#What small businesses want to hear from the GOP debaters

#What small businesses want to hear from the GOP debaters

There’s no shortage of issues to address at Wednesday’s Republican presidential primary debate. These include Donald Trump’s absence, Department of Justice corruption, the Russia-Ukraine War and the latest in the culture wars. Small businesses hope these newsy topics don’t overwhelm discussion of pocketbook issues that have a far bigger impact on Americans’ day-to-day lives. Ordinary…

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#Musk plans to strip headlines from news articles on X

#Musk plans to strip headlines from news articles on X

Billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of X, a social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has shared plans to strip headlines and other text from posts that display a news article’s lead image. The change, first reported Monday by Fortune, would mean that users — from individuals to publishers — would have to manually add…

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#Why are Congress’s budget experts failing to address the rise of climate-related health care spending?

#Why are Congress’s budget experts failing to address the rise of climate-related health care spending?

Beyond its role of scoring the budgetary and economic effects of proposed legislation, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) independently publishes reports and working papers addressing more than two dozen topics intended, in part, to enhance the office’s transparency and encourage external review and comment. Under the topic of “climate and the environment,” the CBO has…

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#Christie on report of Trump skipping debate: ‘Certified loser, verified coward’

#Christie on report of Trump skipping debate: ‘Certified loser, verified coward’

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie called former President Trump a “certified loser, verified coward,” following a Friday report that the 2024 GOP front-runner plans to skip next week’s first primary debate.  “Surprise, surprise…the guy who is out on bail from four jurisdictions and can’t defend his reprehensible conduct, is running scared and hiding from the debate stage,”…

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#Manchin walks an Inflation Reduction Act tightrope

#Manchin walks an Inflation Reduction Act tightrope

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is walking a tightrope on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). While most Democrats tout it as a signature accomplishment for President Biden, Manchin is weighing his political future in a ruby-red state Biden lost by more than 40 points. That’s left him with a love-hate relationship with the bill he helped…

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