A diverse coalition of more than 30 progressive advocacy groups on Tuesday condemned the bipartisan, $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act as a “blank check” to the military-industrial complex that does nothing to restrain President Donald Trump’s reckless foreign policy. “Further inflating the Pentagon’s overstuffed coffers does not make us safer—it perpetuates a system that treats military […]
An Intercept/Youtube video showing Nunes dodging questions on Ukraine. Video-Intercept Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, claimed Sunday that he was “stalked” at a $15,000-per-plate GOP fundraiser at the luxury Lotte New York Palace Hotel in Manhattan. In reality, Nunes was approached at the GOP event Saturday by The Intercept‘s Lee Fang, who […]
“Normally the rich are moderately more subtle about rigging the system in their favor. They’re scared.” Billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week proposed handing over the federal government’s $1.5 trillion student loan portfolio to a “stand-alone government corporation,” a move observers condemned as a corrupt ploy to strip the next president of the ability to cancel […]
“We are taking on the big-money interests who have an army of lobbyists trying to defeat Medicare for All.” Documents obtained by the Washington Post Monday showed that lobbyists helped three state lawmakers draft op-eds this year attacking Medicare for All, a revelation Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted as further evidence that the healthcare industry is “terrified” of the push […]
A group of White House budget officials allied with Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney are reportedly teaming up to form a “firewall” against House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, an effort legal experts and lawmakers condemned as obstruction of Congress and further evidence that the administration is attempting to conceal evidence of […]
“The president pledged to drain the swamp, instead it appears he’s catering to the alligators.” Offering what one observer called “a crystal clear picture of how money buys influence in U.S. politics,” leaked audio obtained Tuesday by consumer watchdog group Allied Progress showed executives from some of the largest payday lenders in the U.S. boasting about how they have […]
“It was bad enough Trump and Barr were wasting resources on this. But now they are fully weaponizing DOJ for political purposes.” Raising fresh concerns that President Donald Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department for his own political and personal gain, Attorney General William Barr’s “administrative review” of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe—which […]
“The truth will keep coming out. And Trump cannot stop it.” During nearly 10 hours of testimony to House impeachment investigators behind closed doors Monday, President Donald Trump’s former top Russia adviser Fiona Hill alleged that acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, former ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, and the president’s personal lawyer […]
“This is not the first time that supporters of the president have promoted violence against the media in a video they apparently find entertaining—but it is far and away the worst.” White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham tweeted Monday that President Donald Trump “strongly condemns” the video that was reportedly played during a conference of his supporters last […]
