“This isn’t about building more housing or energy dominance. It’s about giving their billionaire buddies YOUR land and YOUR money.” Senate Republicans unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require the sale of millions of acres of U.S. public land in Western states, a proposal that conservation groups slammed as a giveaway to corporate interests and the […]
“The House bill addresses none of the nation’s key economic challenges usefully and exacerbates many of them.” Half a dozen Nobel Prize-winning economists on Monday expressed their “grave concerns” about the sprawling budget reconciliation package passed last month by the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, warning that slashing an already frayed social safety net and exploding the […]
“The Trump tax scam is a grift for the ultrarich, including those who are in charge of passing this legislation themselves, and a betrayal to hardworking Americans everywhere,” said the head of Accountable.US. As U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” heads to the Senate, a watchdog group on Tuesday released a report […]
“If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history.” The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the Republican legislation speeding through the U.S. House of Representatives would cut household resources for the bottom 10% of Americans while delivering gains to […]