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To protect yourself from your husband's debt, it is crucial to understand the nuances of financial responsibility in a marriage. Generally, you are not responsible for debts that are solely in your spouse's name. However, if you co-signed for the debt or if it is a joint account, you may be liable. In community property states (California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Wisconsin, Louisiana, and optionally in Alaska, South Dakota, and Tennessee), debts incurred during the marriage are typically considered joint debts, meaning both spouses are responsible.

Signing a prenuptial agreement before marriage is a proactive way to clarify debt responsibilities. This can include stipulations about who is liable for what debts. If you're already married, a postnuptial agreement might serve a similar purpose. Keeping finances separate, such as having individual bank accounts and avoiding joint credit, can also help protect you from your spouse's debts.

In the event of divorce, it's important to separate and clearly define debt responsibilities. This might include dividing joint debts and ensuring that each party takes responsibility for their respective debts. Monitoring your credit score regularly is crucial to ensure that your spouse's debt activities do not impact your credit history.

If you reside in a community property state, you might have a higher degree of shared responsibility for debts incurred during the marriage. Therefore, understanding your state's specific laws regarding marital debt is essential. Consulting with a financial advisor or attorney specialized in family law can provide personalized advice and strategies to protect your financial interests.

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Sen. Joe Manchin’s monthslong effort to greenlight the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline – a project that will pipe methane gas across parts of West Virginia and Virginia – is likely to prevail in the bipartisan debt ceiling deal, angering environmental groups and some Democratic lawmakers.

Manchin helped secure a provision in the deal that would compel federal agencies to approve all remaining permits for the approximately 300-mile natural gas pipeline, as well as shield the project from further litigation.

The conservative Democrat from West Virginia, who has been critical of the Biden administration’s environmental goals, praised the White House and congressional Republicans this week.

“All of a sudden, [the White House] did their job, they negotiated. And Kevin McCarthy did his job by putting something first and starting this negotiation. So, I applaud both sides,” Manchin said in a Tuesday interview on a West Virginia radio show, “Talkline.”

The U.S. Capitol Dome is seen during an event celebrating 100 days of House Republican rule at the Capitol Building April 17, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Here's what's in the debt ceiling deal

While attaching the pipeline to the must-pass legislation has delighted West Virginia lawmakers, environmental groups are furious that Congress stepped in after they had successfully challenged the pipeline in court. As recently as last month, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit had struck down permits for the project on the grounds that they violate the Clean Water Act.

“Literally, they are changing the rules as we are playing the game,” Crystal Cavalier-Keck, co-founder of indigenous environmental justice group 7 Directions of Service, told reporters on a Tuesday call.

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Kaladin got the greenlight for discharge and the kisses and Liam's smile say it all (blurry pic but had to share!)

I owe everyone who helped a debt that can never be repayed and the utmost depth of my gratitude can never fully be expressed. Anyone who shared, donated or even sent kind words of support, you helped save Kal's life and by extension Liam's and his family's. You've ensured that they will be able to continue being amazing, generous, kind hearted people who have spent their lives supporting local queer, disabled and rescue dog (and other critters!) communities.

In a world that feels decidedly darker every day at times, this terrifying experience turned into something that is humbling, heart working and shone a bright light cutting through the fear, the anxiety and the tears. And for that, I thank you! The go fund me will remain open so that hopefully Liam and Emily can repay the loan they got. If we go beyond that any excess will go to follow up care for Kal and any excess after that will be donated to non-profits actively involved in helping other animals and vulnerable communities.

Tonight, I got a terrifying phone call that Valkyrie's littermate broke out of the house and went on a runabout with tragic results. I frantically called all my local resources, and we got him seen within the hour, but he's going to need surgery to repair his leg.

This puppy and his handler are the kindest souls, and as a seizure alert dog in training, he promises Liam so much freedom.

Please, anything dogblr can pull together to give would make a huge difference to this puppy and his family. Any reblogs and donations are appreciated. I was just being pummeled with affection by this puppy this morning. They are driving him across the state for surgery now. His prognosis is good with surgery, but his family has already been hit with enough hardship this year to make the vet bill look insurmountable.

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Former President Barack Obama substantially increased U.S. troops in Afghanistan early in his tenure, gave military support to rebels to help them depose the leader of Libya and personally ordered drone strikes to kill alleged terrorists in a number of countries. Liberal Democrats thought he was too hawkish, while foreign policy experts in Washington, particularly Republicans, slammed him for being too much of a dove.

The liberals may have won that debate — at least within the Democratic Party. The next Democratic president may be significantly more anti-war than Obama; that is, wary of deploying or increasing the number of American troops anywhere. That’s at least the general consensus on foreign policy and national security that emerged from the 15 Democratic presidential candidates (both from the party’s left and left-center wings) who responded to FiveThirtyEight’s eight-question survey on their foreign policy stances.1

Before we get to the results, a few brief notes on our questions. Obviously, it’s hard to confine foreign policy to eight questions, so we tried to avoid subjects where we thought the candidates would all have the same answer. For example, virtually all Democratic candidates would re-engage the U.S. in the Paris climate accord. We also tried to avoid questions where we couldn’t come up with a fairly concise question. It’s a safe bet that any of the Democratic candidates, if elected president, would be more critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin than President Trump has been, but it’s hard to design a question that would illustrate the differences between the candidates on that subject. So there are some major foreign policy issues (like how the U.S. should deal with Russia) that are not represented.2

In any case, here are the results:

The clearest conclusion is that the candidates generally favored four anti-war stances as a bloc; this includes not only more liberal candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, but also more center-left figures such as Michael Bennet and Amy Klobuchar:

Ending the U.S. involvement in Yemen. All 15 would end the Trump administration’s policy of the U.S. military offering logistical and other support to the government in Yemen in the country’s civil war against the Houthi rebels. This is not particularly surprising — both houses of Congress earlier this year passed a resolution calling for the end of American involvement in the civil war. Democrats on Capitol Hill voted overwhelmingly in favor of the resolution, which was vetoed by Trump.3

Getting rid of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). All 15 generally support the repeal of the AUMF. That provision was initially passed in the wake of 9/11 as Congress’s way of greenlighting U.S. attacks on Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. But it has also been used by the George W. Bush, Obama and Trump administrations to justify deployment of U.S. forces anywhere those administrations saw as a terrorist threat — without any additional approval from Congress. Repealing this measure, in theory, would force Congress to pass a new provision authorizing U.S. forces to fight terrorism. (And several candidates said that the U.S. should pass a new AUMF if it gets rid of the 2001 version.) A new AUMF would likely be more limited in scope and give more power to Congress in deploying U.S. troops to conflicts abroad.

Getting all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Ten of the 15 also said that they would look to remove all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in their first term. This was a bit surprising to me. On the one hand, the conflict in Afghanistan has become known as a “Forever War” — U.S. troops have been there for nearly 20 years. On the other hand, the removal of nearly all troops from Iraq during the Obama years was blamed for creating an atmosphere that allowed for the rise of the Islamic State group.

