Elizabeth Warren Raises $19.1 Million All In Small Donations
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) raised more money than any other Democratic candidate outside of Biden and Buttigieg all with small donations.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) raised more money than any other Democratic candidate outside of Biden and Buttigieg all with small donations.
Trump can’t measure up to Obama in jobs as the former president created 1 million more jobs that Donald Trump over the same 29 month period.
President Trump is costing the U.S. taxpayer $102 million plus for his golf outings, and because he refused to divest himself of his business interests like all other presidents have done, he is making money off of his outrageous expenditures.
Trump obtained a new 30-year mortgage in 2018 for a property he owned in West Palm Beach, Florida, according to new financial disclosures made public on Thursday by the Office of Government Ethics.
By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Candidates vying for the Democratic nomination to be U.S. president began on Monday to disclose how much cash they were able to raise in the first quarter of the year – an early test of their ability to organize and build support. U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California raised…
The complaint said CNN exhibited a bias against President Donald Trump by focusing on Sandmann and other Covington students because they were wearing red caps emblazoned with the president’s “Make America Great Again†slogan.
A federal court jury in Central Islip, New York, found former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano guilty of bribery, honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue.
Rachel Maddow beat Fox News’s Hannity by nearly a million viewers on Wednesday night to be most popular show on cable television.
Michael Cohen is taking the Trump Organization to court after they agreed to pay his legal bills that they agreed to pay for.
Elizabeth Warren proposed a universal childcare program, paid for by a tax on high-net-worth individuals, to help families unable to find affordable care.
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is starting to cause real pain for some of the most vulnerable Americans, according to The New York Times. This includes millions of homeless people as well as millions of others who are one just one small crisis away from ending up on the streets themselves. And most…
CBS Corp said on Monday it has fired Leslie Moonves for cause and has denied a $120 million severance package as it girds for a potential legal battle with its former chief executive who has been accused of sexual harassment and assault that allegedly took place before and after he joined the company.
The Justice Department is investigating possible criminal activity linked to millions of fake messages sent to the FCC opposing net neutrality from Russian email addresses. This incredible new development was reported by Buzzfeed News on Saturday, and gives at least one possible reason for the misguided decision made by the FCC last year. Of the…
President Trump’s military deployment to the Mexican border will cost U.S. taxpayers approximately $200 million by the end of 2018, according to Pentagon figures. That number, which includes the cost of National Guard forces that have been there since April, will increase greatly if the deployments continue into 2019. Trump said he plans to deploy as…
Trump is set to waste untold millions deploying troops to the border for a non-emergency. On Wednesday, the Pentagon told Reuters that about 7,000 troops could be deployed if needed. The Pentagon refused to discuss budget. We have no actual assessment of threat, and in any case, as the BBC pointed out, the caravan is…
Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer is planning to conclude his massive spending in the 2018 congressional midterm elections with a $16 million contribution this month to all of his political organizations, CNBC has reported. An aide to Steyer spoke anonymously and said that the philanthropist and liberal activist will be splurging in the final 11 days…
A leading business publication in New York City has reported that President Donald Trump and his siblings could owe New York state more than $400 million. Crain’s New York came up with that figure, which includes unpaid taxes, interest and penalties, after the blockbuster New York Times report about the Trump family’s finances. The report said…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump engaged in tax schemes that included cases of fraud in which he and his siblings helped their parents dodge taxes, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The Times investigation, which a Trump lawyer said was inaccurate, showed Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million…
(Reuters) – Alibaba <BABA.N> Chairman Jack Ma said the company can no longer meet its promise to create 1 million jobs in the United States due to U.S.-China trade tensions, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. Ma has already warned that the trade war between the world’s two largest economies could last decades and that…
A new document obtained by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) reveals that Trump cut nearly $10 million from FEMA’s budget and gave it to ICE for more migrant detention centers.
The polls in the U.S. Senate race in Texas between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke show the race is tightening and it looks like Cruz is starting to panic. He just released a series of new TV ads that are supposed to help him cruise to an easy reelection victory but instead they have backfired…
Trump bragged that he basically gutted Obamacare. The result of his gutting is that 4 million people lost their health insurance.
