President Joe Biden’s missteps have given Republicans reason to be optimistic about taking back the House in 2022.
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Today in a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, we expressed our great concern about the growing evidence that there is a concerted, blatant, and intentional effort ongoing in a number of states to suppress the votes of Native American people living o…
China poses the single greatest security challenge to the United States and our democratic allies, but President Joe Biden too often embraces half measures inadequate to the economic, diplomatic and military competition. All that plays too well into Beijing’s hand.
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The President Joe Biden has big plans to create jobs and raise wages by spending more on infrastructure and industrial policies and to improve conditions for ordinary folks by funding pre-K education, free community colleges and child allowances with higher taxes on corporations and on the i…
Financing President Joe Biden’s agenda will require substantial tax increases for corporations and wealthier Americans. In a tightly divided Congress, tinkering with the terribly complex tax code is even more difficult and would create unintended consequences. For example, it could encourage…
President Joe Biden offers himself as champion of the working class and minorities, but his policies will leave more jobless and enable Donald Trump or another populist from the right to win in 2024.
In a crisis, oversize federal deficits and printing money are necessary evils—as long as those are temporary.
America needs immigrants to make its economy run but also needs systemic reforms to address the number and composition of new arrivals. Unfortunately, President Joe Biden’s recent executive orders and proposed legislation don’t get to the root of those problems.
Bouncing back from a recession, the U.S. economy will grow 6.6% in 2021, Goldman Sachs projects. After that things get tougher for President Joe Biden, and he will be hard pressed to match President Donald Trump’s record on inequality.
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Committees in the South Dakota House and Senate approved different legislative district maps on Monday, showing a schism among Republicans who lead each chamber over how to draw the political boundaries the state will use for the next decade.
Committees in the South Dakota House and Senate approved different legislative district maps on Monday, showing a schism among Republicans who lead each chamber over how to draw the political boundaries the state will use for the next decade.
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A Pennington County judge dismissed one count of aiding and abetting for first-degree murder for four defendants charged with killing a co-conspirator.
A former law enforcement officer with the Box Elder Police Department admitted to repeatedly sexually assaulting a victim under the age of 18, according to a signed statement of facts.
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A non-profit organization has filed a lawsuit against the South Dakota National Guard and United States Army alleging Freedom of Information Act violations.