On Thursday, January 24th, the Senate will take up two bills. The first is a Republican bill that includes President Trump’s insistence on border wall funding. The second is a continuing resolution backed by Democrats that would reopen government through February 8th. The following is a statement from Frank...
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New polls from CBS News and Politico/Morning Consult continue to find that Trump and Republicans are being blamed for the government shutdown. CBS News polling released today: By a 71-28 percent margin, Americans say the border wall is not worth a government shutdown. By partisan affiliation: Democrats: By 92-7...
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This past weekend, the White House hyped President Trump’s speech as a good faith offer that would deliver generous relief for DACA and TPS holders. The the actual bill was released, and just the opposite is true. Not only is the 1,300 page bill chock full of poison pills...
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America’s Voice PHOTOS: Federal Workers Protest in Senate Offices America’s Voice Recommendation: Vote NO on Trump/GOP Senate Bill to Fund Wall; Vote YES on Bill to Reopen Government Now SCOTUS declines to hear DACA, allowing Dreamers to continue renewing applications New Polls: Public Overwhelmingly Blames Trump and the GOP...
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With the longest government shutdown in history, President Trump continues to hold the American people, their government, and federal workers hostage for a border wall that experts agree harms border communities, the environment, wildlife, and is simply ineffective. On Saturday, President Trump unveiled a new proposal in a feigned...
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In his latest column, Washington Post’s Greg Sargent eviscerates the purported GOP ‘compromise’ bill. The entire piece is a must read – available online here and excerpted below: But on Monday night, Senate Republicans released the bill text of this supposed “compromise.” Surprise: It has been so loaded up...
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The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, managing director of America’s Voice, regarding the McConnell-Trump-Miller Senate immigration proposal: President Trump, aided and abetted by Mitch McConnell and Stephen Miller, is holding the country and 800,000 federal workers and their families hostage. Rather than wasting time with unreasonable, one...
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America’s Voice David Bier: Senate GOP Bill Doesn’t Extend DACA. It Guts It La propuesta de Trump es tan falsa como su “arte de negociar” Trump-McConnell Bill is Filled with Malevolent Poison Pills and has Very Little to Do with Effective Border Security Congreso, este no es momento de...
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In a new piece for The Daily Beast, Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, responds to President Trump’s speech on Saturday. He urges Democrats to reject Trump’s latest proposal in which he offers to “trade a million immigrants he took hostage early in his presidency for a deal...
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Jan 19, 2019
The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, managing director of America’s Voice, regarding President Trump’s non-starter immigration proposal: The President needs to act immediately to reopen the government. Families across the country are suffering because of the President’s temper tantrum over an unnecessary wall. Today’s proposal is neither...
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