The bill threatens “emergency alerts that save lives, local journalism that informs communities, and educational tools that support families, job seekers, and teachers,” according to Protect My Public Media. The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is on the verge of stripping more than a billion dollars from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which could decimate local news […]
Rep. Ro Khanna said the vote was about: “Are you on the side of America’s children? Or are you on the side of the rich and powerful who have had their thumb on the scales and shafted Americans for decades?” Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously voted against forcing the Department of Justice […]
As ICE has sent masked agents to round up mostly innocent people, the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania said they “are just doing their job.” U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s strange lurch to the right continued this week as he jumped in to defend Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid criticisms about its lawless and authoritarian behavior. ICE’s indiscriminate roundups […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Senator Murkowski and Republicans in the United States Senate voted to endanger public health, kill clean energy jobs and their economic benefits, and raise costs for working families and small businesses—all to hand big tax breaks to billionaires and corporate polluters. Despite widespread public opposition to the many dangers of the bill, […]