Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Tag: Chuck Schumer

Majority of Democrats want party leaders replaced as DNC turmoil deepens

New polling reveals growing discontent with Democratic leadership as base pushes for stronger opposition to Trump and support for progressive policies.

GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax...

Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.

Schumer’s lack of fight is the real problem

Whether you read Chuck Schumer as surrendering or taking an unwise but principled stance, one thing is clear: People now want leaders who fight.

Senate Democrats face reckoning over GOP spending bill that hands Trump...

Progressives warn that the Republican spending bill would give Trump and Musk sweeping control over federal funds, gut social programs, and set a dangerous precedent—while Senate Democrats waver on whether to fight or fold.

Schumer unveils No Kings Act to counter Supreme Court’s presidential immunity...

Schumer’s No Kings Act aims to counter Supreme Court ruling and reassert presidential accountability.

‘Keep fighting’: Schumer ‘making progress’ on canceling student debt

"Write, call, email," urged the Democratic leader, who said President Joe Biden is "more open" to the proposal than ever before.

‘Now is the moment’: Progressives urge Schumer to jumpstart bold agenda...

Groups call on Democratic leadership to "do everything in their power to pass a reconciliation package that invests in our communities, brings down costs for families, makes the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share, and takes urgently needed climate action."

‘They need our help’: As CBO projects $16 trillion GDP loss...

“Why the hell won’t Senator McConnell act like this is a crisis and pass emergency relief now?”

350.org on Senator Schumer’s support for the Climate and Community Protection...

"Now, the legislature must pass the strongest possible climate justice bill, and Governor Cuomo must sign it into law. The world is watching.”

Referendum 2020: A Green New Deal vs. racist, classist climate genocide

This piece will offer why this stunning referendum would be so politically powerful and – despite that – so difficult to persuade Democrats to adopt.

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Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’

I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.

Denying coverage with AI: CMS’s new Medicare model

Funneling money to for-profit companies by rewarding them for denying health care coverage through using unproven, manipulable AI models is not the answer.

Progressive legacy triumphs as Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona primary

A clash of legacy versus digital insurgency, this Arizona primary uncovers deep intra‑party tensions around candidate experience, social media influence, and the future of democratic progressiveness.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza must be in ruins for decades,’ as airstrike kills children seeking...

Keeping millions of Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children, living in ruins for decades is not the sort of goal announced by sane, civilized, ordinary European politicians.