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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
November 10, 2025
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
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
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
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