Fact Check: 5 false GOP attacks on the Build Back Better plan
What’s actually in President Joe Biden’s new $1.75 trillion framework.
By Josh Israel - October 29, 2021What’s actually in President Joe Biden’s new $1.75 trillion framework.
By Josh Israel - October 29, 2021Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was against Georgia Republican Herschel Walker’s candidacy before he was for it.
By Emily Singer - October 27, 2021Democrats’ proposed plan would only affect Americans who have over $1 billion in assets or who make $100 million for three years in a row.
By Josh Israel - October 26, 2021His change of heart was revealed at a town hall one day after Senate Republicans blocked a bill to expand voting rights.
By Emily Singer - October 22, 2021The Freedom to Vote Act would block a number of voter suppression laws — but Senate Republicans just killed it.
By Emily Singer - October 20, 2021The jump in the number of murders Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is blaming on ‘liberals’ took place in 2020, under President Donald Trump.
By Josh Israel - October 19, 2021Senate Republicans are wasting as much time as possible to thwart Democrats’ plans.
By Josh Israel - September 29, 2021Senate Republicans are stonewalling Democrats’ efforts to stave off economic calamity.
By Emily Singer - September 28, 2021Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would fund the government and raise the debt ceiling.
By Emily Singer - September 28, 2021Republicans in Congress are refusing to work with Democrats to keep the government up and running.
By Oliver Willis - September 27, 2021Republicans in Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling three times during Donald Trump’s presidency. Now they want to hold Democrats ‘accountable’ for doing the same thing.
By Emily Singer - September 23, 2021Moody’s Analytics found the decision would cause the United States to ‘descend back into recession.’
By Emily Singer - September 22, 2021The Senate Republican Leader suddenly doesn’t think it is useful to criticize others.
By Josh Israel - August 30, 2021After voting for more than $8.5 trillion in spending, Mitch McConnell and his gang don’t want to let the government pay interest on their debt.
By Josh Israel - August 10, 2021‘I look forward to being with people whose perspectives are very different from mine,’ said Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum.
By Casey Quinlan - August 10, 2021A new Politico/Morning Consult shows President Joe Biden is faring much better than Republicans.
By Josh Israel - July 22, 2021Suspension of the ceiling on borrowing by the Treasury to pay government debt expires on July 31.
By Josh Israel - July 21, 2021Gov. Larry Hogan is launching a scholarship lottery to get more Maryland teens vaccinated against COVID-19.
By Josh Israel - July 08, 2021Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told lawmakers in his home state, ‘Spend it wisely, because hopefully this windfall doesn’t come along again.’
By Josh Israel - July 06, 2021Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called proposed funding ‘unrelated tax hikes, wasteful spending, and Green New Deal socialism.’
By Josh Israel - June 30, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking to appoint a bipartisan select committee to investigate the Capitol insurrection.
By Josh Israel - June 29, 2021Former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election were repeated by the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
By Oliver Willis - June 28, 2021Advocates of filibuster reforms are counting on Democrats to stay united as they gear up for a summer showdown.
By Associated Press - June 26, 2021The president plans to pass a bipartisan infrastructure deal and to enact other priorities separately using budget reconciliation.
By Josh Israel - June 25, 2021GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell said he would hold open a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024 if he were the Senate majority leader.
By Emily Singer - June 14, 2021Tom Cotton’s proposal would tell local school boards what to do.
By Josh Israel - June 11, 2021The effort to blame Democrats for crime may offer a preview of Republicans’ strategy for upcoming elections.
By Associated Press - June 10, 2021Christopher Wray testified on Thursday that at least one rioter brought a gun inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
By Emily Singer - June 10, 2021Last month, Sen. Mitch McConnell said he was 100% focused on stopping President Joe Biden’s agenda.
By Josh Israel - June 10, 2021It was not a ‘normal tourist visit,’ as one GOP lawmaker said.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021