Charleston Gazette-Mail, Williamson Daily News- Federal COVID-19 pandemic relief and stimulus funds boosted federal grants to states to record levels in the 2019-20 budget year, an analysis by the Pew Federal Trusts found. Read the full article.
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Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates Food Insecurity Workgroup have seen their wishlist fulfilled as Gov. Jim Justice announced the allocation of CARES Act money to many of the state's needs last week. Read the full article.
Times West Virginian - A group of state lawmakers who have been working on food insecurity are praising a $7.25 million allocation announced this week by Gov. Jim Justice. Read the full article. Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates Food Insecurity Workgroup said they are grateful Justice allocating will use CARES Act funds…
Mountain State Spotlight - After sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid for much of the pandemic, Gov. Jim Justice has at the 11th hour earmarked the last of West Virginia’s CARES Act money to food banks and emergency responders — but also to longer-term programs with few details yet announced. Read…
Resilience - There’s a jolly old soul in West Virginia who’s laughing his a** off today. Who is this laugh-master? Why it’s Old King Coal, of course; and, he just got off the phone with Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). Read the full article. On the call, West Virginia’s senior Senator told the old man he…
Colorado Sun, Colorado Springs Indy - Let me confess straight away that I have no idea why Joe Manchin decided after months of negotiations to announce — and on Fox News yet — that he was single-handedly blowing up the centerpiece of Joe Biden’s first-year agenda. Negotiations were still ongoing, and while Manchin’s objections were…
Intelligencer - On Sunday, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia offered the American public a scapegoat in the shape of a state. He could not vote for the Build Back Better Act, he said, because of the people he represents. “If I can’t go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can’t vote for…
Western Journal - Controversy and criticism continues to rain down on West Virginia’s Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin after he announced he would not be supporting the Build Back Better bill. Celebrity singer, actress and comedian Bette Midler has now added her voice to the mix. Read the full article. But instead of just criticizing Manchin, Midler…
Washington Post - As hard as it is to believe, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III reportedly blew up negotiations for the Build Back Better bill not over provisions to address climate change or tax proposals affecting wealthy Americans, but over the child tax credit that has lifted millions of children out of poverty. That makes even less…
WSAZ - West Virginia families are set to lose hundreds of dollars per month starting in January after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., decided not to support President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) legislation. Read the full article. That bill includes the expansion of the current Child Tax Credit (CTC) that sends up to $300…