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If Speaker Paul Ryan is serious about addressing an epidemic that affects 2 million Americans, a first great step would be to preserve the crucial, life-saving financial assistance provided by the ACA to help suffering Americans pay for treatment. As Health Economists from Harvard Medical School and NYU warn, gutting ACA also means taking $5.5 […]

Ryan’s false claim that the ACA is bankrupting Medicare has been ruled “Pants on Fire” Speaker Paul Ryan just can’t stop himself from misleading Americans about Medicare. Tonight’s town-hall featured the same debunked claims that Ryan has been using to scare people so he can live out his dream of gutting Medicare. Ryan’s comments tonight […]

Tonight Speaker Paul Ryan once again confirmed how out-of-touch he is with the vast majority of Americans when he restated that he will gut Planned Parenthood and the life-saving services that they provide. Today, Planned Parenthood relies on federal government for nearly 40% of its funding to provide life-saving health and reproductive services for women […]

Ryan’s false optimism tonight does nothing for the cancer survivor who spoke about the ACA saving his life During tonight’s town hall Speaker Paul Ryan continued his week of wildly unrealistic promises regarding repealing and replacing the ACA – even in the face of a former Republican and cancer survivor who is alive because of […]

Just when we thought House Republicans could not be more apathetic to the Russia hacking, Texas Republican and NRCC leadership member, Rep. Mike Conaway, compared the Russian’s influence in the election to high-profile Latino actors and singers campaigning for Hillary Clinton. In particular, he seems incensed that world-renowned Mariachi superstar, Vicente Fernandez, sang at a […]

Ryan Won’t State Obvious that Trump’s Plan is “Meaningless” – Major Conflicts of Interests Still Exist When asked today about President-Elect Donald Trump’s just-revealed business arrangement for the Trump Organization, and whether it still constitutes a conflict of interest, Speaker Ryan panicked and passed the buck to Rep. Jason Chaffetz and the Committee on Oversight […]

Trump lackeys controlling Congress clearly prefer protecting Trump’s reputation more than America’s security In response to news that House Republicans are calling for a taxpayer-funded witch-hunt of our intelligence community and attacking respected media organizations, instead of an investigation into Russian hacking of American institutions, the DCCC issued the following statement: “It is increasingly difficult […]

Pressure mounts on hypocritical Republicans to investigate Trumps conflicts Donald Trump’s seemingly endless and unprecedented conflicts of interest were a major flashpoint in today’s press conference. It is now crystal clear that neither Trump nor House Republicans are going to “drain the swamp” in DC, and instead our President will have unprecedented ties to his […]

At press conference Trump refuses to explain how Mexico will ever pay for wall At today’s press conference, Donald Trump was forced to admit that American taxpayers will be forced to pay for his impractical and unpopular wall, which supports recent indications from House Republicans that their party plans to charge taxpayers for this project […]

Today, in his first press conference since the election, Donald Trump has been very defensive but has provided zero details to refute the explosive reports yesterday that Russia possesses confidential and sensitive personal material about the President-elect that they have withheld as leverage. Some have argued that this explains Donald Trump’s silence and disturbing support […]