MoveOn: Republicans Cut Healthcare for At Least 17 Million People

WASHINGTON – In response to Senate Republicans and Vice President JD Vance advancing a bill that will slash Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax cuts, MoveOn Political Action spokesperson Britt Jacovich released the following statement:  “People cannot afford to pay rent or put food on the dinner table, but Senate Republicans and Vice President Vance advanced the largest Medicaid cuts in history. At least 17 million people will lose their healthcare because Trump and Republicans care more about billionaires than the rest of us. MoveOn and our members will make…

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New Social Security commissioner faces pointed questions about staffing, privacy

WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of job cuts, leadership turnover and other turmoil at the Social Security Administration, the agency’s newly minted commissioner faced pointed questions from lawmakers about the future of the agency and its ability to pay Americans their benefits and protect their privacy. Frank Bisignano, who was sworn in last month as President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, told lawmakers he intends to improve accuracy in payments and raise morale at the agency, which has already lost 7,000 workers since billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of…

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Trump’s Running Tab in the Abrego Garcia Case

The Trump administration’s long, belabored campaign to prove that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a gang leader, a terrorist, and an all-around bad guy—not a wrongfully deported Maryland man—has produced some extraordinary legal maneuvers. The administration fought Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador all the way to the Supreme Court, lost, and eventually brought him back to the United States to slap him with criminal charges it had started investigating after it had already sent him to a foreign prison. But with that criminal case off to a shaky start, the…

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Inside the White House: ‘New Media’ Journalist Olohan on Power, the Press, and What You Don’t See

Working weekends, flights on Air Force One, and jockeying for position to ask presidential press secretary Karoline Leavitt a question in the White House briefing room is all a part of life as a White House correspondent, according to Mary Margaret Olohan.   As a member of the “new media” in the White House, Olohan says the interactions between reporters for the legacy media and journalists like herself have “by and large been pretty polite,” but notes little differences between the two groups remain. For example, new media do not…

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MoveOn on SCOTUS Ruling on Birthright Citizenship

WASHINGTON – In response to the Supreme Court ruling issued today on whether President Trump’s executive order to revise the 14th Amendment can move forward, MoveOn Civic Action spokesperson Britt Jacovich released the following statement: “The Supreme Court has just made it easier for Trump to take away your rights. The court has a responsibility to serve as a check against any president attempting to abuse their power, and instead they’re bending the knee to Trump.  Trump is seeking outsized power to tell us who gets to be an American.…

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