Jake Schuller

PA Politics: Student Assembly to Replace Members of PA House of Representatives 0
- April Fools' Edition
- March 31, 2025
In an unprecedented political shakeup, Pennsylvania’s state House of Representatives has been completely replaced by Elizabethtown College’s own Student Assembly. The mix-up that experts are calling the most baffling bureaucratic error in the state’s history has left state officials and observers scrambling to determine whether the transition is legally binding. According to sources within the
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PA Politics: PA to Hire Federal Workers Fired by Trump 0
- News
- March 17, 2025
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Wednesday, March 5 to streamline the process for Pennsylvania’s government agencies to hire recently-fired federal employees amid the Trump Administration’s purge of the federal labor force. Signed during an appearance at the second annual Commonwealth Job Fair in Harrisburg, Executive Order 2025-01 is designed “to
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PA Politics: Gov. Shapiro’s Lawsuit and the Trump Cabinet 0
- News
- February 24, 2025
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, issued a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday, Feb. 13 over its freeze of federal funding, saying that it has “jeopardized at least $5.5 billion that has been committed to Pennsylvania.” The lawsuit said actions by the Trump administration were in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, a
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PA Politics: Federal Funding Fiasco and the “Lightning Plan”0
- News
- February 10, 2025
The Trump administration rescinded a memo freezing federal loans and grants on Wednesday, Jan. 29, after causing widespread confusion and facing a series of legal challenges. The memorandum, issued on Monday by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), required all Federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all
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