Lawmakers call on Agriculture Dept to restore employee childcare centers contract
USDA has not communicated any plans to offer an alternative to the employees who rely on those centers. Congress – Federal News Network
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House Democrats call on Melania Trump to testify about Epstein
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are calling on first lady Melania Trump to testify before the panel the day after she denied knowing anything about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...National No Kings Coalition Leaders Call Ahead of Saturday’s Historic Nonviolent Actions
No Kings Coalition: “No Illegal Wars, No ICE, and No Kings” Recording available here. TWIN CITIES, MN – National leaders and organizers from the No Kings coalition held a virtual call to preview Saturday’s historic Day of Action across all 50 states and around the world. Americans are fed up with the constant chaos of the Trump administration, and they’re ready to stand in solidarity against its overreach and attacks on the American people and immigrants. Katie Bethell, Executive Director, MoveOn Civic Action said “The Trump administration made a terrible miscalculation that we would…
Read More...Grassroots Groups Announce 500K Call Push to Protect Health Care in Shutdown Showdown
Indivisible, MoveOn, and Working Families Power Combine Efforts to Ensure Dems Keep Holding the Line WASHINGTON – As health care premiums prepare to go up and the Trump-Republican shutdown continues, grassroots groups are coming together to push half a million calls to Congress to protect health care access. Throughout this week, Indivisible, MoveOn Civic Action, and Working Families Power (WFP) are activating their members to place calls to Congress to demand they preserve ACA subsidies and reinstate life-saving Medicaid funding that Republicans gutted to make way for tax cuts for…
Read More...Trump and Putin discuss Iran-Israel fight in Saturday phone call
President Trump said he talked by phone to Russian President Vladimir Putin about Iran on Saturday, hours before the Iranians began firing a new round of missiles at Israel. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...Just Don’t Call Her Unqualified
Donald Trump has been widely ridiculed for staffing his administration with unqualified partisan hacks recruited from Fox News. This is not quite fair. Yesterday, Trump named Jeanine Pirro as the new interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Pirro is a partisan hack recruited from Fox News, but she’s a qualified one. Millions of Americans know Pirro as a prolific conservative-television pundit, most recently as a member of Fox News’s afternoon talk show, The Five. Even compared with other right-wing TV personalities, Pirro’s record of unwavering Trump support, including at his…
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