’t before the current administration), but today is the day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will stand before a joint session of Congress to answer questions about the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has dominated headlines for weeks. The Judiciary and Commerce committees …
Mark Zuckerberg has decided that he will speak before Senate Judiciary Committee, according to a new report from CNN. Congress has been requesting to speak to Zuckerberg ever since Cambridge Analytica, a data firm connected to President Donald Trump, was found to have accessed information of 50 million users without permission. Zuckerberg issued a written …
