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...
Trump Threatens Government Shutdown If He Doesn’t Get Money To Build His Idiotic Wall (VIDEO)
Sarah Campbell
Federal agencies are preparing for a partial government shutdown after President Donald Trump indicated he wouldn't accept a budget without money for his stupid Mexican wall. This week marks the end of the federal financial...
Well, it happened.
Early Saturday morning, Senate Republicans narrowly passed the most sweeping tax reform bill in three decades.
President Donald Trump is now steps away from his first legislative victory.
In the 51-49 vote requiring frenetic last-minute revision, Republicans...
We here in real America should be growing accustomed to wearing masks in public, avoiding crowds, social distancing, and rubbing our hands raw with prodigious amounts of hand sanitizer.
We here in real America have to...
Amid the glaring problems with the Republicans' rewrite of our tax code, there is another issue that should concern us--time.
Is there enough of it to allow America to adjust to the changes since several provisions in...
Trump’s Budget Coupled With Trumpcare Is A Clear And Present Danger To Millions Of Americans (TWEETS)
Sarah Brydie
The GOP’s plan for replacing Obamacare was recently released and we learned that 24 million Americans will lose their coverage under this new plan. It has received scathing reviews from both sides of the isle...
The White House and Congress have come to a budget agreement but the GOP is criticizing it as capitulation to the Democrats.
The deal, which will add about $80 billion to the budget, split equally between defense...
As the senior senator of one of the several states hit hardest by the heroin epidemic, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) knows the harsh realities addiction to this drug brings. Rather than fighting the problem with the...
Protectionist trade policies aren't just good for American jobs.
They're good for national security.
As tensions heat up between the United States and China over Taiwanese independence, it's time re-evaluate who supplies us with the goods on...
The end of 2017, Donald Trump signed into law the Republican “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.”
Basically, it is a tax bill that hands $1.5 trillion in permanent tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy like Trump and his ilk.
It...
Republicans are all set to cut a lot of taxes.
Just not yours.
Today President Donald Trump enacted the most drastic changes to the American tax code in three decades.
Last night the Republican Senate took the final...
Everyone knew that President Donald Trump was going to present some serious challenges to the way the United States government functions. One such challenge comes from how the Secret Service handles the strange logistics of...
The recently signed $1.5 trillion Republican tax bill that hands permanent tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy like President Trump nearly failed because of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
At the end of the day, though, Rubio threw...
We don't need a financial advisor to know how wrong this is. The recently passed GOP Federal Budget?slashes?every social program from pre-school to senior safety nets.?Democrats responded by accurately calling it ?a recipe for national...
The proposed budget deal between the House, represented by Paul Ryan, and the Senate, represented by Patty Murray, once again proves that Democrats will, without fail, protect and preserve the prominence and power of the...
Congress has passed a spending bill this month has the potential to continue America’s path toward a sustainable energy future!
The bill extends tax credits for the development of renewable energy. These credits will make it...
Senator Bernie Sanders took one look at the latest budget proposal from Congressional Republicans and immediately said what needed to be said by every Democrat in the country: The GOP will not be happy until...
If there is anything the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic fiasco has exposed, it's our societal inequities.
When it comes to public health, the most obvious inequity lies in the reality that we spend the most money on healthcare--20%...
With a likely permanent downgrade in Americans' quality of life just around the corner, all eyes and ears are focused on the debt ceiling/default showdown.
The weekend kicked off last Thursday with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew...
The latest in Chris Christie news.?What terrible timing for Chris Christie's op-ed to run in The Wall Street Journal.
Chris Christie is now looking hypocritical at best; the focus of his op-ed published in The Wall...