March 19, 2024

Amazon workers upset over layoffs, return-to-office mandate plan walkout

A group of Amazon workers who are upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact is planning a walkout at its Seattle headquarters next week. The lunchtime protest is planned for May 31, a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting and a month after a policy took effect requiring workers to […]

Pentagon ‘Not Currently Pursuing’ Back Pay for Troops Discharged over Vaccine Mandate

The Pentagon said Tuesday it is not pursuing back pay for service members who were discharged from the military for not complying with the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for the military. “Right now, we are not currently pursuing back-pay to service members who were dismissed for refusing to take the COVID vaccination,” Pentagon Press Secretary

Minnesota bill would mandate paid sick leave from almost all employers

Nearly all Minnesota workers would be entitled to paid sick leave under a plan moving through the Legislature that’s aimed at the roughly one-third whose employers don’t already give them time off when they’re ill. Employees would be guaranteed one hour of paid “earned sick and safe time” for every 30 hours worked, up to […]

Exclusive: 21 Republican Governors Oppose Joe Biden’s Military Vaccine Mandate

Jon Cherry/Getty Images Twenty-one Republican governors, led by Gov. Bill Lee (TN), sent a letter on Wednesday to the leaders of Congress objecting to the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate on U.S. service members and calling on the Congress to overturn it. “We ask you to take immediate action to remove and prohibit the Biden

House Votes to Repeal Military Covid Mandate; Biden FURIOUS

Courtney Hale/iStock/Getty Images Plus Congressional Republicans have dealt a blow to the Biden agenda with language included in a recently passed defense bill that repeals the White House’s military vaccine mandate. Passed on a 350-80 bipartisan basis in the House, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizes spending for the Defense Department for the next […]

CT Gov. Lamont: We’d Like to Keep Indoor Mask Mandate ‘for Another Month or Two’

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said his state has practically ended all of its coronavirus restrictions, except for the indoor mask mandate, which he stated he’d like to keep “for another month or two.” Lamont said, “We virtually ended all restrictions except for…

Biden Family Violates Mask Mandate for Photo Op at Lincoln Memorial

President Joe Biden, along with first lady Jill Biden, joined members of their family at the Lincoln Memorial on the night of Inauguration Day, where they took a photo as a group with masks, and one without. While Biden’s official inauguration at the United States Capitol was scaled back due to COVID-19 restrictions, members of…

Exclusive — Ohio Senate Candidate Josh Mandel Presses Governor DeWine to End Mask Mandate, Reopen Ohio Entirely

Former Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate next year, told Breitbart News exclusively he is calling on Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to cut the nonsense, end his state’s mask mandate, and reopen Ohio entirely right now. What’s more, Breitbart News can also exclusively reveal a lengthy statement from DeWine’s office…

Joe Biden Claims ‘Mandate’ But Stops Short of Declaring Victory

Joe Biden appeared late Friday evening and claimed he received a “mandate” from American voters, but he stopped short of declaring victory. “We don’t have a final declaration of victory yet,” he said, and argued the numbers tell “a clear and convincing story: We’re going to win this race.” Biden touted his new-found leads in…

Republicans Move To Scrap Obamacare Individual Mandate In Tax Reform Bill

The Republican Senate is now moving to include repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate in their tax reform bill. That move is largely designed to quell conservative complaints about the Senate bill, which is weaker than the House version of the same bill: it delays corporate tax cuts, and retains the estate tax; pass-through businesses […]

More Winning: Latest Senate Tax Bill Raises Child Tax Credit, Ends Obamacare Individual Mandate.

The Senate Finance Committee released its updated tax bill late Tuesday night, and there’s a lot to cheer populist conservatives. The new bill raises the child tax credit to $2000, twice the current credit of $1000 per child. The earlier version of the Senate bill raised it to $1,650. A higher child tax credit is one […]

Trump Administration Rescinds Obamacare’s HHS Contraceptive Mandate

President Donald Trump has followed through with his promise to Americans who object to the Obamacare contraceptive mandate for religious or moral reasons by officially ending the Obama-era rule. As expected, the Trump administration announced the end of the controversial mandate that has required employers to provide free contraception, sterilization procedures, and abortion-inducing drugs to their […]

UN Security Council and Obama Revive Palestine Mandate Solution

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 passed on 23 December 2016 has buried any lingering hopes for the creation of a second Arab State in former Palestine in addition to Jordan (”the two-state solution”). America’s decision to not veto Resolution 2334 – taken in the dying days of President Obama’s eight years term of office […]

States Sue Obama Administration Over Mandate Forcing Doctors to Perform Sex Change Operations

Five states and organizations representing over 17,000 physicians are suing the Obama administration over new Obamacare regulations requiring doctors to ignore their medical expertise and religious convictions and perform gender transition services and procedures. Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Texas and Wisconsin, along with doctors and hospitals affiliated with the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, Franciscan Alliance […]

A Mandate for Liberty, a Rejection of Subservience: What Brexit Means

Yesterday, Britain was offered a choice between fear and freedom. It chose freedom. Decisively. As I write, shortly after 6:00 a.m. London time, the tally is not quite complete, but it is already clear that Brexit won by more than one million votes. The projected margin, with only a handful of localities yet to count, is […]

Why the Little Sisters of the Poor Believe Obamacare Mandate Violates Their Religious Liberty

The Little Sisters of the Poor is a group of Catholic nuns who typically lead a quiet, dignified existence caring for the elderly poor. In the last few years, that quiet existence has been troubled by the constant court battles the group has been fighting over the Affordable Care Act’s so-called “contraceptive mandate,” which requires […]

CBO: Repealing Obamacare mandate would save taxpayers $305B

Congressional budget minders say repealing Obamacare’s “individual mandate” would save taxpayers more than $305 billion and increase the number of uninsured Americans by 14 million over the next decade. The mandate requires people to obtain adequate health insurance or pay a tax penalty, unless they qualify for a financial exemption or other carve-outs spelled out […]

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