State-level AI ban in Trump’s mega bill among points of tension between Democrats, Republicans
President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” has a small, ugly part to it that would prohibit the regulation of AI by states.
President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” has a small, ugly part to it that would prohibit the regulation of AI by states.
A group of Senate Democrats has written a letter to Donald Trump to demand that he walk back his threat to send prison inmates, and presumably, political opponents jailed on trumped up charges, to a prison in El Salvador.
I don’t know who torques me more – MAGAs who tell me that Democrats are too focused on immigrants and the trans community, or supposed Democrats who tell me that Democrats are too focused on immigrants and the trans community.
Congress is on vacation, on your dime, meaning, Ben Cline has no excuse to not be holding a town hall somewhere in the far-flung Sixth District.
So, Donald Trump said yesterday that he wants to be able to send U.S. citizens that he and he alone determines to be criminals to an El Salvadoran prison.
Democrats voted to send the Virginia Right to Contraception Act back to MAGA Gov. Glenn Youngkin without his proposed amendments, which would protect the right of doctors, medical staff and private health institutions to lodge a “religious or conscientious objection.”
Three Virginia Democrats led a rally in Charlottesville this week to put pressure on the MAGA governor, Glenn Youngkin, to sign the Virginia Right to Contraception Act.
New York Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of the last people to leave the House chamber on Jan. 6, is suddenly preoccupied with showing “deference” to the guy who led the attempted 2021 insurrection.
Virginia Democrats were successful in getting legislation to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by Jan. 1, 2027 to the desk of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who almost certainly will use his veto pen to block it from being enacted.
Virginia Democrats have pushed through bills on abortion, gay marriage and voting rights that will be centerpiece issues in the 2025 state elections.
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