Plus, Tucker Carlson goes full fanboy over Italy's new far-right leader
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre may have improperly siphoned millions of dollars in welfare funds for his own pet project, according to the state of Mississippi and court documents. Favre is the highest-profile figure caught in the Mississippi welfare scandal, in which the state funneled $77 million of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to people with political connections. But there’s an even bigger scandal here: Nationwide, most TANF money doesn’t go to poor people in the first place. Just 22% of program funds went to cash assistance in 2020, according to an analysis of state and federal data by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank. The bulk of the rest of the money paid for child care, training programs, tax credits and administration of the program itself. The Favre case “is absolutely an egregious example of the pitfalls that are inherent in TANF today,” Aditi Shrivastava, a senior policy analyst with the CBPP, said in an interview. Why does the program most closely associated with the word “welfare” spend so little money on actual cash welfare? Because that’s how Congress wanted it. |
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Hundreds of newly revealed text messages proposing strategies to overturn the 2020 presidential election that were turned over to the House Jan. 6 committee by Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows are now clarifying his alleged role in the effort, according to The Guardian. Many of these exchanges, which included Cabinet officials, Republican members of Congress and a former U.S. attorney, were published for the first time Tuesday in “The Breach,” a book by Denver Riggleman, a onetime congressman and former senior technical adviser to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. |
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The union organizing wave that’s hit Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s came to a new workplace this week: the United States Congress. Staff members in the office of Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.) voted unanimously to join the new Congressional Workers Union, the group announced Monday. Levin’s staff is the first on Capitol Hill to gain union representation, following a vote by House Democrats to extend new labor rights within the legislative branch. |
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A mom and dad whose son was killed in a 2012 school shooting testified they were harassed for years by hoaxers, including being sent photos of dead children, in a trial that will determine how much conspiracist Alex Jones must pay to the families of Sandy Hook for spreading lies about the shooting. Parents Ian and Nicole Hockley gave separate testimonies in a Connecticut courtroom Tuesday to talk about the onslaught of abuse and threats they received in the days, weeks and years following the death of their 6-year-old son Dylan. |
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