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“After exploding the deficit with a GOP Tax Scam for the wealthy and well-connected, Republicans have the gall to invoke ‘fiscal responsibility’ in demanding a new rescissions package that attacks funding reserved for children’s health initiatives.

Washington, DC – Today, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting that the Department of Justice confirm that they have not given the President’s outside counsel, White House staff or the President access to the same classified information briefed to Congress.

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds released a report showing that Medicare will become insolvent by 2026, three years earlier than projected last year, and Social Security will be depleted by 2034:

Leader Pelosi. Thank you for [Congressman] Eliot Engel for your very generous remarks which I will accept on behalf of our House Democratic Caucus, which has had the courage to support the Affordable Care Act, to protect Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and so many issues.

Prescription drug costs continue to rise under President Trump’s Administration, despite his many promises to bring drug prices ‘back down to earth.’

"Today, the world honors the extraordinary bravery of the Chinese freedom fighters who rose up to demand their rights and defy an oppressive and corrupt regime. Twenty-nine years after this heroic act, the image of a lone man standing resolute in the face of Chinese military tanks remains seared into the memory of all freedom-loving people, symbolizing all who yearn for a better future for themselves and their children. It is a profound injustice that the Chinese government continues to try to hide this history and deny these heroes’ legacy – a legacy that lives on in the millions across the globe who fight each day for a more hopeful, just and free future, and refuse to let the spirit of Tiananmen fade.

“The Masterpiece Cakeshop case is about the most fundamental right of all Americans: to be free from persecution and discrimination because of who they are or whom they love. While narrowly framed to apply to the decision-making process undertaken by the state commission, today’s wrongheaded decision fails to uphold equality in this case.