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MoveOn: Senate Democrats Must Reject Any Funding Bill That Greenlights More ICE Cruelty

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WASHINGTON – In response to House Republicans, with the help of a handful of Democrats, voting to approve annual funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without instituting any guardrails for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), MoveOn Civic Action spokesperson Britt Jacovich released the following statement: “Americans want health care and lower costs, not masked ICE agents kidnapping kids from playgrounds and schools. The House just failed their latest test to hold Trump and his dangerous ICE street gang accountable for killing innocent people like Renee Nicole Good and…

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MoveOn Calls Out Democrats Who Refuse To Unify Around Khanna-Massie WPR

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WASHINGTON – In response to reporting around an alternate War Powers Resolution that says Trump has to stop U.S. hostilities within 30 days unless Congress authorizes the war, MoveOn Civic Action spokesperson Britt Jacovich released the following statement: “Any Democrat who wants to let Donald Trump continue to wage his war on Iran should just say so and stop wasting our time. The longer you refuse to do your job, the more people will die because of Trump’s costly and deadly war. MoveOn members have no patience for cowardly Democrats…

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Democrats Who Condemned Lemon’s Arrest Silent on the Invasion of Cities Church

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Democrats loudly condemned the arrest of former CNN host Don Lemon on Friday, but they have not condemned the invasion of a Minnesota church in the middle of a service—the incident for which Lemon faces charges. Lemon, now an independent journalist, has claimed that he covered the invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 18 as a journalist, and therefore is protected by the First Amendment guarenteeing freedom of the press. Democrats have taken up his cause, suggesting that President Donald Trump targeted Lemon for his political…

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Senate Democrats, holding out for health care, reject government funding bill for 10th time

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats rejected for the 10th time Thursday a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government, insisting they won’t back away from demands that Congress take up health care benefits. The vote failed on a 51-45 tally, well short of the 60 needed to advance with the Senate’s filibuster rules. The repetition of votes on the funding bill has become a daily drumbeat in Congress, underscoring how intractable the situation has become. It has been at times the only item on the agenda for the Senate…

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How Democrats Backed Themselves Into a Shutdown

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The government shutdown that began at 12:01 a.m. is the sixth such closure in the past three decades. It was easily the most foreseeable. That congressional Democrats would force this confrontation became clear almost from the moment they ducked a clash over spending with Republicans in March. Back then, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer convinced just enough of his members that a government shutdown would empower President Donald Trump to govern even more…

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