ArchiveMarch 2019

Republican leaders are staying silent as Trump’s legal team unleashes a new attack on health care protections for people with pre-existing conditions — protections that Republicans have repeatedly, and falsely, claimed they would protect. In a Monday court filing, Trump’s Department of Justice changed its legal position and is now asking federal courts to strike down the entire...

A secret recording of the NRA caught the gun extremist group advising activists to “shame” citizens demanding a response to mass shootings and bragging that they ghost write pro-gun op-eds for local officials after those events. Al Jazeera made the recording of the NRA’s callous and cold-blooded propaganda tactics as part of an undercover sting, which the news organization...

The Trump administration is under fire for its decision to divert $1 billion intended for America’s military personnel and use it to build Trump’s racist border wall. Patrick Shanahan, Trump’s acting defense secretary, notified Congress on Monday that the Pentagon made the transfer and will be using the money to build 57 miles of the unnecessary wall. “The $1 billion...

After a 22-month investigation, Congress will settle for nothing less than the full, unredacted Mueller report. On Monday, the chairs of six House committees sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr calling his four-page summary “not sufficient” and demanding the full Mueller report and all underlying evidence be delivered to Congress no later than April 2. As of Tuesday...

Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-LA) was caught on an audio recording attacking poor people who get health care coverage through the Medicaid program. Poor people care more about “voting for a living instead of working for a living,” the congressman said in audio captured at a March 19 fundraiser in Natchitoches, Louisiana. “If they’re on that program of the government — and it could...

The Trump administration really wants to take health care away from millions of people. Trump’s 2020 budget proposal called for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but now, thanks to the Department of Justice, he may not even have to wait for a budget to pass. Late last year, in a ruling that even conservatives called “embarrassingly bad,” an activist federal judge in...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) doesn’t want Americans to be able to read the Mueller report. On Monday, he blocked Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) nonbinding resolution that called for Mueller’s report to be made public. As Schumer said on Twitter, what are they trying to hide? McConnell’s not shy about making bad-faith arguments when it comes to the Mueller report. He believes...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of Trump’s closest allies in the Senate, wants to misuse his position and go after Hillary Clinton’s emails now that the Mueller investigation has ended. The South Carolina senator launched his latest oddball missive as Trump and his allies continue to push for the country to give them a pass on the crimes uncovered by the Department of Justice...

Talk about bad faith. On Monday, the Trump campaign sent a memo to TV producers arguing that prominent Trump critics — including four Democratic members of Congress, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, and former CIA Director John Brennan — should be banned from appearing on news segments. The reason? All six people have made comments about Trump and Russia that the Trump team...

Trump is working hard to make cars more expensive to buy. In fact, cars might cost thousands more for American consumers under the terms of the Trump-negotiated trade deal with Canada and Mexico. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Economists who examined the text of the trade deal say that even if it helps the overall U.S. economy, the impact will likely be “tiny,” Politico...