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Washington Post
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Faith leaders, Democratic senators protest Trump tax bill
Politics Faith leaders, Democratic senators protest Trump tax bill June 10, 2025 | 10:56 PM GMT Religious leaders, joined by several Democratic senators, held a rally at the U.S. Capitol on June 10 to demonstrate against President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill. Republicans can only afford lose three votes in the Senate to pass it.
Fox News
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Dems join clergy to pray for 'moral reckoning' to fix Big, Beautiful Bill: ‘I still know how to agitate'
Several Democratic senators, including one who remains the preacher at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church, joined several clergy members for a vigil in opposition to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on the Capitol steps Tuesday. "Clergy and leaders in robes, collars and religious vestments will offer prayers, sing songs, read scripture and testify to the Gospel, providing a moral reckoning at this critical moment in history," read an advisory announcing the vigil obtained by Fox News Digital. Rev. Jim Wallis, who advised the Obama administration on faith and neighborhood partnerships, told the crowd they "come today in spiritual procession – singing, reading Scripture and coming for a vigil on the Senate steps." "Some say that we should keep faith out of politics – we're saying while the Bible doesn't give us detailed legislation, it tells us who to care for," Wallis went on. "We don't want to let Jesus Christ be left outside the Senate chamber for this vote." Wallis called Republicans' budget a "big bad bill" that will purportedly "take 60 million [people] off of health care." Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., cited Luke 10, recalling the passage where a lawyer – "and it's always a lawyer causing trouble," he quipped – asks Jesus who qualifies as a neighbor and who one ought to care for. Coons claimed the GOP bill "literally takes the food from the mouths of hungry children to pass an enormous tax cut for the very wealthiest [and] is the definition of an immoral bill before this Congress." Later, Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga. – reverend of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta – said the vigil felt like "déjà vu." Warnock recounted protesting via prayer and singing in the Capitol rotunda in 2017 – alongside former North Carolina NAACP president William Barber II – and said he "drew the short straw" when he, but not Barber, was arrested. "As I stood there, I said then what I want to say today: That a budget is not just a fiscal document, it's a moral document." "Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who does not – who you think is dispensable. Right. And we stood there in 2017 making the same point," he said, crediting the Capitol Police for arresting them in a professional manner. Warnock recounted that when he was warned of being arrested, he said he had "already been arrested." "My mind and my imagination and my heart had been arrested by the heartbeat of children who should not lose their food and who should not lose healthcare in order to give wealthy people a tax cut," he said, suggesting the same was true with Republicans' latest budget bill. "Here I am eight years later, having transformed my agitation into legislation." "I'm here today because I still know how to agitate – I still know how to protest. I'm not a senator who used to be a pastor. I'm a pastor in the Senate."
Reuters
05-06-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
US senators propose sweeping FAA air safety reforms after fatal collision
WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - A group of seven Democratic senators on Thursday introduced sweeping air safety legislation after a fatal collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines (AAL.O), opens new tab regional jet in January near Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people. Lawmakers have questioned why the Federal Aviation Administration failed to act for years to address close calls involving helicopters near Reagan. The legislation would require a review of helicopter and passenger operations at major airports, mandate new FAA safety reviews after fatal passenger airline accidents and require the use of use ADS-B, an advanced aircraft-tracking technology.
Bloomberg
03-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Democratic Senators Want Bondi to Explain Crime Unit's Closure
A group of Democratic senators asked US Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain the Trump administration's plans to dissolve a unit within the Department of Justice that combats transnational organized crime networks and drug cartels. Last month, Bloomberg News first reported that the DOJ abruptly decided to close down the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, known as OCDETF, by 'zeroing out' its fiscal year 2026 budget. A reason wasn't specified and it was unclear who made the decision.
Washington Post
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Some of Trump's loyalty-first picks for prosecutors draw opposition from senators who can block them
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's early selections for U.S. attorneys have drawn strong pushback from Democratic senators who have considerable power to block them, setting up another fight over personnel picks from a president who places a premium on loyalty as he staffs his administration. His choices for the top prosecutors in Nevada, New York and New Jersey are opposed by Democratic senators, and at stake is the Republican president's ability to have the team he wants for positions with enormous sway over which cases and crimes are investigated and what penalties the government seeks.
