Month: September 2020

The Treasury Department on Monday released a report (pdf) that “grants Wall Street its wishes” by recommending the White House defang the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and severely roll back regulations established following the financial meltdown of 2008. “The financial crisis had devastating costs for families and communities, and everyday abuses in financial markets…

Decrying the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as nothing but a “rubber stamp” for industry, a number of activists disrupted a Senate energy committee hearing Thursday on President Donald Trump’s FERC nominees. “FERC’in nuts” was how E&E News reporter Hannah Northey described the scene on Capitol Hill Thursday morning, as an estimated five people were…

In exchanges with reporters regarding a roundly denounced tweets President Donald Trump sent out earlier in the day, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday afternoon defended the president by saying Trump won the presidency “overwhelmingly” (which is simply not true) and that the American people “knew exactly what they were getting”…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Thursday that she will co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) Medicare for All legislation, calling it “the best way to deliver high quality, low cost healthcare to all Americans.” “There is something fundamentally wrong when one of the richest and most powerful countries on the planet can’t make sure that a…

The Russian GP stewards have annulled their previous decision to add two penalty points to Lewis Hamilton’s superlicence for conducting pre-race practice starts out of their designated zone. Hamilton conducted two practice starts on his out-lap to the grid, in an area far beyond the pitlane exit. The move was frowned upon by the officials…

The Senate GOP campaign committee raised about $3.4 million dollars in December as the group gears up for pivotal clashes in the 2018 midterms.  While the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) was outraised by its Democratic rivals in 2017, the GOP group’s 2017 haul of $41.5 million amounts to the most it’s ever raised during an…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE on Wednesday praised Todd Ricketts’s appointment as the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) new finance chairman, calling him a…

Bernie Sanders spoke in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday where he issued a rallying cry for “a vibrant American democracy,” and took aim at the Republicans’ healthcare bill, which he called “the most anti-working class legislation” in modern history. The Vermont senator made the remarks at the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) Action Fund’s…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday that he will “absolutely” introduce legislation on single-payer healthcare now that the Senate GOP’s bill to repeal ObamaCare has failed. “If people don’t like the private insurance that they’re getting, they should have a Medicare-type public option available in every state…

A few weeks before Heather Heyer was murdered and many others were injured after a coalition of hate groups gathered violently in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Trump administration—under guidance from trusted aides such as Katharine Gorka—revoked a $400,000 federal grant from a U.S. nonprofit dedicated to rehabilitating former white supremacists and other extremists. Just before President…