“We expect every Republican who voted for the budget resolution to hold a town hall during recess on what parts of Medicaid and SNAP they want to cut,” said the national director of the Working Families Party. In the wake of their passage late Tuesday of a budget resolution that sets the stage for massive cuts to […]
Anchorage, AK – Tonight, Nick Begich joined his colleagues in the House of Representatives in voting for a budget resolution that slashes Medicaid funding by nearly $1 trillion—all to give tax breaks to billionaires.This budget resolution paves the way for even deeper cuts of up to $2 trillion, threatening the health care of tens of millions […]
“This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States,” said the head of the White House Correspondents’ Association. “In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.” As part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s long-running war with the news media, White House Press Secretary […]
“This vague and clearly unconstitutional memo is a grave attack on students, our profession, and knowledge itself,” said one union leader. A coalition of educators and sociologists filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the U.S. Department of Education for threatening to withhold funding from schools that don’t comply with the Trump administration’s radical revision of […]