Deirdre Fulton Posts

Budget director Mick Mulvaney and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also clashed at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Thursday

'The New York State Assembly is leading the way with the only kind of healthcare bill that will put people before profits'

"These scientists are putting their feet down in the face of Trump and Pruitt's total disdain for science, reality, and the very foundations of our government."

'The EPA is slowly turning its back on everything it was set up to protect'

Republican Congressman Mo Brooks refers to healthy people as those who have 'led good lives'

"If you have to hide what you're doing, then you probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place"

"If Trump proposes this Trojan horse, it would be the newest shot in the ongoing Republican war against Social Security"

Deep and immediate cuts to National Institutes of Health and other agencies would amount to "throwing progress out the window"

'This marks the latest in an already too-long list' of potential violations, says ethics watchdog.

'Your decision to travel without reporters sends a dangerous signal to other countries about the U.S. commitment to freedom of the press'

On top of energetic resistance from progressives and Democrats, the AHCA has been met with skepticism and flat-out hostility from the far-right.

State efforts toward single-payer healthcare, like California's, could be bolstered by GOP's Medicaid-gutting proposal

Millions of women, the chronically ill, and older Americans stand to lose coverage and/or see healthcare costs rise.

"If the goal, as [White House chief strategist Steve] Bannon says, is 'deconstructing the administrative state' this would be a quick way to do it"

"You are so amazingly helpful!!! Thank you so much!!!" Scott Pruitt's former chief of staff wrote to a fracking company VP in 2013

Plans put forth by House Speaker Paul Ryan and HHS Secretary Tom Price are 'unlikely' to fulfill President Donald Trump's campaign promises—'but single payer could'

'Today the insurance lobby got its wish list'

'Do we really want to be joining Donald Trump in slamming the door on vulnerable refugee children?'

Suit comes one day after hundreds of current and former EPA officials voice opposition to Scott Pruitt's confirmation

Draft executive order 'reads like the administration was challenged to see how many violations of the Bill of Rights can be contained in one policy change'