Reducing overall defense spending. Twelve of the 15 also support a net decrease in defense spending. The U.S. spent more than $600 billion on defense in 2018, a total that is more than a third of overall global spending on defense and dwarfs the military budgets of even China ($250 billion) and Russia (approximately $60 billion) combined. I figured liberal candidates like Sanders would take this stance but was surprised that many of the more centrist Democrats did, too.

“We could cut our spending by a third and still spend more than all of our global adversaries combined,” Tim Ryan said in a statement from his campaign. The statement continued: “I would like to see the money allocated to economic stimulus, reducing our national debt and given back to the states for investments in public schools, infrastructure, and job training programs.”

Many of the campaigns did not respond to our questionnaire, most notably those of Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris. (Biden and Harris’s campaigns did not respond by our publication date to our previous questionnaire on criminal justice reform, either.) That said, from other reporting, it’s fair to say that Biden, Buttigieg and Harris are part of the general consensus of foreign policy views among the candidates. For example, all three support the end of U.S. military involvement in Yemen, and Buttigieg backs the effort to repeal the 2001 AUMF.

The candidates were also basically unified around four other issues that didn’t necessarily fit into a broader frame (as the questions about military spending and use of force did).

Keeping the U.S. embassy in Israel in Jerusalem. Foreign policy experts and some Democrats harshly criticized the Trump administration when it moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem last year. But only three candidates, all long shots — Joe Sestak, Andrew Yang, and Marianne Willamson — said they would move it back to Tel Aviv. That the candidates were broadly unwilling to reverse Trump’s move is perhaps evidence that the pro-Israel part of the Democratic Party still has some sway, even as Democratic voters are becoming skeptical of Israel’s government. There was a bit of an ideological split among candidates on this question. More moderate candidates like Booker and Beto O’Rourke clearly stated that they would not move the embassy, while liberals like Warren and Sanders were more non-committal on that issue.

Being non-committal on meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without “preconditions.” Most of the candidates emphasized that they wanted to meet with Kim but would want to have some parameters for such a meeting. (So basically “no,” but they likely didn’t want to say “no” and seem resistant to diplomacy.)

Strongly criticizing controversial Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, but emphasizing that the U.S. should involve itself in a diplomatic process and not deploy forces there.

Leaving the door open to continuing some kind of tariffs on China. Generally, the candidates attacked Trump for conducting trade policy in a way that is “reckless,” a word invoked by the campaigns of Bennet, O’Rourke and John Delaney. But nearly all of the candidates also criticized China for what they cast as unfair trade practices.

I don’t want to suggest that the Democratic candidates agree on everything in terms of foreign policy. I think it’s clear that a Warren administration would be more favorable to tariffs than that of the more establishment Delaney. Biden has already rejected the idea of a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and would likely be less anti-war and anti-interventionist than, say, Sanders. And maybe different questions would have yielded a bigger spread among the candidates.

That said, at least compared to economic policy (where there is a clear divide between the left and left-center Democrats on issues like Medicare for all), foreign policy is an area where the ideological fissures of the party are less pronounced.

I think the unity among the candidates is more striking — and how, as a group, they seem to be previewing a more anti-war foreign policy approach than Obama’s.

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The star of the upcoming film “Widows” needed to know what kind of wig or extensions she should wear to play Veronica Rawlins, the leader of an unlikely band of robbers scrambling to pull off a dangerous heist. Director Steve McQueen’s answer shocked the Emmy-, Tony- and Oscar-winning actress.

“I said, ‘Your own hair is beautiful — just wear it that way,’” recalls McQueen. “Veronica is a wash-and-go kind of girl.”

For Davis, the decision to appear on-screen in close-cropped, curly hair was liberating and represented an important social statement.

“You’re always taught as a person of color to not like your hair,” she says. “The kinkier it is, the so-called nappier it is, the uglier it is.”

McQueen stressed that he was interested in reflecting reality. More women looked like her, he told the actress, than like the artificial and idealized images of female beauty that Hollywood frequently projects.

“We’re into a zeitgeist where people are fighting for their space to be seen,” says Davis. “People have to know that there are different types of women of color. We’re not all Foxy Brown. We’re not all brown or light-skinned beauties with a big Afro. We have the girl next door. We have the older, dark-skinned, natural-haired woman.”

If “Widows” succeeds, it can help ensure funding for several Davis-led passion projects, ranging from a biopic about Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan to a drama about an all-female military unit from the Kingdom of Dahomey. It will mean that an actress known for her volcanic intensity and commanding presence will finally get the roles she deserves. For too long, Tennon notes, his wife has had to make do with supporting turns, often playing maids or mothers, while ceding the limelight to white actresses. Davis may have scored raves and award nominations for “Doubt” and “Solaris,” but often she had only a few minutes of screen time to create a fully fleshed-out performance.

“She specialized in taking a piece of chicken and turning it into filet mignon,” says Tennon.

John Patrick Shanley, the writer and director of “Doubt,” the 2008 film that put Davis on the map after years of character work, knows firsthand about the paucity of roles available to African-Americans. He says every black actress of a certain age was up for Davis’ role because, though the part lasted only eight minutes, the aria of maternal love that the character was asked to deliver presented an important opportunity.

“This kind of role isn’t usually out there for a woman of color,” says Davis. “Widows” is a female-driven enterprise, offering up meaty roles for Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo and Elizabeth Debicki, who play the other members of a gang of widows who must pull off a heist in order to pay their husbands’ debts to a drug dealer.

Women of color don’t get paid less than just male actors — their salaries pale in comparison with those of white women.

“There are no percentages to show the difference,” says Davis. “It’s vast. Hispanic women, Asian women, black women, we don’t get paid what Caucasian women get paid. We just don’t. … We have the talent. It’s the opportunity that we’re lacking.”

The movie business is outwardly liberal, but the mostly white men who run the major studios tend to cling to certain prejudices when greenlighting projects. In particular, there is a belief that films with people of color in the leads don’t do as well internationally.

That logic is being challenged. The blockbuster success of movies with women of color, such as “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Girls Trip” and “Breaking In,” may be softening old stigmas. Yet a recent survey by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism shows that the number of speaking roles for women has been virtually unchanged over the past decade. It gets worse when it comes to women of color. In 2017, 43 of the top 100 films lacked any black female characters, 65 were absent Asian or Asian-American female characters and 64 did not depict a single Latina character.

Davis doesn’t think change is possible unless executive suites across Los Angeles become more inclusive. “We’re not even invited to the table,” she says. “I go to a lot of women’s events here in Hollywood, and they’re filled with female CEOs, producers and executives, but I’m one of maybe five or six people of color in the room.”

“Widows” is a heist film anchored in grief. Unlike in “Ocean’s 11” or “The Thomas Crown Affair,” where the criminality is portrayed as a lark, Davis and her accomplices break the law because they have no choice and because they have troubled home lives.

