ArchiveAugust 2021

Last week, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas’ ban on the most common second-trimester abortion method. Losing access to this procedure will profoundly affect people seeking abortions in Texas.  The state’s ban on the use of the method, known as dilation and evacuation, or D&E, effectively acts as 15-week ban, since it is used in nearly all second...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy excoriated the Democratic majority in Congress on Tuesday for having the nerve to advance popular legislation to protect voting rights and invest in infrastructure. He said none of this should be happening until every American has been evacuated from Afghanistan. McCarthy’s comments came during debate on a rule to establish a path forward on the $550...

On Tuesday, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade claimed “the government” played no role in the rescue of an Afghan police officer who assisted the U.S. military, but the inaccurate statement was immediately shot down by his guest, a retired Army Special Forces commander who was a part of the mission. On “Fox & Friends,” Kilmeade was discussing the rescue, named Operation...

Iowa Republican lawmakers are using a recycled lie to raise funds for the reelection campaign of Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks: that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi somehow tried to steal her seat. “When Nancy Pelosi tried to steal #IA02 to pad her small majority, I stood up and fought back!” Miller-Meeks tweeted on Tuesday, along with a link to her online fundraising page. “When...

The only thing that stood between the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center and a knife-wielding attacker who stormed into the mosque in May was an off-duty security guard who happened to be in the building at the time. The assailant had chased a woman as she entered the Seven Corners, Virginia, mosque and once inside, began swinging his knife at the unarmed, plainclothes guard. Staff were eventually able...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is seizing on news that some Chick-fil-A restaurants have closed due to understaffing to attack President Joe Biden and his COVID-19 relief plan. But the federal program he and other Republicans falsely claim has incentivized people not to work has not been operational in Alabama since June. Fox Business reported on Sunday that at least two Alabama Chick-fil-A...

Peter Doocy, a White House correspondent for Fox News, on Monday accused the Biden administration of leaving Americans in Afghanistan “stranded,” even as tens of thousands have been evacuated from the region. During a White House briefing, Doocy asked press secretary Jen Psaki, “Does the president have the sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan...

The delta variant is fueling COVID-19 case spikes nationally, including in the Washington, D.C., area. But one House Republican thinks this is the time to force federal workers to go back into the office. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) filed a bill on Friday called the “Return Act.” If enacted, it would mandate that all federal agency heads “require the level of telework of employees...

House Republicans are incorrectly claiming that state GOP efforts to cut off emergency pandemic unemployment benefits actually improved job growth. Numerous analyses have shown no evidence to support that argument. On Friday, the Republican minority on the House Ways and Means Committee put out a statement asserting that a Friday jobs report “confirms that GOP governors who answered House...

Fox News host Pete Hegseth on Monday said he does not believe Democratic leaders care about what happens in Afghanistan because their children have not served in the military. Hegseth made his remarks on “Fox & Friends.” “I also can’t help but wonder: It’s not Chuck Schumer’s kid, it’s not Kamala Harris’ kid, it’s not Nancy Pelosi’s...