Tag: GOP

Democrats cannot back down from funding children’s health and protecting Dreamers. These issues are moral priorities.

As Republicans rush to get this bill passed before it is read, the big lies will be exposed.

Leaders in both parties make false and misleading claims about the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax cut plan.

Trump is in hot water, but Republicans are still pushing forward his plans to cut taxes on the rich and defang the EPA.

In Part 1 of a two-part interview, former Reagan economic adviser Bruce Bartlett says Trump is lying about tax reform: it will benefit the super rich and hurt everyone else.

One of the Affordable Care Act’s fatal flaws enables Republican sabotage. But to lay the groundwork for change, progressives will have to resist powerful senior lobbies.

"Republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign."

The Republican legislator slipped his amendment into a massive federal funding bill that the House of Representatives is expected to consider after returning next week from recess.

Scanning ahead, what major talking points or legislative agendas won’t end badly for Republicans, whether passed or not? Doubling-down, the reflexive GOP way, now invites double-jeopardy, especially as the Trump/Rightwing keeps marching into its own self-made political mine field.

Happy news. What the first six months show us, both about Trump and Senate leadership, is they remain their own worst enemies.