Tag: Susan Collins
Trump hands top intelligence role to loyalist with no national security...
President names housing regulator Bill Pulte to oversee 18 intelligence agencies despite no known background in intelligence, defense, or military service, raising bipartisan concerns about experience, accountability, and political loyalty.
Senate GOP blocks effort to overturn $10.3 billion corporate tax break...
Resolution targeting Trump administration guidance on corporate minimum tax fails 51-47 as advocates warn of expanded loopholes.
Trump claims control over Venezuelan oil sales after deadly attack and...
President says U.S. will seize and sell up to 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil as lawmakers warn of constitutional violations and political backlash grows.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, October 8
Humans, fish and other animals are consuming microfibers in our food and water, Trump's pick for energy innovation is invested in Big Oil, and Susan Collins' challenger raises millions after vote for Kavanaugh.
Violence Against Women Act at risk of lapsing
“Republicans’ decision to include only a short-term VAWA re-authorization in the must-pass minibus spending bill is nothing short of an abdication of our responsibilities to women in our country."
A time for integrity
You have not pledged yours souls to the Republican Party. You have pledged yourselves to America. Now is the time to deliver on that pledge.
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Moderate Democrats: Splitting the party in two
This is the most important midterm election in American history. If the Democratic Party leadership splits the party and the Republicans win, Democrats will go the way of the Whig and the Tory.
ICE killed a Maine father during an operation targeting someone else
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was fatally shot while driving to work, leaving conflicting federal and eyewitness accounts of why an immigration agent opened fire.
Justice Department probe tests the UAW’s reform movement
Shawn Fain denies allegations that he misused union authority as a federal investigation and leadership election place one of organized labor’s most prominent unions under new pressure.
Inside ICE’s largest detention center
A new investigation describes deaths, medical neglect, hidden detainees, and private contractors inside Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss.
The US kicks off world’s largest naval war games: RIMPAC, China, & the cost...
The newest escalation of U.S. preparations for war on China will further militarize the Pacific and normalizing the prospect of conflict through increasingly large-scale exercises and an ever-expanding web of alliances and military bases.