Dissatisfied with OPM’s data, Republicans ask individual agencies for telework details

With many agencies’ return-to-office plans still uncertain, Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee want to take matters into their own hands. GOP committee leaders changed their strategy for trying to get more federal telework data, now reaching out directly to agency heads. In a series of 25 letters, the lawmakers asked for up-to-date  numbers of teleworking federal employees, after saying the Biden administration was “not adequately tracking the specific levels of telework.” The Biden administration “has not provided current data about the specific amount of telework occurring within…

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McCarthy and Complicit Caucus Republicans Keep Choosing to Stick with Admitted Fraudster Santos

Washington, D.C. – In response to House Republicans failing to expel Representative George Santos from Congress, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting issued the following statement: “George Santos belongs in a courtroom—not in Congress—and he needs to be removed from office immediately. Kevin McCarthy is trying to hang on to his razor-thin majority by dragging out and delaying his responsibility to expel George Santos from Congress. Kicking this responsibility over to the Ethics Committee at this point is just a delay tactic to preserve MAGA Republican power and continue…

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Nikki Haley’s Dilemma Is Also the Republicans’ Problem

Republicans have had 10 months to hammer out a coherent post-Roe message on abortion. You would think they’d have nailed it by now. Yet on Tuesday, Nikki Haley set out to declare her position on the issue—and proceeded to be about as clear as concrete. She began with plausible precision. “I want to save as many lives and help as many moms as possible,” the former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations told reporters gathered at the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America headquarters, in Northern Virginia—a press…

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House’s MAGA Debt Limit Bill Puts All Republicans On The Record In Favor Of Cuts To Veterans Benefits, Health Care and Other Vital Programs. We Will Hold Them Accountable

Washington, D.C. –In response to the House Debt Ceiling vote, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting issued the following statement: “Every Republican just went on the record for devastating cuts to veterans benefits, health care and numerous other vital programs. We are going to make sure their constituents don’t forget it, today, tomorrow, and every day between now and Election Day.  Every member in a vulnerable district who aligned with Speaker McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene are on notice for voting in lockstep with the deeply unpopular MAGA wing.” …

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Analysis: Swing District Republicans Vote in Lockstep with Marjorie Taylor Greene

An analysis of key votes from the first two months of the 118th Congress shows that the 18 House Republicans from swing districts that Biden carried in 2020 have voted in lockstep with Marjorie Taylor Greene. While they pass themselves off as moderates to their constituents and the media, they are in fact pushing the MAGA agenda in Washington. They are the Complicit Caucus, voting with the radical right wing and causing real damage to our families, our communities, and our country.  The 18 House Republicans Representing Swing Districts That…

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