“I have issues with stories of people who just get out of bed and start robbing banks,” she says. “As an actor, I needed to know what would drive a seemingly together woman to do this, and it always starts with someone reaching bottom.”

The film is as interested in painting a sprawling portrait of urban corruption as it is in laying the groundwork for the final caper. It touches on police shootings, political back-scratching, domestic violence and economic despair.

Davis says that wrestling with demons on-screen can be “torturous,” and she’s built a career by being able to radiate a kind of operatic fury and anguish. In “Fences,” for instance, her character Rose doubles over into a snot-dripping, tear-streaming state of indignation and regret after learning that her husband has cheated on her. And while her character in “Widows” is more tightly controlled, she has moments where her eyes reveal the deadness of a crippling depression. Yet those who work with Davis say she’s able to access this well of emotion without relying on a kind of Method acting intensity.

For Davis, film provided an important escape hatch at a key moment as she was growing up. At the age of 11 or 12, she remembers sitting around her family’s dilapidated television, which rested on top of another broken set and had an antenna caked in aluminum foil to get a stronger signal. She was watching “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.” Witnessing Cicely Tyson, an acclaimed black actress playing a defining role, age from 23 to 110 had an electrifying effect on the young woman from Central Falls.

“This beautiful, magical transformation happened in the midst of all that poverty,” recalls Davis. “It elevated me out of my situation and stimulated my imagination. I knew I needed to make a life doing this.”

  A very condensed version of Viola’s interview with Variety. Try to check the full one if can.

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Atari CEO interview — 2019 will bring more

Atari CEO interview — 2019 will bring more

Atari CEO Frederic Chesnais recently told us how Rollercoaster Tycoon Touch helped bring back Atari, which, when Chesnais took it over in 2013, had $34 million in debut and a paltry $1 million in revenue.

Now, Atari reports that it has no debt, and it recently closed 2018 with good revenue growth (27 percent for the last six months) and strong operating income (up 87 percent in the last six months).

I talked with Chesnais about what he foresees in the year ahead. Atari plans to get back into the hardware business with the 2019 launch of the Atari VCS home console. And Atari is making games again — from original titles like Days of Doom to classic remakes, such as Tempest 4000.

Chesnais said Atari is in better shape than it has been in the past because of the success of its Rollercoaster Tycoon simulation games, including Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic, which launched in 2017. And the company has organized itself into four divisions: Atari Games, Atari Casino, Atari VCS (the console division), and Atari Partners.

Atari has $9.3 million in cash, the copmany reported. It has $3 million in preorders for the Atari VCS, and it recently sold off Alone in the Dark and Act of War to THQ Nordic. The company also recently entered into a blockchain partnership with Animoca Brands, which will partner on blockchain versions of RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch and Goon Squad.

Here’s an edited transcript of our interview.

Above: Atari CEO Fred Chesnais.

Image Credit: Atari

GamesBeat: You had some earnings news to talk about.

Fred Chesnais: Right, for the six months ending at the end of September. Just a few words about the numbers and what they show. The numbers are very simple. Revenue has grown 27 percent, at a profit margin of 20 percent of revenue. We’re profitable. It’s almost a doubling of income from operations. We’re generating cash. I think, no matter how the markets react, the numbers are pretty good.

What they show is a couple of key messages. Our biggest division, Atari Games, is still the bulk of our business. It takes time to reboot a company. Two years from bankruptcy, two years to redeem the debt. Now, we’re really rebooting. The games are still the core of the company, and they show very good performance. That’s the first message. We have a strong Atari Games division, covering both games and licensing. That’s software and the exploitation of software.

Our second business unit, online casino, is getting started. I think sometimes people don’t understand what we’re doing there, but for the moment, it’s licensing our properties for real-money casino games. These types of businesses, which are regulated, take a bit more time, but once you’re in business and have good games rolling — we’re applying for casino licenses online. We’re not doing anything physical. But even so, that takes time to build. We’re in a pretty good spot right now. I’d expect that second business unit to start delivering next year.

The third area, of course, is the console. These numbers do not include any numbers for the console. The money we’ve raised, we’ve just kept that on the balance sheet, and we’ve kept working on the product. These numbers don’t include any impact of the Indiegogo campaign or anything else related to the console. The console will start hitting in the next fiscal year and in subsequent years.

Above: Atari’s Lunar Battle.

Image Credit: Atari

GamesBeat: Was Atari VCS contributor Rob Wyatt still working on it? I know he was going to, and then, he had a skydiving accident and broke his leg a while ago.

Chesnais: We have a very solid team diving into the project. I haven’t checked on Rob because I’ve been working on casino games. Michael Arzt, the head of Atari VCS, is really in charge of that one.

In a nutshell, though, we have very strong numbers. Games is doing well as the core of the business. Casino is starting to grow. The console, we haven’t announced any significant updates. The team will be working on something after CES to provide an update. CES is not contributing anything to the [profit and loss] at the moment. We hope it will be a strong pocket of growth for us.

GamesBeat: You have this deal with Animoca to do blockchain-based games.

Chesnais: Right. That was announced two days ago. I just gave an interview on that one to explain what we’re trying to do. Let me try to summarize it. I think blockchain is here to stay. It’s here to stay in many businesses — finance, identity, and also in gaming. In gaming, it’s going to have a significant impact not only through games like CryptoKitties, but it’s also going to have an impact on developers. Everyone will create assets in the industry, and, with blockchain, you’ll be able to tag and identify and trace every asset.

Let’s say I create a one-minute song track or an environment or an animation or a character, an avatar. With blockchain, you’ll be able to tag that asset, identify it, and trace it. Especially with things like music, animation, or characters, if it’s used along the way by one game or two games, if it’s sold five or 10 or a million times, we’ll be able to trace it. As far as protecting creations, it’s going to be very interesting. That’s one of the applications of blockchain.

Inside games, we’ll see that as networks grow, we’ll have more opportunities to play with things we’ve never before understood. What we’re doing with Animoca, we’re creating a game using blockchain not only to have fun and try to make money but also to try to understand and find new ways of how blockchain will impact our business and how we can use it to have more fun — and also more protection. It’s about those two uses of blockchain.

I’m happy to work with Animoca. For the moment, what we have in mind is something like, you create a coaster, you blend it with another coaster, and then, you can share it or swap it or sell it and build your collection of coasters. That’s one of the applications we’re working on. But the broader picture behind this — how can we use blockchain in our business? Let’s start with a simple game, but everybody knows we’re going to find something that’s both fun and more useful for the future. That’s why we’re doing it.

Blockchain is here to stay. It’s the revolution for the next 20 years. Peer-to-peer decentralized ledgers, that’s going to affect a lot of industries. We don’t want to be the last one to wake up. We want to be among the first to work on it and think about how this can affect our organization.

Above: Atari’s Goon Squad will become a blockchain game.

Image Credit: Atari

GamesBeat: Are there any other things in 2019 that are becoming more clear to you, as we come to the end of this year?

