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Democratic lawmakers seek data on US gun exports linked to cartels, criminal violence
Two Democratic members of Congress are pressing the Commerce Department for detailed data on U.S. exports of semi-automatic weapons, citing concerns that legally exported American firearms are fueling criminal violence and arming cartels across the Western Hemisphere. Reuters reviewed the letter sent on Sunday by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Representative Gregory Meeks of New York to Under Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
March 30, 2026
Democrats push Trump administration to tackle insider trading in booming prediction markets
Over 40 Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate signed a letter to top administration regulators and ethics officials on Monday asking for governmentwide training on insider trading in prediction markets. The letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Office of Government Ethics comes after weeks of increasing scrutiny regarding potential insider trading by government employees using prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
March 30, 2026
Democrats Probe Trump’s $38 Billion Plan for Immigrant Jails
Democratic lawmakers are starting an investigation into the Trump administration’s plan to spend billions of dollars buying and retrofitting warehouses as immigrant detention centers, ramping up scrutiny of a key piece of the White House’s push for mass deportations. In a letter, the group of more than 50 US senators and representatives asked contractors and real estate companies for details of their roles in the $38 billion plan. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking to … Continue Reading
March 30, 2026
Democrats Probe Trump’s $38 Billion Plan for Immigrant Jails
Democratic lawmakers are starting an investigation into the Trump administration’s plan to spend billions of dollars buying and retrofitting warehouses as immigrant detention centers, ramping up scrutiny of a key piece of the White House’s push for mass deportations. In a letter, the group of more than 50 US senators and representatives asked contractors and real estate companies for details of their roles in the $38 billion plan. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking to … Continue Reading
March 26, 2026
Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use
Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually use. In a joint letter sent to the Energy Information Administration Thursday morning, seen by WIRED, Hawley and Warren press the agency to publicly collect “comprehensive, annual energy-use disclosures” on data centers. This information, they write, is “essential for accurate grid planning and … Continue Reading
March 26, 2026
As wealth taxes gain traction, Warren proposes levy on the ultra-rich
As wealth taxes gain traction around the U.S., Sen. Elizabeth Warren is introducing a new bill that the Massachusetts Democrat said would raise trillions in federal revenue by placing new levies on people worth over $50 million. The bill, called the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act of 2026, would impose an annual 2% tax on the net worth of households and trusts over $50 million, and an additional 1% tax on the wealth of billionaires. To deter the ultra-rich from leaving the U.S. to avoid the new … Continue Reading
March 26, 2026
Progressives Launch ‘Child Care for America’ Working Group Ahead of 2026 Midterms
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Patty Murray are joining forces to establish the “Child Care for America” working group, the latest Democratic push to make child care affordable and accessible, according to plans shared exclusively with NOTUS. The group will bring together Democratic members from both sides of the Capitol to build broad, coordinated support for wide-ranging child care legislation. According to the plans shared with NOTUS, the group is writing legislation that could be ready for … Continue Reading
March 25, 2026
DOD answers show no anti-corruption protocols for Trump children
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the Department of Defense has no plan to stop President Donald Trump’s family from profiting on lucrative defense contracts in a Tuesday letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, shared exclusively with CNBC. The letter comes after the Pentagon sent Warren a response to a January inquiry the Massachusetts Democrat sent to the department seeking answers about the agency’s contracting with the Trump children. CNBC has also reviewed the previously unreported Defense … Continue Reading
March 24, 2026
34 Former Military Members Were Put on Deportation Track in the Past Year
The Trump administration began deportation proceedings for 34 former members of the military over the past year, according to federal data obtained by The New York Times, after immigration authorities were directed to ignore previous guidance that gave service members and their relatives more deference. The 34 are among 125 former service members who were arrested over immigration violations over the past year, according to the data. Officials also placed 248 relatives of former military … Continue Reading
March 24, 2026
John Deere, Garmin, and Philips may have undermined military right to repair
Last year, Congress dropped widely supported military right-to-repair provisions from the annual defense policy bill — and now we may know who was pushing them to do it. Recently released lobbying reports reveal that companies like John Deere, Garmin, Philips, and many others have collectively spent millions of dollars on lobbying efforts related to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), in some cases specifically regarding repair issues. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, in addition to … Continue Reading
