“Trump again says the quiet part out loud—America entered the Iran war to support a genocidal ethno-state and brutal absolute autocracies, all of whom are his political and commercial financiers.” During his campaign for reelection, one of President Donald Trump’s central pitches was that the US needed to stay out of foreign wars in […]
“Withholding reimbursements only further hurts patients, strains providers, and drives up costs,” said one Democratic congresswoman. “We will fight this with everything we’ve got.”\ Political retribution, plain and simple,” was how US Sen. Alex Padilla described an announcement by Vice President JD Vance late Wednesday regarding the White House’s decision to withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursement payments to California. […]
“It is outrageous that, while the billionaire class has never had it so good, one in five children will go hungry in America this year,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. As federal food aid cuts enacted by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans wreak havoc across the US, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday led the reintroduction of legislation that would […]
Sen. Jeff Merkley called the project “nothing more than a massive giveaway to defense contractors paid for entirely by working Americans.” The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday released a report estimating that President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense system would cost $1.2 trillion to create, deploy, and operate over the first 20 years of its existence. […]