“I can see that I’m not going to get a straight answer from you to a very simple question,” said a frustrated Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse during the hearing US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday dodged questions related to a $50,000 cash bribe that Trump administration official Tom Homan was allegedly caught on video accepting last year. […]
“Seriously though, has anyone ever been handed $50,000 cash in a paper bag for something legit?” Accusations of supreme corruption, demands for an investigation, and calls for impeachment proceedings for several high-level Trump administration officials erupted on Saturday after it was reported that a Justice Department probe into Tom Homan, who serves as President Donald […]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the deciding vote to pass Republicans’ massive social safety net cuts through the Senate. She said she didn’t like the bill, but voted for it anyway after getting Alaska exempted from some of its worst harms. By the thinnest possible margin, the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to pass a budget that includes the […]
“Donald Trump is putting our futures on the auction block,” said one campaigner. “He’s gutting green jobs, handing tax cuts to billionaires, and ignoring the climate crisis.” As part of its engagement effort to reach 1.5 million young voters in swing states, the climate justice group Sunrise Movement on Monday organized a protest at Republican presidential candidate […]