With the unanimous passage of its city budget, Mayor Kate Gallego and the Phoenix City Council have signaled that, after 12 public hearings, they are listening to the people’s concerns about affordability and have built a fiscal plan focused on food assistance, childcare, housing opportunities, and combating extreme heat. Among the budget provisions that achieve … Read more
While people are suffering because of Trump and MAGA Republicans’ cuts to the Affordable Care Act, SNAP-Food Assistance, Pell Grants, and Rural Health Care Facilities, the Mad King and his loyalists in Congress think it is a good idea to spend working and middle-class taxpayers’ money on a Gilded Age White House Ballroom. In a … Read more
For months, politically minded Arizonans have waited for State Legislative Republicans to put forth their budget proposal. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has had hers out since January, and she had to resort to a bill-signing moratorium to pressure the state MAGA bunch to put forth their budget. Last week, Legislative Republicans finally publicly broadcast their … Read more
If people want to know what the priorities are for each major Arizona political party and where they both stand on the in touch with reality spectrum, then watch the video below from last week’s Arizona House session, where Republicans defended helping data centers and the wealthy, and Democrats rebuked them for not advancing budget … Read more
These are the proposals contained in the Progressive Caucus’s New Affordability Agenda, unveiled yesterday to show the American People that Democrats have proposals designed to make their lives better while also combatting corporate and MAGA Republican greed and the top one percent first policies. Speaking at the Wednesday unveiling of this new affordability agenda, which … Read more