Warren’s election reform proposal includes standardized federal election rules, increased federal oversight of elections, and a constitutional amendment guaranteeing voting rights. Warren estimates her plan would cost $20 billion over 10 years, to be generated from increased taxes on the wealthy. Warren’s plan includes the federal government replacing every voting machine in the country. She […] Read more
Nineteen billionaires and ultra millionaires including George Soros, Abigail Disney and members of the Pritzker family release a bipartisan letter asking the 2020 presidential candidates to support a tax on the American families with the largest fortunes. “The next dollar of new tax revenue should come from the most financially fortunate, not from middle-income and […] Read more
Roy Moore, who was accused of sexual misconduct with teens decades ago, will run for the U.S. Senate again in Alabama. He will try to take on Democratic Sen. Doug Jones against the wishes of national Republicans and even President Donald Trump. Moore argues Alabama voters are “tired” of “dirty politics” after the 2017 special […] Read more
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is cutting ties with some of its own pollsters after leaked internal polling showed the president trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in critical 2020 battleground states. The move comes after NBC News obtained new details from a March internal poll that found Trump trailing Biden in 11 key states. […] Read more
President Trump tells Fox News that if Iran were to block the Strait of Hormuz, “it’s not going to be closed for long.” Trump was responding to a hypothetical question following the attacks Thursday on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, south of the strait, for which the United States has blamed Iran. […] Read more
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refuses to say at what point she would support impeaching President Donald Trump. “Everybody in the country should be totally appalled by what the president said,” Pelosi says. “But he has a habit of making appalling statements,” she added. Even if Trump was found to have accepted a foreign government’s […] Read more
A former leading trade advisor to President Donald Trump says he thinks the U.S. will emerge from its lengthy negotiations with China with a deal — but it won’t happen at the G-20 summit at the end of this month. “There won’t be a deal at the G-20,” Clete Willems tells Kayla Tausche at CNBC’s […] Read more
Top Democratic presidential candidates are calling for a $15 per hour federal minimum wage. A lot has changed since the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, when slight differences emerged between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders on the minimum wage. Democrats see the policy as one way to win over working-class voters as they try to […] Read more
The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity is opening its doors to backing Democrats running for office in 2019 and 2020. Historically the political network has only backed Republicans. The move to open its doors to Democrats comes after recent disagreements with lawmakers and Trump on how they’ve handled the immigration status of Dreamers. The two sides […] Read more
President Trump calls for a boycott of AT&T to force “big changes” at subsidiary CNN. “I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News!” Trump tweets from […] Read more
