Medium Post - TrumpCuts and the American Family Every day families across the nation face difficult challenges providing for themselves and their loved ones.There are few areas of President Trump’s FY18 budget proposal that won’t make these challenges worse. From cutting opportunities for kids to develop into the workers and innovators of the future to stripping seniors of their ability to retire with dignity, Trump’s budget would impact people young and old, low-income and middle class, and across all 50 states.
House Republicans Vote to Dismantle Wall Street Reform - Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted on the Financial CHOICE Act (CHOICE), House Republicans’ disastrous proposal to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It seems that House Republicans have already forgotten the wreckage left by the Great Recession and 2008 financial crisis —when 8.7 million Americans lost their jobs, 3.8 million homes were foreclosed on, and households lost $17 trillion in wealth.
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