Chips Update
Congress is getting ready for a bicameral negotiation with the hopes of sending Chips legislation to President Biden’s desk at some point…
Breaking Federal News
The White House plans to once again extend the moratorium on federal student loan payments through the end of August…
California
On Sunday, there was a mass shooting in downtown Sacramento leaving six people dead and 12 wounded…
Last week, a California policy committee blocked a bill seeking to mandate household firearm databases in schools and formalize an investigation process responding to credible student threats…
California legislators over the next month will debate a host of proposals aimed at protecting children from exploitation, addiction, and other internet-based risks that trickle into real life…
California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations voted last week to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, narrowly rejecting a proposal to include all Black people regardless of lineage…
California would pay farmers not to plant thousands of acres of land as part of a $2.9 billion plan announced last week aimed at letting more water flow through the state’s major rivers and streams to help restore the unique habitat in one of North America’s largest estuaries…
Coronavirus
Senate negotiators struck a deal on $10 billion in COVID-19 aid yesterday, 4/5, setting the chamber on a potential course to clear the bill this week…
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has introduced a Quarantine and Isolation Calculator to help people exposed to or diagnosed with COVID-19 determine how long to quarantine or isolate…
The federal government released a new website, which provides a one-stop access to community risk levels, treatments, testing and vaccines…
The CDC weighed in on vaccine effectiveness of different matchups following a primary Johnson & Johnson vaccine…
A new Israeli study shows that senior citizens who received a second booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination had a 78 percent lower mortality rate from the disease than those who got one only…
Adult COVID-19 patients also infected with the flu are four times more likely to require mechanical ventilation and 2.4 times more likely to die than if they had COVID-19 alone, finds a U.K. study published late last week in The Lancet…
President Biden received his second COVID-19 booster shot last week, moments after delivering a speech on the state of the pandemic at the White House…