ArchiveSeptember 2021

At a Monday hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) argued that including women in the military draft would “jeopardize” American security and “undermine the military’s combat prowess.” The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, which is currently under consideration by Congress and authorizes defense spending, contains an amendment which if passed would extend...

Congressional Republicans are accusing President Joe Biden of ‘rationing‘ COVID-19 treatments after his administration took action to ensure a few states do not use them all up. “Isn’t it curious that the States that didn’t vote for Biden are the ones now having their COVID therapies taken away by the President?” tweeted Rep. Darrell Issa of California on Tuesday...

A dark money group is spending millions of dollars on ads falsely claiming President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats want to raid middle-class Americans’ retirement accounts. The tax-exempt Common Sense Leadership Fund is reportedly investing $10 million in attacks targeting 14 House Democrats. In one of the ads paid for by the fund, aimed at Rep. Dan Kildee, who represents a...

All 211 House Republicans present on Tuesday voted against a bill to suspend the debt ceiling, avert a partial government shutdown, and fund disaster relief. Without action to address the debt limit, the nation is just days from a default that could do massive damage to the economy and cost millions of jobs. “This is absolutely reckless. Suspending the debt limit enables Pelosi Democrats to...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is adamantly refusing to vote to raise the debt ceiling, a move that would cause catastrophic damage to the U.S. economy, a report from Moody’s Analytics released on Tuesday said. “The debt ceiling will be raised as it always has. But it will be raised by the Democrats,” McConnell said on Tuesday, signaling that Republicans would not help...

FBI Director Chris Wray told members of Congress on Tuesday that the number of domestic terror cases in the United States has “exploded” over the past year and a half, confirming many suspicions surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. On Tuesday, Wray told members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the FBI’s domestic terrorism...

During a scheduled c-section to have my second child in 2019, I got a surprise phone call: the home caregiver we scheduled for my father with dementia was not available. The timing could not have been worse, but scrambling to find care for my dad had become an everyday event. People like me, in the so-called “sandwich generation” are raising our children and simultaneously caring for...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders on Tuesday commemorated the more than 676,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19 in a ceremony at a public art instillation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Flanked by a sea of white flags, each representing an American who died after contracting the virus, Pelosi noted that “nothing could be as eloquent a manifestation of...

As they fight against a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and other essential immigrant workers, GOP lawmakers are repeatedly claiming that the public is on their side. But polls show the public strongly backs the Democrats’ proposed reforms. “Not only do Americans oppose blanket amnesty, they want a secure border,” tweeted Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis on Tuesday...

On Tuesday, Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt falsely claimed that the Biden administration ignores Food and Drug Administration decisions on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. But President Joe Biden has always said that the recommendation of boosters was subject to FDA policy. On “Fox & Friends,” during a discussion of purported Biden administration controversies, Earhardt claimed...