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'Era of Blank Checks for Corporations Needs to End': House Dems Urged to Remove $500 Billion Mnuchin-Controlled Slush Fund

Flanked by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the US Capitol to attend the Republicans weekly policy luncheon on March 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

'Tip of the Iceberg': Economists Warn Record 3.28 Million Jobless Claims Could Signal Coming Depression

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

The number of unemployed Americans could be in the tens of millions by April, economists warn.

"We are about to experience something we cannot really imagine."

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House Democrats Urged to Remove 'Insidious Attack' on Social Security Hidden Within Senate Coronavirus Bill

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The only way to escape this trap is to avoid stepping into it in the first...

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WATCH: In Fiery Floor Speech, Sanders Rips GOP for Relentless Efforts to 'Punish' Poor People

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Meanwhile, these very same folks had no problem a couple years ago voting for...

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'Looting of America by Big Corporations': Progressives Appalled as Senate Passes Largest Bailout Bill in US History

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrives at the Capitol for a vote on a coronavirus bill amendment on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Sanders Threatens to Demand Stronger Conditions on $500 Billion 'Corporate Welfare Fund' If GOP Moves to Reduce Benefits for Laid Off Workers

GOP Senate Trio Threatens to Delay Stimulus Bill Because Unemployment Benefits Amid Pandemic Are Too Generous

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-N.Y) speaks in Durham, New Hampshire on February 10.

'Completely Dangerous and Unacceptable,' Ocasio-Cortez Says of Impending Senate Recess in Midst of Coronavirus Crisis

A sign is seen in front of the closed Department of Labor on March 25, 2020 in New York.

Unprecedented Surge in US Unemployment Claims Cause State Government Servers to Crash

The Senate Corporate Bailout Package Is a 'Robbery in Progress,' Warn Critics

Critics Warn Democrats That Mere 'Oversight' of $500 Billion Corporate Bailout 'Much Too Weak' to Stop Trump Abuses

With at Least Three Members of US Congress Infected With Coronavirus, Calls for Remote Voting Grow

Senate Democrats Applauded for Again Stopping GOP 'Corporate Bailout That Leaves Americans Behind'

The Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant is seen in the early morning hours March 28, 2011 in Middletown, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)

Nuclear Industry Effort to Exploit Coronavirus Crisis for Backdoor Bailout Decried as 'Disaster Capitalism at its Worst'

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks during a news briefing after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Luncheon at the U.S. Capitol February 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

To Counter 'Corporate Handout' Pushed by McConnell, Progressives Intensify Demand for #AJustStimulus

US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at the White House on March 22, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump: Taxpayer Bailout for My Hotels Is Capitalism, But Ordering Industries to Produce Medical Supplies Is Un-American Socialism

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I Know You're Not Thinking, You Never Do: Alleged President to Female Journalists Doing Their Job

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Another day, another act of egregious misogyny by a boorish douchebag drunk on power: At a presser for his "new" not-NAFTA deal much like the old one he trashed, President-I-Just-Keep-Becoming-A-Worse-Asshole bullied and belittled two women journalists asking about Kavanaugh - ie doing their tough job - after which he defended the "drinking problem" Boofer Brett never admitted to. As he insulted the women - the soundtrack of our lives - his army of enabling, entitled goons dutifully chuckled.

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Patriotic Millionaires

Senate Coronavirus Bill Prioritizes $500 Billion Mnuchin-Trump Slush Fund Over American Lives

350.org

350.org Responds to Passage of Senate Coronavirus Stimulus Package

Friends of the Earth

Dirty Energy Pitfalls in Final $2T Stimulus

The Greenlining Institute

Senate Bill Puts Corporations Ahead of People, Greenlining Institute Says

Patriotic Millionaires

OBSCENE: Patriotic Millionaires Slam Senate Bill Provisions on CEO Compensation

Greenpeace

Senate’s $2 Trillion Stimulus Bill Still Leaves Loophole for Fossil Fuel Executives

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Amanda Ballantyne

American Small Businesses Are on Edge of Extinction Event and Congress Is Not Doing Enough

Debra Gore-Mann, Adam Briones

Senate COVID-19 Relief Bill Put Corporations First – Now, Let’s Take Care of People

Heidi Shierholz, Celine McNicholas

Any Industry Bailout Package Must Include Meaningful Protections for Working People and Guardrails Against Corporate Greed

Elise Gould, Heidi Shierholz

Though Crucial First Step, Senate Coronavirus Bill Only Fraction of What's Urgently Needed

Sandra Fulton

Senate Leadership Is Pushing Through a Dangerous Surveillance Bill as Americans Are Focused on Covid-19

Eileen Appelbaum

Families First Coronavirus Response Act: What's Included and Who Got Left Out

Shannon Liss-Riordan

Coronavirus Bill Includes Sick Leave, But Not for Gig Workers

Jessica J. González

How Trump's Attack on Net Neutrality Created a Legal Mess for the Entire Internet

Anthony Torres

When the People Lead, Leaders Follow—Lessons From the Fight to Impeach and Remove Trump

Ryan Cooper

American Democracy Is Dying