People of color in the LGBTQ community are more likely to ask for delays in rent payments, have their work hours reduced, or say they are unemployed than their white counterparts, according to a report released Thursday by the Human Rights Campaign. Experts say the coronavirus pandemic could put even more LGBTQ people of color at risk of homelessness than already were before it started. The...
Conservative states fight to undermine Planned Parenthood yet again
Attorneys general from 19 states, led by Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to block health care providers who offer abortion from being Medicaid providers. This move represents the latest attack to undermine and defund abortion providers, even when they are providing much-needed health care. It has long been a goal of anti-abortion activists...
Trump orders governors to open churches after insisting he wouldn’t tell them what to do
Donald Trump demanded that state governors allow churches and other houses of worship to reopen immediately on Friday, contradicting his earlier promise that he would let them make their own determinations about how to safely reopen their states. “Today, I am identifying houses of worship — churches, synagogues, and mosques — as essential places that provide essential services,” he...
McConnell falsely claims new bills passed by the House are ‘unconstitutional’
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed on Thursday that any legislation passed by the House of Representatives under its new temporary work-from-home system could be unconstitutional. The House adopted a 45-day emergency rule earlier this month allowing members to designate a colleague to cast their votes on the floor during the pandemic. In remarks from the Senate floor on Thursday, the...
McConnell: Democrats are investigating Trump so we get to investigate Obama
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that because the House of Representatives is still doing oversight into Donald Trump and his administration, it should be able to conduct investigations into the Obama administration and the Bidens. “The House of Representatives is arguing before the Supreme Court that they are still looking for yet another impeachment. They are...
GOP lawmakers block health care for 130,000 people in Kansas
On Thursday, Kansas Republicans blocked a final effort by Democratic lawmakers to expand Medicaid during the 2020 state legislative session, the Wichita Eagle reported. The failure to pass the expansion leaves 130,000 residents who would have been eligible for it without access to the health care program. Democratic state Sen. Dinah Sykes attempted to force a vote on the Medicaid expansion, but...
Yet another study finds drug Trump is pushing leads to more deaths
Hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug Donald Trump has touted as a “miracle” cure for the coronavirus, was found to have an increased risk of death for patients treated with it in hospitals, according to a study published Friday in the Lancet. The study published in the respected medical journal is the largest to date on the drug, looking at 96,000 patients who were hospitalized with...
Trump’s approval rating on coronavirus response hits new low
Donald Trump’s approval rating for his coronavirus response continues to fall, with just 39% of Americans approving of his handling of the deadly virus, according to a new ABC News poll released Friday morning. Trump’s 39% approval rating on his virus response marks a new low in ABC’s survey, which began asking questions about Americans’ support for Trump’s...
15 times Trump proved Susan Collins wrong since she said he learned his lesson
As she announced that she would vote to acquit Donald Trump on all impeachment charges in February, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said she believed he had learned a “pretty big lesson” from the case and would “be much more cautious in the future.” Since that time, Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that she was wrong. Here are 15 examples: 1. Trump said he learned nothing Days...
Trump ignores state law by refusing to wear mask during Michigan trip
On Thursday, Donald Trump once again refused to wear a face mask in public, this time while touring a Ford plant in Michigan that was repurposed to build ventilators. Before the trip, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel warned Trump that wearing a face mask at the plant was required by state law. An executive order signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “requires that any individual able to...