USA 2016

As a result of Trump’s shutdown, 800,000 federal employees are in danger of not receiving a paycheck. They’re worried about how they’ll pay their mortgages, feed their families and put gas in their cars. In spite of all of these consequences, Republican leader Mitch McConnell refuses to take action. We should block consideration of all bills on the Senate floor until we end the Trump shut down and reopen the federal government.

One Louisiana contractor is worried he could lose his apartment.

This is a monumental victory, not just for voting rights, but for criminal justice reform. If we want a criminal justice system that rehabilitates people, we need to make sure formerly incarcerated people can fully participate as citizens. We must finally end our oppressive, undemocratic status quo and re-enfranchise millions of voters in this country.

It was an emotional morning in the Sunshine State, as people with felony convictions were able to register to vote for the first time.

To my mind, there is no greater disservice to millions of veterans throughout this country than to deny them the health care they have earned by draining the VA of its resources in order to line the pockets of corporate CEOs and shareholders. If President Trump thinks privatizing the VA is what is best for our veterans, he is dead wrong.

An analysis of VA claims data shows that sending more vets to private care has not had the positive effects that were long promised by conservatives.

One of the most shameful parts of this administration has been its efforts to reduce the federal government’s role in promoting civil rights regulations. We must remember that the struggle for civil rights is not the struggle of a day, or a year, or a generation. It is the struggle of a lifetime, and one that must be fought by every generation.

A recent Washington Post report says plans to alter disparate impact regulation, a key part of civil rights enforcement, might be in the works.

As I have said for years, climate change is the greatest threat facing our country and the planet. The Trump administration’s refusal to acknowledge this reality, let alone address it, is an ugly betrayal of our children and the future generations who will have to inhabit an increasingly uninhabitable planet. We must come together to take on the greed of the fossil fuel industry, who consider their short-term profits more important than the kind of lives our grandchildren will have.

The nation is now far off course from what the Obama administration promised under the Paris agreement, leaving a big gap for the rest of the world to make up.

We have got to end the private prison racket in America. Private corporations should not be making profits off of the incarceration of human beings. The American people want comprehensive immigration reform and a criminal justice system that is based on justice, not racism or mass incarceration.

A surging inmate population in the 1980s led to a boom in for-profit prisons. Today, privately run prisons have become the government’s default detention centers for undocumented migrants.

It’s pretty clear: Exxon knew about climate change and intentionally misled the public. Why? To protect their profits at the expense of the planet. The greed of fossil fuel companies is destroying our planet. It has got to end.

Massachusetts wants to know what the oil giant knew about climate change.

Over the past 40 years, the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country have rigged the economy against the American middle class, the working class and the most vulnerable people among us. The very rich are getting richer while most working families are struggling.We must create an economy based on human needs, not the greed of the billionaire class.

The line between consumers and shareholders has blurred in recent decades. But the profits still tend to flow upward.

First, Trump shut down the government. Then, his administration started looking into what effect it would have. They did not realize that 38 million Americans will lose their food stamps under a shutdown, nor did they know that thousands of tenants would face eviction without assistance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Trump administration’s shutdown was planned about as well as everything else Trump has done.

This isn’t the time to play politics. It’s time to work together in order to create policy that reflects the urgency of our current situation. I stand with the vast majority of the American people in the shared fight for safer gun laws and against the NRA’s corporate influence and ability to buy candidates and elected officials.

Three men were fatally shot and four were injured late Friday at a Torrance bowling alley, police said, and relatives and friends wept and shouted outside as they awaited word on the victims.