Chesnais: For our casino business, in the U.S., we’re only doing licensing of our properties to Scientific Games. We’re not an operator. In Europe, our second area, where it’s legal — France is a monopoly, so there’s no way we can operate there — for the last two years we’ve licensed our properties, but we’re going through the process of going direct in Europe and establishing operations to sell or export three types of games: scratch games, slot machines, and lotteries.

Our third area for that business — since we’re not going to Asia, not even for licensing — is Africa, which is very promising. Lots of things have changed. There are not many competitors. We’re in the process of acquiring the regulatory licenses to operate online casinos in East and West Africa. Here, we’re going to go direct. That’s my goal for next year, especially with lotteries on the phone, in key countries. For smaller countries, we’re working on licenses right now. It’s working quite well. I should be able to tell you more around GDC.

I know the numbers. I know what people are doing. I know most of the operators in the area. The numbers I’m seeing — we’ve not made any cash for the moment, but we’ve met the test in Europe. We know how the games are doing. We’re planning to over-deliver in 2019. It’s a very interesting business, but people don’t necessarily understand it in the U.S.

GamesBeat: Do you have anything on your radar for CES?

Chesnais: We’ll have the team there, but we go to CES basically through our licensees — like the ones doing the Atari Pong table. They’ll have a big booth present. Most of our licensees are there. But we’re not doing anything direct for the moment. We’ll see in 2020.

Above: The Atari VCS home console is coming in 2019.

Image Credit: Atari

GamesBeat: As far as the games market overall, does anything stand out to you as an interesting opportunity or something to worry about?

Chesnais: Again, because we’re rebooting, we’re doing our own games. Our simulation games have an audience that’s very stable. It’s growing. They’re loyal. We’re not subject to changes like the big waves of Fortnite versus Call of Duty versus Battlefield. To me, what’s going on right now — it’s more important for us to remain in the casual field and try not to get into racing or bigger games.

We could do it. We could raise the money to do another game. For the moment, our strategy is still that we have a lot of things to do in simulation and strategy games. We know how to do these games. When I see what’s going on in other categories, I feel like we should keep investing in what we know the best. Of course, I keep an eye on what’s going on elsewhere, but strategy, simulation, and casual are where we’re strong. We don’t want to add a new core area. We’re going to stay with what we do best.

What I’m seeing in many areas is very volatile. This is almost the only industry, along with the movies, where you can have a new entrant becoming the king in, what, maybe two years? That’s pretty cool.

Above: Tempest 4000 is part of the Atari comeback plan.

Image Credit: Atari

GamesBeat: The Chinese government apparently started approving mobile games again. The agencies are starting to greenlight things that have been held up for months. Overnight, you have a better picture for mobile games.

Chesnais: On November 30, we released our own game, Rollercoaster Tycoon, in China. We made it to number 47 in the app stores over there. I can send you the screenshots from AppAnnie. That’s really an achievement for us. We don’t trumpet things like this too much because you can never be sure about your approvals. We’re just going to keep working.

I feel like we got approved in part because it’s Rollercoaster Tycoon. It’s a simulation game. It has no message whatsoever other than, “Build something funny and have fun.” We’re working through a Shanghai-based studio. They’re big fans of the brand, and they were instrumental in pushing the game in China.

GamesBeat: Do you foresee doing a lot more in China over time?

Chesnais: I’m keeping my fingers crossed — but yes. We have two other simulation games — a transportation game and a city-building game — and our Chinese partner is looking into it. We hope to be able to have Chinese versions of those submitted to the Chinese authorities. They’re fun, casual, easy to play games. So far, we’ve had success with Rollercoaster Tycoon, and we look forward to more.

It’s more than just translation, just swapping Chinese for English. Our studio there has put in a lot of effort to create a Chinese version of the game. We’ve changed up a lot of assets to create a Chinese game made by Chinese people using the core game mechanics of Rollercoaster Tycoon. We’re also launching a Korean version. That’s being finalized for the end of January.

The future is promising. We’ll keep working. We’ve got our heads down on the VCS. There’s always a lot to do in these challenging and volatile times.

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Which Republicans Voted Against The Budget Resolution

The Vote Opens The Door For Democrats To Use A Key Legislative Maneuver To Try To Bypass Republican Opposition And Enact Bidens Economic Agenda

Hours after the Senate advanced a bipartisan bill to improve the nation’s infrastructure, Democrats forged ahead independently on a second front — adopting a $3.5 trillion budget that could enable sweeping changes to the nation’s health care, education and tax laws.

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The 50-49 vote came early Wednesday morning, after lawmakers sparred in a marathon debate over the proposed sizable increase in spending and its potential implications for the federal deficit. Its passage marked another critical milestone in Democrats’ complex economic agenda, which includes new public-works investments that Republicans support — and a slew of additional policy proposals that the GOP does not.

“The Democratic budget will bring a generational transformation for how our economy works for average Americans,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said after the vote.

Chiefly written by Sen. Bernie Sanders , the $3.5 trillion blueprint sets in motion Democrats’ plans to expand Medicare, combat climate change and boost federal safety net programs, including those that target children and low-income parents. It paves the way for universal prekindergarten and new family leave benefits, and it aims to help immigrants obtain legal permanent residency status. Democrats aspire to finance the array of new initiatives through tax increases targeting wealthy families and profitable corporations, undoing the rate cuts imposed under President Donald Trump.

Nine Democrats Call For Prioritizing Vote On Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill At Odds With Pelosis Timeline

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WASHINGTON—A group of centrist House Democrats threatened to block a vote on approved by the Senate this week until a bipartisan infrastructure bill is passed, highlighting the predicament Democratic leaders face trying to keep dueling factions of the party united around both pieces of legislation.

In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, nine House Democrats said they “will not consider voting for a budget resolution until” the House approves a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed Tuesday in the Senate and it is signed into law.

“With the livelihood of hardworking American families at stake, we simply can’t afford months of unnecessary delays and risk squandering this once-in-a-century, bipartisan infrastructure package,” the lawmakers wrote.

That position puts them squarely at odds with the timeline mapped out by Mrs. Pelosi, who has repeatedly said she wouldn’t bring the infrastructure bill to the House floor until the Senate has passed the broader budget package now being crafted. Mrs. Pelosi’s office didn’t immediately respond to the letter.

Lawmakers Cite Concerns About Elimination Of State And Local Tax Deductions As Reform Framework Is Oked

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ALBANY — U.S. Reps. John Faso and Elise Stefanik voted against the federal budget resolution on Thursday, joining 18 of their GOP colleagues in opposition to the budget blueprint. The resolution was approved by a razor-thin 216-212 margin, taking a step toward a tax code rewrite that Democratic officials have warned will have dire consequences for New Yorkers.

The budget resolution — approved by the U.S. Senate last week — includes the framework to allow the Senate to approve a tax plan with only 51 votes, thereby precluding the possibility of a Democratic filibuster.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have pushed for an elimination of state and local tax deductions as part of tax reform.

