GOP Wants Tax on Middle Class Instead of Rich for Infrastructure, Sanders Says
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts on October 25, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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In an interview on
CNN, Sanders said that Republicans’ infrastructure pay-fors would disproportionately affect the working class, which has been hit hard by recent economic crises.
“For too, too long, the average American has seen government work for the 1 percent, for large corporations,” Sanders said to
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “What some of us are trying to do with the president is have government start paying attention to the needs of the working class, which is struggling economically in a way we have not seen for a long, long time.”
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Republicans are going on offense against the priority voting rights legislation, forcing Democrats to take a series of votes in committee that the GOP hopes will highlight more contentious aspects of the package.
Senate Minority Leader McConnell repeated what s likely to become the GOP mantra in the coming days that the voting rights legislation is a purely partisan exercise. There s nothing bipartisan about this, the senator told colleagues. This was cooked up at the Democratic National Committee and designed to advantage one side at the disadvantage of the other.
But Democrats argue the overhaul is itself a necessary response to Republican efforts in states like Georgia, Florida, and Texas to enact their preferred voting rules. Democrats say those reforms are aimed at reducing access to the ballot box.
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No Casinos is launching a new statewide ad campaign to warn Floridians about the new Seminole Compact, which opens sports betting that they say illegally expands gambling in violation of the Florida Constitution.
The Orlando-based anti-gambling group argues the deal between the state and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, signed by DeSantis late last month and could be finalized during a Special Legislative Session starting May 17, lets âpoliticians and gambling lobbyists, instead of voters, authorize a massive expansion of gamblingâ in the Sunshine State.
attack ad. “Mitch McConnell’s Washington consultants are making big money using your name.”
The new ad, titled “Swamp Thing,” is set to hit airwaves on
Fox News and local stations in Palm Beach, just before the former president leaves mar-a-lago >Mar-a-Lago to spend his summer in New Jersey. Throughout the ad, a deep-voiced narrator mocks Mr Trump as images of swamp creatures flicker on screen.
“Maybe you shouldn’t run again,” the narrator drawls. “Maybe the power
Mitch McConnell has over the GOP is just too much for you. Maybe what McConnell and the rest of Washington is saying is true: that Trump is done.”