More than 100 state legislators started flying into Washington, D.C. on Monday to join the runaway Texas Democrats in their pressure campaign on the federal government to address voting rights issues across the country. The ‘week of action’, they are calling it, attempts to urge senators to forgo their August recess to instead pass the … Read more
REVEALED: President Biden is spending more than $2 billion to halt border wall construction as thousands of migrants flood into the US every day President Joe Biden has spent around $2 billion in six months to suspend border wall construction, a new Republican congressional report found The report states the administration is spending $3 million … Read more
Rep. Hank Johnson has been arrested on Capitol Hill during a protest over voting rights, just one week after the detention of fellow Black Caucus member Joyce Beatty. The Democratic congressman, 66, was cuffed with zip ties by Capitol police officers outside the Hart Senate Office Building Thursday where he and other voting rights advocates had gathered … Read more
AOC calls for a ‘wartime mobilization’ to defeat climate change in announcement pushing a Civilian Climate Corps with 1.5million members that could cost taxpayers $10billion House and Senate Democrats pledged today that funding for a Civilian Climate Corps would be included in the upcoming budget reconciliation bill Majority Leader Schumer vowed to get the ‘biggest, … Read more
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell praised President Joe Biden for walking back his commitment to link the bipartisan infrastructure bill to ‘massive, unrelated tax-and-spend’ legislation in a statement Monday. ‘The President has appropriately delinked a potential bipartisan infrastructure bill from the massive, unrelated tax-and-spend plans that Democrats want to pursue on a partisan basis,’ McConnell … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Nancy Pelosi ‘will name a Democrat-led House select committee to investigate the Capitol riot’ after Republicans blocked 9/11-style commission By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 23:51 BST, 22 June 2021 | Updated: 23:59 BST, 22 June 2021 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will name a Democrat-led select committee to investigate the Capitol riot. CNN reported Tuesday … Read more
Jen Psaki says Biden’s plan to combat rising crime won’t derail the George Floyd police reform bill and insists the surge in violence is ‘driven by guns’ in major cities Press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden’s plan to address the rise in violent crime won’t derail negotiations over the George Floyd police reform … Read more
Jen Psaki says White House will look for a different path if the voting rights Senate vote fails tomorrow and calls Joe Manchin’s compromise a ‘step forward’ White House press secretary Jen Psaki called Sen. Joe Manchin’s voting rights proposal a ‘step forward’ The Senate is slated to vote to begin debate on the issue … Read more
Chuck Schumer sparks outrage after referring to mentally-disabled homeless children as ‘retarded’ on podcast Schumer, the Senate majority leader, appeared on a podcast on Sunday He was on OneNYCHA show to discuss affordable housing and homelessness Schumer, representing New York in the Senate, talked about plans for shelters He told how in the past he … Read more
Uber pays food delivery worker $400,000 rather than risk having its legion of low-paid workers being classed as employees by a court Uber Eats paid Adelaide driver Amita Gupta $400,000 settlement last year Ms Gupta claimed unfair dismissal after she was blocked from the delivery app Arguments arose whether she was contractor or employee and … Read more
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Brown Jackson is considered by some to be next in line for a Supreme Court nod Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2013. Prior to joining … Read more
Trump makes North Carolina GOP Conference wait for his comeback speech as he flies in with Lara and tells his supporters ‘we’re gonna take back the Senate and the House’ By Jimmy Mccloskey For Dailymail.Com Published: 00:19 BST, 6 June 2021 | Updated: 00:19 BST, 6 June 2021 Donald Trump has issued a speech vowing … Read more
Former President Donald Trump added his voice to growing demands for an audit of votes cast last year in Pennsylvania, inspired by a partisan effort to overturn results in Arizona. Three state lawmakers from Pennsylvania this week visited the Arizona State Fairgrounds, site of a former basketball arena, where a hand count of 2.1 million … Read more