Jake Johnson, staff writer
Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @johnsonjakep
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News Monday, December 14, 2020 Sanders Says Congress 'Cannot Go Home for Christmas Holidays' Without Delivering $1,200 Direct Payments Making clear that he is opposed to the latest iteration of a bipartisan coronavirus relief bill making the rounds on Capitol Hill, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday said he remains committed to doing everything in his power to ensure Congress does not leave town for holiday recess without passing... Read more |
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News Monday, December 14, 2020 Thanks to GOP Stonewalling, Experts Say Congress 'Already Too Late' to Prevent Lapse in Unemployment Benefits At the end of July, the $600-per-week federal boost to unemployment benefits provided by the CARES Act expired thanks to Republican opposition to a legislative fix—intransigence that dramatically slashed the incomes of millions of jobless Americans. Fast forward to the present, with the U.S... Read more |
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News Monday, December 14, 2020 Warren Joins Chorus Urging Biden to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour for Federal Contract Workers on Day One Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday urged President-elect Joe Biden to use his executive authority to raise the minimum wage for all federal contract workers to $15 an hour on his first day in office, echoing a demand pushed by economists and progressive commentators as a way to substantially improve... Read more |
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News Monday, December 14, 2020 'What a Failed State Looks Like': GOP Under Fire for Blocking Necessary Funds as Covid Vaccine Distribution Begins As U.S. distribution of the newly approved Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine kicked off Sunday with the shipment of millions of doses to sites across the nation, Senate Republicans faced mounting outrage for continuing to block federal funds that crisis-ravaged states and localities desperately... Read more |
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News Friday, December 11, 2020 220,000+ Sign Petition Demanding Biden 'Clean House' of Trump Social Security Appointees on Day One A petition calling on President-elect Joe Biden to fire President Donald Trump's top political appointees at the Social Security Administration on day one has garnered more than 220,000 signatures as the outgoing administration moves forward with a last-minute assault on the New Deal program that... Read more |
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News Friday, December 11, 2020 'There for His Donors, But Not for Us': Ossoff Ad Blasts Perdue Over Opposition to $1,200 Stimulus Checks Less than a month out from the pivotal U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia, Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff on Friday released a 30-second ad blasting Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue over his opposition to the $1,200 stimulus checks and temporarily expanded unemployment benefits provided by the... Read more |
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News Friday, December 11, 2020 After Senate Effort Fails, Biden Urged to Block 'Corrupt and Dangerous' $23 Billion Weapons Sale to UAE Following the Senate's failure earlier this week to block President Donald Trump's $23 billion weapons sale to the United Arab Emirates, President-elect Joe Biden is facing pressure from anti-war organizations and activists to put a stop to the deal upon taking office to prevent further U.S... Read more |
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News Friday, December 11, 2020 AOC Slams House Republicans for Spending Their Time Trying to Overturn Trump Loss While 'People Are Starving' After 106 House Republicans on Thursday signed onto a brief supporting a last-ditch Supreme Court lawsuit attempting overturn the November election, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out her GOP colleagues for focusing their time and attention on trying to undo President Donald Trump's decisive... Read more |
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News Friday, December 11, 2020 'Congress Cannot Go on Recess Without Providing This': Sanders, Hawley Move to Attach $1,200 Payments to Must-Pass Spending Bill Warning that failure to approve additional direct relief would be a disastrous abdication of responsibility, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders joined forces with Republican Sen. Josh Hawley on Thursday to introduce an amendment that would provide another round of $1,200 payments to working-class... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 10, 2020 Boasting of 'Combat Power' to Threaten Iran, US Flies Two Massive B-52 Bombers Over Persian Gulf Teaming up with Middle East allies Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar, the United States military flew two B-52H bombers over the Persian Gulf Thursday in an act of saber-rattling that American officials characteristically described as an attempt to "deter" potential acts of so-called "aggression" by... Read more |