Ariana Figueroa

“Families are getting clobbered by the cost of everyday things,” President Joe Biden told members of the National Association of Counties at a Tuesday conference, which Missoula County commissioners are attending.

Dozens of legislators from Montana, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Texas, among others, traveled to Washington to pressure the Senate to quickly pass S.1, known as the “For the People Act.”

The mayors of cities in Ohio, Montana and Arizona stressed the need for affordable housing to be included in any congressional infrastructure package during a Tuesday hearing before the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee.

One reintroduced bill that aims to keep manufactured housing communities “affordable by providing federal assistance for acquiring and preserving these communities,” through purchases by non-profits or local groups.

U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday condemned remarks by Georgia’s Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene comparing the wearing of masks and vaccination logos to the persecution and murder of Jews by Nazis during the Holocaust.

Interior Secretary Debra Haaland, the first Indigenous person to lead the agency, announced Thursday the formation of the Missing & Murdered Unit within the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services.