On Tuesday an official from the Department of Health and Human Services admitted that the cost to the U.S. of putting separated migrant children into Trump’s new “tent cities†is several times more expensive than any of the other options available for taking care of the children. EXCLUSIVE: Tent cities cost millions more than keeping…
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner received over $82 million in outside income during 2017 while working as White House advisers. The information was reported in financial disclosure forms released by the president’s daughter and son-in-law on Monday. The filings make clear that Ivanka and Jared are collecting massive amounts of money from outside businesses at the same…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded tens of millions of dollars worth of biofuel blending credits for this year to refiners HollyFrontier and Sinclair Oi.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen asked the Qatari government for at least $1 million in December 2016 in exchange for access or insight into the Trump administration, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Hundreds of women sexually abused by disgraced gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar have tentatively agreed to a $500 million settlement with Michigan State University, Nassar’s former employer, attorneys for both sides said on Wednesday.
Because just 39 percent of poll respondents had a favorable view of the Trump/Republican tax cut bill in an April Gallup poll, the GOP’s biggest billionaire mega-donors are spending $20 million in a new effort to convince more people that they should like the tax law change which gives unneeded tax breaks to billionaires while exploding the…
Last month, it was reported that Kushner’s companies received more than $500 millions in loans from businesses that met with him at the White House.
NBC News estimated that March For Our Life crowd size in Washington, DC could reach at least 1 million people. Video of NBC crowd size estimate: NBC News estimates at least 1 million people are at the Washington, DC #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/MW5Q3KGI3Q pic.twitter.com/BibUc5lyDf — PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) March 24, 2018 Chris Matthews and Brian Williams said on…
This is just a snapshot of the more than 800 demonstrations that took place as part of the “March For Our Lives” event that was organized in the span of just over a month.Â
While most of the political and business world were stunned by Trump’s announcement, one of the president’s buddies seemed “unvexed” by it.
Multiple companies loaned a combined total of $509 million after having met with Donald Trump’s son-in-law at the White House.
Tom Steyer’s Need To Impeach campaign has gotten more than five million supporters in a little over four months. In a statement provided to PoliticusUSA, Need To Impeach announced phase two of their campaign: Tom Steyer’s Need to Impeach campaign—launched four months ago—has just reached more than five million supporters. This milestone comes at the…
“Black Panther” has demolished the record for the largest Presidents Day weekend, blowing past “Deadpool’s” 2016 mark of $152 million. Overall North American moviegoing for the four-day period should hit $300 million — far above the $278 million mark in 2016, according to comScore.
According to a Tuesday report by Politico, the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has increased he and his wife’s debt by millions of dollars since joining the White House. He currently holds a senior position in the administration. The debt comes from loans taken from three credit lines between last March and July. Kushner’s initial financial…
The White House is will to open a path to citizenship to 1.8 million Dreamers but only if Democrats will give Trump $25 billion to pay a wall that he promised that Mexico would pay for. Via CNN, here’s what the White House wants in exchange for letting 1.8 million Dreamers stay: The White House…
Beyonce’s hit album “Lemonade” and world tour made her the highest-paid woman in music in 2017, according to an annual Forbes list on Monday, edging out Britain’s Adele and pop star Taylor Swift.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Robert E. Lee by comparing him to Washington, Jefferson, JFK, and FDR while ignoring that Robert E. Lee tried to destroy the nation that those presidents led.
It’s not surprising that this administration would try to pull this kind of stunt, but it’s somewhat stunning that they thought the American people wouldn’t see right through it.
Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago could lose as much as 25% of its profits as 16 charities have canceled private events as the fallout from the President’s Charlottesville remarks hits him the wallet.
Mitch McConnell just can’t stop losing, as the CBO found that 22 million people would still lose their health insurance under his revised Obamacare repeal and replace bill.
It was Trump who pushed for Senate Republicans to vote on a repeal only bill, and the CBO has released a new finding that 32 million Americans would lose their health insurance coverage under Trump’s scheme.
