Republicans Want to Spend Big Bucks on Trump’s Wall. Election Security Is Another Thing.
November 4, 2019, Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico: Border wall construction at Sonoyta, Mexico and Lukeville, Arizona USA.Bob Torrez/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com As the Democratic controlled House and the Republican held Senate move forward with contentious negotiations over the next federal budget, a group of Democratic Senators have called on their Republican colleagues in both bodies to approve additional…
Trump Campaign Attacks Another Impeachment Witness as He Testifies
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, is sworn in before testifying in the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA President Donald Trump’s campaign attacked Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman as he testified during Tuesday morning’s impeachment hearing. Using one of its…
Most Superfund Sites Are Threatened by Climate Change. EPA Doesn’t Plan to Do Anything About It.
Dixie Oil Processors Superfund site on September 4, 2017 in Friendswood, Texas.Justin Sullivan/Getty Two years ago, Congress asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to determine how prepared the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was to address the threat climate change poses to Superfund sites—spaces that store hazardous materials, like coal ash ponds or decommissioned mining sites…
Elizabeth Warren Has a New Plan to Address White Nationalist Violence
US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) campaigns in Waverly, Iowa on November 16. Jack Kurtz/ZUMA On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren released a plan for combatting white nationalist-inspired violence with a simple basic premise: Make the government take the problem seriously—maybe for the first time. Warren’s plan envisions a federal bureaucracy that makes stopping white nationalist violence a…
More Intimidation: Nunes Baselessly Claims Whistleblower May Have Broken the Law
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, kicked off Tuesday’s impeachment hearing with a fusillade of attacks on Democrats, the media, and the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint brought the Ukraine scandal into public view. In perhaps the most consequential portion of his opening statement, Nunes…
In Opening Statement, Vindman Outlines Concerns About Trump’s Ukraine Call
Alex Brandon/AP During his opening statement at Tuesday’s impeachment hearing, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the Ukraine expert on the National Security Council who listened in on President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, explained why he felt compelled to report the call to the NSC legal advisor. “I was concerned by the…