Archive: 2017

In his big speech in Indiana, President Trump claimed the Ryan-McConnell tax ‘reform’ plan is a ‘Middle Class miracle,’ but in reality, nothing about the GOP proposal provides ‘historic tax relief’ for hard-working Americans. It’s nothing more than a massive tax giveaway… Continue

Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Ways and Means Committee Democrats, and experts at a Tax Reform Forum to discuss the Ryan-McConnell tax framework. Below are the Leader’s remarks: Leader… Continue

As Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader McConnell rollout their grossly irresponsible plan to give the wealthiest few massive tax cuts – we thought we’d remind everyone that experts of all political stripes agree tax cuts don’t pay for themselves. Douglas Holtz-Eakin,… Continue

For the last eight years, Republicans in Congress have gone into hysterics over President Obama’s budgets, attempting to misguide the American public that we were hurtling toward a ‘debt crisis.’

Democrats have always been willing to engage in bipartisan tax reform.  Republicans’ tax framework is not tax reform, it is a framework that gives away the store to the wealthiest, while sticking the middle class with the bill.  Cutting the top tax bracket for the richest and the $270 billion giveaway of repealing the estate tax reveal a GOP tax framework built for billionaires.  Meanwhile, the token provisions for hard-working middle class families are likely swallowed by Republicans raising the base rate and forcing them to pay more for their state and local tax burden.  

Washington, D.C.  – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Raul Ruiz and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester were joined by Little Lobbyists for a press conference calling on Republicans to oppose the monstrous Graham-Cassidy Trumpcare bill.  Little Lobbyists are health care advocates representing… Continue

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that she will appoint Nancy Altman to the Social Security Advisory Board.  The Board is a bipartisan, independent federal government agency established to advise the President, the Congress, and the Commissioner of Social Security on matters of policy and administration of the Old-age, Survivors and Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income programs.

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after Senate Republicans announced that they will not bring Graham-Cassidy to a vote on the Senate floor:

After numerous failures to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have revived Trumpcare and made it worse than ever. Under the Graham-Cassidy bill, veterans, seniors, working families, women, Americans with pre-existing conditions and rural communities will suffer just so Republicans can hand tax breaks to the wealthiest.

There is a growing list of organizations that have sent letters and put out statements strongly opposing this latest version of Trumpcare. Bipartisan governors, insurers, doctors, hospitals, nurses, veterans’ groups, seniors’ groups, patient advocacy groups, long-term care providers, mental health and substance use disorder/addiction groups, state Medicaid directors, disability groups, local government groups, and many others have spoken out against Republicans’ latest attack on the health and well-being of hard-working Americans:

Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks of the Floor of the House of Representatives to express her support for a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on the bipartisan DREAM Act. Below are the Leader’s remarks: