SBA Administrator Guzman Announces Application Opening for $28.6 Billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund

SBA Administrator Guzman Announces Application Opening for $28.6 Billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund

Washington, DC…SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman today announced the U.S. Small Business Administration will begin registrations on Friday, April 30, 2021, at 9 a.m. EDT and open applications on Monday, May 3, 2021, at noon EDT for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. The online application will remain open to any eligible establishment until all funds are exhausted. “Restaurants are the core of our neighborhoods […]

Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber Announces Threshold Met to Trigger Newsom Recall

Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber Announces Threshold Met to Trigger Newsom Recall

Sacramento, CA…California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber has announced that the threshold of verified signatures reported by counties has been met for the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom. The valid signatures in the 10th report are 1,626,042, which exceeds the total of 1,495,709 signatures required. Counties still have until April 29th to verify the […]

Secretary of State Announced Today, Sufficient Signatures Submitted to Qualify for Special Election to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom

Secretary of State Announced Today, Sufficient Signatures Submitted to Qualify for Special Election to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom

Sacramento, CA…Today the Secretary of State announced they received 2,162,774 signatures in the recall campaign against Gov. Newsom. Of those, 1,626,042 have been certified as valid moving the effort into the next phase.  The final verification is due April 29.  What was once dismissed as a long shot has become a historic campaign to remove […]

Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup Recommends Resuming Use of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup Recommends Resuming Use of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

Sacramento, CA…The Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup today completed its review of the federal process and has concluded that use of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen Biotech) COVID-19 vaccine should resume in the western states. The Workgroup provided its confirmation to the Governors of California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington this afternoon. On Friday, the U.S. Food […]

Governor Newsom Swears in Rob Bonta as Attorney General of California

Governor Newsom Swears in Rob Bonta as Attorney General of California

Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom swore in Assemblymember Rob Bonta as California’s 34th Attorney General on April 23rd. A national leader in the fight to reform our justice system and stand up to the forces of hate, Bonta is the first Filipino American in the state’s history to serve in the role. “California and the nation […]

2020 Census Results of 331,449,281 Delivered to the President

2020 Census Results of 331,449,281 Delivered to the President

Washington, DC…The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the 2020 Census shows the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2020, was 331,449,281.  The U.S. resident population represents the total number of people living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The resident population increased by 22,703,743 or 7.4% from 308,745,538 […]

NASA to Air Live Coverage of SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts’ Return to Earth

NASA to Air Live Coverage of SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts’ Return to Earth

Huston, TX…NASA will provide live coverage of the upcoming return activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from the International Space Station. Clockwise from bottom right are Expedition 64 Flight Engineers and SpaceX Crew-1 members Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi. Credits: […]

President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day

President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day

Washington, DC…Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half […]

SBA Launches Supplemental Targeted Advance for Small Businesses Hardest Hit by COVID-19

SBA Launches Supplemental Targeted Advance for Small Businesses Hardest Hit by COVID-19

Washington, DC…The U.S. Small Business Administration launched a new round of Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) assistance – called Supplemental Targeted Advances – on April 22, 2021 that will provide $5 billion in additional assistance to 1 million small businesses and nonprofit organizations that have been most severely affected by the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Supplemental […]

Secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland

Secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland

Washington, DC…Hi, everyone. Happy Friday. We have another very exciting guest today: our new Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, who made history when she became the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet Secretary. She is the member — she is a member of the Pueblo of Laguna and a 35th-generation New Mexican. […]