[Poverty Wages\Corporate America]
Sanders: “At a time when huge corporations like Walmart and McDonald’s are making billions in profits and giving their CEOs tens of millions of dollars a year, they’re relying on corporate welfare from the federal government by paying their workers starvation wages. That is morally obscene.”
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GAO Report: Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Big Corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s
Democrats Urge Trump Administration Against “Midnight Rulemaking”
[Midnight Rulemaking]
House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) expressing their strong concern against a potential last-minute roll-back of protections by the outgoing Trump Administration, and urging OMB and OIRA to instruct executive branch agencies not to engage in “midnight rulemaking.”
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Rep. Scott Calls on DeVos to address systemic racism in education
[Department of Education]
Rep. Scott: “Racist policies and practices are ingrained in our institutions both in name and in effect, including in preschools, elementary schools, high schools, and colleges, and the Department must lead our educational system’s reckoning with this fact.”
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COVID-19: Scott, Norton Demand Support for Schools to Keep Kids Safe
[School Budgets\COVID-19]
Rep. Norton: “Many schools, like those in the District, have been forced to go virtual because of the pandemic…The delay in passing the Heroes Act, which contains $200B for schools, is unconscionably shortchanging our children .”
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GAO Legal Decision: Top Trump DHS appointments Illegal
[GAO\Trump’s Illegal DHS Appointments]
Thompson\Maloney: “GAO’s damning opinion paints a disturbing picture of the Trump Administration playing fast and loose by bypassing the Senate confirmation process to install ideologues.”
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GAO STUDY SHOWS PENTAGON’S LUCRATIVE WEAPONS CONTRACTS AREN’T REVIEWED
[Pentagon\Weapons Contracts]
Sen. Sanders: “We have a Pentagon budget filled with unbelievable amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse. That is why I asked GAO to examine how the Defense Department awards Pentagon contractors with weapons deals.”
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VERMONT SENATOR SANDERS ON GAO STUDY: POVERTY AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IS A DEATH SENTENCE
[Economic inequality\Poverty]
Vermont Senator Sanders: “Poverty is a life-threatening issue for millions of people in this country, and this report confirms it… If we do not urgently act to solve the economic distress of millions of Americans, a whole generation will be condemned to early death.”
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