Social Security Is Strangling Seniors With Flawed Math
That is why Democrats who want to expand Social Security propose a more generous, accurate measure of inflation.
Republicans Are Bleeding Our Government Dry
Spending grew by $129 billion, a 3.2 percent increase over 2017.
Republicans Want To Give Trump’s Millionaire Cabinet Pay Raise
It’s not enough to let them waste our money, now Republicans think Trump’s Cabinet deserves a raise.
As Climate Warms, Hurricane Impact Felt Far From Coast
Insurance companies retreated from some communities amid stronger storms, leaving a “last-resort” plan to fill the growing gap.
Florence Hitting Homes Already Bailed Out By Taxpayers
The storm is pummeling coastal towns that are battling rising sea levels and have been repeatedly bailed out by federal flood insurance.
Trump And GOP Congress Dig $900 Billion Budget Hole
According to CBO, the deficit through the first 11 months of fiscal 2018 was $895 billion, a $222 billion (32.8%) increase over the same period in 2017.
Conway Caught Lying (Twice!) About Military Pay Increase
Kellyanne Conway got caught in a lie by Jake Tapper — then immediately told the same lie to Chuck Todd.
Citing Limbaugh, Trump Touts Government Shutdown
Congressional Republican leaders have been clear: They do not want a government shutdown at the end of the month.
Debt Piled On Your Children And Their Children: Thanks Trump!
The $1 trillion-plus annual Trump budget deficits that are about to start will soon create huge policy challenges for future generations of Americans.
As Budget Crunch Approaches, House Republicans Are In Total Chaos
The most recent generic polls show Democrats with a big lead over Republicans on who should control the House in the next Congress.
Republicans Again Running Up Massive Fiscal Deficits
The fact that Republicans are great at cutting taxes for the 1% while butchering social programs for the poor doesn’t mean that they don’t spend tax dollars like crazy.
Federal Employees Spending Taxpayer Millions At Trump Properties
On this week’s podcast, we look at public spending at Trump’s private businesses.
If You Want Fiscal Responsibility, Elect Democrats
These would have enhanced productivity and put the money into blue-collar pockets, as opposed to rich-investor portfolios.
Going Off The Economic Cliff With Wile E. Trump
Then there are Trump’s reckless tax cuts. Price tag: an astounding $1.5 trillion over 10 years. They helped deliver a druggy economic high. Deficit pushing does that — until it turns on you.
Trump Hollows Out Veterans ‘Support Act’ With Funding Cuts
Trump only cares about veterans when the cameras are on.
With New Ebola Outbreak, Trump Cripples Global Health Security Team
As a new Ebola outbreak was declared on Tuesday, Trump called to rescind emergency outbreak funding and the White House abruptly disbanded its global health security team.
Workers Lose: Qualcomm Buys Back Stock, Lays Off 1500
Republicans promised their tax scam would benefit workers, but tech giant Qualcomm is laying off 1,500 employees while lining the pockets of its Wall Street investors.
Nobel-Winning Doctors’ Group Denounces Trump Pharma Plan
The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders issued a stinging rebuke of Trump’s plan to address prescription drug costs by pandering to the pharmaceutical industry.
Trump Declares War On The Poor — And Republicans Cheer
This move comes as outgoing House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said in interviews that it is the social services network that has made a trillion-dollar federal debt “inevitable.” Ryan said, “These deficit trillion-dollar projections have been out there for a long, long time. Why? Because of mandatory spending which we call entitlements,” he told NBC’s Chuck Todd.
Fake Deficit Hawk Paul Ryan Will Leave US With $1 Trillion Deficit
Retiring Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will leave two distinct legacies: a weak Trump enabler, and a policy fraud. Ryan simply lacked the moral and political courage to stand up to Trump and his reckless, dangerous, hateful ways. Scared of offending Trump supporters, Ryan submitted and let Trump run wild, completely unchecked by the Republican Party or by the Congress Ryan runs.
Behind The Wave Of Red-State Teacher Walkouts
An official strike date hasn’t been set, but the teachers, following the playbooks from West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky, have staged multiple protests in individual districts and at the state capitol in Phoenix for the last five weeks, using the #RedforEd hashtag on Twitter to announce and document their protests.
Is Trump Plotting Unconstitutional Line-Item Veto?
In mere days, Trump’s ridiculous and unconstitutional demand for a line-item veto has morphed into a secret project to subvert our founding documents. On Friday, during a press event to sign an omnibus spending bill in order to avoid a government shutdown, Trump said, “To prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again, I’m calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for all government spending bills.”
Austerity’s Ghost: How Pete Peterson Will Keep Haunting Out Future
Peter G. “Pete” Peterson, the billionaire businessman and anti-government crusader, died last week at the age of 91. He leaves behind family and friends who will miss him, and a vast coterie of consultants and politicians who may miss his checks even more. They can take comfort from the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley: “He doth not sleep/he hath awakened from the dream of life …”
New Spending Bill Denies Funding To Trump’s Border Wall
Congress is rushing to pass a massive omnibus spending bill by the end of the week to avoid a government shutdown. One thing that the bill, which will keep the government open through September, won’t fund is Trump’s long-promised border wall.
Trump’s Cronies Protect You By Wasting Your Money
It is difficult to catalog the ways in which President Donald J. Trump and his minions are damaging the fabric of American civic life simply because there are so many, large and small. He and his crew have normalized behaviors that have been judged out of bounds throughout our history, so that we no longer even notice some outrages that would have dominated headlines just a year or two ago.