by Richard Eskow | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Wisconsin State Senator Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield) wants a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and he wants a new constitutional convention to ratify it. A constitutional convention makes for a snappy hashtag, #ConCon. But, as GOP leaders in Idaho...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
Saying on the campaign trail that Wall Street banks and hedge funds are "getting away with murder," President Trump promised voters he would "drain the swamp" and "reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics." He was playing on the public's...
by Lois Gibbs | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
Anne Gorsuch, the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, was my worst nightmare. In 1982, when I first confronted her about toxic contamination in Times Beach, Missouri, she led the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Ronald Reagan. Anne stepped down a...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to spend $1 trillion to modernize America's infrastructure. There were no specifics. As economist Brad DeLong put it, Trump only offered "plans to have plans." Now Trump has released a budget outline, and the plans to...
by LeeAnn Hall | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
On Thursday, People’s Action was pulling out all the stops to defeat Republicans' plan to repeal health care on the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – and preparing to take the fight to the Senate. Come Friday, we celebrated a stunning victory for...
by Miles Mogulescu | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog
Trump and the Republicans are doing so many things so fast to hurt ordinary Americans, it’s hard for the resistance movement to keep up. But nothing is more consequential than Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court, which was fast-tracked to the president's...
