Author: Stephanie Moffat

Planned Parenthood President Will Join Bernie Sanders and Tom Perez On Dem Unity Tour Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood, will join Senator Bernie Sanders and DNC Chair Tom Perez on their national tour later this month, according to The Hill. She will join Sanders and Perez in Las Vegas on April 22 which is the final stop in the DNC unity tour. The news that the Planned Parenthood President will join Sanders and Perez makes clear that Democrats are trying to activate the party after Republicans and Donald Trump’s recent attack on Planned Parenthood.   Perez has...

ACLU Blasts Trump Decision Not To Release Visitor Logs, ‘Trump Admin Has Many Things It Is Trying To Hide’ American Civil Liberties Union calls out Trump for refusing to release White House visitor logs.  The American Civil Liberties Union, in a statement Friday, strongly blasted Donald Trump’s decision not to release White House visitor logs. The ACLU called the Trump White House’s decision “simply the latest in a series of efforts by President Trump to avoid public accountability.” “Elected officials work for the people and we deserve to see government business conducted in transparent daylight,” the ACLU statement said. The...

Nancy Pelosi Calls Trump’s Bluff On Obamacare Funding The Democratic Minority Leader says Obamacare funding is not optional.  In response to Donald Trump’s threat not to include Obamacare funding in the upcoming government funding resolution, Nancy Pelosi blasted Trump’s threat saying “must be included.” And Democrats are signaling that the Obamacare funding is non-negotiable for them in the budget negotiations setting up a potential government shutdown. An aide to Nancy Pelosi said, “The President’s comments on stopping the Cost Sharing Reduction payments will increase costs, is a threat to the good health of the American people and a threat to keeping government open.”...

Trump White House Won’t Release Visitor Logs, Will Be Kept Secrete For 5 Years After Trump Leaves Office Trump throws out Obama-era open government practice of releasing White House visitor logs.  The Trump administration announce on Friday that it will not release White House visitor logs, breaking an open government practice that President Obama put in place. As an excuse for not releasing the list of who is meeting with Donald Trump, the White House cited “the grave national security risks and privacy concerns.” Good-government watchdogs argue that the Amerian people have a right to know who is visiting the...

Trump Didn’t Know How FISA Process Worked When He Accused Obama Of Wiretap: Report Donald Trump asked his aides how the FISA process works only after accusing President Obama of wiretapping his telephones.  With Donald Trump the process is clearly to shoot first and ask questions later… or in this case tweet first. According to a new report by the New York Times, Donald Trump didn’t know how the FISA warrant process worked when he accused President Obama of wiretapping him. The New York Times, in an article devoted to Donald Trump’s steep learning curve, noted that Donald Trump...