Some New York officials, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, have decried that move, saying it amounts to unconstitutional double taxation.

Faso, who represents the 19th Congressional District, said in a statement he could not vote for a budget that paves the way for the elimination of the SALT deductions.

Stefanik, who represents the 21st Congressional District, similarly cited concerns about the elimination of the SALT deductions.

Cuomo said that Stefanik, Faso and the other five New York House Republicans who voted against the resolution “understand the dire and devastating consequences to our middle class families and our economy.”

Senate Approves $35t Budget Plan That Would Expand Health Care Education And Climate Initiatives

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WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a sweeping Democratic budget resolution along party lines early Wednesday that would make it possible to expand Medicare, education and environmental measures largely through higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

The $3.5 trillion blueprint to pave the way for the massive social safety net expansion was adopted in a 50-49 vote after more than 14 hours of debate on a myriad of amendments.

Leaving the Capitol after the marathon “vote-a-rama,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said, “Well it’s been quite a night. Look, we still have a ways to go, and we’ve taken a giant step forward toward transforming America.”

House Dems Tell Pelosi They Won’t Vote On Budget Resolution Till Infrastructure Bill Passes

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Nine moderate House Democrats told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that they won’t vote on a budget resolution that lays out $3.5 trillion in spending until an infrastructure bill passes, the Associated Press reported.

The resistance is another hurdle for the proposed spending legislation, established as one of President Joe Biden‘s main priorities since taking office.

The House remains narrowly divided along party lines, and many Republicans are anticipated to resist the legislation. Democrats can lose only three votes and still prevail in finalizing the resolution without Republican support.

“We will not consider voting for a budget resolution until the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passes the House and is signed into law,” the nine centrist Democrats wrote in a letter to Pelosi, obtained Friday by AP.

For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below.

The centrists’ threat directly defies Pelosi’s announced plans, and she is showing no signs of backing down. It also completes a two-sided squeeze on the California Democrat, who has received similar pressure from her party’s progressives.

Congressional passage of the budget resolution seems certain because without it, Senate Republicans would be able to use a filibuster, or procedural delays, to kill a follow-up $3.5 trillion measure bolstering social safety net and climate change programs. That measure, not expected until autumn, represents the heart of Biden’s domestic agenda.

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Joe Manchin Only Democrat To Join Republicans In Vote To Ban Critical Race Theory Funding

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Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia was the only Democrat to vote early Wednesday in favor of blocking federal funding from being used in the teaching of critical race theory in prekindergarten and K-12 schools.

The vote was held shortly after midnight Wednesday to decide on an amendment introduced by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton during the Senate‘s budget resolution negotiations for the 2022 fiscal year.

Aside from Manchin, the 49 other senators who voted in favor of the amendment were all Republicans. Every other Democrat in the Senate voted against the amendment’s passage, with only one senator—Republican Mike Rounds of South Dakota—not voting. The amendment passed 50-49.

Attention has focused frequently on Manchin because of his swing vote potential this year after Democrats gained a majority in the Senate. With 48 Democratic senators and two independents who caucus with the Democrats, Vice PresidentKamala Harris can break ties when they occur in the chamber.

Debate over critical race theory has divided politicians in the nation’s capital and throughout the U.S. in recent months. The idea behind it is to consider American history “through the lens of racism,” according to The Associated Press. A handful of states with Republican governors have taken steps to restrict critical race theory teaching in schools, the Associated Press reported.

Top Republican: Gop Won’t Help Raise Debt Limit To Fund $35 Trillion Spending Package

The top Senate Republican pledged Monday to oppose a massive spending package Democrats plan to greenlight in a budget vote this week.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, warned Monday that Senate Republicans would not only vote against the spending package, but they would also oppose a measure to raise the nation’s borrowing limit.

“Democrats have all the existing tools they need to raise the debt limit on a partisan basis,” McConnell said. “If they want 50 lockstep Democratic votes to spend trillions and trillions more, they can find 50 Democratic votes to finance it. If they don’t want Republicans’ input. They don’t need our help.”

Senate Democrats Monday unveiled a $3.5 trillion spending framework that would fund social programs the party believes will boost the middle class, lower taxes, and help create jobs.

INFRASTRUCTURE BILL ADVANCES TO FINAL PASSAGE THIS WEEK

The measure would pay for universal preschool, free community college, expanded Medicare benefits and child tax credits, and more. It would also provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrant farmworkers and their families.

Democrats plan to approve the bill without help from Republicans by using a budgetary tactic that would allow the bill to pass with 51 votes instead of the usual 60 votes.

The vote to unlock that procedure is expected to take place this week after the Senate passes a $1.2 trillion, bipartisan infrastructure bill.

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Budget And Infrastructure Bills Have Been Top Priorities For Us President Joe Biden

The U.S. Senate approved a $3.5-trillion US spending blueprint for President Joe Biden’s top priorities early on Wednesday morning in a 50-49 vote along party lines after lawmakers sparred over the need for huge spending to fight climate change and poverty.

The vote marks the start of weeks of debate within Biden’s Democratic Party about priorities including universal preschool, affordable housing and climate-friendly technologies.

With narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress, Democrats will need to craft a package that will win the support of both progressives such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who want robust action on climate change, and moderates including Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who has expressed concern at the size of the bill.

The vote followed about 14½ hours of debate that started right after the Senate on Tuesday passed a $1-trillion US infrastructure bill in a bipartisan 69-30 vote, proposing to make the nation’s biggest investment in decades in roads, bridges, airports and waterways.

“It’s been quite a night. We still have a ways to go, but we’ve taken a giant step forward to transforming America,” Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters after the budget resolution passed. “This is the most significant piece of legislation that’s been considered in decades.”

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Senate Passes Budget Resolution Setting Stage For Democrats’ $35 Trillion Package

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Washington— The Senate passed a budget resolution early Wednesday that lays the groundwork for Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion spending package, capping a flurry of activity just hours after senators approved a separate $1 trillion infrastructure bill. 

The Senate passed the resolution on a party line vote of 50-49. The measure serves as the blueprint for President Biden’s social spending agenda, and will include funds to combat climate change, establish child care programs, expand Medicare and provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

“The Democratic budget will bring a generational transformation to how our economy works for average Americans,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said after the vote.

The budget resolution represents the second track of a two-track system to pass infrastructure spending that was outlined by Schumer. He was adamant that the Senate pass both the bipartisan bill and a budget resolution before lawmakers left Washington for their August recess.

The resolution now heads to the House, where House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has told colleagues that the chamber will return from recess the week of August 23 to consider the budget resolution.

Mr. Biden expressed optimism that both measures would eventually reach his desk, saying Tuesday that he expects Democrats to remain united behind the $3.5 trillion plan as well as the $1 trillion plan.

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Under special rules for considering budget measures, the Senate was able to adopt the plan with a simple majority vote, circumventing a filibuster, advancing a blueprint for various committees to follow in writing their parts of the funding legislation.

