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Democrats seek investigation into agency messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown
A group of Senate Democrats is pushing for an investigation into the Trump administration’s use of federal agency websites and emails to post partisan messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown. In a letter obtained by NBC News, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and other Democrats ask the Government Accountability Office to open a probe into whether the political messages violated federal appropriations laws. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
November 10, 2025
US senator challenges defense industry on right-to-repair opposition as funding talks continue
Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is escalating pressure on the defense industry to stop opposing military right-to-repair legislation, as House and Senate negotiators work to finalize the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. In a sharply-worded November 5 letter to the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) obtained by Reuters, Warren accused the industry group of attempting to undermine bipartisan efforts to give the Pentagon greater ability to repair weapons and … Continue Reading
November 07, 2025
Big Tech tax breaks could’ve funded benefits for millions, Senator Warren finds
President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is handing out billions in tax breaks, and a new analysis from Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) office is demonstrating just how substantial those sums are. Under the law, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, will save around $17.9 billion in taxes this year, an amount that Warren’s office found could’ve paid for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for 7.5 million Americans. That sum could cover Medicaid for around 2.3 million … Continue Reading
November 07, 2025
Democrats Probe Trump Social Security Chief’s Tie to Fiserv Fall
Senate Democrats are pressing Fiserv Inc. for information on the role former chief executive Frank Bisignano played in the company’s plummeting fortunes before he took a role in President Donald Trump’s administration. Firserv’s shares plunged late last month after the company slashed its full-year earnings outlook and delivered third-quarter results well short of analysts’ estimates. Bisignano, who is currently leading both the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, … Continue Reading
November 07, 2025
Troops’ dental readiness showing some improvement, some decay
Although U.S. troops' dental readiness has improved some over the last decade, there's also been a decline in the percentage of troops with the best dental health, according to new Defense Department statistics. From 2014 to 2024, the percentage of troops with the worst levels of dental health decreased from 8.3% to 6.3%, while the percentage of troops with the best dental health dropped from 48.9% to 44.8%, DOD officials stated in a late September memo to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, … Continue Reading
November 06, 2025
Elizabeth Warren: Dems’ Shutdown Fight ‘The Heart’ Of Tuesday’s Election Message
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Democrats' sweep in Tuesday's elections sent a clear message that people want affordability and for Democrats to stand up and fight for it, much like they’re now doing amid the government shutdown. Democrats’ fight to extend soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act health care subsidies for millions of people, and Republicans’ refusal to do this in exchange for reopening the government, is "the heart" of the fight that voters just signaled they want, Warren told … Continue Reading
November 05, 2025
Will Democratic wins derail any shutdown deal?
It’s Day 36 of the government shutdown. This is now the longest shutdown in U.S. history. There was finally some momentum on Monday and Tuesday toward a bipartisan deal to end the standoff. But Senate Democrats who want to keep up the fight are pointing to Tuesday’s election results as evidence that the public is with them — and that they shouldn’t cave now. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
November 03, 2025
Warren presses Pentagon nominee on mismanagement allegations
A top defense nominee’s record as a former public health official is being scrutinized by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., ahead of his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing this week. In a letter sent Sunday night, Warren excoriated Robert Kadlec, the nominee to be assistant secretary of Defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, for a series of scandals when he was an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services during the first Trump … Continue Reading
October 31, 2025
US electricity bills increased by 11% in Trump’s second term, data shows
Donald Trump promised to slash US electricity bills, but they have increased by 11% since he retook the White House, new data shows. Democratic lawmakers highlighted the figures in a letter sent to Trump on Friday. “Your administration has no explanations for its failures and no answers for American families that are hit hard by high energy costs, and it continues to actively pursue policies to make this cost crisis worse,” reads the missive, led by Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts … Continue Reading
October 31, 2025
Elizabeth Warren takes her dog's Halloween costume seriously
Here are a few things you may not know about Sen. Elizabeth Warren. During the pandemic, she got into birds and asked her husband, Bruce Mann, to install bird feeders in their tiny backyard. Now she’s at war with the squirrels (and she’s winning, in her estimation, thanks to a special feeder called the Yankee Flipper). When she’s in Washington, D.C., the Democrat’s principal form of exercise is climbing up and down the five flights of stairs in her condo building. She rolls out of bed and … Continue Reading
