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Warren Requests UBS Chairman Divulge Details of Bessent Talks
US Senator Elizabeth Warren has written to UBS Group AG Chairman Colm Kelleher asking for details of any discussions he may have had with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over a potential relocation of the bank to the US. In a letter dated Dec. 9 and seen by Bloomberg News, Warren requested Kelleher provide a summary of interactions with Bessent and any other officials with whom he may have interacted in recent months on the topic — including if he’d been offered incentives to relocate the … Continue Reading
December 10, 2025
Lawmakers seek details behind SSA plan to slash office visits
Four senators are asking Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano to address their concerns with a reported agency goal to cut the number of field office visits in half in the coming year. Nextgov/FCW first reported last week that SSA means to have 50% fewer field office visits in fiscal year 2026 than there were in fiscal 2025, or no more than 15 million total. Over 31 million people visited the agency's field offices last year to file for benefits, get Social Security cards and … Continue Reading
December 09, 2025
Democrats Want Probe of Trump Officials and Immigration Deals
A group of Democrats led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin is seeking an investigation into alleged connections between high-ranking Trump administration officials and companies vying for billions of dollars in immigration contracts. In a letter sent Monday to the inspectors general for the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, Warren, Raskin and seven other Democratic members of Congress express concern that … Continue Reading
December 08, 2025
Democratic Lawmakers Call for Probe of Genesis Bankruptcy Sale
Democratic lawmakers called on a Dallas bankruptcy court to appoint an independent examiner to investigate nursing home giant Genesis Healthcare Inc.'s selection of an insider to buy its assets. The corporate structures of all entities that made bids and the potential impact an existing investor's winning bid may have on unsecured creditors should be investigated, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.) said in a brief Monday in … Continue Reading
December 08, 2025
A Group of Democrats Presses for Answers on Secretive U.S. Gaza Command
A group of Senate Democrats is pushing the Trump administration to explain what, exactly, the U.S. is doing at a new coordination center in Israel and why so little about it has been shared with Congress. Led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Brian Schatz and joined by ten other democrats, the lawmakers sent a long list of questions in a Sunday letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which was first reported by NOTUS. The Democratic senators want to know how … Continue Reading
December 08, 2025
Student-loan borrowers are at heightened risk of costly errors when Trump's changes roll out, Democratic lawmakers say
Changes are coming to student-loan repayment, and Democratic lawmakers are warning that it could lead to costly servicing mistakes for borrowers. On Sunday night, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley, Richard Blumenthal, Cory Booker, and Chris Van Hollen sent letters, exclusively viewed by Business Insider, to all five federal student-loan servicers regarding their abilities to assist borrowers amid major changes to repayment. The letters come as servicers are working … Continue Reading
December 04, 2025
Democrats tee off on possible Treasury corporate tax move
A group of Democrats in both chambers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. of Virginia, is leading opposition to a potential regulatory carve-out from a new minimum tax on corporate profits that critics say could generate an unjustified windfall for big companies. The Treasury Department and IRS are weighing a proposal from mega corporations such as Amazon, Microsoft and Ford Motor Co. that would address what they say is an unwelcome, unintended … Continue Reading
December 03, 2025
Warren, Mass. pols call on Trump, RFK Jr. to stop attacks on funding for anti-poverty efforts
A coalition of Massachusetts politicians, led by Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, is calling on the nation’s top public health official to stop an attack on a key building block for anti-poverty efforts. The White House has proposed eliminating the Community Service Block Grant program in its 2026 budget plan, arguing that it’s padded with “equity-building and green energy initiatives,” Daily Yonder, which covers issues important to rural Americans, reported. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
December 02, 2025
Corporations to claim $16B from retroactive GOP tax break, federal report says
Corporations are expected to claim $16 billion in new tax breaks this year for purchases they had already made and put into use before the July passage of the Republican tax law, according to an analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation. The GOP tax law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, restored a provision that allows companies to write off the full expense of some new investments — including technology, equipment and facilities — in the first year of use. That had been allowed under … Continue Reading
November 24, 2025
Warren Requests Investigation into ED’s Dismantling
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren asked the Education Department Inspector General to investigate the recent agreements that outsource several grant programs to other federal agencies. “The dismantling of ED—including ED’s recent move to transfer a range of statutory duties to other agencies—threatens devastating consequences for students, borrowers, and families,” Warren wrote in a letter Sunday to the Office of Inspector General (OIG). … Read the full story … Continue Reading
November 19, 2025
