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Key Senate Dem Says Party Caved on Shutdown to Make a Symbolic Point About the GOP
Outraged voters and politicians alike are demanding to know why a group of Senate Democrats sided with Republicans to reopen the government without securing any concessions on preserving health care coverage — just days after the party swept last week’s elections with a burst of energy fueled, in part, by its willingness to fight back.
Democrats had spent weeks arguing that the longest shutdown in history was necessary to make sure health care subsidies administered under the Affordable Care Act were preserved in the next spending package. They won’t be: Instead, Senate Republicans agreed to hold a separate vote on ACA subsidies by the end of the year. With Republicans in the majority, Democrats are almost guaranteed to lose.
Speaking to The Intercept, a key Democratic leader who voted...
Caribbean voters concerned over protections for immigrants | Local News | trinidadexpress.com
Politics tamfitronics The future of Caribbean immigrants,...
Voters head to the polls for Election Day
Top Stories Tamfitronics Democrat Mazie Hirono wins re-election to the Senate in Hawaii, NBC News projectsJulián Castro: Democrats must reckon with Latino losses David HodariWhen the dust has settled, Democrats will need to look at the way they approach the Latino community, Obama administration housing secretary Julián Castro told NBC News. “Something happened between 2016 and 2020, because the first significant dropoff we saw in places like south Texas was not this year but in 2020. The Democratic Party is going to have to do the inverse of what the Republican Party did in 2012, which is an autopsy to try and figure out what happened there,” Castro said.“The Latino communities are dividing or cleaving along the lines every other community is: urban versus rural, education level and so forth, especially when you compare...
Voters Continue To Choose Abortion Rights When They’re Not Thwarted By Inflated Thresholds
Politics tamfitronics Dobbs continues to reverberate through our politics as voters in 10 states choose whether to protect abortion access.Missouri became the first state to overturn a near-total abortion ban Tuesday night (while also voting in staunch anti-abortion Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)).Voters in New York, Maryland and Colorado voted resoundingly to enshrine the right in their state constitutions.Voters in New York and Maryland voted resoundingly to enshrine the right in their state constitutions.And while a similar measure in Florida was defeated Tuesday, a majority voted for it. Well over half of voters in Florida — 57 percent with about 94 percent of votes tallied — supported the constitutional amendment, but Republican legislators had previously raised...
