God these tapes are so infuriating. Kevin McCarthy is casually discussing 25th Amendment, telling Trump to resign, and making sure Pence won’t pardon him…WITH LIZ CHENEY. Only to, weeks later, kick Cheney out of leadership for saying the same things he did.
Inequality in America is 1/4 of our people with zero savings set aside for an emergency and half our people living paycheck to paycheck, while the billionaire class got $1.7 trillion richer over the course of the pandemic.
Yes, we need an economy that works for all of us.
When we talk about oligarchy in America we are talking about 700 billionaires who became nearly $2 trillion richer during the pandemic & pay a lower tax rate than a nurse while the child poverty rate soared by 41% in January because the expanded Child Tax Credit ended.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are currently 567,000 fewer educators in America’s public schools today than there were in 2019.
My district offered teachers a 2% raise this year. I guess the concept of supply and demand doesn’t work in our profession 🙄
BERNIE: “In the richest country in the history of the world, keeping teeth in your mouth as you grow old should not be a luxury...” https://t.co/TwgnKOw10X
They aren’t blocking my #China anti-slavery bill from being part of the defense bill because of some House rule
They are blocking it because major American corporations benefit from factories that use slave labor