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After enacting a deeply unpopular tax law that overwhelmingly benefits the top 1% of Americans, while leaving the middle class behind and exploding the deficit, House Republicans are doubling down on many of the same policies so skewed toward the wealthy and adding another trillion dollars to the deficit in the process.
On Sunday evening, across America and throughout the world, Jewish families will usher in the start of 5779.
The August jobs report continues to show an economy plagued by deep structural challenges, the result of which are stagnant wages, uncertainty for small businesses, and a generation of American workers unable to get ahead.
mericans were rightly outraged at the heart-wrenching images of small children being taken from their parents at the border and detained in prison-like facilities.
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my friend Rep. Lee and my other colleagues tonight who have gathered to pay tribute to our former colleague Rep. Ron Dellums, who passed away on July 30. I rise to join them in remembering Ron, who was my friend and with whom I served in this House for many years.
One year ago today, President Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and threw the lives and futures of hundreds of thousands of young DREAMers into limbo.
Not content with their efforts to dismantle health care coverage legislatively and by executive actions, Republicans are now trying to use the courts to end guaranteed coverage for those with pre-existing conditions.
Today, Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01), and 18 Members of the CHC sent a follow-up letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanding answers about the number and status of children separated from their parents still held in detention facilities.
On Monday, Americans will celebrate the workers’ rights victories that enabled generations of our people to make it in America. Without the activism of organized labor and the perseverance of millions of workers, our nation would not have the most powerful economy in the world and sustain the growth of our middle class.
While today’s ruling will allow DACA renewals to continue, DREAMers, their families, and the communities they contribute to deserve to have long-term certainty that they can remain here.