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Rollbacks and Paybacks EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels. WaPo: "Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department are overhauling a slew of outside advisory boards that inform how...
What's At Stake When We Talk About Healthcare
Citizens everywhere are asking hard questions to the 217 Republicans who voted in Congress to repeal Obamacare. People's Action's Julie Chinitz offers tips on how to talk with friends, family and our leaders about why healthcare matters.
How Trump’s Tax Proposal Could Weaken Faith in the System’s Fairness
Trump's proposed tax changes will lead to very creative tax planning at best, and outright evasion at worst, while prompting more companies to adopt deceptive business structures to gain huge benefits.
In France, Neoliberalism Defeats Neofascism... For Now
Neoliberal Emmanuel Macron has defeated neofascist Marine Le Pen to become France's next president. That's good news, but neoliberalism is part of what has fueled Le Pen's rise, so it's too early to break out the Beaujolais.
Progressive Breakfast
Healthcare Fallout Obamacare repeal vote upends 2018 House landscape. Politico: “More than a dozen senior Republican strategists, lawmakers, and potential candidates expressed varying degrees of concern over the political implications of the health care push… The...
How Trump Could Actually Stop Offshoring
U.S. Presidents have often leaned on government contractors to change the way they operate, as a condition to receiving tax dollars. On day one, Trump could have saved thousands of U.S. jobs. He didn't.
How the "People's Budget" Can Help Redress Inequality
The Progressive Caucus frames its budget around the central challenge of our time: how to make this economy work for working people, and redress the savage inequality that is undermining our democracy. It offers us a strategy to get there.
How Many People Will Die For Each Rich American’s Trumpcare Tax Cut?
Ten: that’s how many people will die every year so Republicans can give the 400 richest people in America yet another multi-million-dollar tax break. All in all, hundreds of thousands could die over the next ten years.
GOP Ignores Consequences of ACA Repeal Republicans manufacture a crisis that will devastate millions of families. Common Dreams: "...with no Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score on how many people would be affected, and with scant time for lawmakers to even read...
How We Can Make House Republicans Pay For Their Health Care Vote
These politicians voted to kill the people they are supposed to represent. We must never let them forget that vote. We must make them regret it every day of their lives.
