Follow the money: Big oil funds attack ads blaming Senate Dems for high gas prices
Gas prices have trended downward since June 2022.
By Jesse Valentine - August 02, 2024Gas prices have trended downward since June 2022.
By Jesse Valentine - August 02, 2024The ads are running in six states with competitive U.S. Senate races
By Jesse Valentine - July 02, 2024Meanwhile, Democratic governors and legislatures are expanding free and reduced-price school meal programs.
By Emily Singer - July 31, 2023The bipartisan compromise between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed with only 17 Republicans voting yes.
By Josh Israel - June 02, 2023Enough Senate Republicans to filibuster legislation say they will not back any clean debt limit increase.
By Josh Israel - May 08, 2023The ad was produced by the tax-exempt group One Nation, which has received millions of dollars from fossil fuel companies in recent years.
By Josh Israel - April 19, 2023A Congressional Budget Office analysis shows congressional Republicans cannot get to a balanced budget in 10 years without unpopular cuts or higher taxes.
By Josh Israel - March 15, 2023At least 15 current senators and representatives say reductions in funding to safety net programs should be discussed.
By Josh Israel - March 14, 2023Republicans are trying to overturn a Labor Department regulation that allows retirement funds to consider environmental, social, and governance behaviors of the companies in which they invest.
By Josh Israel - March 01, 2023The National Republican Senatorial Committee is running blatantly dishonest ads against six Democratic incumbents.
By Josh Israel - February 23, 2023Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) wants to end the automated funding of the safety net program so Congress can start ‘managing it.’
By Josh Israel - February 13, 2023A case involving an Indiana man who suffered from dementia could have far-reaching consequences.
By TAI Contributor - February 13, 2023The Senate Republican leader says that the plan is Scott’s, not the Republican Party’s. But Scott is not alone.
By Josh Israel - February 10, 2023The latest jobs report shows unemployment at its lowest level since 1969.
By Oliver Willis - February 03, 2023Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is spinning his party’s failures as a mandate.
By Josh Israel - January 24, 2023The Florida Republican’s unpopular proposal would sunset Social Security and Medicare and raise taxes for millions.
By Josh Israel - January 05, 2023Funds for the grants come from the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Nov. 15, 2021.
By Oliver Willis - January 04, 2023GOP Whip Steve Scalise is urging his caucus to oppose even a brief continuing resolution to avert a holiday crisis.
By Josh Israel - December 14, 2022Outside groups — often funded by undisclosed sources — supporting Republican House and Senate candidates significantly outspent groups supporting Democrats in close races.
By Josh Israel - December 08, 2022The Republican finger-pointing is in full swing after the party’s disastrous performance in the Georgia Senate runoff.
By Emily Singer - December 07, 2022‘They have no idea what integrity is,’ the brother of the late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick said of their refusal to shake GOP leaders’ hands at a congressional gold medal ceremony.
By Emily Singer - December 06, 2022‘It’s always better with 51, because we’re in a situation where you don’t have to have an even makeup of the committees,’ President Joe Biden has stated to stress the importance of reelecting Sen. Raphael Warnock.
By Associated Press - November 23, 2022The Mitch McConnell-linked Senate Leadership Fund super PAC repeats false accusations made by Republican candidate Herschel Walker.
By Josh Israel - November 18, 2022The Senate Leadership Fund did not even bother to get a different person to attack Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock and Catherine Cortez Masto.
By Josh Israel - October 28, 2022The Inflation Reduction Act allows the government to negotiate drug prices and caps prescription drug costs through the Medicare program.
By Oliver Willis - September 28, 2022Republican senators who voted to ban abortion nationwide have changed their tune as their positions on the issue threaten their midterm election prospects.
By Emily Singer - September 19, 2022The Senate Leadership Fund and the Congressional Leadership Fund, which are reportedly aligned with Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, are lying about the Inflation Reduction Act.
By Josh Israel - September 15, 2022President Joe Biden attended a remembrance ceremony at the Pentagon, while Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to New York and First Lady Jill Biden stopped in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
By Associated Press - September 12, 2022Forty-three million Americans owe money on federal student loans.
By Oliver Willis - August 25, 2022The Senate minority leader once scolded Democrats for not taking the nonexistent issue seriously enough.
By Josh Israel - August 23, 2022