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The Senate yesterday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. As Republicans and Democrats have failed to find compromise, senators voted on two partisan bills instead that they knew would fail — the Democratic bill to extend the subsidies, and a
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“Let’s avert a disaster,” Schumer said. “The American people are watching.” Republicans and Democrats never Republican alternative that would have Ahead of the votes, Senate Demo- engaged in meaningful or high-levcreated new health savings accounts. cratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New el negotiations on a solution, even It was an unceremonious end to a York warned Republicans that if they after a small group of centrist Demomonthslong effort by Democrats to pre- did not vote to extend the tax credits, crats struck a deal with Republicans vent the COVID-19-era subsidies from “there won’t be another chance to act,” last month to end the shutdown in exexpiring on Jan. 1, including a 43-day before premiums rise for many people change for a vote. Most Democratic government shutdown that they forced who buy insurance off the ACA mar- lawmakers opposed the move as many [See REJECTS, page 30] over the issue. ketplaces.
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DUI CHECKPOINT: The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office will set up a checkpoint tonight in San Carlos along San Carlos Avenue tonight. The checkpoint will begin at 6 p.m. and end at 2 a.m. tomorrow morning. INDIANA WON’T REDISTRICT: In a resounding rejection of a pressure campaign from the White House, Indiana Republican Senators voted down a new congressional map created to give the GOP an advantage in the upcoming 2026 election. Twenty-one Senators from the Republican supermajority and the chamber’s 10 Democrats voted against the map yesterday, which would have split the city of Indianapolis into four districts. NO NEW INDICTMENT: A grand jury has declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James. James was initially charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a home purchase in 2020. WRESTLING WITH RUSSIA: Ukrainian President Volodymyr [See THE UPDATE, page 8]
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VOLUNTEERS plant native plants on top of the new levee in Palo Alto. Bay City News photo.
Construction is complete on the first experimental levee along the San Francisco Bay shoreline that will clean treated wastewater and discharge it into the Bay. Now, all that’s needed is for the levee to be plugged in to the source of treated water. On Wednesday, officials invited press to visit the Palo Alto Horizontal Levee Pilot Project, which sits between the Regional Water Quality Control Plan and the upland marshes of the Baylands in the lower south of San Francisco Bay. What’s experimental is the way the levee is engineered. The top layer is a thick, loamy clay soil covered in native plants. Treated effluent, or cleaned wastewater [See LEVEE, page 31]
Dealership told police aboutWhyscam do we advance of Menlo Park, is charged with 19 beginning of the year, but was $200,000? felonies, but will possibly be more released from jail on her recogA Fremont dealership alerted as other victims have reported to nizance on Dec. 3. Velasquez police that a woman was falsely police that they were also being would list cars she rented from selling rented cars to East Palo scammed by her, District Attorney a Fremont dealership online and try to sell them to East Palo Alto Alto residents, a prosecutor said Steve Wagstaffe said. Velasquez was arrested Nov. residents, Wagstaffe said. Interyesterday. [See SCAM, page 30] VELASQUEZ Leslie Lucrecia Velasquez, 34, 26 for scams she pulled since the BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
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