politics

Maryland property tax assessment error could cost $250M

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Maryland lawmakers are looking at a legislative solution to address a missed mailing deadline for property tax assessments, a mistake that affected about 107,000 notices and could cost local governments roughly $250 million over three years if nothing is done, a state official said Thursday. Maryland reassesses the value of one-third of all property in … Read more

Schumer visits Ukraine, says he will ‘make clear’ to House Speaker Johnson ‘what is at stake’

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Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and four of his Democrat colleagues arrived in Ukraine Friday morning to meet the country’s military leaders and President Volodomyr Zelenskyy, assuring U.S. support as billions of federal aid dollars remain in limbo. Schumer’s visit to Ukraine — the country that will mark two years since Russia’s invasion on … Read more

Virginia House, Senate and Gov. Youngkin to spar over state budget

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The Democratic-controlled Virginia Senate and House of Delegates on Thursday each passed their own proposed version of the next two-year state budget, documents lawmakers will start to work from to fashion a compromise spending plan to send to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Both chambers signed off on amendments to the 2024-2026 budget Youngkin first proposed … Read more

Kentucky House votes to change child labor laws, food stamp recipient requirements

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Republican-backed measures to relax child labor rules and tighten food stamp eligibility standards won passage Thursday in the Kentucky House over impassioned objections from Democrats. In back-to-back votes, both bills advanced to the GOP-dominated Senate after long debates in the House, where Republicans also have a supermajority. Democratic lawmakers branded the proposals as harsh for … Read more

Federal judge torches Biden admin for ‘colluding’ with activist group on asylum rule: ‘Frenemies’

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Critics of GA religious rights protection bill say it would be used for discrimination

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Georgia lawmakers are revisiting a nearly decade-old fight over whether the state needs to protect religious rights from being trampled by state and local governments in a measure opponents say would provide a legal shield for people and groups to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in the name of religion. That religious protection bill resurfaced Thursday … Read more