Weekly Update: 2/10/20

President and Administration

Today, 2/10, the President released his proposed 2021 Budget… 

On Tuesday, 2/4, President Trump delivered the 2020 State of the Union address. President Trump focused a large part of the speech on immigration and called on Congress to ban “free government health care for illegal aliens”...

On Thursday, 2/7, the Administration’s partial vaping ban took effect. The ban affects most e-cigarettes that use pre-filled pods… 

Education

In his address, President Trump called on Congress to pass a controversial tax credit scholarship that would allow states to direct billions of dollars to private and religious schools….

Congress

The Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment Wednesday, 2/5, marking the inevitable and historic end to a bitterly fought, divisive impeachment trial that will reverberate into the 2020 election and shape Trump's presidential legacy. 

On Tuesday, 2/4, the House passed a resolution officially condemning the Trump administration’s new Medicaid block grant plan...

Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a $760 billion legislative infrastructure framework and signaled her willingness to include in the infrastructure plan a bill that would create a $70 billion grant program and a $30 billion tax credit bond program for high-poverty schools….

Other

The frequency of ransomware attacks — among the scariest and most costly online assaults — has been hard to pinpoint because many victims quietly pay off their attackers without notifying the authorities….