Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017 By TrumpResistance The shoes just keep on dropping for the Russian-friendly Trump administration. A new report has the details about how the Trump campaign KNEW of and APPROVED of Carter Page’s visit to Moscow: Lewandowski is walking this back, and issuing a non-denial, by the way[Read More…]
Commentary
Trumpcare Goes Way Beyond Repealing the Affordable Care Act – It Guts Medicaid That’s Been in Place for 50 Years
“If Republicans thought facing their constituents during the February Congressional Recess was tough, just wait until the April recess. We aren’t going away.” Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017. LeeAnn Hall, co-director of People’s Action, provided this statement responding to the health care legislation released Monday. Hall serves on the executive committee[Read More…]
Leaders from Center for American Progress and 19 Organizations Ask Sec. John Kelly to Halt Deportation of DREAMers in DHS Custody
DREAMer, Daniela Vargas listens at a news conference in Jackson, Miss. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP) Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017. Today, Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress, and the heads of 19 other leading progressive organizations—ranging from traditional civil rights groups to immigrants’ rights groups to unions—sent[Read More…]
New State-by-State Interactive Shows How Much Federal Funding Sanctuary Cities Could Lose at the Hands of President Trump’s Administration
Protesters take part in a rally to support sanctuary cities and oppose a border wall on February 28, 2017, in Austin, Texas. AP/Eric Gay Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017. In an executive order issued on January 25, President Donald Trump directed the Office of Management and Budget to compile a[Read More…]
Arab American Action Network Statement on Trump’s Revised #MuslimBan2 Executive Order
Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is protesting against the Department of Justice Tuesday, March 7 CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 6, 2017. At a press conference held today following the release of Donald Trump’s revised executive order, AAAN executive director Hatem Abudayyeh, made the following statement: Donald Trump just signed a revised[Read More…]
Anti-Defamation League Condemns Trump Revised Executive Order on Immigration as Another Muslim Ban
New York, NY—(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned President Trump’s new executive order on immigration and refugees, saying the order was still effectively a Muslim ban that will be challenged in the courts. “While some of the initial executive order has been revised, the message[Read More…]
Southern Poverty Law Center Statement on Trump Administration’s “Muslim Ban 2.0”
ALABAMA–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2017. This new executive order banning travelers from six Muslim countries continues to be President Trump’s promised Muslim ban dressed in facially neutral language. This Muslim Ban 2.0 is still discriminatory, continues to target the Muslim community and will cause ripple effects felt by people perceived to be[Read More…]
VoteVets Vows to Join Efforts to Defeat Latest Muslim Ban
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—March 6, 2017. The largest progressive group of veterans in America, VoteVets, is reiterating its opposition to the latest version of Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, and is questioning the timing of the release of the ban itself. In a statement, Will Fischer, Iraq War Veteran and VoteVets Director[Read More…]
Senator Jeff Merkley Denounces New Trump Ban
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2017. Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump signed a new executive order restricting travel from a number of Muslim-majority nations: “Just like the old ban, the new ban makes our country less safe. Giving ISIS[Read More…]
National Organization for Women is Going on Strike on Wednesday, March 8
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—March 6, 2017. Statement by NOW President Terry O’Neill: On March 8, International Women’s Day, women around the country will strike to demand gender equality. The National Organization for Women will proudly take action for human rights alongside them. Women do work of enormous economic value–for unequal or[Read More…]
