Category: Senate Democrats

Some Senate Democrats Urge Biden Not to Strike a Deal With McCarthy on Debt Ceiling

May 18, 2023
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A group of Democratic senators has said they will not support any deal on raising the debt ceiling that includes cutting vital social services and has urged President Joe Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment if necessary to continue paying the nation’s bills and avoid a default. “The president has the authority and the responsibility…

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Democrats Ask Pentagon to ‘Protect Abortion’ for Service Members, Citing National Security

March 27, 2023
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Senate Democrats on March 27 asked Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to “protect abortion” for U.S. military service members. In a March 27 letter written by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and co-signed by most of the Senate Democrat caucus, Democrats suggested that women in the military having access to abortion was a matter of national…

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Biden Applauds Fetterman’s ‘Brave’ Choice to Seek Treatment for Depression

February 19, 2023
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President Joe Biden on Feb. 17 praised Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) two days after the senator checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center seeking treatment for clinical depression. “John, Gisele—Jill and I are thinking about your family today,” the president wrote in a tweet addressing Fetterman and his wife. “Millions of people struggle with…

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Trump Economic Team Says Inflation Won’t Fall Back to 2 Percent Unless Democrat Policies Change

July 18, 2022
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Economists Art Laffer and and Kevin Hassett spoke with fellow Trump administration economic team alum Larry Kudlow on Kudlow’s Fox Business program on July 15, over Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) delaying President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda until August. The three former Trump economic advisors also believe that the United States is already in a recession and…

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Senate Appropriations GOPers Lead Congressional Return to Pork Barrel Earmarks

April 12, 2022
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Nine of the 16 Senate Republicans who received earmarks in 2022 are members of the upper chamber’s appropriations committee and, despite being in the minority, they got twice as much pork as their Democratic colleagues on that powerful panel. The nine appropriations Republicans gained fewer total earmarks, trailing the 13 earmarking Democrats on the committee 743…

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