“By foolishly announcing his intention resume nuclear testing,” said one expert, “Trump will trigger strong public opposition in Nevada, from all U.S. allies, and it could trigger a chain reaction.” US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, an announcement made in a frighteningly vague social media post that threatens to shred decades of […]
“Decisions about the use of American military force are not campaign strategy sessions, and they are not the private property of one political party,” said Democratic Sen. Mark Warner. The Trump administration on Wednesday cut Senate Democrats out of a classified briefing on the US military’s string of deadly strikes on boats that the president and his […]
“Do not go down in history as the first president to manufacture a hunger crisis in the richest country on Earth,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Release these funds.” Senate Democrats on Wednesday accused the Republican Party of “weaponizing hunger” after Senate Majority Leader John Thune blocked an effort to pass a standalone bill to keep federal food assistance funded through November, and […]
“The solution is straightforward, and the deadline is imminent,” state lawmakers write in a new letter to Republican leaders, blaming them for the “manufactured healthcare crisis.” Dozens of US state legislators have signed a scathing letter pushing congressional Republicans to immediately back an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to lapse at the end of the […]