“Seventy-five million Americans all have the same health insurance, and the big health bill that the Republicans unveiled in the Senate today takes a meat ax to that health insurer.”
That’s right: Trump just lost a trade battle with Mexico – over tuna fish.
The Resistance is showing up in a big way ahead of the House special election in Montana as small donors have raised $2 million for Democratic Rob Quist.
Fox News has paid $65 million to get men who harass women to kindly leave. This serves as an incentive to keep harassing women.
If Trump wants to keep calling the Affordable Care Act a “disaster,†he probably shouldn’t do it in a state that has benefited so much from the law.
As Trump holds photo ops with CEO’s; the Global Business Travel Association estimates a revenue loss of $185 million since Donald Trump was elected. Industry insiders call it the Trump Slump.
President Trump’s “campaign-style rally” is an excuse from the White House for Trump to spend his 3rd straight weekend in at his private club in Florida at a cost to taxpayers of $3 million. The total cost of Trump’s weekends in Florida amounts to a bill of more than $10 million.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is not impressed with President Donald Trump’s immigration executive actions spree Wednesday, so in response she suggested declaring January 25 the Trump Administration’s First Anti-Immigrant day.
The Trump administration has confirmed as part of their plan to repeal and replace Obamacare they will be cutting for 7.4 million poor, seniors, and disabled Americans by converting Medicaid into a block grant program.
The final national crowd estimate is that somewhere between 3.6 million and 4.5 million people marched across the country in Women’s March On Washington.
Millions of Americans have taken to the streets from New York to Los Angeles and everywhere in between as the Women’s Marches on Washington is estimated to be the biggest one-day protest in US history.
A new report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office blew apart the Republican falsehoods on Obamacare repeal by finding that 18 million people will lose their health insurance in the first year of repeal, and health insurance premiums will double for those who still have insurance.
President-elect Trump is beginning his propaganda effort that is designed to make 30 million Americans losing access to their healthcare look like a good thing.
President-elect Trump is hyping the PR stunt of saving 1,000 jobs in Indiana, by giving Carrier a package of tax cuts and incentives, but it is nothing compared to the 1.2 million jobs that President Obama saved with the auto bailout.
Spoiler alert: The richest 1 percent of Americans would benefit most from Trump’s proposal.
The money already raised is enough to secure a recount in at least one state – Wisconsin – whose filing deadline is Nov. 25.
Instead of a White House firewall to stop the Koch GOP Congress’ disasters, the Kochs and evangelicals have a fascist with a rubber stamp.
The last-minute move is the latest indication that Republicans haven’t just given up on Trump, who is limping toward defeat, but they’re also panicking that the Senate is slipping away.
“Scientists are confident that as we continue to heat up the oceans, we’re going to see more of these high-end perfect storms.â€
A non-partisan study revealed devastating news for the Republican Party and Donald Trump. The Trump healthcare plan would make health care more expensive and cost 19.7 million mostly poor, and ill Americans their health insurance.
Donald Trump and his for-profit presidential campaign thought they had the market cornered after winning the Republican nomination, but an enterprising fellow grifter invaded Trump’s turf and stole $1 million from his supporters (marks). Because Donald Trump has no digital campaign operation to speak of, a grifter by the name of Ian Hawes was able…
Donald Trump is trying to pull a fast one on voters by removing his tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires plan from his website ahead of his economic speech.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus claimed President Obama “secretly gave the Iranians $400M at the same time 4 Americans were released from their custody†and linked to a Wall Street Journal story that has the right up in arms this fine Wednesday morning. This, of course, is false.
In a letter dated July 12, for a convention that starts days away on July 18, the RNC sent a letter to billionaire Sheldon Adelson begging for 6 million dollars.
How can Islam be the problem when there are just over 3 million Muslims in the United States, but over 5 million assault rifles?
A tech company is calling Donald Trump’s bluff by offering to put up the $10 million that the Republican nominee demanded before he would participate in a debate with Bernie Sanders.
George Zimmerman said he has sold the gun he used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 for $250,000, television stations in Orlando and Las Vegas reported on Friday.
