Real Stories Of Americans Who Won’t Be Helped By Trump’s Faux Pfizer Victory Tweet
Trump did not successfully negotiate lower drug prices for Americans this week, as he falsely claimed. All that happened was a single pharmaceutical corporation, Pfizer, agreed to postpone its latest round of drug price increases. Prescription drug prices - already sky high and unaffordable for many Americans - did not decrease by a cent, and Read More
Kavanaugh Threatens Americans’ Health Care, As Trump Continues To Sabotage It
Trump’s sabotage of the Affordable Care Act has already raised health care costs and reduced access to care. With the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, who believes that a president can refuse to enforce the ACA, Trump aims to ensure that the Supreme Court will do nothing to stop Republican efforts togut the law that has Read More
THE LATEST: Trump Admin Keeps Thousands Of Children Separated From Their Families
The Trump administration failed to meet a deadline to reunite young children with their families, and the thousands of children remain separated from their families. As parents still don’t know when they will see their children again, the Trump administration is already preparing for another surge in children detentions. The Trump administration failed to Read More
ICYMI: KCTV5: Radio station, LGBTQ community to hold “Sausage Fest” in protest of Pence’s visit
**ICYMI** With LGBTQ rights on the line at the Supreme Court, advocates in Kansas City, Missouri are protesting Vice President Pence’s visit today by holding a “Mike Pence Sausage Fest.” Hosted by a local radio station, the “Sausage Fest” follows on the heels of a “Big Gay Dance Party” hosted by the Ohio Democratic Read More
Kavanaugh Is A Threat To Americans’ Health Care
Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Kavanaugh, is a threat to Americans’ health care. We know Kavanaugh will gut the Affordable Care Act because Trump himself pledged his Supreme Court nominee would “do the right thing” and strike it down, and because Kavanaugh wrote that a future president could refuse to enforce it. Trump pledged Read More
Pence: ‘I believe we’ll see Roe vs. Wade consigned to the ash heap of history.’
Today, Mike Pence is escorting Judge Kavanaugh around the Senate, and likely celebrating the role he played in nominating a justice who would overturn Roe v. Wade. Pence has been closely involved in the White House’s judicial nomination process. He played a key role in formulating Trump’s SCOTUS list and, like Trump, he repeatedly Read More
Despite Court Rulings To Reunite Families, Trump Administration Continues to Keep Them Apart
While the Trump administration failed to meet today’s court-imposed deadline to reunite more than 100 children under five-years-old separated from their parents, a federal judge in California ruled against Trump’s request to indefinitely detain families at the border. The administration must immediately reunite all families separated as a result of Trump’s manufactured crisis at the Read More
VIDEO: DNC on Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the Supreme Court
DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after President Trump announced Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court: “Judge Kavanaugh should not be allowed anywhere near our nation’s highest bench. Let’s be clear: a vote for Kavanaugh would be a vote to rip health care from American Read More
Real Stories Of Americans Who Will Be Hurt By Trump’s Health Care Sabotage
This weekend, the Trump administration confirmed it is suspending ACA risk adjustment payments. These payments encourage insurers to participate in the exchanges and cover sicker patients who need more care, not just the healthy. This payment suspension comes on the heels of the Trump administration urging a federal court to eliminate the ACA’s protections for Read More
ICYMI: BuzzFeed
By Ema O'Connor and Nidhi Prakash [...] “While the national focus has been on family separations, another Department of Homeland Security policy quietly introduced by the Trump administration five months earlier has devastated women fleeing violence in their home countries: the detention of pregnant women not yet in their third trimester. “Before that Read More