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Progressives Lost The Vote On DeVos But Won Something Valuable
Betsy DeVos won her contest in the Senate to become the new U.S. Secretary of Education but likely killed a long-standing political consensus on education. Its death gives progressives a chance to push for something better.
Progressive Breakfast
Sessions Confirmed, Price Next USA Today previews "5 big issues where Sessions may have an immediate impact": "Trump won’t need to worry about having to coax his new attorney general into enforcing his immigration ban ... Civil rights advocates have expressed doubts...
Senator Warren Persists, We Persist
Senate Republicans silenced Elizabeth Warren when she was reading aloud a critical letter from three decades ago about Jeff Sessions during a debate over his confirmation as attorney general. She persisted.
Tribe Says Corps Lacks Authority to Stop DAPL Environmental Review
The showdown over the North Dakota Access Pipeline is is now a test of the federal courts. Will that institution follow the order of the acting secretary, and the president of the United States?
A Vote for Tom Price Is a Vote to Destroy Medicare
If Price is confirmed by all Republican senators, or all but one GOP senator voted for confirmation, it will be clear that the Republican Party wants to destroy Medicare.
Progressive Breakfast
"Nevertheless, She Persisted" Republicans try to silence Warren, fail. W. Post: "...Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) interrupted Warren’s speech ... and said that she had breached Senate rules by reading past statements against [Jeff] Sessions from figures such...
Americans Like the Resistance a Lot More Than They Like Trump
For Donald Trump, this has got to hurt: Less than two weeks after his inauguration, the people who took to the streets to protest his policies have outstripped him in popularity.
The Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Got Bigger in 2016, Action Needed
A trade deficit can be a good thing if it's temporary and if the deficit is used for things that help our economy, like productive investment at home. But our trade deficit isn't doing anything productive.
Make American Jobs
American manufacturing workers need tough action against corporations that renounce their birthplace for profit and against flagrant, job-stealing trade violators like China.
Progressive Breakfast
Tell Your Senator to Vote "No" on DeVos At noon today, the full Senate is expected to vote on billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education. DeVos has raised bipartisan concerns and is now only one vote away from losing the nomination. Act now to...