Donald Trump plans to make America great by cutting taxes for millionaires by $3.2 trillion while cutting programs and services for ordinary Americans.
It is no surprise that the CNN Brooklyn Democratic debate that was characterized by sloppy moderators, frustrated candidates, and a ton of rehashed material only drew 5.6 million viewers.
The Fox Business Debate was the least watched Republican debate of the 2016 cycle. The Republican Party has lost 14 million viewers since the first GOP 2016 debate on Fox News.
House Republicans began 2016 with a heartless and politically clueless vote to take health care away from 22 million Americans.
In case you thought it was a gaffe last night during the debate, asked whether he would support raising the minimum wage, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump once again said, “Wages are too high.”
Chris Christie just denied voter registration to 1.6 million people, claiming not letting people vote as a remedy for voter fraud
Four Papa John’s Franchisees in New York City have agreed to a 500,000 dollar settlement to pay back 250 employees whose wages were stolen.
The Democratic debate as energized Bernie Sanders supporters as the Democratic candidate raised an amazing $3.2 million in three days this week all from small donors.
The two leading Democratic presidential candidates had a strong fundraising quarter, raising a combined 54 million dollars.
All we have to do so 45 million low income Americans can eat, is be willing to deprive millions of poor women of reproductive healthcare
The Republican plan to defund Planned Parenthood is going to cost taxpayers $130 million over ten years.
Even with the best lawyers tax money can buy and a judge appointed by George W. Bush, John Boehner barely got his day in court.
The agreement also requires Baltimore police officers to be equipped with body cameras to monitor their activity while they are on duty.
For Florida taxpayers, their trust in then-Governor Jeb Bush to protect their lifelong pension savings was wasted when he forged a highly-profitable relationship with Lehman Brothers that made Lehman and Bush millions. That special relationship was ultimately a certifiable disaster for Florida public employees.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is making Republicans squirm by pointing out that if the sequester is continued it will cost the American people 1.4 million jobs.
Ted Cruz just brought in the largest campaign contribution in the 2016 election cycle, from a pair of rich Texas frackers
One of Scott Walker’s creations shortly after being sworn in as Wisconsin’s governor released a report that exposed yet another Walker administration scandal involving taxpayer money going directly to Walker’s campaign donors.
Republicans made a big deal out of George Stephanopoulos’s donations to the Clinton Foundation, but an examination of the list of donors reveals that conservatives have donated millions of dollars to the charitable organization.
In a strongly worded veto threat, the White House shredded Republicans for a bill that would give millionaires and billionaires a tax cut that averages $3 million each.
Montanans may not be fans of President Obama, but they also are suspicious of organizations funded by out of state billionaires.
The Kansas legislature is about to pass a bill that is a piece of paper-hate directed at the poor. Hate primarily driven by Brownback, who, during his tenure as governor has seen the numbers of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program SNAP or food stamps) recipients, drop from over 40,000 to just under 15,000.
To make matters that much worse, the over 2 million gallons of toxic water the oil and gas industry disposes of daily is pumped into the aquifer and poisons the diminishing underground supply at an alarming rate; so much so that well over a hundred (at last count) drinking-water wells have been shut down by state water regulators and the EPA due to oil waste-water contamination.
President Obama exposed the Republican agenda by calling out the morally repugnant GOP budget plan to give 4,000 of the wealthiest Americans a $4 million tax cut while passing the bill on to every other citizen.
A centerpiece of the House and Senate Republican budgets is a plan to take away health care from 14.3-20.5 million Americans.
Millions of Americans have gained health insurance coverage, since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed into law on March 23, 2010.
Republicans have shifted their focus slightly away from just killing Americans’ jobs to killing disabled Americans; nearly nine million disabled Americans.
House Republicans passed a bill would take away health insurance from at least 1 million workers by a vote of 252-172.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tried to rewrite his history of obstruction and failure by taking credit for the economic growth that has occurred under President Obama.
An estimated 3.1 million Americans across the country started 2015 out with a real bang due to state and district increases in the minimum wage.
A petition to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for president collected 25,000 signatures in three hours.