March 24, 2026
As Iran war causes gas and airfares to spike, lawmakers warn of price gouging — but experts point to supply shocks
With the Iran war in its fifth week, consumers are getting hit hard by surging energy costs. Now, some lawmakers are warning of the potential for price gouging, even as experts point to extreme supply shocks. Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime shipping route for global oil supplies, remains effectively at a standstill, causing the biggest oil supply disruption in history. … Read the full … Continue Reading
March 23, 2026
Sen. Warren questions DOD about Anthropic blacklist that ‘appears to be retaliation’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said the Department of Defense’s decision to designate artificial intelligence startup Anthropic a supply chain risk “appears to be retaliation.” In a formal letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, Warren noted that the department “could have chosen to terminate its contract with Anthropic or continued using its technology in unclassified systems.” … Read the full story … Continue Reading
March 23, 2026
Contract Controversy
SASC Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Jeanne Shaheen are demanding an explanation for why DOD officials are using a Navy logistics contracting initiative to help fast-track migrant detention centers for DHS, which they said is an improper deployment of the program. The pair, in a letter to Hegseth sent Sunday evening, asked for answers by April 13 on a series of questions surrounding the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract, a 5-year-old program designed to streamline purchases for … Continue Reading
March 20, 2026
Elizabeth Warren demands answers on costs, economic impact of ‘illegal and reckless war’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers to economic questions surrounding the Iran war, ticking off a list of queries about the impact on food, energy and retail costs, among other concerns, in a letter sent Friday to administration officials. The liberal Democratic firebrand from Massachusetts ripped President Donald Trump, whom she said has “dragged the United States into an illegal and reckless war” that will hurt U.S. consumers, particularly in the middle and lower classes. … Read … Continue Reading
March 20, 2026
Iran War Puts U.S. Diplomatic Missions in the Crosshairs
The U.S. war with Iran has triggered the broadest and fastest wave of attacks against U.S. embassies and consulates in the post-9/11 era, current and former officials said, as the Trump administration grapples with continuing threats to its overseas posts. The series of missile and drone strikes has yielded no injuries to U.S. personnel and collectively caused limited damage to U.S. diplomatic compounds, the officials said. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
March 20, 2026
Nvidia’s $20 Billion Groq Deal Queried by Warren, Blumenthal
Nvidia Corp.’s $20 billion licensing deal with artificial intelligence startup Groq is being probed by a pair of Democratic senators over whether it violates antitrust laws by improperly avoiding a merger review and illegally consolidating its power in the market for AI computing. Senators Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang a letter on Thursday night, asking for additional information on the deal, which … Continue Reading
March 19, 2026
Closed clinics, canceled care: New data shows effects of One Big Beautiful Bill’s attack on Planned Parenthood
Fewer women are getting cancer screenings. Fewer are getting birth control. And clinics are closing. Six months after a federal court cleared the way for Congress' temporary cutoff of Planned Parenthood funding to take effect as part of President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, new data shared first with MS NOW documents the toll: Nearly two dozen health centers shuttered, breast exam visits declined 25% in December compared to the year before and IUD insertions dropped nearly 40% the … Continue Reading
March 16, 2026
Elizabeth Warren asks Meta, Amazon, and others why they're laying workers off despite tax perks
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is grilling several major employers, including Amazon (AMZN), Target (TGT), and UPS (UPS), about their recent spate of layoffs. In letters sent Sunday to the executives of Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon, Home Depot (HD), Meta (META), Nike (NKE), Verizon (VZ), Target, and UPS, Warren asked the companies to detail by March 30 how much of a tax cut they received in 2025 following President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, whether they anticipated any tariff refunds, … Continue Reading
March 16, 2026
Senate Democrats push Social Security on employee reassignments to phone line
Twelve Democrats want answers from the Social Security Administration about its decision to shift employees that normally perform other jobs to its phone line last month with only hours of training, a move employees have said risks adding to backlogs. SSA pushed out over 7,400 employees last year, including 1,387 contact representatives, as the Trump administration sought to reduce the size of the government’s workforce. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
March 16, 2026
Warren demands Hegseth share information about xAI's access to classified networks
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday demanding information about the Pentagon’s reported decision to give Elon Musk’s xAI access to classified networks. In the letter, Warren raised concerns that xAI and its AI-powered chatbot, Grok, could present critical safety and reliability risks to America’s military. Warren cited the possibility that Grok could leak classified information to adversaries, be manipulated based on biased or inaccurate … Continue Reading