“The administration has chosen to hold food for more than forty million vulnerable people hostage to try to force Democrats to capitulate without negotiations,” says one Georgetown law professor. Two federal judges have said the Trump administration cannot use the government shutdown to suspend food assistance for 42 million Americans. But hours into Saturday, when payments were due to be disbursed, […]
“We must push back hard against these next leaps down the pathway to tyranny,” said one Democratic in the House. Facing a string of judicial rulings in recent days that have struck down or at least put on hold a variety of efforts by the Trump administration that appeared to overstep its executive authority, both […]
“While still in charge of the Senate and the White House, we must do all we can to safeguard our democracy,” said the senator. In an op-ed on “the plan to fight back” against the incoming Trump administration, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday provided a pep talk to anguished supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris as the nation […]
WASHINGTON – Friday, during a Pro Forma session in the U.S. House of Representatives, Representative Mary Peltola (D-AK-AL), Representative James Moylan (R-GU-AL), and Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-05) introduced the bipartisan VA Appeals Reform Act of 2024, new legislation to reform the Department of Veteran Affairs’ appellate backlog. Currently, an average of 200,000 VA appeals are […]