Trump’s Plan to End the Shutdown Is Already Getting Terrible Reviews
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This afternoon, President Donald Trump is expected to propose an deal that would exchange $5.7 billion in border wall funding for his support of the BRIDGE Act, which would extend protections to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and give…
Consumer Groups Want a New Government Agency Created to Protect Data Privacy
alashi/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A group of tech consumer groups and racial justice organizations released an aggressive new proposal on Thursday calling on the federal government to create an entirely new federal agency tasked with data privacy protection. “Our privacy laws are decades out of date,” the…
The Pentagon’s New Climate Change Report Is Missing Some Important Details
Waves slam the Oceana Pier & Pier House Restaurant in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, as Hurricane Florence approaches the area. Travis Long/The News & Observer/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than two months after President Donald Trump said he did not believe a federal report outlining the existential threat of…
Democrats Introduce Legislation to Get Federal Contract Workers Back Pay
Workers and congressional Democrats protest the shutdown outside of the White House.Riccardo Savi/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would provide back pay to federal contractors who are losing wages during the federal shutdown. The Fair Compensation for Low-Wage Contractor Employees Act would…
The House Votes to Reprimand Steve King for Racist Comments
Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday condemning comments that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) had made about white supremacy—with even King himself voting for the measure, in an odd turn of events. It was a rare instance of unanimous agreement within…
Steve King Was Saying Insanely Racist Things Long Before Republicans Decided Enough Was Enough
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Iowa Rep. Steve King’s openly racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric has finally caught up with him. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to condemn the congressman, with a final vote of 424 to 1. The vote came just a…