On Saturday, January 25, 2025, the United States Senate voted to confirm Kristi Noem as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)! Secretary Noem served as South Dakota’s Governor from January 5, 2019, to January 25, 2025, and was the first female governor of that state. 

For more information, please review the DHS News Releases, “PHOTO RELEASE: Kristi Noem Sworn in as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security“ and “US Senate Confirms Kristi Noem as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Sweeping Bi-Partisan Vote“! 

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USCIS Offices will be closed on Thursday, January 9, 2025, in Remembrance of Former President Carter who passed away on December 29, 2024! President Biden has declared Thursday as a Day of Remembrance and ordered all Federal Executive Branch offices closed!

For more detailed information, review the USCIS News Alert, “USCIS Offices Closed Jan. 9, 2025”! 

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President Biden has ordered that all Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government to be closed on Thursday, January 9th, as a National Day of Mourning for James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th president of the United States! President Carter passed away on Sunday, December 29, 2024, at the age of 100! 

For more detailed information, review the White House Presidential Actions, “Executive Order Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on January 9, 2025”!  

  
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Univision is a Spanish-language television network owned by TelevisaUnivision and they will be holding two separate Presidential townhall meetings to be broadcast in English and Spanish for the United States! Their townhalls will try to engage undecided Hispanic voters to discuss issues that are important to them, such as the economy, jobs, healthcare, immigration and foreign policy. Univision Journalist Enrique Acevedo will moderate both televised meetings! 

• Former President Donald Trump’s townhall will be in Miami, Florida and will be aired Tuesday, October 8th at 10:00 p.m. ET on Univision and ViX! 

• Vice President Kamala Harris’s townhall will be in Las Vegas, Nevada and will be aired Thursday, October10th at 10:00 p.m. ET on Univision and ViX! 

Flag Day in the United States is an unofficial federal holiday celebrated each year on June 14th! This locally celebrated holiday commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, during revolutionary times! To celebrate many citizens, fly the US flag at their residents on that day, along with many other days. 

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On Thursday January 19th, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an official notice in the Federal Register updating the annual HHS poverty guidelines for 2023! The guidelines are updated based on last calendar year’s increase in prices as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). 

For further details please review the Federal Register Notice (88 FR 3424, 1/19/23), “Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines”.

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Happy Holidays, from our family to yours!

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“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” – General Douglas MacArthur

Veterans Day 2021 – Friday, November 11, 2022 (federal holiday)

In the United States, Veterans Day is a national holiday which is observed every November 11th. This holiday is set aside to honor all who have served in the U.S. Military. This is the anniversary of the signing of the armistice, which ended the World War I.

Columbus Day is a federal holiday celebrated on the second Monday of October and remembers Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Some groups across the United States would rather it was called “Indigenous Peoples” Day! 

Columbus Day in the United States

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” – General Douglas MacArthur

Veterans Day 2021 – Thursday, November 11, 2020 (federal holiday)

In the United States, Veterans Day is a national holiday which is observed every November 11th. This holiday is set aside to honor all who have served in the U.S. Military.