Press Release

Fifty-five years ago today, President Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act, which put into statute for the first time that men and women are to be paid equally for the same work.

President Trump should not be rewarding Russia while it continues to flaunt international laws and norms, promote aggression against its neighbors, and attempt to interfere in the free elections of democracies, including our own. 

It is abhorrent that the Trump Administration would try to use the courts to repeal the Affordable Care Act after failing to do so through legislation.

This is a complicated issue not subject to the sort of a meat-ax approach, which we think the President has taken and an issue that could, in fact, start a trade war, which will be bad for consumers, bad for employees, and bad for employers.

It is alarming to learn that Medicare will become insolvent in 2026, just eight years from now and three years earlier than previously projected, and that Social Security’s total cost will exceed its total income this year for the first time since 1982, scheduled to become insolvent in 2034.

The Trump Administration seems to be doing the best job at making the argument against its own rescissions proposal.  After an outbreak demonstrated the importance of emergency ebola funding, it dropped its request to rescind those funds. 

Today we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, an event that shocked the world and grieved a nation.

The assessment by the United Nations official monitoring global poverty that the Trump Administration’s actions are exacerbating the wealth and income gap in America ought to alarm Americans.