Tesla said Monday it is granting CEO Elon Musk about $29 billion worth of shares as an interim payment, while his existing pay package remains tied up in court. In a letter to shareholders, Tesla chair Robyn Denholm and board member Kathleen Wilson-Thompson said the electric vehicle maker is offering 96 million shares to Musk…
Texas Democrats who fled the state over GOP efforts to redraw congressional maps are scheduled to answer reporters’ questions with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Monday. The Texas Democrats said they were denying Republicans a quorum, or the minimum number of lawmakers needed present in order to conduct legislative business, following a similar tactic they…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s top adviser urged the United States to “strangle” the Russian economy with secondary sanctions, as President Trump’s deadline for the Kremlin to stop fighting or make a deal quickly approaches. Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelensky’s office, said on Sunday that Russia’s economy is struggling, pointing to data showing a sharp…
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) criticized President Trump on Sunday for firing his commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), saying the president was acting like a “petulant child.” The president’s longtime ally-turned-foe said he’s not surprised the president responded to the poor jobs data on Friday by blaming the messenger. “When…
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Have congressional Republicans forgotten the political pain they suffered when President George W. Bush tried to privatize Social Security in 2005?
President Trump told reporters Sunday he plans to announce a new commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the next three or four days after he fired the previous BLS leader in the wake of a jobs report that found the labor market stalling. “We’ll be announcing a new statistician sometime over the next…
Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to remove from office the Texas House Democrats who fled the state if they don’t show up for work. Many Texas Democrats left on Sunday to keep the state House from recording a quorum in its Monday legislative session, preventing the chamber from doing business. The Democrats fanned out across…
Rep. Nancy Mace (R) launched her run for South Carolina governor early Monday, joining a crowded Republican primary field to succeed Gov. Henry McMaster (R-S.C.). Mace made her official announcement at her alma mater, The Citadel, a senior military college, on Monday. The congresswoman was the first woman to graduate from the college in 1999. …
