By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG Correspondent On President Trump’s inauguration day, he signed an Executive Order called “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program.” This executive order suspends the U.S ...
President Trump’s Executive Orders that Affect the Military and the VA
By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG Correspondent After President Trump was sworn into office, he signed a series of executive orders. Two of them, Hiring Freeze and Return to In-Person Work, have made deep ripples throug ...
A Bill to Help Fight Terrorism or Kill Non-profits?
By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG Correspondent Shortly before Thanksgiving, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, which greatly concerned m ...
The Latest Veterans Bills to Close out the Congressional Session
By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG Correspondent Before Christmas, three congressional bills passed the Senate and the House and were presented to the President’s desk. They are S. 2181, the Keeping Military Families Tog ...
Trump Vows to use Military for Mass Deportation
By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG Correspondent Before winning the presidential election, former president Donald Trump had promised to enact a mass deportation plan.First, Trump stated that this could be possible with ...
Veterans Bill Passes With Interesting
By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG Correspondent On November 19th, the House of Representatives passed the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act (H.R. 8371). It did pass wit ...
A Review of Congressional Bills for Military and Veterans
By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG Correspondent This congressional session, 118th, has proven to have one of the lowest rates of passed bills in general. It also has one of the fewest passed bills for the military and v ...
Challenges to Voters’ Registration and Ballots, including Those of the Military and their Dependents
By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG CorrespondentA Review of the September 25th Episode It all started when former President Donald Trump, who is also currently running as the Republican Presidential Candidate, was interv ...
We The People
By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG CorrespondentA Review of the September 25th Episode This piece is inspired by the CNN report that found statements made by an account allegedly owned by North Carolina’s gubernatorial c ...
What’s Next?
By: Stephanie Kalota Founder, Veteran Legislative Voice & AHG Correspondent Now that both primary political parties have completed their conventions, what is next for American politics? For our presidential candidates, it’s campaigning and debates ...