Anonymous ID: 72bff5 March 11, 2023, 12:35 p.m. No.18487013   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7075 >>7084 >>7184 >>7252 >>7356 >>7453

Iran International English @IranIntl_En

 

ICYMI: As part of the Chinese-brokered deal with Saudi Arabia, Iran's regime has pledged to halt attacks against its Arab archrival, including from Houthi rebels it backs in the Yemen civil war, Saudi, Iranian and US officials told @WSJ.

 

10:55 AM · Mar 11, 2023

·https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En/status/1634583746258116610

Anonymous ID: 72bff5 March 11, 2023, 12:49 p.m. No.18487123   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7184 >>7252 >>7356 >>7453

EFFORT TO STOP NONCITIZEN VOTING IN VERMONT

Thursday, March 9, 2023

 

WASHINGTON, DC – RITE is supporting two concerned citizens in Winooski, Vermont, in a constitutional challenge to a local law that allows noncitizens to vote in local elections that have financial implications for taxpayers statewide, including those for school board and for approval of state-funded education budgets.

 

“The Vermont Constitution draws a clear line that noncitizens are ineligible to vote in elections with statewide implications, which include questions about state-funded programs like public school education,” said Derek Lyons, the CEO and President of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections. “Protecting the rule of law is at the core of RITE’s mission, and that includes ensuring the franchise is not unlawfully extended to noncitizens. Americans broadly understand that noncitizen voting is a threat to our democracy. This principle is enshrined in Vermont’s constitution, which prohibits noncitizen voting in local elections from imposing burdens on citizens living in the rest of the state.”

 

In 2021, the Vermont legislature approved local charters adopted by Montpelier and Winooski that allowed for noncitizens to vote in local elections. On Tuesday, March 7, Burlington voters approved a measure that would allow noncitizen voting in the city’s elections. That measure must still be approved by the Vermont legislature before taking effect.

 

RITE was co-founded in 2022 by National Finance Chairman Steve Wynn, Senior Advisor Karl Rove. It is a 501(c)(4)

Lawsuit linked at site:

https://riteusa.org/rite-backs-effort-to-stop-noncitizen-voting-in-vermont/

Anonymous ID: 72bff5 March 11, 2023, 12:52 p.m. No.18487138   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7184 >>7252 >>7356 >>7453

AP Asks a Question

 

Will it take market crash for Congress to raise debt limit?

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s one way to force President Joe Biden and Congress to solve the looming crisis over the debt limit: a financial market crash.

 

That’s a view held by several economists and a former White House official, mindful that Congress rarely acts unless an emergency forces lawmakers to.

 

“For that drama not ending in tragedy, key actors have to play their roles,” said Daleep Singh, who was Biden’s national security adviser for international economics and deputy director of the National Economic Council. “Market participants have a lead role of playing the victim. They have to produce pain. They have to produce a sea of red on their Bloomberg screens because politicians need to look at those screens.”

 

Republicans and Democrats have been dancing around each other about the need to raise the government’s legal borrowing authority. Biden tried to edge closer on Thursday by releasing his budget plan that cuts deficits by $2.9 trillion over 10 years, an offer that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, quickly dismissed as woefully insufficient. Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus on Friday proposed their own demands, which the White House quickly rejected.

 

This fandango could persist for several more months until the last possible moment, when the federal government would hit a currently unknown “X-date” — possibly as early as June — and be unable to pay its bills, possibly setting off a default that would suddenly wash away millions of jobs.

 

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https://apnews.com/article/debt-limit-financial-market-crash-biden-mccarthy-d3457c2b464e826bb7672f7f8a2707fd