“Great optics if you want to ignite a revolution,” remarked one observer. Dozens of peaceful protesters including people in wheelchairs were arrested inside a U.S. Senate building in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday while protesting Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid spending in the budget reconciliation package facing votes on Capitol Hill in the coming days. The […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Representative Mark Messmer (R-Ind.)— members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees—hosted a press conference today with their colleagues announcing the introduction of their legislation, the Ground and Orbital Launched Defeat of Emergent Nuclear Destruction and Other Missile Engagements (GOLDEN DOME) Act. The GOLDEN DOME […]
“The roadless rule is the most effective conservation rule on the books at protecting mature and old-growth forests,” said one environmental campaigner. A top Trump official on Monday announced a plan to end a rule that protects tens of millions of acres in the National Forest System and which would clear the way for road […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin described the incident as “the most recent in a string of increasingly flagrant abuses of power by the Trump Administration to deter congressional oversight and intimidate Members of Congress.” A top House Democrat is launching a probe into the FBI’s forcible removal of Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) from a public press conference […]