Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Impeached, Transit Searches for Ways to Replace Billions in Federal Emergency Money

In its second vote attempt in exactly a week, the U.S. House on Tuesday night impeached Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who becomes the first sitting cabinet member to be impeached in U.S. history. The executive director of the Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council says the overall revenue picture for the state is “pretty good," but the elephants in the room as Dave Reich began his revenue forecast presentation Wednesday morning were the state Department of Revenue's Tuesday announcement that it had made a series of errors in tallying the state's new capital gains tax and the recent departure of a billionaire to live in another state. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testified Thursday that she did nothing improper with a man she hired to prosecute former President Donald Trump. The fiscal cliff that public transit has been warning about has arrived, and now state and local governments are starting to find ways to replace that revenue. Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of a school shooter who killed his classmates in November 2021 at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a jury. And the latest inflation numbers were released this week. Read more: Mayorkas is first sitting cabinet member to be impeached in U.S. history Jeff Bezos' move to Miami looms large at WA revenue forecast presentation Combative Willis takes stand in disqualification hearing Transit searches for ways to replace billions in federal emergency money Conviction of Oxford shooter's mother is a legal first for accountability

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