As Republicans push to gut Medicaid, the safety net program’s new administrator quickly made clear that parts of the “punitive” plan she crafted for Indiana’s Medicaid recipients are what she hopes other states will replicate. After her swearing in Tuesday, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) head Seema Verma and Health and Human Services Secretary […]
As the Trump administration brags that Tuesday’s executive order to dismantle Obama-era climate regulations will create coal industry jobs, new employment data from the Department of Energy (DoE) demonstrates how misguided that claim is. Clean energy employs many more Americans than the fossil fuel industry, and economic forecasts show that the trend will continue, according […]
A day after it triggered the so-called “nuclear option,” the U.S. Senate on Friday voted to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. The vote was 54-45, with three Democrats—Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia—joining with Republicans to restore a conservative majority to the […]
The company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is under fire in Ohio, where construction of a separate pipeline resulted in spills of millions of gallons of drilling fluids into nearby wetlands. “These disasters prove that the fossil fuel industry is unable to even put a pipeline into use before it spills dangerous chemicals […]
One of the women who has accused Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct said his stunning defeat on Tuesday means that positive changes are coming to the state. “Roy Moore’s loss means to me the fact that Alabama is about to make some changes, and I believe that it’s going to be […]
A Connecticut mayor who served time in prison on felony corruption charges is looking to run for governor as the next step in his political comeback. Democrat Joe Ganim, the mayor of Bridgeport, on Wednesday filed paperwork to kick off his gubernatorial campaign, The Associated Press reported. “I’ve taken my hits. I’ve taken my knocks and made my mistakes. I’ve been knocked down […]
While it is conventional wisdom that money influences politics, researchers released a report Tuesday aiming to answer the longstanding question of exactly how much political spending it takes to sway a Congressional vote. Fifty Shades of Green (pdf), published by the Roosevelt Institute, analyzes “the role political finance has played in securing the privileged positions […]
Among the revelations in Monday evening’s bombshell Washington Post report on President Donald Trump disclosing classified information to Russian diplomats is the fact that one U.S. counterterrorism official “called for the problematic portion of Trump’s discussion to be stricken from internal memos and for the full transcript to be limited to a small circle of […]
Click:velo nicotine pouches Online behemoth Amazon is acquiring Austin-based Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion, the companies announced Friday—a development that watchdogs say will pad billionaire pockets and spell bad news for consumers. Jim Cramer, host of CNBC‘s “Mad Money,” expects the deal to make Amazon, headed by Jeff Bezos, “dominate food within the next […]
The Community Catalyst Action Fund (CCAF), a consumer advocacy group, announced on Sunday the launch of a $1.5 million ad campaign that will target five Republican senators in the hopes of persuading them to defect from the party line and oppose the “shameful” and “undemocratic” attempt by the GOP to ram Trumpcare through without public […]