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After years of failed attempts to bolster struggling multi-employer pension funds, help finally may be coming through via the Democrats' $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill. The measure allocates an estimated $86 billion to ensure that pension plans in critical or declining conditions can continue to pay full pension benefits to an estimated 1.3 million retired truckers, construction workers, and others.
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 now headed to the Senate includes provisions of the Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 2021, one of several attempts by Congress since 2013 to rescue multi-employer pension plans in danger of going under. With a number of plans facing insolvency in the next few years, the plan allows the government's pension insurance agency, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., to make lump-sum payments that will allow failing plans to continue paying full benefits to retirees through 2051.
'White nationalist' GOP lawmaker is a ‘scourge’ on Congress and should be expelled: Ex-RNC official
Rep. Paul Gosar's racism and conspiracy-mongering has slipped under the radar during his decade in Congress, but one prominent Republican says it's time for him to go.
The Arizona Republican remains best known for a blistering ad his siblings recorded for his 2018 opponent, but his involvement in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection and his speech last week at a white nationalist gathering should get him expelled from the House or Representatives, wrote conservative Tim Miller for The Bulwark.
Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield attacked President Joe Biden's religion on Friday and argued that he wasn't a real believer in the Catholic faith.
During a Friday segment, Stinchfield promoted the latest issue of Newsmax's magazine, whose cover story alleges Biden is waging "a new war on Christianity."
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