‘Don't hesitate to ask for anything,’ President Joe Biden said as he toured through the battered remains of two Kentucky cities to get a first-hand view of the destruction wrought by one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in recent U.S. history https://t.co/F70Xzjjl42 pic.twitter.com/tLwIibqIbD
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 16, 2021
Americans spent more than $4.1T on health care in 2020 — a near 10% increase from 2019 — in a spending surge that was due almost entirely to the influx of federal funding that went toward stabilizing the health care system during the pandemic.https://t.co/4ncJjnVKco
— Axios (@axios) December 15, 2021
SCOOP: The Biden administration is ending the practice of holding undocumented migrant families in detention centers, turning to remote tracking technology as alternatives.
As of Friday, the U.S. had zero migrant families in detention facilities.https://t.co/DwmaVWQhAo
— Axios (@axios) December 16, 2021
DHS has increasingly relied on alternatives to detention — such as ankle bracelets & traceable cellphones — to keep track of migrants who illegally cross the border & are then released into the US
On Mon. there were nearly 150k migrants in such programshttps://t.co/NxkvocgtEc
— Stef Kight (@StefWKight) December 16, 2021
And then there’s two Senators who do *not* make me proud to be a Democrat…
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