Senators Ask DOJ for “Non-Biased” Review of Any Deal for Warner Bros. Discovery Amid “Cloud of Political Favoritism and Corruption”
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter late last night to President Trump's top antitrust enforcer, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater, raising concerns about a potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery and demanding that any deal review be "conducted transparently, independently, and in accordance with federal antitrust and anti-corruption laws - not politics." According to the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The … Continue Reading
November 19, 2025
Trump Tries To Put Controversial Republican In A Nonpartisan Position After Firing Predecessor
President Donald Trump's pick for lead watchdog at the Health and Human Services Department is likely to have a major conflict of interest when it comes to abortion. Thomas March Bell, a former Justice Department attorney who served in Trump's first administration, has worked for anti-abortion Republicans for decades and boasts deep ties to anti-abortion groups like Operation Rescue. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
November 19, 2025
Data shows spike in military aircraft accidents in 2024. 2025 doesn't look better
WASHINGTON -- The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a series of high-profile aviation mishaps with deaths and the loss of aircraft in 2025 suggest the disturbing trend may be continuing. Across the military, the rate of severe accidents per 100,000 flight hours rose 55% in the 2024 budget year compared with four years earlier. The Marine Corps saw the highest increase, nearly tripling its rate over the same … Continue Reading
November 18, 2025
Democratic proposed bill would put new restrictions on donations to Trump's ballroom
In response to ongoing concerns about the funding for the construction of a massive, multi-million dollar presidential ballroom at the White House, some Democratic lawmakers are set to introduce the first piece of legislation aimed at regulating the project. The new bill, set to be introduced Tuesday by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia, would impose new limits on who can make donations to projects at the White House and would put new … Continue Reading
November 18, 2025
Senators press Trump administration over envoy's possible financial conflicts, letter says
Two Democratic U.S. senators wrote to President Donald Trump's administration on Monday raising "serious concerns" about Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff's potential financial conflicts of interest. "As U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, Mr. Witkoff was a chief architect of a deal that appears to have aided a foreign power's effort to acquire U.S. technology with serious economic and national security implications — and he potentially did so in exchange for his personal financial benefit," … Continue Reading
November 17, 2025
Warren urges Trump administration to 'immediately cease' student loan selloff plans
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is attempting to stop the reported selloff of the $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to private companies -- demanding Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent quit their reported talks of a potential sale. "We urge you to immediately cease any efforts to privatize the federal student loan portfolio," Warren wrote in a bicameral letter to the secretaries. "Let's be clear: This sale would be a giveaway to wealthy insiders at the … Continue Reading
November 12, 2025
Elizabeth Warren Uses Trump’s Own Data To Knock His Claims Of Lower Costs
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called out President Donald Trump for his "flatly untrue" claims about the costs of groceries and energy bills going down, pointing to his administration's own economic data showing inflation rapidly rising. In a new letter to Trump, first obtained by HuffPost, Warren brings up claims he made last week to a reporter that "our energy costs are way down, our groceries are way down, everything is way down." … Read the full story … Continue Reading
November 12, 2025
Dems decry DOL 'retreat' from protecting disabled workers
Sixty congressional Democrats, led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, blasted the Trump administration over what they call a "coordinated assault" on workplace protections for people with disabilities in a letter to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer. "The disability community deserves leadership that expands employment opportunities," the lawmakers wrote in the letter dated Tuesday. "But your actions as Secretary of Labor represent the most … Continue Reading
November 11, 2025
Democratic Lawmakers Say Genesis Insider Sale May Abuse Bankruptcy System
Democratic lawmakers asked the Justice Department to probe the proposed bankruptcy sale of nursing home chain Genesis Healthcare to insiders, saying it may amount to an abuse of chapter 11 aimed at wiping away liabilities to patients and families for alleged negligence. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Rep. Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire said in a Monday letter that Genesis has proposed to sell itself out of bankruptcy to some of the same … Continue Reading
November 10, 2025
Student-loan forgiveness is back on — but a tax change could be a 'financial disaster' for some borrowers
The good news: student-loan forgiveness is back on. The bad news: borrowers who get it could face thousands of dollars in new taxes next year. On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren led a group of her Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, exclusively viewed by Business Insider, calling on him to use his authority to prevent a "tax bomb" from hitting student-loan borrowers next year. The lawmakers are referring to a 2021 provision in the American Rescue plan … Continue Reading