October 30, 2025
Dr. Casey Means, Trump’s surgeon general nominee, has hearing delayed
Dr. Casey Means, President Donald Trump's surgeon general nominee, is in labor and her confirmation hearing, scheduled for Thursday morning at 11 a.m. ET, has been postponed, according to two people familiar and a HELP Committee spokesperson. Means was expected to face stiff questioning from Democrats on the Senate's health committee about her ties to a wellness company she co-founded and her promotion of supplements online and on podcasts, according to people familiar with their approach and … Continue Reading
October 30, 2025
Senate Democrats propose increasing VA, Social Security benefits by $200 a month for six months
To help Social Security and Veterans Affairs beneficiaries cope with higher prices, a group of Democratic senators are proposing to increase benefits by $200 per month for six months. The bill — called the Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act — is backed by Democratic Senators including Mark Kelly of Arizona, Alex Padilla of California, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Kirsten … Continue Reading
October 30, 2025
Personal Finance Senate Democrats propose increasing VA, Social Security benefits by $200 a month for six months
To help Social Security and Veterans Affairs beneficiaries cope with higher prices, a group of Democratic senators are proposing to increase benefits by $200 per month for six months. The bill — called the Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act — is backed by Democratic Senators including Mark Kelly of Arizona, Alex Padilla of California, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Kirsten … Continue Reading
October 28, 2025
Democrats criticize Trump’s ending of Biden gun export rule
Democrats are demanding answers over President Trump’s decision to greenlight the unrestricted export of American-made firearms, saying the move risks empowering criminal and terrorist organizations, according to letters obtained exclusively by The Hill. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) led a group of lawmakers criticizing the decision to rescind export restrictions on U.S. small arms put in place to combat the illicit gun market. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
October 28, 2025
Warren has ‘serious doubt’ about Trump’s HHS inspector general nominee
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told President Trump’s nominee for inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that his professional history has raised “serious doubt” about his ability to be an “impartial investigator” for the agency. In a letter provided first to The Hill, Warren addressed Thomas March Bell, Trump’s nominee for HHS inspector general, and brought up accusations that he mismanaged taxpayer funds as well as her own misgivings that his “highly … Continue Reading
October 16, 2025
Lawmakers press Pentagon on cuts to oversight of key missile defense programs
WASHINGTON — Two democratic lawmakers are raising concerns that the Pentagon’s weapons testing office has reduced the number of programs under its remit and will no longer provide oversight of several space and missile defense efforts that could potentially be linked to Golden Dome. The Defense Department has cut 94 programs overseen by its office of the director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E) — a 37 percent reduction of the 251 programs previously on the list, Massachusetts … Continue Reading
October 15, 2025
Senate Democrats want to know: was YouTube’s Trump settlement a bribe?
A group of Democratic lawmakers are asking questions about YouTube’s $24.5 million settlement with President Donald Trump. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, five Senators — Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) — asked for details about any settlement talks between those companies and the Trump administration. They’re interested in whether Google secured favorable treatment as a … Continue Reading
October 15, 2025
Millions of student loan borrowers at risk of default as late payments climb
For months, experts have warned that student loan borrowers who are behind on their payments may trigger a “default cliff.” Recent reports show that cliff is now looming. The resumption of federal student loan delinquency reporting on consumers’ credit earlier this year caused a spike in the rate of severe delinquencies, which now near a record high, according to September’s Credit Insights report from credit score developer FICO. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
October 10, 2025
Massachusetts Playbook: SHUTDOWN STATUS
With the House out of session, Rep. Jim McGovern popped by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's office recently to catch up about how the ongoing government shutdown is playing out in each chamber. The duo filmed the convo, which included a fair amount of jabs at Republicans for the health care cuts Democrats want undone in the next government funding bill, and some anecdotes about how its already impacting their constituents back home. Catch their chat here and here. The shutdown latest: Senators on both … Continue Reading
October 09, 2025
Warren, Markey demand answers from State Department about treatment of Americans on flotilla detained by Israel
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey are among five lawmakers demanding answers from Secretary of State Marco Rubio about his department's "failure to provide timely" help to Americans detained in Israel after its military forces intercepted Gaza-bound aid ships last week, according to a copy of a letter sent Wednesday. About 20 Americans, including two brothers from Massachusetts, were among the more than 400 international activists who were on the flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. … Continue Reading