Category Archives: Talking Points
Take Action: Stop the Tax Bill
(This article has been updated with additional information and references.) Republicans plan to ram a tax bill through Congress before Thanksgiving. We need to give this as much protest as we gave to their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Call, write, and fax every day between now and Thanksgiving. Never before has a […]
Continue readingGOP Budget
Yesterday, House Republicans narrowly passed a partisan budget resolution that will harm hardworking families in order to push through a massive tax giveaway for big corporations and the top 1%. Last week, their Senate colleagues voted for this resolution without any Democratic votes. This budget resolution is the first step toward enacting costly tax cuts […]
Continue readingSylvia Allen’s Charter School Gets F Rating in 2017 School Letter Grades Report
Phoenix–The 2017Arizona school letter grades have been released and LD-6’s Senator Sylvia Allen’s charter school, the George Washington Academy, received an F grade. Senator Allen is the co-founder of the George Washington Academy, a kinder-6th grade school in Snowflake, Arizona, as well as the head of the Senate’s Education Committee. Senator Allen is also on […]
Continue readingHurricanes
Polling shows that the public has not been impressed with Trump’s response to the plight of their fellow Americans in Puerto Rico, with only 32% supporting his handling of Hurricane Maria recovery. Trump managed to throw the island’s government under the bus multiple times while in Puerto Rico to survey the damage. o He said Puerto Ricans “have to give […]
Continue readingJobs
For the first time in 7 years, the U.S. economy did not add any new jobs. Our economy lost 33,000 jobs in September, and we’re on pace to have significantly slower job growth in 2017 than we did in 2016. While President Obama’s bold policies and long-term economic investments continued to create steady growth well into […]
Continue readingBirth Control
The Trump administration just heartlessly weakened an ACA mandate that requires insurers to provide coverage for no-cost contraception. Hundreds of thousands of American women will be at risk of losing access to birth control if their employers chose to seek an exemption from this Obama-era rule. The ACA requirement has saved women billions of dollars […]
Continue readingHealth Care Sabotage
Trump has made it clear that he doesn’t care about the people he harms in his personal mission to sabotage the ACA. He’s hurting American families in a shameful attempt to score political points and tear down President Obama’s legacy. o After learning that Iowa requested permission to make certain changes to its ACA exchanges, the President went […]
Continue readingFacts About Guns in the U.S. — and Two Action Alerts
The tragedy in Las Vegas last night has evoked a burst of conversation about gun control. Here is a useful article to prepare you to have conversations with those who say “guns don’t kill, people do.” The bottom line on all the statistics presented in that article: The states that have tighter gun restrictions have […]
Continue readingTrump’s Tax Plan: Net Nothing for Middle Class, Big Cuts for the Rich, Adds to Debt
Trump released a nine-page tax plan today. That’s like doing the architectural drawings for your house on a napkin. A small napkin. What we do know: The plan will likely add to America’s $20 trillion debt. There are lots of tax cuts spelled out. There are almost no loopholes eliminated. The rich make out pretty well. […]
Continue reading“Cruelty, Incompetence, Lies” — not unique to Graham/Cassidy
In this useful essay, Paul Krugman exposes what happens when modern Republicans are asked to govern. To become particularly outraged, read the Vox.com article to which he provides a link. The point is that Republicans treatment of health care is not limited to health care. Cruelty, Incompetence, Lies
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