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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
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 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 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
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