White House warns that looming government shutdown would cut food aid for millions
The right-wing House Freedom Caucus is leading a Republican push for significant cuts to appropriations bills.
By Oliver Willis - August 31, 2023The right-wing House Freedom Caucus is leading a Republican push for significant cuts to appropriations bills.
By Oliver Willis - August 31, 2023School shootings and mass gun violence are still met with thoughts, prayers, and vague calls for mental health care, but no gun safety legislation.
By Josh Israel - August 29, 2023The latest news impacting reproductive rights around the country.
By Rebekah Sager - August 25, 2023The right wing would prefer another shutdown to a stopgap extension of government funding.
By Josh Israel - August 23, 2023A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an injunction that had been placed on the Alabama law by a federal district judge.
By Will Fritz - August 22, 2023Pennsylvania’s eight Republican representatives have filed more than 100 bills, but few would address the campaign priorities the party promised it would tackle.
By Josh Israel - August 22, 2023Wisconsin’s six Republican representatives have filed more than 75 bills, but few would address the party’s promised priorities.
By Josh Israel - August 17, 2023Currently only 18% of top House staffers are people of color.
By Oliver Willis - August 03, 2023The legislation would allow those with private insurance plans to receive a full year's worth of contraceptives at one time rather than be limited to a month-by-month supply.
By Emily Singer - July 25, 2023Lawyers seek to stop Kentucky’s ban on gender-affirming care, Sen. J.D. Vance introduces a bill to ban all gender-affirming care, and more.
By Will Fritz - July 24, 2023Vance's bill would criminalize the provision of puberty blockers and hormone treatments to most people under the age of 18.
By Will Fritz - July 19, 2023Republicans in Congress have filed more than 30 federal bills to restrict reproductive choice.
By Josh Israel - March 06, 2023Republican lawmakers want to cut taxes for the rich, ban books from schools, and pass anti-abortion legislation.
By Emily Singer - February 15, 2023Landmark legislation enacted during the first two years of President Joe Biden’s first term has invested billions of dollars in infrastructure and jobs.
By Oliver Willis - February 06, 2023The bipartisan Pregnant Women in Custody Act would establish standards for medical care and nutrition for women in custody.
By Josh Israel - December 02, 2022The Republican nominee for House speaker has written only eight laws in his eight terms in office.
By Josh Israel - December 01, 2022House Republicans’ Stop the Sexualization of Children Act of 2022 would ban school discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity for children under 10.
By Emily Singer - October 19, 2022The state’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, championed the bill.
By Casey Quinlan - February 02, 2022Republicans are chipping away at LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the country.
By Casey Quinlan - January 11, 2022If the bill passes, it will be yet another restriction in a state that already has multiple anti-abortion restrictions.
By Lisa Needham - November 29, 2021‘This is an assault on the craft of teaching,’ said a teacher in Tennessee. ‘It’s asking me to show up and ignore parts of my own identity.’
By Associated Press - June 14, 2021Police warned motorists to stay away amid reports of guns being brandished and fireworks going off as street racers clogged a stretch of interstate in Aurora, Colorado, on March 7.
By Associated Press - May 16, 2021Republicans acknowledged there were no serious signs of voting irregularities in the last election.
By Associated Press - May 06, 2021Tennessee is the only state in which lawmakers have filed a so-called bathroom bill every year since 2016.
By Casey Quinlan - April 09, 2021