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Republicans' Sabotage of ACA Leads to Premium Hike in North Carolina
May 25, 2017
Today, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina released a projected 23% average rate increase in the individual health insurance marketplace.
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Advocacy Groups & Editorials Reject Trump Budget
May 25, 2017
With the rollout of their budget blueprint earlier this week, President Trump and his Administration claim they are putting ‘taxpayers first' with ‘a new foundation for American greatness.' But the American people are not buying it.

Editorial boards and groups representing Americans slam Trump's budget for what it really is: a brutal attack on hard-working American families – stealing from essential programs that help the most vulnerable to benefit the wealthiest few with massive tax cuts.

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ICYMI: Ex-CIA Chief's Powerful Argument for Independent Trump-Russia Probe
May 24, 2017
Yesterday, former CIA Director John Brennan made one of the most eloquent, powerful arguments for why we need an independent, outside commission to investigate the Trump campaign's ties to Russia's meddling in our election.
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Trump's Paid Family Leave is All Smoke and Mirrors
May 23, 2017
President Trump's 2018 budget claims to include a proposal for six weeks of paid leave for parents after the birth or adoption of a child. Sounds great, right?

Wrong. The paid family leave proposal in the Trump budget is all smoke and mirrors. The proposal would require states to cut programs that support working families, including Unemployment Insurance, in order to pay for parental leave. It also doesn't guarantee leave for same-sex couples, or provide paid leave to people caring for seriously ill family members. The plan falls far short of what hardworking families need.

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Trump's Budget Breaks Promise to Protect Medicaid, Social Security (and maybe Medicare???)
May 23, 2017
On the campaign trail, President Trump repeatedly promised to be a champion for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.  In a move of striking deceit against hard-working American families, the Trump budget proposal released today reveals President Trump's proposal to cut Medicaid by $1.4 trillion and Social Security's disabilit
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Trump Budget Destroys Jobs, Endangers Hard-Working Families
May 22, 2017
Tomorrow, President Trump will release his 2018 budget – a proposal that guts investments in jobs and hollows out our economy, including $1.7 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and other anti-poverty initiatives, children's health insurance and Social Security Disability Insurance.

Washington Post:

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The GOP Health Care Meltdown
May 19, 2017
In a recent interview with TIME Magazine, President Trump claimed: ‘In a short period of time I understood everything there was to know about health care.’ We beg to differ. It’s hard to believe this is true with Trumpcare – an attack on hard-working Americans that strips away health coverage from millions while driving up costs.
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Big Little Lies: The White House Saga Continues
May 18, 2017
News broke this morning that the Trump campaign had 18 undisclosed contacts with Russian officials, directly contradicting President Trump's claims for months that he nor ‘nobody that I know of' had connections with the Russians and Vice President Pence's denial, calling it a ‘distraction' to delegitimatize the
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President Trump's Loose Lips Endanger American Lives
May 16, 2017
Earlier today, President Trump confirmed that he divulged highly classified information to the Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador in an Oval Office meeting last week – posing a clear and present danger to American national security.

However, the President doesn't seem to know or care about the possible repercussions of his actions.

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New Poll: Americans are Not. Having. It.
May 16, 2017
A new poll from Public Policy Polling paints a stark picture of actions so far by the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans. Americans are concerned about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia and his conflicts of interest; they want to see Trump’s tax returns and don’t want to pay for his immoral wall; and they want Republicans to leave their health care alone. 116 days into his presidency, and Republicans have yet to introduce a single bill in Congress to create jobs or improve the lives of hardworking Americans. It’s no wonder their patience is running out.