Category: Democrats

DHS IG Will Examine ICE Detention Facilities COVID-19 Policies and Practices
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) Joseph Cuffari will conduct a review of U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) efforts to prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in its facilities.

Trump, McConnell Saying HEROES Act Is DOA: GOP Has Learned Nothing
House Democrats are slamming Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) for writing off their Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, or the HEROES Act, which passed the House late last week by a vote of 208-199.

Joe Biden: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Democratic Convention Can Happen
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is conceding that it's uncertain whether the 2020 Democratic National Convention can go on as planned this summer considering the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

House Democrats Call on ICE To Release More Illegal Immigrants from Detention Due to COVID-19
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is among the senior House Democrats calling on the Trump administration to release undocumented immigrants in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) due to the spread of COVID-19.

Democratic Leader Denounces McConnell’s ‘No Urgency to Act’ Further on COVID-19 Crisis
The leader of the Senate Democrats castigated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) Monday for McConnell's statement that Senate Republicans have “yet to feel the urgency of acting immediately” to address the health and economic crises, despite record unemployment numbers and widespread reports of families going hungry and not being able to afford rent.

Sen. Ed Markey: ‘Trump Is Just the Latter Day Herbert Hoover’
The federal response to the economic fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic has been so far inadequate for average Americans, and by not embracing further stimulus, Donald Trump will be seen as a latter day Herbert Hoover, according to Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass).

AOC: ‘We’re Not Going Back to Normal and that Is for Better or for Worse’
With US unemployment soaring to 14.7 percent--and 20.5 million Americans losing their jobs in April alone--all as fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is reimagining what the economy could look like after the pandemic, potentially working for more working-class Americans.

Schumer: When Trump Says Open the Government Regardless of Scientific Information That Will Hurt All of Us
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wants Donald Trump to temper his eagerness to reopen the US economy with care for what virus testing says about the public health of US populations.

How His Sexual Assault Denial Interview Could Well Help Biden More Broadly
Joe Biden seems to have done himself a world of good Friday related to the sexual assault allegations against him. But the MSNBC Q&A may carry him even further.

Biden Responds to Sexual Assault Allegations: ‘It Never, Never Happened’
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared on television Friday to take on the snowballing allegations of sexual assault against him, which threaten his bid for the White House.

