Tag: Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Jayapal’s bill to overturn Citizens United targets Musk’s ‘shadow presidency’
As billionaires like Elon Musk reshape American democracy, a new amendment seeks to reverse the Supreme Court ruling that allowed corporate money to dominate politics.
Jayapal and Sanders seize on Musk’s critique of US healthcare costs...
Progressive lawmakers urge Elon Musk to address healthcare inefficiencies, highlighting Medicare for All as the solution to rising costs and inequality.
Climate crisis has made western US megadrought worst in 1,200 years
"Climate change is here and now," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. "If a 1,200 year mega-drought isn't enough to make people realize that, I don't know what is."
In the latest round of budgetary chess, Progressive caucus leader Jayapal...
The Seattle Democrat has been willing to take the heat to secure a down payment on an agenda for economic equity and sustainability.
As progressives secure $15 wage in house covid bill, Jayapal says...
“We shouldn’t care whether Republicans are gonna vote for this or not. The vast majority of the American people support this package, Republicans and Democrats.”
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Senators probe Equifax over plans to profit from Medicaid and SNAP work requirements
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.
Trump’s Board of Peace is a dystopia in motion
If any entity requires immediate disarmament and deradicalization, it is Trump and his so-called Executive Board.
The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news?
Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.
High levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in Great Lakes put consumption of fish and drinking...
In Michigan alone, about one out of every three water bodies tested has a PFAS fish consumption advisory.