
It's shameful that paid leave is stuck in limbo
CNN
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, of MomsRising.org, writes that President Biden's current Build Back Better budget reconciliation budget includes tremendous gains for families across the country, but is missing one key thing: The high-polling and urgently-needed policy of paid family/medical leave. The measure would "make possible for people to recover from from childbirth to bond with a new child, or to take care of themselves or a close loved one if a serious health crisis strikes." But she says "the fight is still on" and is calling for Congress to take action and pass it immediately.

Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











