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Watchdog: Fed Should Embrace Not Hold Back Continued Job Growth

Economic Security and Corporate Power
June 2, 2023

As the U.S. Labor Department reports nearly 340,000 jobs were created in May while the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7%, government watchdog Accountable.US cautioned the Fed not to use the report as an excuse to continue threatening millions of jobs by hiking interest rates, especially as the report shows the economy is slowing. Last month, Fed

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Cost of MAGA Default: A Costly U.S. Credit Downgrade

Economic Security and Corporate Power
May 25, 2023

Just 7 days away from a catastrophic default crisis that all but guarantees a deep recession, and the hostage situation remains the same: Increasingly unreasonable demands, unhinged rhetoric, and shifting goal posts from the MAGA House Majority stands firmly in the way of the nation responsibly paying its bills and avoiding economic disaster. Added

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Cost of MAGA Default: ‘U.S. Debt Default Could Hit Social Security Payments First’

Economic Security and Corporate Power
May 25, 2023

See story below from the Washington Post. Reaction from Accountable.US spokesperson Liz Zelnick: “Every option on the table from the MAGA House majority leaves millions of vulnerable seniors worse off – either extreme cuts against seniors’ health and food security, or a manufactured default crisis that delays Social Security checks many can’t live

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Cost of MAGA Default: Unreasonable Republican Demands Bring Economy to Brink

Economic Security and Corporate Power
May 24, 2023

Increasingly unreasonable demands, disingenuous rhetoric, and shifting goal posts from the MAGA House Majority are the central factors in whether or not the nation falls into a catastrophic default crisis just 8 days from now, with a deep recession hot on its heels. Or as the Washington Post puts it, Republicans in Congress are ‘unite[d] in brink

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Extremist Judge Continues to Do Leo’s Anti-Abortion Bidding

Power and Influence
May 24, 2023

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, the Leo-linked extremist who ruled to force the abortion pill off the market nationwide, has now become the go-to for anti-abortion activists. After his decision in the abortion pill case was so poorly reasoned that even the current, conservative Supreme Court quickly blocked it, a team of right-wing litigants caught onto K

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Far-Right MAGA Reps. Attack Common Sense Conservation Rule

Energy and the Environment
May 24, 2023

Today, the MAGA majority on the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to attack, fearmonger and misrepresent the Bureau of Land Management's proposed Public Lands Rule, which would simply put conservation on equal footing with industry in terms of land use and balance a public land system that is vastly skewed in favor of extractive

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