The legislation congressional Republicans finalized on Friday and are likely to enact next week delivers on many of the party’s—and President Trump’s— promises for a landmark overhaul of the tax code. But the rush to pass the bill through a narrow Senate majority and without Democratic support forced the GOP to sacrifice some of their…
The administration says the changes will steer more money to cooks and dishwashers. Worker groups say it will lead to lower pay and wage theft. Trump Does Another Favor For Low-Wage Employers The administration says the changes will steer more money to cooks and dishwashers. Worker groups say it will lead to lower pay and…
The strategy, a product of months of deliberations by the president and his top advisers, does not repeat former President Barack Obama’s 2016 description of climate change as a U.S. national security threat, aides said. Trump has vowed to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord unless changes are made to it. “The…
On election day, we, the voters of Michigan, deserve to have our say. We expect our elections to be fair and transparent so that our votes matter and our voices are heard. Politicians don’t agree. They manipulate our voting maps to keep themselves in power. They draw voting maps that directly benefit themselves, instead of…
Planned Parenthood says the Trump administration’s “disdain” towards women’s health and the LGBTQ community is “clearer than ever” after the Centers for Disease Control was reportedly banned from using certain words in official documents, including ‘”fetus.” “It’s clearer than ever: this administration has disdained women’s health, LGBTQ people, and science since day one,” the women’s…
The Democrats thought that December was the month they could use the threat of a government shutdown to force congressional Republicans to pass a law that offers protections from deportation and other benefits for some young undocumented immigrants. But the passage this month of such a law, along the lines of the Obama administration’s Deferred…
On Wednesday at FCI Sandstone, a low-security federal prison in Minnesota, inmates were preparing for a congressional hearing. They couldn’t fly to Washington, of course, but they’d voted to add C-SPAN to the facility’s short list of authorized television channels. They planned to watch politicians grill the Trump administration’s new Bureau of Prisons chief about…
Multiple agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have reportedly been told by the Trump administration that they cannot use certain phrases in official documents. Officials from two HHS agencies, who asked that their names and agencies remain anonymous, told The Washington Post that they had been given a list of “forbidden”…
Not only did Donald Trump not tweet out messages of condolences for families who lost loved ones five years ago on Thursday at the Sand Hook gun massacre in Connecticut, and not only did White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on that day insist there’s simply nothing that can be done to battle American epidemic…
CHARLES BARKLEY, THE NBA Hall of Famer and award-winning sports commentator known for his deep Alabama roots, ditched the Republican Party and its bigoted candidate for the United States Senate, Roy Moore, to back the Democrat, Doug Jones. Jones ended up winning and Moore lost. Consider these facts: The United States does not have a…