by People's Action | Feb 12, 2019 | Breakfast
Lawmakers Sort Of Agree To Avert Shutdown With shutdown looming, sorder Deal Is Reached ‘in Principle’. NYT: "House and Senate negotiators on Monday night agreed in principle to provide $1.375 billion for fencing and other physical barriers at the Mexican border, part...
by People's Action | Feb 11, 2019 | Breakfast
New Shutdown Looms Over Immigration Impasse Talks over border security break down, imperiling effort to prevent shutdown. NYT: "Congressional efforts to reach a border security deal ahead of another government shutdown broke down on Sunday over Democratic demands to...
by People's Action | Feb 8, 2019 | Breakfast
Green New Deal Generates Enthusiasm Despite few details and much doubt, the Green New Deal generates enthusiasm. NPR: "For a non-binding resolution with an uncertain future, the Green New Deal is getting a lot of attention, along with a decidedly mixed reaction....
by People's Action | Feb 6, 2019 | Breakfast
Trump Offers Cold Comfort To Immigrants Trump's speech makes a callous bid for Latino voters. OurFuture: "While Trump didn’t follow his dictatorial instincts in his State of the Union speech to declare an 'emergency' on the U.S.-Mexico border – yet – we know what the...
by People's Action | Feb 5, 2019 | Breakfast
Dems Troll Trump At SOTU Democrats are trolling Trump with their State of the Union invites. WaPo: "The powder-keg partisanship that drove Capitol Hill into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is not likely to cool by Tuesday’s State of the Union address....