Senators voted on 47 nonbinding amendments during the process, adopting some sponsored by Republicans. Among them were an amendment offered by freshman Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., adopted in a 99-0 vote, that would block federal funds for any jurisdictions that defund the police. Another, by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., also adopted in a 99-0 vote, would ensure tax money doesn’t go to groups like Hamas, which the United States considers a terrorist organization. An amendment from Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., meanwhile, called for a fund to address climate change.

Because the budget measures are nonbinding, lawmakers typically use them to pitch messaging proposals, which many then use in campaign ads during later election cycles.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Tuesday as debate proceeded on the Senate floor that many of his Republican colleagues were “in a bit of shock now. They are finding it hard to believe that the president and the Democratic caucus are prepared to go forward in addressing the long-neglected needs of working families and not just the one percent and wealthy campaign contributors.”

The Gop Scored Two Wins In The Budget Blueprint On Abortion And Systemic Racism

Republicans claimed two narrow victories with potential long-term implications, with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, one of the chamber’s more conservative Democrats, joining them on both nonbinding amendments.

One indicated support for health care providers who refuse to participate in abortions. The other voiced opposition to teaching critical race theory, which considers racism endemic to American institutions. There’s scant evidence that it’s part of public school curriculums.

The budget blueprint envisions creating new programs including tuition-free pre-kindergarten and community college, paid family leave and a Civilian Climate Corps whose workers would tackle environmental projects. Millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally would have a new chance for citizenship, and there would be financial incentives for states to adopt more labor-friendly laws.

Medicare would add dental, hearing and vision benefits, and tax credits and grants would prod utilities and industries to embrace clean energy. Child tax credits beefed up for the pandemic would be extended, along with federal subsidies for health insurance.

Besides higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Democrats envision savings by letting the government negotiate prices for pharmaceuticals it buys, slapping taxes on imported carbon fuels and strengthening IRS tax collections. Democrats have said their policies will be fully paid for, but they’ll make no final decisions until this fall’s follow-up bill.

The Senate Passes A $35 Trillion Budget Proposal It’s The Latest Win For Biden

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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center, walks towards the Senate floor as the Senate moves from passage of the infrastructure bill to focus on a massive $3.5 trillion budget resolution, a blueprint of President Joe Biden’s top domestic policy ambitions.

WASHINGTON — Democrats pushed a $3.5 trillion framework for bolstering family services, health, and environment programs through the Senate early Wednesday, advancing President Joe Biden’s expansive vision for reshaping federal priorities just hours after handing him a companion triumph on a hefty infrastructure package.

Lawmakers approved Democrats’ budget resolution on a party-line 50-49 vote, a crucial step for a president and party set on training the government’s fiscal might at assisting families, creating jobs and fighting climate change. Higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations would pay for much of it. Passage came despite an avalanche of Republican amendments intended to make their rivals pay a price in next year’s elections for control of Congress.

Senate Democrats Roll Child Care And Immigration Into A $35t Budget Framework

House leaders announced their chamber will return from summer recess in two weeks to vote on the fiscal blueprint, which contemplates disbursing the $3.5 trillion over the next decade. Final congressional approval, which seems certain, would protect a subsequent bill actually enacting the outline’s detailed spending and tax changes from a Republican filibuster in the 50-50 Senate, delays that would otherwise kill it.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., once a progressive voice in Congress’ wilderness and now a national figure wielding legislative clout, said the measure would help children, families, the elderly and working people — and more.

“It will also, I hope, restore the faith of the American people in the belief that we can have a government that works for all of us, and not just the few,” he said.

Manchin Capito Raising Concerns Over Bidens $35t Human Infrastructure Bill

While bipartisanship ruled the day Tuesday in the U.S. Senate for a $1.2 trillion package of traditional infrastructure projects, a vote on a budget resolution that begins the process for a bill that could cost as much as $4.2 trillion.

The U.S. Senate, in a 50-49 party-line vote, approved a budget resolution at 4 a.m. Wednesday. The vote came after a nearly 14-hour marathon of amendments — sometimes called a “vote-o-rama”— that took place nearly immediately after the Senate voted 69-30 for the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act with 19 Republican senators in favor.

The 92-page budget resolution is the first step in the budget reconciliation process, which only requires a simple majority in the Senate, unlike the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that required at least 60 votes to avoid a filibuster.

The $3.5 trillion framework is based on President Joe Biden’s American Families Plan and parts of the American Jobs Plan that didn’t make it into the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs. It includes plans to expand Medicare coverage for dental, vision, and hearing, as well as expand coverage in states that have not opted in for increased Medicare coverage. It includes funding for universal pre-kindergarten, child care subsidies, paid family and leave, child tax credits, increases in Pell grants.

The Voting Process Took Several Hours And Lasted Into The Early Morning

In a budget ritual, senators plunged into a “vote-a-rama,” a nonstop parade of messaging amendments that often becomes a painful all-night ordeal. This time, the Senate had held more than 40 votes by the time it approved the measure at around 4 a.m. EDT, more than 14 hours after the procedural wretchedness began.

With the budget resolution largely advisory, the goal of most amendments was not to win but to force the other party’s vulnerable senators to cast troublesome votes that can be used against them in next year’s elections for congressional control.

Republicans crowed after Democrats opposed GOP amendments calling for the full-time reopening of pandemic-shuttered schools, boosting the Pentagon’s budget and retaining limits on federal income tax deductions for state and local levies. Those deduction caps are detested by lawmakers from upper-income, mostly Democratic states.

Republicans were also happy when Democrats opposed restricting IRS access to some financial records, which McConnell’s office said would prompt political “witch hunts.” And when Democrats showed support for Biden’s now suspended ban on oil and gas leasing on federal lands, which Republicans said would prompt gasoline price increases.

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“Republicans must push back for the sake of our Country and, far less importantly, the sake of the Republican Party!” Trump concluded.

The motion to end debate on a motion to proceed to the legislative vehicle for the $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill failed 51-49 in the Senate earlier Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer voted against his own motion so that he could reintroduce it later.

All 50 Republicans voted against the motion, including moderate Republicans who had asked Schumer to give them more time to hammer out the details of the legislation.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly stated that she will not consider the bipartisan bill until the Senate passes the $3.5 trillion Democrat-only budget resolution. Earlier this month, Trump told Republicans to stop negotiating the infrastructure deal, saying they were “just being played by the Radical Left Democrats.”

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If Biden and the Senate Democrats want to “outsource domestic policy to Chairman Sanders” with a “historically reckless taxing and spending spree,” Republicans lack the votes to stop them, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. “But we will debate. We will vote.”

Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democratic leader in the House, announced Tuesday that the chamber would return from recess Aug. 23 to vote on that blueprint and perhaps other measures. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has praised the budget resolution.

After the Senate adopted the resolution, Schumer set up a path for the chamber to take up voting rights legislation when the Senate returns from recess in September.

