“The Republican playbook is always to drive more people deeper into poverty, while giving kickbacks and tax breaks to their super-rich friends.” The right-wing official who served as budget director for the Trump administration is reportedly playing a significant advisory role for House Republicans as they seek to leverage a fast-approaching debt ceiling crisis to […]
JUNEAU-Wednesday, Representative Ortiz introduced a bill to increase education funding across the state. House Bill 65 will increase the Base Student Allocation (BSA) by $1250, an increase of nearly 21%. In the past decade, Alaska’s urban consumer price index has increased by 24.6%, while the BSA has increase by only 4.2%. Schools have made it […]
“Talk about buyers’ remorse,” cracked the director of Siena College Research Institute, which conducted the poll. Close to 80% of voters in GOP Rep. George Santos’ New York congressional district want him to resign—including 71% of Republicans—according to a poll published Tuesday, the same day the serial liar temporarily stepped down from his House committee […]
“Democrats were elected on the promise that they would defend Social Security against Republican attacks. Now is the moment of the truth.” A coalition of progressive advocacy groups on Monday launched a campaign urging every member of Congress to pledge to “never vote to cut Social Security or Medicare under any circumstances,” an effort that comes as […]