Manchin has received $1.5 million from corporate interests attacking Biden agenda
Sen. Joe Manchin, one of a handful of Democratic lawmakers threatening to tank President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, has received...
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Big pharma and drug lobbyists are ‘courting’ Kyrsten Sinema as the ‘lead blocker’ on pricing reform
It is no coincidence that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is often mentioned in the same sentence as Sen. Joe...
As Americans Demand Tax Reforms, Analysis Finds Top 1% Hold More Wealth Than Whole Middle Class
As the bombshell Pandora Papers continue to expose dubious details about how the world’s superrich hide their fortunes and avoid...
Manchin plan to gut Biden agenda would support 2 million fewer jobs per year
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s proposal to lop $2 trillion off his own party’s social spending and climate agenda would support...
Merck slammed for 4,000% markup of taxpayer-funded Covid drug
The New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant Merck is facing accusations of price gouging after it charged the U.S. over $700 per...
Cost of Build Back Better Proposal: Close To $0, Cost of Catastrophic Climate Change: $551 Trillion
Right now, as I’ve highlighted briefly before, there’s a hot negotiation underway between almost every other Democrat in the House...
Big Pharma greed ‘literally killing Americans,’ Sanders says outside drug lobby HQ
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and progressive healthcare campaigners from across the U.S. rallied at the headquarters of Big Pharma’s...
New report exposes corporate scheme to derail Biden agenda and ‘upend democracy’
Corporations threatened by the prospect of paying a slightly higher tax rate and exercising a little less power over working people...
Lying, Cheating Oil & Gas Companies Stick Taxpayers With Cleanup Bill
In our minds, we envision an oil well faithfully pumping oil for decades after it is drilled. In reality, the...
Congressional Progressives Call Out Pentagon Waste And Fraud
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that a new congressional watchdog report showing the Pentagon failing in efforts to combat department-wide...
‘Incredible’: Covid Stimulus Funds Reduced Overall US Poverty in 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing spike in unemployment, poverty in the U.S. declined by roughly 2.6% from 2019 to...
So-Called Democratic “Moderates” Are Actually Right-Wingers Who Have Always Thrown Up Roadblocks to Social Progress
The U.S. is the only liberal-democratic country in the world with a political system set up for two mainstream parties,...
‘Tax These Moochers’: Top 1% Dodge $163 Billion in Taxes Each Year
A Treasury Department report released Wednesday estimates that the richest 1% of Americans are responsible for more than $160 billion...
The $3.5 trillion bill that terrifies corporate America
Right now, Democrats are working to pass a $3.5 trillion package that will provide long overdue help for working Americans....
Manchin Pretends Exxon Does Not Lead Him Around By The Nose
Dana Bash proved surprisingly effective in making West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin sweat this morning, when throwing charges of being...
Extreme weather devastating US raises calls to pass Biden’s infrastructure bill
On August 30, 2021, President Joe Biden committed the federal government to help Louisiana and Mississippi recover from Hurricane Ida’s...
Economist Paul Krugman: Corporations refusing to pay taxes for climate change programs is ‘unforgivable’
While the United States’ west coast was battling wildfires on September 1, the Northeastern Corridor suffered tornadoes, torrential rainfall and...
The shame of the Sacklers — “Drug dealers in nice suits and dresses”
Today a federal judge is expected to certify Purdue Pharmaceutical’s bankruptcy plan – a $4.5 billion settlement between the company...
54 Members of Congress (All Democrats) Push for End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer this week, 54 members of Congress called for...
Senate Democrats fighting to tax billionaires and pass bill to invest in working families
The collective wealth of the top billionaires in the U.S. has increased by nearly two-thirds during the pandemic, not only...
CEO Pay Rose 1,322 Percent Over 42 Years, While Worker Pay Rose Only 18 Percent
A new analysis released Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute finds that CEO pay in the United States rose by...
Secret IRS files reveal how much the ultrawealthy gained by shaping Trump’s ‘big, beautiful tax cut’
In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen....
Republican Millionaires’ Caucus Wants To Keep Their Trump Tax Cuts
A new analysis by the government watchdog group Accountable.US finds that two-thirds of GOP senators—and more than 40% of House...
New report examines utilities’ efforts to fight solar in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CAPITOL NEWS SERVICE) – A new report by Environment Florida’s Research and Policy Center examined efforts to undermine...
26 million workers have gotten a raise thanks to the Fight for $15
The Fight for $15 kicked off in November 2012, with a relatively small—yet also historically large—group of New York City...
Toyota Actively Lobbying To Slow Down EV Revolution
Toyota seems to be doing everything possible to become known as one of the most despicable corporations on the face...
Police Departments Invest In Teslas To Save Fuel $$
Cities looking to do right by their communities on climate are greening their expenditures, and that goal is made a...
How Big Pharma fueled the opioid crisis that killed 500,000
As the U.S. continues to deal with the fallout from the devastating opioid epidemic that has killed over 500,000 people...
The Trump Org indictment conceals the bigger story of how the rich don’t pay taxes
After many months of anticipation and nearly three years of investigation, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has charged the Trump...
Biden Fires Trump’s Social Security Saboteurs
President Biden on Friday fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, after Saul refused...
Democrats’ child tax credit payments will hit bank accounts soon
Back in March, when Democrats were still working to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan into law,...
Infrastructure Plan With Major Climate Investments Would Create 26 Million Jobs
A report released Friday by Data for Progress and Evergreen Action shows that an infrastructure package with $2.6 trillion in...
Biden targets big tech in executive order aimed at anti-competitive practices
Joe Biden has signed an executive order targeting anti-competitive practices across the economy that could have major ramifications for America’s...
Top oil lobbyist caught on tape revealing 11 senators ‘crucial’ to ExxonMobil
Channel 4 in the U.K. published a startling expose on ExxonMobil’s lobbyists who revealed the top most important U.S. Senators...
Report Illuminates Chamber Of Commerce’s Decades Of Delay & Denial
A new report lays out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s lengthy history of climate denial and lobbying against climate policy,...
Abigail Disney: Executives would rather be shot than fly first class
Abigail Disney has a lot to criticize about American billionaires — especially when they inherit a pile of cash and...
How Congress and you subsidize the richest Americans
ProPublica scored a fantastic scoop when it obtained and meticulously analyzed 15 years of raw income tax data on the...
Record High Number of Americans Now Get Their Coverage Through ‘Obamacare’
More people than ever are getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, providing new proof of the law’s value...
The Secret IRS Files: How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal...
Report Shows Stimulus Checks Significantly Reduced Hardship for Families
A new report finds that the direct relief checks that were sent out as part of the stimulus packages passed...
Elizabeth Warren grills JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon over overdraft fees
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., grilled J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday, calling claims that...
Biden pledges to restore the IRS and crack down on rich tax cheats
In what is a ridiculously long overdue proposal, President Joe Biden is advocating doubling the size of the IRS, adding tens...
Katie Porter Confronts Big Pharma CEO And Destroys The Lie Behind High Drug Costs
Rep. Porter broke down how much money Big Pharma companies spend to make money and said, “So, Mr. Gonzales, you’re...
The case for locking Trump up
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: The main reason to prosecute Donald Trump is that he’s a shameless...
How the business lobby created the “labor shortage” myth — and GOP used it to slash benefits
Earlier this month, the Department of Labor released a less-than-stellar jobs report that sent politicians, economists and leaders in corporate America scrambling for...
Senate Hearing: At Long Last, Audit The Pentagon
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday presided over a Senate Budget Committee hearing convened to examine waste and fraud at the...