“Yesterday morning, we saw what it looks like when the Senate comes together,” he said. “This is what it looks like when it doesn’t. Voting rights, voting rights will be the first matter of legislative business when the Senate returns to session in September. Our democracy demands no less.”

The Senate turned to the budget minutes after it approved the other big piece of Biden’s objectives, a compromise $1 trillion bundle of transportation, water, broadband and other infrastructure projects. That measure, which passed 69-30 with McConnell among the 19 Republicans backing it, also needs House approval.

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Senate Democrats Approve Budget Resolution, All Republicans Vote No

The Senate on Friday at the cessation of a marathon session narrowly approved a budget resolution aimed at ramming through President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 assuagement bill. The 51–50 vote was only possible because Vice PresidentKamalaHarris utilized her tie-breaking competency as president of the “Senate.”

Every Democrat senator voted for the resolution and every Republican voted against it.

I am so thankful that our caucus cohered in unity. We had no cull given the quandaries facing America and the desire to move forward,

Senate MajorityLeader Chuck Schumer verbally expressed on the Senate floor in Washington after the vote. Schumer endeavored painting the work as bipartisan despite Republican support, noting that some of the flurry of amendments proposed overnight were adopted with backing from the “GOP.”

This was a giant first step, a step in concord, and we’re so profuse of gratitude that PresidentBiden put together an orchestration with input from so many of us, both sides of the aisle, to bring America back to surmount this horrible crisis,

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Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday introduced the joint budget resolution. The House of Representatives approved it 218–212. No Republicans voted in favor. Because the Senate amended the resolution, the House will take it up again in a fresh vote.

Senate Passes Sweeping $1 Trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

The Senate approved a $1 trillion package to improve and modernize the nation’s aging infrastructure through a bipartisan 69-to-30 vote. The legislation now must pass the House.

WASHINGTON — The Senate took a major step on Wednesday toward enacting a vast expansion of the nation’s social safety net, approving along party lines that would allow Democrats to tackle climate change and fund health care, child care, family leave and public education expansion.

Much of that spending would be paid for with higher taxes on wealthy people and corporations.

After the Senate gave bipartisan approval to a $1 trillion infrastructure package on Tuesday, the budget vote came over unanimous Republican opposition. If House Democrats follow suit later this month, congressional Democrats this fall hope to draft an expansive package that will carry the remainder of President Biden’s $4 trillion economic agenda. The Senate adopted the measure 50 to 49, minutes before 4 a.m.

The blueprint sets in motion a perilous legislative process aimed at creating the largest expansion of the federal safety net in nearly six decades. The House will return early from its scheduled summer recess the week of Aug. 23 to take up the budget, so committees in both chambers can begin work fleshing out the party’s vision for what would be the greatest change to social welfare since the 1960s’ Great Society.

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Votevets Hits Gop For Vote Against Va Funds In Budget Resolution

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WASHINGTON, DC — VoteVets, the largest progressive group of veterans in America, is slamming Republican Senators for voting against an $18 billion to upgrade and mordernize Department of Veterans Affairs facilities, in the budget resolution the Senate voted on, today.

In a statement, Mary Kaszynski, Director of Government Relations for VoteVets, said in a statement:

“With over 9 million veterans in the VA Health System, ensuring that they have the best facilities possible is paramount in keeping our promise to them. Unfortunately, every single Republican voted against sending more funds to the VA to modernize and upgrade facilities, this morning. With over 325,000 veterans in Wisconsin, how can Senator Ron Johnson justify that? With over 1.5 million veterans in Florida, how does Marco Rubio justify that? Our veterans won’t forget this vote.”

The 19 Gop Senators Who Voted For The $1t Infrastructure Bill

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The passage of the bill comes just before Democrats take up a budget resolution that greenlights their ability to pass a separate $3.5 trillion spending plan, packed with the party’s top priorities, later this year without GOP votes.

No Republicans are expected to support the budget resolution or the subsequent spending package, which is unlikely to get voted on before late September.

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Next Stop Is The House Which Plans To Vote The Week Of Aug 23

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The Senate adopted its fiscal 2022 budget resolution early Wednesday morning by a vote of 50-49, paving the way for the House to take up the blueprint.

Final adoption in the House would unlock the reconciliation process, which Democrats are planning to use to pass a filibuster-proof $3.5 trillion package of spending and tax breaks intended to expand the social safety net and combat climate change.

The Senate worked through Tuesday and overnight on numerous amendments of the marathon voting session known as a “vote-a-rama” on the budget resolution before wrapping things up around 4 a.m. Wednesday.

Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, the Senate voted to kick off a debate over Democrats’ budget blueprint that, once adopted by both chambers, will unlock the door to a yet-to-be-written $3.5 trillion package of new spending and tax breaks for families and lower-income workers and to combat the effects of climate change. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., said Tuesday his chamber would take up the blueprint the week of Aug. 23, assuming it’s adopted by the Senate.

The motion to proceed to the budget was adopted 50-49. Typically that vote triggers up to 50 hours of debate, evenly divided between the majority and minority to control. But with the session already stretching farther into August than senators anticipated, neither side had much appetite to drag things out. 

But Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told reporters “there’s no reason to keep us here too late.”

What Is Happening With The Bill Using Budget Reconciliation

Congressional Democrats are fast-tracking the relief bill using budget reconciliation. But the budget tool sets strict limits on what can included, and not everything Democratic leaders want to accomplish in the stimulus bill may meet the requirements for the reconciliation process. On Thursday, the Senate’s lead legislative rule-keeper — its parliamentarian — said including a boost to the minimum wage rate in the bill would not meet the requirements. Here’s why.

With budget reconciliation, a funding bill needs a simple majority to pass, instead of the normal 60 votes required to approve spending or revenue legislation. The bill also can’t be tied up with a filibuster, where a senator can use a variety of foot-dragging tactics to block or delay a bill.

Because it can be used to pass fiscal legislation that may not have bipartisan support, the budget reconciliation process comes with strict guidelines about how it can be used and how often Congress can use it. First, it can be used just for legislation that changes federal spending, revenues and debt limits, like President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus package. Something called the  — named after former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd — prevents items that don’t fit into one of those three budget categories from being included. 

Senate Adopts Budget That Paves Way For $35t Spending Plan

The chamber adopted on party lines a 92-page framework for the package of climate and social initiatives Democrats hope to enact this fall.

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Senate Democrats adopted a budget measure early Wednesday morning to deliver their next filibuster-proof ticket to passing major legislation against the will of their GOP colleagues.

After more than 14 hours of continuousamendment votes, the chamber adopted on party lines a 92-page framework for Democrats’ $3.5 trillion package of climate and social initiatives, including subsidized child care, expanded Medicare and paid family and medical leave benefits. Once both chambers have approved the budget instructions, it will unlock the reconciliation process, which empowers the majority party to eventually clear the final bill with just 51 votes in the Senate, rather than the usual 60-vote hurdle.

After the 50-49 vote Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the move “a massive step towards restoring the middle class” and giving “more Americans the chance to get there.”

