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...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...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...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...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…
Read More...President Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed staging a series of hockey games between players from their respective countries during their lengthy call Tuesday, according to the Kremlin. The Washington Times stories: White House
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