ArchiveMarch 2023

Republicans are blaming the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on Democratic policies and “woke” politics, using the crisis as a political cudgel against President Joe Biden and his party. Experts say that SVB, based in Santa Clara, California, failed because of poor decision-making by bank leadership and bad investments. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans from making baseless...

The White House on Friday criticized a federal budget proposed by Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus for its potentially “devastating consequences” for families that would be a “gut-punch to the American middle class.” “This proposal would bring devastating consequences to our national security, working families, and community safety, and result in $0 in deficit...

Senate Republicans have spent the last two years claiming that President Joe Biden was destroying the economy. But in a tweet Thursday, they seemed to undermine their entire argument. “In 2022, the government collected $4.9 TRILLION in taxes,” the official Senate Republicans Twitter account posted to its feed. “That’s a 21% increase from 2021, and the largest increase in...

Russell Coleman, the Republican nominee for attorney general in Kentucky in November, has made fighting the “crisis of addiction” one of the cornerstones of his campaign. He vowed in his first campaign video that he would continue the job to “make America safe again by stopping the people who are poisoning our communities with deadly drugs” he started “as the chief...

The parent company of Fox News has been accused of making an illegal campaign contribution to former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in two complaints filed with the Federal Election Commission on March 3. One complaint was submitted by the progressive media watchdog Media Matters for America, citing recently released internal communications from Fox Corporation in 2020 that...

American Bridge 21st Century announced a six-figure ad campaign on Friday aimed at highlighting President Joe Biden’s legislative achievements and the positive impact they have had on communities in four swing states. The progressive political action committee’s four spots note economic growth in Flint, Michigan; Greensboro, North Carolina; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Green Bay...

Democrats in Michigan passed a bevy of progressive bills on Wednesday after winning a majority in both houses of the state Legislature last November for the first time since 1984. Two of the bills that now go to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk delivered on promises she made on the campaign trail: one that repeals the state’s 1931 ban on abortion and a second that prohibits discrimination...

House Republicans are pushing a flurry of bills aimed at undermining the operations of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the independent agency designed to protect consumers from unfair treatment by big banks and financial institutions. On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing titled...

A trio of Republican members of the House of Representatives announced on Tuesday the launch of an anti-LGBTQ caucus to “defend the natural family from attempts by the radical Left to erode this core foundation of our society.” Reps. Brian Babin of Texas, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, and Mary Miller of Illinois, the founders of the Congressional Family Caucus, made the announcement...

Jay Heck is the executive director of Common Cause Wisconsin, the state branch of one of the nation’s largest government reform advocacy groups. Heck has worked in Wisconsin politics for decades and has had something of a front-row seat to the growth of the polarization that now characterizes state politics, as well as the steady erosion of campaign finance laws that has allowed the race...