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59 House Democrats urge Biden to ditch Republicans and go even bigger on $7 trillion of infrastructure spending
The Democrats wrote that "the pursuit of Republican votes cannot come at the expense of limiting th…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Top progressive Democrat slams Republican senators for 'baseless and frankly racist attacks' against SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
Jackson faced aggressive questioning this week from several GOP senators, including Josh Hawley, Te…
Oma Seddiq
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Progressive lawmakers want a 'single, ambitious' infrastructure package instead of Biden's 2-parter
Biden's $4 trillion infrastructure package is split up into two legislative pieces, but the Progres…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Stimulus aid lifted Americans' total incomes by $1.1 trillion last year
Stimulus and unemployment checks led to a whopping 36.6% increase in transfer receipts, according t…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Democrats unveil an ultramillionaire tax on the top 0.05% of American households
The bill would place a 2% annual tax on household net worth between $50 million and $1 billion and …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Top Democrats introduce a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2025, raising pay for 32 million Americans
Top Democrats introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 on Tuesday, which would gradually raise the…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Progressive Democrats push Biden to advance plans for student loan forgiveness
Roughly 45 million Americans hold $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, according to the Federal Rese…
John L. Dorman
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Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal says she experienced post-partum depression after her first child and 'contemplated suicide'
"I knew that I was not ready to go through that again," Jayapal said after she got pregnant a secon…
Yelena Dzhanova,Oma Seddiq
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Democrats urge Biden to stop using local police to enforce federal immigration law
The lawmakers say the use of local law enforcement has undermined public safety by making immigrant…
Charles Davis
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The White House says Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package is the most 'progressive piece of legislation in history.' Top progressives agree.
"We take the win," Rep. Pramila Jayapal told reporters on Capitol Hill on Monday. "We believe it's …
Oma Seddiq
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduces wealth tax bill aimed at people worth over $50 million
The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act would apply an annual 2% tax on individuals with net worths between $…
Oma Seddiq
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Humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians should be included in Biden's emergency funding package for Israel, over 50 Democratic lawmakers say
Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez later joined other Democrats in callin…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal says Trump's rhetoric is fueling the rise in threats to Congress members after an armed man showed up to her home and shouted 'go back to India, I'm going to kill you'
Threats to members of Congress have increased by 144% between 2017 and 2022, Capitol Police data re…
Hannah Getahun
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal revealed she contracted COVID-19 and says 'Republicans who cruelly and selfishly refused to wear masks' during the Capitol siege are to blame
Democratic Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a 75-year-old cancer survivor starting her third term, also …
Sarah Gray
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Indian-American Pramila Jayapal wins Congressional seat for third consecutive term
Jayapal, who has been critical of India's policies on Jammu and Kashmir and the Citizenship …
PTI
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US Elections 2020: From Niraj Antani to Pramila Jayapal, here are all the Indian Americans who have won big
The 2020 US elections are underway and while the results for the Presidential seat will be a long w…
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal excoriated AG Bill Barr during a heated Congressional hearing over his 'aggressive' approach to Black Lives Matter protests
Jayapal said there is a "real discrepancy" in Barr's response to anti-lockdown protests outside the…
Lauren Frias
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This 53-year-old Democrat becomes the first South Asian American woman to chair the US House of Representatives
Today, I became the FIRST South Asian American woman to preside over the U.S. House of Representati…
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Democrats want to make the minimum wage $17 an hour and give nearly 28 million workers a raise
Sen. Bernie Sanders is once again calling for a higher federal minimum wage. The current rate has b…
Juliana Kaplan,Eliza Relman
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and 3 other Democrats just introduced a bill for the government to cover workers' paychecks and health insurance
More lawmakers, notably Democrats, are pushing for the government to cover the salaries of workers …