Another day with the country sliding towards an American Dark Age and what Rachel Bitecofer calls a Trumpcession. Halving the United States Department of Education staff. Revoking $20 billion in Environmental Protection Agency Climate Change Grants. Cutting one billion in programs that provide school meals and food security. Playing tariff war with Canada and tanking … Read more
In a 217 to 215 vote along party lines, MAGA Republican House Members passed a budget resolution that steals funding in vital programs like Medicaid, Food Assistance, and Clean Energy programs from the poor and gives it in the form of plutocratic tax cuts to the richest who do not need it. It also increases … Read more
Has anyone been to the gas station today? Or the local grocer to try and purchase a dozen eggs? Worried if those generous subsidies to enroll in the Obamacare/Affordable Care Act private healthcare marketplaces, provided by the Biden/Harris Administration, will still be there next year. Or how those new steel tariffs will affect your buying … Read more
Shortly after the November elections, I presented an article calling for Democrats to articulate a pragmatic progressive program that would move the country forward and lift working and middle class Americans up. Borrowing the phrase “A Better Deal,” the policy proposals included many ideas that the Biden/Harris Administration proposed in their original Build Back Better … Read more
It was really a tale of two opening speeches today in the House of Representative after Mike Johnson and soon to be Felon and Sexual Assaulter in Chief Donald Trump twisted the arms of two Republican House Members to change their minds to cast the deciding votes to elevate Mr. Johnson again to the Speakership. … Read more