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Trump Drowns the 'Forgotten Men and Women' in Swamp Water
Hurricane victims in Puerto Rico are getting sick from drinking polluted water. And Trump’s lone-wolf attack on health insurance markets will now make care unaffordable to millions of the working-class men and women he promised to protect.
Kris Kobach Can Irreparably Harm Our Democracy
By purging minorities from voting rolls, Kris Kobach, Co-Chair of Trump's "Election Integrity" Commission, may have done more to steal the election for Republicans than Comey and Putin combined. Now he's getting ready to do it again.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Cuts $7 Billion from Health Care for Poor Trump ends ACA subsidies for poor, to undermine health marketplaces. WaPo: "President Trump is throwing a bomb into the insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act, choosing to end critical payments to...
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Paid for with Your Health Care
When GOP leaders tried to repeal health care in the spring and summer, many Americans made a ruckus. We asked hard questions in town halls and in the streets. But the GOP hasn't given up the fight, and neither will we.
After The Storm, It’s Labor vs. Finance for the Future of Puerto Rico
Two opposing forces are fighting to reshape Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Wall Street, which has been plundering the island for years, and organized labor, which is working to rebuild the island - and its own ranks.
NAFTA Negotiators Send Corporate Whiners Back to Swamp
The Trump Administration defied the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in renegotiation of NAFTA. The Chamber whined about it, and a spokesperson for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative basically told them to shut up.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Order to Gut ACA Rules Trump to sign executive order to gut ACA insurance rules and undermine marketplaces. WaPo: "President Trump is due to sign an executive order Thursday morning intended to allow individuals and small businesses to buy a long-disputed type...
Betsy DeVos's Attack On Public Education Is Just Beginning
Efforts to recast Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as marginalized or ineffectual are misleading. DeVos is quite pleased with the progress she’s making in her long game to change the nation's schools into a competitive marketplace.
Progressive Breakfast
Clean Power Plan Repeal Unlikely to Help Coal Scott Pruitt can't stop the death of big coal. Rolling Stone: "Virtually no coal industry leader, lobbyist or hack politician believes coal has a future in America. Everyone else knows it's a dead industry walking. The...
The Republican Plan to Rob America
The Republican tax plan is a lie. It’s being sold with the promise that the tax cut will create jobs and growth. In fact, the cuts, if passed, will become the major obstacle to the very investments vital to generating jobs and growth.
