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Senators Urge Stronger Support for Minority Business Owners Amid Policy Cuts

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Senators Urge Stronger Support for Minority Business Owners Amid Policy Cuts

Lawmakers are raising urgent concerns about the future of minority entrepreneurship in the U.S. In a powerful letter sent to U.S. Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, a group of bipartisan senators criticized the Trump administration’s recent actions aimed at programs supporting minority entrepreneurs. The letter highlights significant changes that have ramifications for small business owners, partic…Read Article

Service members should have the tools to repair their equipment - Taxpayers for Common Sense

Pentagon · Washington

Service members should have the tools to repair their equipment - Taxpayers for Common Sense

In the search for savings and efficiency in federal spending, the Pentagon, with its nearly $1 trillion budget and $4.1 trillion in assets, is too big to overlook. While Republicans and Democrats often have different ideas about where to start, some proposals transcend the partisan divide through sheer common sense. Ensuring our military service members have the tools, supplies and knowledge to repair their own equipment is one such proposal. As…Read Article

Warren slams push to revise supplementary leverage ratio

Elizabeth Warren · Washington

Warren slams push to revise supplementary leverage ratio

Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent a letter to banking regulators Monday urging them to preserve the enhanced Supplemental Leverage Ratio, warning that a rollback would only enrich bank shareholders.See the Story

Career Over Love, Barbara Walters’ Affair With Senator Edward Brooke: What Went Wrong?

Some affairs leave lipstick traces; others leave scars on your soul. We’ve always believed ambition is a brutal mistress; it seduces you with dreams and punishes you with silence. And Barbara Walters? She has probably danced willingly with that mistress. Everyone knows Walters as the woman who grilled presidents, made celebrities cry, and created The View. But behind the spotlight, there was a woman who once gambled with love and lost. She repo…Washington · Washington Read Article

Hidden expenses for homeowners cost over $21K a year: Study

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Hawaii, California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Washington topped the study's list of the expensive states for hidden home costs.Washington · Washington See the Story

Elizabeth Warren Demands Probe Into Alleged Student Loan Data Breach Amid Push To Dismantle Education Department

66% Center coverage: 6 sources

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is calling for an independent investigation into the Department of Government Efficiency's alleged access to sensitive student loan data, raising questions about privacy and security of federal education systems managing trillions in student debt.Elizabeth Warren · Washington See the Story

Senate Democrat Seeks Probe of Alleged Sanctions Violations on X

Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged the Trump administration June 4 to investigate whether terrorists have used Elon Musk's social media platform X to raise money, in violation of U.S. sanctions. In a...Elizabeth Warren · Tehran See the Story

Senators call for investigation of possible DOGE ethics violations

Three senators are calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and federal watchdogs to investigate whether U.S. DOGE Service aides tasked with downsizing government agencies violated conflict-of-interest laws by holding stocks in companies overseen by thes, according to a recent ProPublica report. The request — sent last week by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) — follows a ProPublica investigation into …Department of Justice · Washington Read Article

Come Fly With Me: American Delta United Southwest Control 80 Percent of the Market - Corporate Crime Reporter

American, Delta, United and Southwest control 80 percent of the domestic passenger airline market. And one of the least told aviation stories of the 21st century is that somewhere in the early 2000s, the largest U.S. airlines largely stopped competing against each other on price. A decade earlier they frequently launched bruising fare sales that benefited consumers, but over the last twenty years the only consistent pricing competition has com…Southwest Airlines · Washington Read Article

Warren Criticizes ‘Big Tech’ Influence in U.S. Trade Talks

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“Big Tech” companies are pushing the Trump administration to prioritize provisions in various trade talks that could weaken domestic regulation efforts, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) argued this week, raising concerns that the companies’ wish list runs counter to the interests of “everyday Americans.” In a May 28 letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Warren, a S…New Delhi · New Delhi See the Story

How Trump is Stalling the Senate’s Most Popular Bill

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🎙️ Programming alert: I’ll be hosting a Substack Live conversation at 10 a.m. ET this morning with Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a young Democratic congressman from Massachusetts who has carved out an interesting place in the party.We’ll be talking about the future of the Democratic Party: what went wrong in 2024 and how the party is trying to build back going forward, including among young voters. As the New York Times put it, Auchincloss is a “Democ…Senate · Washington Read Article

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