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....
Category: Budget
Trump Back At Mar-A-Lago, Raising Taxpayer Golf Tab To $151.5 Million
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
After Billionaires Gained $1 Trillion in Wealth, Says Sanders, It Is Not ‘Radical’ to Demand More $1,200 Stimulus Checks
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
McConnell Pushes for ‘3-Martini Lunch’ Deduction and Zero Relief for 26 Million Hungry Americans
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for pushing a coronavirus relief measure that contains a...
Studies Show 8 Million Forced Into Poverty Since McConnell Let Relief Expire
The authors of two separate poverty studies out of three top universities said Thursday that their findings make the unmistakable...
Outrage as Pentagon Funnels Hundreds of Millions Meant for Covid Supplies to Private Defense Contractors
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 Go Hungry as Mitch McConnell Blocks Stimulus Bill
Millions of children across the United States are already going hungry amid the economic recession spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Progressives Demand McConnell ‘Get Serious’ About Coronavirus Relief
After Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to pass the so-called “skinny” coronavirus relief plan—prioritizing corporations over the health,...
Anger grows at GOP over economic pain: ‘I blame Mitch McConnell the most’
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...
McConnell’s refusal to help states likely to hurt US economy and result in 4 million more job losses
During the coronavirus crisis, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has stressed that he has no interest in “bailing out” blue...
Trump admitted on television he will ‘terminate’ Social Security and Medicare if he wins reelection
President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon openly vowed to permanently “terminate” the funding mechanism for both Social Security and Medicare...
Why the idea of jobless benefits scares the conservative mind
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income...
Anger With GOP Growing as $600 Unemployment Benefit Lapses
Americans angry with inaction from Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump on extending $600 a week unemployment benefits are accusing the...
GOP COVID Relief Plan Includes Romney Bill to Slash Social Security and Medicare
Shortly after publicly ditching one attack on Social Security — the payroll tax cut — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed Thursday...
Sanders Unveils Amendment to Slash Bloated Pentagon Budget
With the Senate preparing to vote on an annual defense policy bill calling for $740.5 billion in military spending for...
Fossil Fuels Already Get Billions in Bailouts — They’re Called Subsidies
Recently, the Federal Reserve announced that it would be loosening its lending guidelines so that more corporations, even those with...
Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
How the Republicans are stealing everything for the 1 percent
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
Trump Labor Secretary Condemned for Efforts to Roll Back Unemployment Benefits, Paid Leave
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...
Trump Approves $4.5 Trillion in Welfare for Corporations; Objects to $1 Billion Price Tag for 80,000 Ventilators
President Donald Trump is expected as early as the end of this week to sign legislation that would establish a $4.5...
Virus Relief Bill Would Allow Mnuchin To Hand Out $500 Million ‘Slush Fund’ To Secret Corporations
The White House on Sunday reportedly refused to back down from its demand that a coronavirus relief package include $500...
How the coronavirus crisis revealed the danger of the decades-long conservative movement
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell smelled an evil liberal conspiracy on Thursday, one designed to steal away his decades of...
Sanders Applauds New Medicare for All Study: Will Save Americans $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Deaths
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday applauded a new study published today by a team of epidemiologists in the peer-reviewed medical...
Republican lawmakers personally made millions from their giant tax cut: report
Although the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 did precious little to reduce the tax burden of middle-class Americans,...
Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Winter Vacation Pushes Taxpayer Golf Tab Above $118 million
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit...
Trump Takes Food Away From 755,000 Americans Before Christmas
The Trump administration has finalized a rule change to the SNAP program that will take away food from 755,000 Americans...
Government To Borrow One Trillion Dollars To Pay For Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The Treasury Department is being forced to borrow a staggering $1 trillion for the coming fiscal year, after the Republican...
Trump Responds To Impeachment By Trying To Take Away Free School Meals From A Million Kids
The Trump administration is trying to change eligibility requirements so that 1 million kids would lose access to free school...
Off by $1 Trillion — Two-Year Anniversary of Mnuchin Lie That Trump Tax Cuts Would Slash Deficit
“A treasury secretary who can’t count needs to be held accountable.” That was the message progressive advocacy group Americans for...
Budget office reveals ‘King of Debt’ Donald Trump is overseeing a skyrocketing deficit
Hold on to your knickers, folks, that federal deficit is hiking up quickly and “king of debt” Donald Trump wants more,...
Park Service Directed To Shift $2.5 Million To Help Pay For Trump’s July 4 Celebration To Himself
The National Park Service will divert about $2.5 million in fees gathered from park-goers to help pay for the hefty...
Whistleblowers Shine Light On The Fraud & Corruption In The Pentagon
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...
CBO: More than 1 million people have lost insurance under Trump
The Congressional Budget Office released what would have been a bombshell report Thursday, had not the Mueller report eclipsed it. According...
Trump’s Vacations To Mar-A-Lago Cost Taxpayers $13.6M, Government Report Finds
President Trump and his entourage cost taxpayers a combined $13.6 million for just four trips over one month to his...
Audit Shows that a Corrupt Pentagon Can’t Explain Where $800 Million of Taxpayer Money Went
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Politico’s Bryan Bender about a story he broke earlier this week on troubling results...
Billionaires vs. Teachers: The Koch Brothers’ Plan to Starve Public Education
Arizona has become the hotbed for an experiment rightwing activists hope will redefine America’s schools – an experiment that has...
Trump Sacrifices Government Employees’ Raises To Billionaires’ Tax Cut
The White House announced Thursday that they would be canceling scheduled pay increases for government employees, citing budget concerns. In a...
Average American Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the...
Budget Deficit Projected To Go Up 31 Percent Due To Trump Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The United States Treasury Department said Monday that the federal budget deficit in February was significantly higher than a year...
Pentagon Won’t Answer Who Would Pay for Trump’s Expensive Military Parade
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Thursday said it was not certain that the Washington-area would host a parade requested...
Anti-Science Trump Plans To Gut Renewable Energy Research Funding By 72 Percent
Continuing his disastrous anti-environment crusade, Donald Trump is reportedly proposing to gut funding for renewable energy research programs by a...
Republicans To Pay For Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich By Cutting Social Security/Medicare
Republicans are going to unveil the details of a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations, but they aren’t...
Report: Vacationing Trump Entourage Bankrupting Secret Service
The Secret Service can’t pay hundreds of its agents to protect President Donald Trump’s large family and their frequent travel, Director...
Bernie Sanders Unmasks Trump’s Budget Director as a Fraudster
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Dark Secret That Trump’s Budget Is Desperately Trying To Hide
During an interview with NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump’s budget an abomination and exposed the...
The Trump Budget: Putting America’s Richest 1% First
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez ripped President Trump’s first federal budget outline Thursday, saying it favors the wealthy...