The amendment marathon was the Senate’s third this year, after Democrats deployed the reconciliation process to pass Biden’s$1.9 trillion pandemic relief package in March.

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.....not really. I’m fascinated by the idea of ghost stories, though.

Stephenie Meyer: If you could be a supernatural being, what would you be?

Fae. Awesome space fairy with magic powers ready to trick foolish mortals for the Lols

F. Scott Fitzgerald: If you had unlimited funds for a day, what would you do?

I mean for one DAY I’d probably make a whole lot of investments in property and valuable things that I can then sell for a great deal of money in later days. but thats boring, so-

Make my own movie production company and greenlight films and tv shows that would be harder to make otherwise, like a lot of big budget sci-fi/fantasy movies that focus on diversity etc. 

fund all my friend’s medical bills/debt bills/etc. 

have real nice meal and tip waiters lots of money

hire group of dark web assassins to form a suicide squad to take out some people in high positions who use their power to hurt others not naming names or anything

buy two nice dreamhouses, one for my parents, one for me. Mine has lotsa secret entrances

Set up an animal shelter to help cats and dogs and other stray animals, funding TNR missions for feral cats because LA doesn’t allow any government funded shelters (which is most of them) to run TNR

Foster Kittens and Children while I spend most of my days at home writing and so have time to take breaks to care for them. 

Buy an awesome Fairy Princess outfit, and other cosplays to set up photoshoots to make me look awesome.

Donate to political races for people who would have more trouble running and gathering political support on their own.

thats what I can think of off the top of my head

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The Right Thing......07/02/2021

Going through the motions like I've always wanted, but isnt what I needed. What I needed was someone to stand by me like how I need to stand by them. I read a qoute somewhere...

"Discipline isnt what you need right now...Discipline is about patience and what you need later."

Decisions that I've been making has soley been based off of the hype of life. I refused to believe myself whenever I looked in the mirror thinking that it was you that was my safe haven. As time progresses on...me trying to figure out who I am versus who I've been for these last several years.

You may think that I've been putting on a mask so then you could turn into my direction...but I wonder...what is it that you see when you look at me? A sheep in wolves clothing? A someone who is trying to help by any means necessary for the greater good.

Let me spill out all the things that we have been thinking because I am tired being the wrong thing for the wrong reasons. I dont want to be like your ex boyfriend. No matter how much your unconcluded emotions about him still lingers inside of you.

You try to find the right thing like we all do...something that either upholds "truth" and "message" above the self lies that we tell ourselves. Please dont get this confused monkey that the reasons why I love you isnt because of the attention, fortune or fame. I love you because I see right through the very mask that you have worked so hard to build. You dance as if you dont have a single care in the world.

Setting all your ducks in a row...you say that song, music and dance is your life. My love...what happens when a day comes when everybody scatters like roaches? When I am still standing on the very same dance floor that you pretend and refuse to act like you dont see me...

I know that the people close to you...recognizes that you see me and that I see you...and yet everyone around is pretends with a fake smiling hoping that I will eventually walk away. I dont want to be the one to tell you, but what if...the loved ones in your life are no longer at the point of protecting you? What if at this point...they have grown so fond of the "protection" it's literally became an invisible prison?

I see the way you look at your loved ones with such glee. But, what is that you see when you look at the mirror to your own reflection? Are you still smiling then? Does what you aee go beyond the physicality of your own displeasure? By all means, you are God's master piece. The source of all things has made you just the way you are...so when you tell the universe to "keep smiling"...you are essentially speaking to yourself...

Eventually, one day when you said it to yourself enough...you'll actually believe yourself? I operate pretty much the same way...what's the point to build self indulgence if at the end of all this...is nothing but death and destruction? Is there ever really a light at the end of the tunnel...or a we the answer that we have been looking for?

I dont know what you have been through, but what you have shared openly about. But, what I know is no matter how much you are addicted to the pain and sex of it...you mirrored images that "hate" into something else. Your outward expression in your drawings...or writing? Your songs?

While crowds of millions cheer over your broken heart...the greenlight never seems to satisfy what you hide so dearly...why hired security gaurds and the ones that "protect" you. Only want to keep you in check. Trust me...listening to other people tell me what is best for me...

I learned to defy the universes plea bargain as if...settling down to others games...as they roll the dice on each others lives. Very sad indeed...for every birthday...every wish that you make...hoping for some kind of "freedom".

You weren't running away from a dark past...you were running away from yourself...hoping that one day...if the "old" you comes back...that you can finally face whatevers coming to you head on.

Beyond all the traveling...hugs...hand shakes...materials...money...laughter...tears and anger. What matters the most to YOU at the end of the day?

Well hopefully doing the right thing could probably help, right? Who says that giving food to a homeless person versus the money that they could have to get a new high isnt actually what these people needed?

Camera shot after camera shot...we all could lose what we "have" tomorrow...is this life just a sick little game? We live in a small world...a lot smaller than we all think...We are either just big boned or hard headed to think that each and everyone of us are the center of the universe.

That each and everyone of us are destined for greatness...buy a home...get married.. have kids...go bankrupt because someone says out of no where that we owe them money...lose the house then become put into a massive amount of debt for our families to only pay for a half assed funeral...

Dont mean to be the pessimist in the situation but the brighter side to all this is love. I truely do think in the midst of the greatest evil...only love can overcome evil. I have it tattood on my arm in your template.

Whether if this is a crazed obsession like that I had when I was a teenager with my first girlfriend or the fact that I asked you out after seeing you the second time in years...may seem a little to hastey...but from one introvert to another...what are we fighting for? Why are giving this silent war its propaganda?

Who are we trying to impress or fool here? Everyone else or ourselves?

So, long story short...who says what is right or what is considered to be the wrong decision? Am I trying to hard to show you that we are made for each other? Or am I once again speaking crazy?

Neither here nor there...i really do hope one day...we can have at least ONE sit down...and just communicate with each other...because being near you and never getting to speak to you is killing me. While everyone else around me is testing me...as if I am some kind of spy that is trying to ruin your whole operation..when really everyone else is trying to give you reasons to stay away from what you really need...a space for your sanity.

Very Respectfully,

Neek0😞

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Under the new White House budget, the GOP is proposing to cut some $554 billion out of Medicare over the next decade. The party has lost interest in balancing the budget as its runaway spending and tax hand-outs make that impossible.

Congress just greenlighted some $400 billion in new spending and is giving away more than $1 trillion in tax cuts. Who's going to pay for it? The simple answer, at least at the moment, is that foreign borrowers will. The Treasury will have to sell more debt to pay for this largesse, unless Congress agrees to raise taxes or cut other programs.

via Forbes.

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President Trump released an FY 2019 budget today proposing deep spending reductions for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and myriad other federal programs that help older Americans, the poor, and people with disabilities.

Some $500 billion in Medicare spending reductions over ten years, most of which would affect providers and suppliers, but could potentially impact beneficiaries, too.

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