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Conservatives, Progressives Demand Amendments During Spy Powers Fight to Curb Surveillance Abuse

Conservatives and progressives are calling on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) to approve amendments to curb surveillance abuses in next week’s fight to reauthorize the spying authority. Conservative activist group FreedomWorks and progressive activist group Demand Progress announced Friday that Chairman Mike Johnson will reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a […]

Progressives call on Federal Reserve to lower interest rates

Nearly two dozen progressive Democrats in both houses of Congress have called on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates at a meeting scheduled for this week. Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday joined Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and more than 20 House Democrats to say no more. He argued that […]

Progressives aim to sock New Yorkers with yet more tax hikes

Progressives in Albany are pushing another huge state tax hike this year, but New York’s brutal tax rates are already driving taxpayers (and job creators) away and steadily eroding the tax base. I don’t even care about that. Both the state Senate and Assembly included a significant $2.2 billion increase in their responses to Governor […]

Progressives’ Plan B to avoid a Trump-Biden rematch

‘This is what we were always heading towards’ – President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump rematch According to Politico’s Adam Wren. “But within days, the wrinkled, flabby reality facing the nation became the defining issue of the 2024 election campaign,” he continued. Special Counsel Robert Hur’s scathing report About Biden’s memory and cognition. […]

GOP Senate dysfunction aids progressives controlling the Federal Trade Commission

Republican senators failed to approve qualified candidates to serve on the commission, giving Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and the progressive thinkers who run the Federal Trade Commission an early warning. I gave you a Christmas present. This unreasonable error shows that Republicans could be as dysfunctional in the Senate as they are in the House. […]