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Jeffries calls on Trump to ‘put on costume and pretend to act like a president’

In the spirit of Halloween and the ongoing shutdown that is threatening the livelihoods of millions of Americans, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has a costume suggestion for President Donald Trump. “You know, it’s Halloween. Donald Trump should put on a costume and pretend to act like a president at least on this day,” the Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives told CNN, a day before SNAP funding expires on Saturday, Nov. 1. A federal judge ordered the Trump […]

October 31, 2025

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From House amendment to guitar performance, Dems try to put Trump and MAGA on defense over Epstein controversy

Democrats are seizing on the latest controversy facing President Donald Trump as his MAGA supporters express outrage over the Department of Justice’s announcement that it will not be releasing any bombshell report related to the conviction of pedophile sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. From a legislative procedure and public statements to even an original guitar performance, the minority party is using every lever it has to make the outrage over the Epstein files stick politically for Trump. Republicans are noticeably divided […]

July 15, 2025

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says Trump and Republicans want to put ‘chainsaw’ to Social Security

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, warned that President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress want to “take a chainsaw” to Social Security as they forge ahead with their plan to execute major federal spending cuts. “House Republicans and the Trump administration are trying to take a chainsaw to everything that matters to the American people, like ending Social Security and Medicaid,” Jeffries decried on Thursday during his weekly leader’s press conference. The […]

March 28, 2025

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Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave

President Donald Trump ‘s administration moved Tuesday to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. The moves follow an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners. Trump has called the programs “discrimination” and insisted on restoring strictly “merit-based” hiring. […]

January 22, 2025

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Chris Brown jokes that he wants Trump put on the $100 bill for this reason

R&B superstar Chris Brown says Donald Trump would make him a very happy man if he set his sights on the IRS once he’s back in the Oval Office. Posting on his Instagram stories (the 24-hour vanish rule matters little when you’re a celebrity), Brown wrote with a hard eyes emoji: “Anyone else hoping that Trump shuts down the IRS?” “If he pulls that off… PUT THAT MAN ON… THE hundred dollar bill,” he continued with a laughing face emoji. […]

January 17, 2025

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Members of Congress put pressure on Biden to grant protections for Haitians fleeing to the U.S.

U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., is urging the Biden-Harris administration to stand with Haiti and extend safeguards as they flee from the Caribbean nation to the United States. Clarke told theGrio the situation in Haiti “is very chaotic” as Haitians are “not receiving humanitarian aid” and some are on the verge of starvation amid the country’s instability. In a letter addressed to President Joe Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Clarke demands that the […]

April 19, 2024

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Acquittals in Manuel Ellis’ death put Washington state’s police accountability law in the spotlight

A Washington state law aimed at improving police accountability is in the spotlight after three Tacoma officers were acquitted in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained face-down on a sidewalk as he pleaded for breath. The measure approved by voters in 2018 was designed to make it easier to prosecute police accused of wrongfully using deadly force. Initiative 940, referred to as I-940, removed a requirement that prosecutors prove an officer acted with actual […]

December 24, 2023