No U.S. Troops in Haiti: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Military Mission Would Not Help Country

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• Trump Wages War on Working Families to Fund $500 Billion Pentagon Boost
  Today, President Trump released his administration’s FY2027 budget, doubling down on an unpopular economic agenda that is raising costs and ripping away support for working families. Trump’s budget proposes deep cuts to programs that help families afford energy bills and housing costs, while gutting worker protections to bankroll the Pentagon and Trump’s Iran war. Since […]
• Progressives Urge Senate Dems to Block AG Confirmation Until Epstein Files Released
  In the wake of President Trump’s removal of Pam Bondi, Our Revolution, the largest grassroots-funded progressive political organizing group in the country, is calling on Senate Democrats to withhold any vote on confirming a new Attorney General until there is a clear commitment to release all Epstein-related files and pursue real accountability.The call follows a […]
• March Job Gains Mask a Volatile Labor Market as Iran War Chaos Mounts
  Today’s jobs report shows the labor market added 178,000 jobs in March, and February’s losses significantly revised down, revealing a decrease of 133,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remained mostly unchanged at 4.3%, with unemployment at its weakest pace since 2020. As hiring stalls, the share of workers who say it’s harder to find jobs has […]
• Trump Appointees on Planning Commission Rubber-Stamp Trump’s White House Ballroom Project
  Today, the Trump Administration appointees on the National Capital Planning Commission, which provides overall planning guidance for federal land and buildings in the District, overrode opposition from DC officials, dismissed 35,000 public comments nearly all against the project, and ignored a ruling from a federal judge blocking the project and voted to approve Trump’s corporate-funded […]
• Advocacy Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Decision to Exempt All Oil and Gas Activities in Gulf from Endangered Species Act
  Gulf and environmental groups sued the Trump Administration today over its decision to strip Endangered Species Act protection from imperiled species threatened by oil-and-gas offshore drilling activities in the Gulf of Mexico. The unprecedented blanket-exemption would leave numerous Gulf species and ecosystems unprotected and vulnerable to extinction, including the critically endangered Rice’s whale, sea turtles, […]
• EPA and HHS Pledge to Address Threat of Microplastics, PFAS to Health and Drinking Water Safety
  Growing concerns that microplastics – tiny plastic particles found in human bodies and the environment – are toxic to human health led the EPA today to identify microplastics as a contaminant of concern in drinking water for the first time. Toxic PFAS and pharmaceuticals were also identified as priority contaminants. Yet, just two weeks ago, […]