by People's Action | Nov 22, 2016 | Breakfast
Trump Previews First 100 Days Trump lays out initial agenda. Roll Call: "On the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, the president-elect said he’d issue a 'a notification of intent to withdraw' from the agreement. He also plans to 'cancel' what he called 'job-killing...
by People's Action | Nov 21, 2016 | Breakfast
Some Warn Against Cooperating With Trump On Infrastructure Former VP Biden aide Ronald Klain tells Democrats Trump's infrastructure plan is "a trap": "...Trump’s plan is not really an infrastructure plan. It’s a tax-cut plan for utility-industry and...
by People's Action | Nov 18, 2016 | Breakfast
Knives Out For Medicare, Dodd-Frank Trump is going after Medicare, warns NYT's Paul Krugman: "During the campaign, Donald Trump [said,] 'I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,' ... It was, of...
by People's Action | Nov 17, 2016 | Breakfast
Sanders To Lead Rally Today People's Action to join Our Revolution in Washington, DC rally at 1 PM ET today: "Join Senator U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and broad array of labor, environmental, healthcare, consumer and other advocacy groups in Washington DC Thursday to...
by People's Action | Nov 16, 2016 | Breakfast
No Mandate Only 29 percent say Trump has a mandate. Politico: "Less than 30 percent of Americans say Donald Trump has a mandate to carry out as president the agenda he proposed on the campaign trail, according to new Washington Post/Schar School poll ... 59 percent...
by People's Action | Nov 14, 2016 | Breakfast
Timely book on Populism. Timely discussion on Tuesday. As the epic election was ending, journalist John Judis published "The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics," explaining the left populism of Bernie Sanders and the...
