At ‘Berniechella,’ the message from Sen. Sanders and AOC was clear: ‘Giving up and hiding under the covers is not acceptable. The stakes are just too high.’
DOGE
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump Opens the Door to More Medicare Advantage Fraud
Private insurance companies just got a massive boost to their payments through the program, while DOGE fires the people responsible for oversight.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Mad King Trump’s War on the Troops
The administration is vindictively hacking away at veterans’ benefits.
Posted inPolitics
No Personnel Is Policy
The Trump administration is accomplishing through layoffs what it couldn’t accomplish through Congress.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rule by Contractor
DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization.
Posted inWorking in America
Trump Stomps Workers
Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
Posted inWorking in America
Global Working Conditions Matter for American Workers
The Trump administration has cut programs that help prevent forced labor and child labor. This will suppress wages everywhere, including the U.S.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump’s Fox in the Social Security Henhouse
His nominee to head the SSA backs technology over people, and DOGE over seniors’ needs.
Posted inPolitics
How to Use Your Power
Blue states have many options for progress, if they commit to actually governing.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s Attack on Social Security Backfires
Today on TAP: The requirement of in-person visits and Elon Musk’s fishing expedition into Social Security data have awakened a torpid AARP, docile federal judges—and public opinion.