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Women and their families marched to show our values, our unity and our good spirit.
Many marched for the rights and dignity of the men, women and children who have been targeted for discrimination by this administration -- and in recent days we've seen that open prejudice on full display in the President's immoral and unconstitutional ban on refugees and citizens from seven Muslim nations.
Many marched to protect the health care of the American people, which sadly, is also under attack by the President and the Republican Congress today.
With middle school graduation and summer vacation just days away, eighth-graders at San Francisco's Children's Day School should have been thinking about swimming pools and sleeping in.
Instead, on Tuesday, their minds were on gun control, mental illness and mass incarceration as they grilled one of the most powerful women in American politics about congressional inaction and the future of the country.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, was happy to answer the students' questions, saying they were "so deep, so thoughtful, so concerned" that she had to remind herself they are graduating from eighth grade, not high school.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi heaped praise on Mayor de Blasio's Pre-K for All program at a visit to a Brooklyn prekindergarten class with the Mayor and other officials Wednesday morning.
Speaking at Public School 123 in Bushwick, the U.S. representative from California called de Blasio's universal pre-K expansion a national model that should be followed by districts across the country.
"This is a real service to our country," Pelosi said to de Blasio. "Thank you for your vision, your leadership and your effectiveness in implementing this."
The long-endangered Republican Deficit Hawk is now extinct.
In December, the Republican Congress passed into law a huge permanent package of tax measures as part of the tax and spending deal. However, Republicans refused to pay for the legislation, thereby adding a thunderous $2 trillion to the deficit over the next two decades, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
As House Republicans prepare to leave for two weeks of recess without passing a budget for next year, the cost of this tax package is casting a long shadow over America's future, threatening to crowd out essential investments for hard-working American families.