One of the ways Donald Trump secured the republican nomination for president, and ultimately the White House in 2016, was his opposition to other GOP contenders on Medicare, Social Security, healthcare, and the Iraq war.
While the other republicans–Jeb Bush,...
Last year, before losing the White House to Joe Biden, former president Donald Trump warned:
"If he gets in, you will have a depression the likes of which you have never seen. Your 401(k)s will go...
While the "human infrastructure" bill known as the “Build Back Better Act” will unfortunately have to wait a little longer, Saturday marked an historic day in America when House Democrats finally passed the "Infrastructure Investment...
This week we witnessed another example of how much the republican party hates democracy.
On Wednesday, Senate republicans blocked debate on S.2747, “The Freedom to Vote Act," the Senate's version of the “For the People Act”...
Democrats have a day to prove they are capable of delivering on President Joe Biden's campaign promise of "building back better."
If they fail, they risk a republican rout in next year's mid-term elections and possibly...
After decades of hearing republicans harangue about debt, deficits, and "fiscal responsibility," one would assume that when they are in the congressional majority and/or the White House, our economy would be stronger and more "fiscally...
Do you have that neighbor who bends your ear about the latest outrage he heard on Fox so-called "news"?
Maybe it's a relative who never misses Tucker Carlson's show, or believes One America News (OAN) is "balanced, unbiased"...
It's bad.
Really bad.
Some phrases climate experts are using now are “record-shattering,” “out of time,” “unprecedented,” and even “irreversible.”
Several previously optimistic about our ability to mitigate the worst of the climate emergency are now becoming more...
The clock is ticking.
There are four weeks left in the congressional calendar, which means when federal lawmakers return to Washington in September, it will be time to be gearing up for November elections.
While it's not...
Democrats hold the majority in the House of Representatives.
They hold a narrow majority in the Senate.
They have the White House.
So why are they bowing to republicans?
At a carpenters’ training center outside Pittsburgh, Pa. last month,...
In the 1930s, our 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, embarked on a bold initiative.
Lifting the nation from the Great Depression's doldrums required more than peace-meal policies that basically kept the system humming along as it...
After forty long years, Reaganomics might finally be on its last leg.
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to raise taxes on Americans making more than $400,000 a year.
Those familiar with Biden's moderate past understandably...
"This legislation represents the boldest action taken on behalf of the American people since the Great Depression."
"This is seismic legislation."
This how House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Pete Aguilar and House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal...
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1368663358627577864
Some will read the above tweet from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and only see the "T-word."
We rarely meet anyone anxious to pay taxes, even those who understand taxes are the price we pay for living in...
Former Democratic presidential candidate--now New York City mayoral candidate--Andrew Yang had a unique signature issue among last year's other presidential contenders.
He wanted to give every American $1,000 from what he called the "Freedom Dividend."
Last year Yang partnered...
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight–two qualities the Trump administration did not believe were necessary.
Days before being sworn in, Biden outlined...
Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders stated findings in a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report indicate the Democratic party has a clear shot at bypassing Senate Republican obstruction in order to raise the federal...
After Joe Biden was elected, South Dakota Sen. John Thune said:
“The one thing that concerns me that nobody seems to be talking about anymore is the massive amount of debt that we continue to rack...
Here are the words we have longed to say for four years: Donald Trump is gone.
After four dark, disconcerting years of anxiety and despondency, things are finally beginning to look brighter.
Not only is Joe Biden...
$600.
Unless things change, that's all some of us will be getting from the 5,593-page $900 billion relief package Congress passed Monday night.
It is half what the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act delivered in April,...
