Minnesotans’ generosity on this year’s Give to the Max Day surpassed the previous record by almost $3 million. It’s a pleasant surprise for Give MN’s executive director Jake Blumberg, who said he had concerns given the current divisive economic climate. “I think we all know right now that prices have been high at checkout lanes throughout our lives and nonprofits have been experiencing the same thing,” Blumberg said. “ And it seems to us that donors really recognized that and wanted to step up to help the organizations that help their neighbors.” ADVERTISEMENT In 2020, Give MN saw the state break $30 million in donations, and it’s been consistently increasing since then. Blumberg said this shows Minnesotans care deeply about one another and Give to the Max gives them a chance to find common ground. This year saw more donations than years before and in higher amounts. The average donation went from $117 over the last few years to $134. “Will that trend continue? We sure hope it does, because the need for support from donors is going to continue to be at historic levels,” he said. “We know the need has only grown since 2020 and it’s certainly anticipated to continue growing. So hopefully donors continue to meet that challenge.” Nationally, donation trends have plateaued, but Blumberg says Minnesota has been an outlier since the pandemic. “There have been multiple years now where other giving events, like Give to the Max Day and other giving trends around individual donors have showed declines, and Minnesota has bucked those national trends, and this is one of those years,” Blumberg said. Blumberg said people give based on their values. Compared to previous years, more contributions were made to organizations that prioritized direct and social services, in addition to hunger relief organizations and those supporting unsheltered people and animals.King and PM honour former US president Jimmy Carter after his death aged 100
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President-elect Donald Trump criticized former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for previously pushing to extend the debt ceiling until January 2025, adding that it was “one of the dumbest political decisions made in years.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump stated that there had been “no reason” to extend the debt ceiling, adding that “nothing was gained.” Trump’s post comes after President Joe Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act in June 2023, according to the New York Times . The outlet noted that “House Republicans,” led by McCarthy at the time, “had demanded deep spending cuts in Mr. Biden’s priorities in exchange for agreeing to raise the debt ceiling”: House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, had demanded deep spending cuts in Mr. Biden’s priorities in exchange for agreeing to raise the debt ceiling. The president initially balked at negotiating, insisting that Republicans raise the debt ceiling without conditions, as members of both parties had done in the past. WATCH — HISTORIC: House Votes to Remove Kevin McCarthy from Speakership: Trump added that it was Biden’s “problem” and not the Republicans. “Now it becomes ours,” Trump added. “I call it ‘1929’ because the Democrats don’t care what our Country may be forced into. In fact, they would prefer ‘Depression’ as long as it hurt the Republican Party. The Democrats must be forced to take a vote on this treacherous issue NOW, during the Biden Administration, and not in June. They should be blamed for this potential disaster, not the Republicans!” As Breitbart News previously reported , under the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the debt limit was increased “through January 2025 while implementing Republicans’ desired spending caps and other provisions.” United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned in May 2023 that the government could run out of funds by June 5, 2023, if the White House and Congress did not reach an “agreement to raise or suspend” the debt limit by that date.
