Mitch McConnell Blocks Immediate Vote On $2,000 Stimulus Checks
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a move by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately vote on $2,000 stimulus checks....
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a move by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately vote on $2,000 stimulus checks....
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
Budget / Inequality / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 19, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for pushing a coronavirus relief measure that contains a...
The authors of two separate poverty studies out of three top universities said Thursday that their findings make the unmistakable...
Instead of adhering to congressional intent by building up the nation’s inadequate supply of N95 masks and other equipment to combat the...
Millions of children across the United States are already going hungry amid the economic recession spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
After Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to pass the so-called “skinny” coronavirus relief plan—prioritizing corporations over the health,...
With jobless Americans growing increasingly desperate and furious at congressional Republicans for skipping town for summer recess without approving Covid-19 relief, House Speaker Nancy...
During the coronavirus crisis, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has stressed that he has no interest in “bailing out” blue...
President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon openly vowed to permanently “terminate” the funding mechanism for both Social Security and Medicare...
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income...
Americans angry with inaction from Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump on extending $600 a week unemployment benefits are accusing the...
Shortly after publicly ditching one attack on Social Security — the payroll tax cut — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed Thursday...
With the Senate preparing to vote on an annual defense policy bill calling for $740.5 billion in military spending for...
Recently, the Federal Reserve announced that it would be loosening its lending guidelines so that more corporations, even those with...
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
Budget / Corruption / Inequality / Politics / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published April 14, 2020
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
From his guidance rolling back paid leave benefits to his attempt to limit who qualifies for beefed up unemployment insurance, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s...
President Donald Trump is expected as early as the end of this week to sign legislation that would establish a $4.5...
Budget / Corporations / Corruption / Economy / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published March 22, 2020
The White House on Sunday reportedly refused to back down from its demand that a coronavirus relief package include $500...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell smelled an evil liberal conspiracy on Thursday, one designed to steal away his decades of...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday applauded a new study published today by a team of epidemiologists in the peer-reviewed medical...
Although the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 did precious little to reduce the tax burden of middle-class Americans,...
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit...
The Trump administration has finalized a rule change to the SNAP program that will take away food from 755,000 Americans...
The Treasury Department is being forced to borrow a staggering $1 trillion for the coming fiscal year, after the Republican...
The Trump administration is trying to change eligibility requirements so that 1 million kids would lose access to free school...
“A treasury secretary who can’t count needs to be held accountable.” That was the message progressive advocacy group Americans for...
Hold on to your knickers, folks, that federal deficit is hiking up quickly and “king of debt” Donald Trump wants more,...
The National Park Service will divert about $2.5 million in fees gathered from park-goers to help pay for the hefty...
Via America’s Lawyer: Trial Magazine’s Editor Farron Cousins and Lee Camp, Host of Redacted Tonight discuss the reasons behind why Pentagon has silenced nearly...
The Congressional Budget Office released what would have been a bombshell report Thursday, had not the Mueller report eclipsed it. According...
President Trump and his entourage cost taxpayers a combined $13.6 million for just four trips over one month to his...
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Politico’s Bryan Bender about a story he broke earlier this week on troubling results...
Arizona has become the hotbed for an experiment rightwing activists hope will redefine America’s schools – an experiment that has...
The White House announced Thursday that they would be canceling scheduled pay increases for government employees, citing budget concerns. In a...
As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the...
The United States Treasury Department said Monday that the federal budget deficit in February was significantly higher than a year...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Thursday said it was not certain that the Washington-area would host a parade requested...
Continuing his disastrous anti-environment crusade, Donald Trump is reportedly proposing to gut funding for renewable energy research programs by a...
Republicans are going to unveil the details of a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations, but they aren’t...
The Secret Service can’t pay hundreds of its agents to protect President Donald Trump’s large family and their frequent travel, Director...
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan...
During an interview with NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump’s budget an abomination and exposed the...
by onepercenttakers · Published March 17, 2017 · Last modified March 18, 2017
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez ripped President Trump’s first federal budget outline Thursday, saying it favors the wealthy...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.