Tag: Bernie Sanders

Legislation would target households worth over $1 billion and direct revenue toward healthcare, housing, childcare, and teacher pay.

Critics challenge Trump administration’s shifting case for war on Iran

Warren, Wyden, and Sanders are demanding disclosures from Equifax as new federal work requirements threaten to strip healthcare and food assistance from millions while expanding the company’s already dominant income verification business.

After U.S. citizens were killed by federal agents, lawmakers tie DHS money to accountability and warn of authoritarian enforcement.

Internal agency documents and a Senate letter raise concerns that a sharp reduction in in-person services could function as a backdoor cut to benefits for millions of Americans.

Senate Democrats say Kennedy has undermined scientific agencies as preventable diseases surge.

Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn, Mamdani said New York is a “union town,” and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1.

Trump’s formal designation of Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally coincides with proposed F-35 and tank sales, a pledged increase in Saudi investments and renewed scrutiny of the Kingdom’s human rights record and the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

As the nation endures record inequality and a prolonged government shutdown, Tesla shareholders have granted CEO Elon Musk a pay deal that could make him the world’s first trillionaire, prompting fierce backlash from lawmakers, labor unions, and progressive groups.

Critics accuse the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding SNAP benefits during the shutdown while approving a $40 billion bailout tied to Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei.