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Trump's EPA Cuts: No One Will Protect Us
President Trump’s deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency terrify me. They will gut the agency, removing protections for American families and our children.
Immigration Crackdown Sparks Silicon Valley Protests
Silicon Valley rallied against President Trump's immigration policies on "Pi Day." Maybe the Valley will start to live up to its promises to "make the world a better place."
House Bill Threatens Small Business Owners and Employees
A draft law before the House undercuts the reliable and affordable health care small business owners and employees have enjoyed since the passage of the Affordable Care Act ten years ago.
Trump Budget Brings Harsh Cuts to Indian Country
Trump's "America First" budget brings significant harm to the First Americans. It may force cuts of as much as 18 percent to the Indian Health Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other programs that are vital to our life.
Progressive Breakfast
Everybody (But Military Contractors) Hates Trump Budget Republicans run from Trump budget. ABC: "Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., an Air Force veteran and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the dramatic cuts to the State Department's budget and foreign...
'America First' Budget Is Unworthy of Our Nation
Donald Trump's budget blueprint aims to dazzle, but its hardness of heart is unworthy of the American people. Our country's great leaders of the past would hardly recognize it as American at all.
White House Propaganda, Graft: This Is Not Normal
Race-baiting propagandists in the White House, and a rising swamp of corporate influence. This is not "normal." But it's happening so fast, we may be desensitized to what "normal" should mean.
Protest to House Budget Committee: 'Kill the Bill Before It Kills Us'
As the House Budget Committee voted to make health care more expensive and less accessible for millions of Americans, activists gathered outside the hearing room to make sure Congress saw their opposition.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Budget Bashes Poor "Trump Budget Plan Declares War on ‘War on Poverty’ Programs," reports Bloomberg: "President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress calls for eliminating social programs dating to President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and would cut...
What DeVos Means When She Says 'Public Schools'
DeVos has called public schools a “dead end,” but now as Secretary of Education, she’s all for them. Or so she says. But it's likely what DeVos means by "public schools" is different from what you and I think.
