Vulnerable Democrats Push for Local Priorities in Budget
U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne of Iowa was slow to get behind a $1 trillion infrastructure bill after the Senate passed it last month. It wasn’t the price tag that tripped…
Biden Approval Collapses to 39 Percent
By Eric Mack The approval ratings of President Joe Biden “overall and on his handling of major issues, have all fallen, dramatically in some cases,” according to the latest Economist/YouGov…
Dems to Argue Pathway to Citizenship Be Included in $3.5T Bill
By Nick Koutsobinas Senate Democrats plan to meet with Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on Friday to see if they can include a pathway to citizenship provision for undocumented immigrants in…
John Lewis Voting Measure Passes House With No GOP Support
By Mimi Nguyen Ly House Democrats late Tuesday passed a voting bill that sought to amend parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in efforts to boost federal control over…
House Democrats push voting bill that aims to upend Supreme Court decisions
by Sarah Westwood, House Democrats are poised to pass a sweeping election bill that would reestablish provisions of the Voting Rights Act the Supreme Court has already struck down in…
Afghanistan fiasco flips media against Biden – this should worry Dems
By Michael Goodwin For Joe Biden, bad is quickly turning to worse. A day after the president tried to defend his decision to wave the white flag in Afghanistan and…
Texas House sergeant-at-arms visiting homes looking for Democrats who fled
By Houston Keene The Texas House sergeant-at-arms and law enforcement are searching for the state Democrats who fled the state to avoid voting on the state’s election reform bill, according…
Senate Advances Sweeping Election Reform Bill in Partisan Vote
By Masooma Haq3 The U.S. Senate voted early Wednesday morning along party lines to advance a sweeping election reform bill that would give the federal government power over states and…
Minneapolis DFL chair calls burning of police precinct ‘revolutionary moment,’ ‘act of pure righteousness’
By Jessica Chasmar The chair of the Minneapolis Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party is defending a recent op-ed in which he argued that rioters’ burning of the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct headquarters…
NY Gov. Cuomo resigns amid sexual harassment scandal
By Melissa Leon , Jessica Chasmar New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced his resignation effective in two weeks, amid a sexual harassment probe following accusations brought by 11…
Texas House Democrats Mull Next Move Ahead of 2nd Special Session
By Charlie McCarthy Texas House Democrat lawmakers are mulling their next move as a second special legislative session is set to begin Saturday, The Texas Tribune reported. More than 50…
House Dems developing budget that would allow taxpayer funding of abortions overseas
By Sam Dorman The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has approved various spending packages that would effectively tear down a longstanding, legislative wall between taxpayer money and abortions. In a series…