Blog - /blog/2019/03/11/trumps-fy2020-budget-request/
- At long last, President Trump released his third presidential budget request today, after a month-long delay due to the government shutdown. And it’s a doozy.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/23/end-shutdown-near/
- It’s day 33 of the shutdown. An announcement Wednesday by House Democrats offered yet another possible solution to the ongoing government shutdown battle over the president’s dem...
Blog - /blog/2019/01/12/longest-shutdown-ever/
- Congress has the power to make things right, but it would take a bipartisan stand against the president.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/04/shutdown-day-14/
- If anyone wins, let’s hope it’s the majority of Americans who want nothing to do with border walls or shutdowns.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/22/government-shutdown-2018/
- As of midnight on Friday, major parts of the U.S. government are closed.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/17/government-shutdown-looms-over-trumps-border-wall-funding/
- Congress gave themselves a deadline of Friday, December 21 to pass legislation funding roughly one quarter of the federal government for the rest of the 2019 fiscal year.
Blog - /blog/2018/06/21/house-gop-budget-calls-drastic-cuts-domestic-programs/
- This week the House majority released their budget blueprint for fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1.
Blog - /blog/2018/02/09/congress-strikes-deal-54-military-spending-federal-budget/
- The resulting federal discretinary budgets invests 54% of the federal discretionary budget in the miltiary and nuclear weapons.
Blog - /blog/2017/11/17/death-and-taxes-trumps-tax-bill-and-national-defense-authorization-act/
- The priorities in Congress this week are clear: a $700 billion authorization for military spending in FY 2018, and a $1.5 trillion tax plan that bestows untold wealth upon the already jaw-droppingly w...
Blog - /blog/2017/11/03/tax-cuts-rich-and-famous/
- If the Trump tax plan were an object, you can bet it would be gold-plated
Blog - /blog/2017/10/20/senate-steps-closer-tax-cuts-very-rich/
- It's easy to see what comes next: claiming pressure from the deepening debt that they themselves created, members of Congress will want massive cuts to programs that help the poor and middle class.
Blog - /blog/2017/07/19/what-are-you-looking-congress-military-spending-grab/
- Proposals for U.S. military spending are starkly different. See how they stack up.
Blog - /blog/2017/02/28/president-trumps-54-billion-pentagon-grab/
- The United States already spends more on its military than the next seven countries combined.
Blog - /blog/2017/02/08/say-no-bannon-national-security-council/
- Trump’s decision to give Bannon a vote on the National Security Council is a dangerous one.
Blog - /blog/2017/02/02/how-justice-scalia-may-save-federal-funding-sanctuary-cities/
- How two Supreme Court decisions hailed by conservatives might spell salvation for sanctuary cities.
Blog - /blog/2017/01/19/trumps-budget-cuts/
- Today the Trump transition team suggested $10.5 trillion in spending cuts over the next ten years.
Blog - /blog/2016/11/23/trump-budget-will-congress-repeal-obamacare-aka-affordable-care-act/
- So what’s standing in the way of repealing the Affordable Care Act?
Blog - /blog/2016/07/26/will-congress-use-budget-pass-these-damaging-campaign-finance-rules/
- As if Citizens United weren’t enough, members of Congress are using the federal budget process to open the doors to more money in politics.
Blog - /blog/2016/07/18/3-reasons-run-other-way-ryan-tax-plan/
- The Ryan tax plan would benefit the top 1% and severely hurt the poor. Here's what else it would do.
Blog - /blog/2016/06/28/senate-vote-promesa-way-help-puerto-rico/
- Puerto Rico is in crisis. What should the U.S. federal government do about it?
