The Biden administration on Wednesday announced plans to make a major sale of wind leases off the coasts of New York and New Jersey, which it has projected will lead to 80,000 new jobs by 2030. The New York Bight, an area of 480,000 acres between Long Island and New Jersey, will be open to wind energy production forecast to generate up to 7 gigawatts of clean energy. According to the Department...
GOP lawmakers receive free KN95 masks — and respond with racist anti-Asian attacks
House Republicans are returning to the sort of rhetoric that experts say has fueled thousands of racist incidents against people of Asian descent in the United States since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The latest object of their ire is their receipt of free KN95 masks intended to protect them from the coronavirus. After the nonpartisan congressional Office of the Attending Physician urged...
8 House Republicans caught in ethics scandals are campaigning for reelection
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) announced this week that he is seeking a 10th term representing Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District, even though he is under federal indictment on charges of lying to the FBI. Despite GOP vows to “drain the swamp” and implement “zero tolerance” ethical standards, a growing number of Republican incumbents are embroiled in scandals and...
Fact check: 3 reasons the GOP’s ‘bare shelves’ attacks on Biden don’t add up
Republican elected officials and conservative outlets like Fox News have sought to blame President Joe Biden’s administration for “empty shelves” at supermarkets, but several factors unconnected to Biden are the true cause of disruptions, according to experts. On Wednesday, on the program “Fox News Primetime,” Fox News used a graphic with a photo of Biden over a...
Shocker: Ted Cruz only likes the filibuster when it hurts Democrats
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has spent the past few days defending the filibuster rule as vital to preserving democracy and attacking Democrats for changing their position on it. But Cruz himself said he supported getting rid of the filibuster in 2017. Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Cruz slammed President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for wanting to eliminate the...
Republicans lose it after Biden calls to protect voting rights
After President Joe Biden spoke Tuesday evening in favor of legislation to protect voter rights, Republicans in Congress are angrily attacking him. Speaking in Atlanta, Georgia, Biden called for the Senate to pass federal voting rights legislation that has passed the House but faces Republican opposition in the upper chamber. The Freedom to Vote Act would enact laws expanding voting access, while...
GOP lawmakers keep complaining about inflation but stonewall efforts to address it
After halting the passage of President Joe Biden’s plan to combat inflation and create millions of jobs, congressional Republicans are now blaming him for last year’s inflation. But economic experts say Biden’s policies had little to do with the problem and that it is likely to improve in 2022 regardless. The Labor Department released 2021 consumer price data on Wednesday...
Majority of Americans side with White House in push to protect voting rights
In his staunchest defense of voting rights to date, President Joe Biden blasted Republicans for obstructing access to the ballot box and called on Senate Democrats to eliminate the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. “I believe that the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills, debate them, vote. Let the majority prevail,”...
Democrat wins Florida House seat that GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis kept empty for nearly a year
Democratic nominee Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick overwhelmingly won a Florida congressional election on Tuesday. Due to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ refusal to schedule a timely special election, the seat had been vacant for more than nine months. Cherfilus-McCormick, an attorney and health company CEO, defeated Republican nominee Jason Mariner by a 78.7%-19.6% landslide in Florida’s...
Lindsey Graham: Push to combat GOP voter suppression makes GOP look racist
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) complained on Tuesday that Democratic efforts to protect the right to vote are really just about making Republicans look racist. And though GOP-run states passed dozens of bills to make it harder to vote in just the past year, he said the issue is completely “manufactured.” Mere days after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his office tried to...