Archive: 2017

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee unveiled a bill that includes $1.6 billion in taxpayer funds for President Trump’s border wall:

As Congressional Republicans push towards a vote on their cruel Senate Trumpcare bill next week, they still have yet to meet their most basic responsibility: passing a budget. Even with Republicans in control of the House, the Senate and the White House, Republicans still have not put forward a single piece of legislation to create good-paying jobs or raise the wages of hard-working Americans.

The new 115th Congress has officially convened – giving us the chance to celebrate how far we’ve come as a nation. And once again, House Democrats are proud of our historic dedication to diversity: the House Democratic Caucus of the 115th Congress is made up of a majority of women, minorities, and LGBT community members.

There’s no escaping it: the Trump Campaign’s inner circle met with an agent of a hostile foreign power to influence the outcome of an American election. The American people face a White House riddled with shadowy Russian connections and desperate to hide the truth.

More than six months into the Congress, House Republicans are still flailing on their basic responsibility to pass a budget. Another delay, another sign of a House Republican Conference floundering and frightened of revealing the true job-killing disaster of their Billionaires First budget plans.

The reports from President Trump’s private, two-hour meeting with Putin leave the American people asking why the President continues to fawn over Putin instead of standing up for the integrity of America’s democracy. U.S. intelligence officials have concluded with high confidence that Russia intervened in the 2016 election, but Trump still refuses to accept this truth.

Once again, Republican sabotage of the ACA is causing premiums to skyrocket – today it was reported that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, the state’s most popular insurer, is requesting an average rate increase of 21.4 percent in the individual health insurance marketplace.

Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Senate version of Trumpcare – supported by only 12% of Americans – is officially the most unpopular bill in three decades.

June’s jobs report shows an economy where American workers still aren’t getting the bigger paychecks they deserve. Despite all the Trump Administration’s promises, automakers and other industries are shipping American jobs overseas, and the White House offers nothing but tweets. Hard-working Americans are being left behind by a Republican Congress and Administration that haven’t lifted a finger to create good-paying jobs or raise wages.

San Francisco – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement after Walter Shaub, the government’s top ethics official, announced his early resignation: