GOP senator makes fact-free claim that child care threatens ‘grandmamas’
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Fox that Democrats ‘don’t want grandmamas helping educate young mamas on how to rear babies.’
By Oliver Willis - December 15, 2021Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Fox that Democrats ‘don’t want grandmamas helping educate young mamas on how to rear babies.’
By Oliver Willis - December 15, 2021The Build Back Better Act would save parents money and provide Jewish and other faith-based early childhood centers access to federal funding to pay staff fairly.
By Cathy Rolland - December 14, 2021Republicans blame President Joe Biden for tree shortages and ignore the climate change that is fueling the problem.
By Josh Israel - December 13, 2021Republicans are seizing on a hypothetical budget estimate to argue that Build Back Better would cost more than it actually does.
By Josh Israel - December 10, 2021Top economists say Build Back Better would actually help curb inflation in the long term.
By Josh Israel - December 10, 2021Two new polls show broad support for President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion social infrastructure package.
By Josh Israel - December 08, 2021The expanded child tax credit is set to expire next week. Policy experts say that would cut off critical aid to tens of thousands of Virginia families.
By Nick Vachon - December 08, 2021The Democrats’ social spending package would invest $1 billion in medical and nursing school programs and would support medical students from underrepresented communities.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - December 08, 2021GOP lawmakers cheered comparable job growth under Donald Trump, but now they’re saying it’s a ‘huge miss.’
By Josh Israel - December 03, 2021The poll also found overwhelming support for the bill’s other provisions.
By Josh Israel - December 01, 2021GOP lawmakers are mad that Biden is releasing some of the federal petroleum supply to reduce fuel costs ahead of the holidays.
By Josh Israel - November 23, 2021Fox News’ latest poll shows voters rejecting the network’s on-air position on an array of issues.
By Oliver Willis - November 19, 2021The American Action Network received $4.5 million from the U.S. pharmaceutical industry’s largest interest group in 2019. Now, the group is airing misleading claims about Democrats’ plans to make prescription drugs more affordable.
By Josh Israel - November 19, 2021Every House Republican voted against President Joe Biden’s sweeping social safety net plan.
By Josh Israel - November 19, 2021For months, Republican lawmakers had been lauding former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers as a soothsayer.
By Josh Israel - November 18, 2021Republicans have been baselessly claiming the Build Back Better jobs proposal will worsen inflation.
By Josh Israel - November 17, 2021The Club for Growth didn’t bother to read very carefully.
By Josh Israel - November 15, 2021Tax policy experts described Republicans’ claims about the Biden plan as ‘ridiculous’ and ‘silliness.’
By Josh Israel - November 15, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy released a video decrying a provision that was cut from the Build Back Better plan two weeks ago.
By Josh Israel - November 10, 2021Rep. Jason Smith and Sen. Lindsey Graham claim that Democrats’ true ‘legislative intent’ is to make the Build Back Better plan’s temporary programs permanent.
By Josh Israel - November 10, 2021The cost of President Joe Biden’s spending package would be more than offset by cost-saving measures and new taxes on corporations and the wealthy, according to a nonpartisan analysis released Thursday.
By Josh Israel - November 04, 2021Republicans across the board have criticized the Build Back Better framework as reckless, despite expert analysis showing it would curb inflation long-term.
By Josh Israel - November 04, 2021A House Republican messaging memo suggested people would lie about having had a baby in order to get paid time off.
By Emily Singer - November 04, 2021Congressional Republicans are mocking the concept of ‘tree equity,’ which would fund a wave of new jobs and plant trees in neighborhoods without any.
By Josh Israel - November 02, 2021They also support many of the policies that Democratic lawmakers are hoping to add to the bill.
By Josh Israel - November 02, 2021What’s actually in President Joe Biden’s new $1.75 trillion framework.
By Josh Israel - October 29, 2021The White House estimates the $1.75 trillion jobs framework would reduce the deficit.
By Josh Israel - October 28, 2021The latest ad from the American Action Network is loaded with dishonest claims.
By Josh Israel - October 26, 2021Democrats’ proposed plan would only affect Americans who have over $1 billion in assets or who make $100 million for three years in a row.
By Josh Israel - October 26, 2021Lawmakers and faith leaders spoke of the religious grounds for eradicating child poverty, expanding health care coverage, and addressing the climate crisis.
By Josh Axelrod - October 21, 2021