“Republicans are rubber stamps for Donald Trump on everything else,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen. “This may be the one area where they’ve decided not to play ball.” President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to escalate his campaign to eliminate the filibuster in the US Senate. According to a Tuesday report from Axios, Trump plans to relentlessly harass Republican senators until they accept […]
“I hope I’m wrong. But we need to be prepared if I’m right,” warned Sen. Chris Murphy A Democratic US senator over the weekend issued an ominous warning about Republicans using the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretense to clamp down on political speech. In a lengthy social media post on Sunday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) outlined how […]
“Congress is supposed to be a check on the Executive Branch, not a rubber stamp,” said Sen. Alex Padilla, Democrat of California. “We won’t forget it.” In a move that allowed for confirmation of a bloc of 48 nominees to a variety of sub-cabinet positions across the executive branch that require Senate approval, Senate Majority […]
[content id=”79272″] “Republican lawmakers in Texas should be ashamed,” said one campaigner. “They are to blame for the gerrymandering arms race that we will now see across the country.” The GOP-controlled Texas House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a plan pushed by US President Donald Trump to redraw the state’s congressional map to create five […]
