Archive: 2017

Moments ago, HHS Secretary Tom Price testified before the Senate Finance Committee, insisting that the Trump Administration’s budget does not slash Medicaid funding but rather ‘provides for an increase.’ Um, are we talking about the same budget here? Because that is a… Continue

In the wake of America’s recovery from the Great Recession – an economic nightmare in which 11 million people lost their homes through foreclosure, $13 trillion in wealth was lost and unemployment was at 10% – Republicans are intent on sending us back to collapse.

Every day, Americans learn more about President Trump’s brazen attempts to interfere with the investigations into his potential collusion with Russia. From reports that the President asked his top intelligence officials to curtail the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe to his firing of Director James Comey, Trump is making it clear that he will stop at nothing to prevent the FBI – and Americans – from following the facts on his Moscow connection.

Today, President Trump will be in Cincinnati, Ohio to meet with ‘victims’ of the Affordable Care Act, just weeks after proposing a crushing $1.4 trillion in cuts to Medicaid in his budget and Trumpcare. The real victims are the Ohioans who rely… Continue

Anthem’s decision to pull out of the Ohio Marketplace is yet another example of the devastation wreaked on American families by the Trump Administration’s efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans’ irresponsible actions have already resulted in North Carolinians in the Marketplace facing double-digit premium increases – and now, 10,500 Americans in 20 counties in Ohio could be left without any insurance options next year. Republicans must stop working to collapse the health care system and inflict suffering on hard-working families, and instead begin to work with Democrats on improving our health care system and lowering health care costs.

In the past 48 hours, President Trump took to Twitter attacking the Mayor of London in the wake of a terrorist attack, pointlessly ranting about ‘fake news’, taking credit for the isolation of Qatar (where the largest U.S. military base in the… Continue

This morning, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Chris Cuomo on CNN’s New Day. Leader Pelosi discussed President Trump’s glaring lack of accomplishments in creating jobs, presenting an infrastructure plan and growing the economy despite Republican control of the House, Senate and White House.

Today, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Jedediah Bila on ABC’s The View. In the wake of terror attacks in London, Leader Pelosi criticized the Trump White House’s hypocrisy and denounced the President’s travel ban.

Bold, job-creating investments in our crumbling infrastructure system can and should be a bipartisan priority. However, Trump’s ‘infrastructure week’ appears to be little more than a Trojan Horse for undermining workers’ wages and handing massive tax breaks to billionaires and corporations.

Today, the American people stand in solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom, and share in the shock and outrage of this brutal attack. We send our thoughts and prayers to the fallen, the injured and those still waiting for news of their loved ones.