Author: Stephanie Moffat

Betsy DeVos Just Removed Obama Student Loan Protections The Trump administration’s latest attack on the middle class just made it harder for students to pay back their student loans.  Betsy DeVos on Tuesday rolled back an Obama administration protection for student loan borrowers that reformed how student loan servicers collect debt. Faced with the rising student loan crisis, the Obama administration put in place protections for borrowers that directed the Federal Student Aid Office to shift their focus from collecting debt to helping borrowers find ways to manage their debt and prove payment plans. Well, the Trump administration just formally undid...

Senator Elizabeth Warren Announces Massive Fundraising Haul Elizabeth Warren has a giant grassroots fundraising machine.  Senator Elizabeth Warren announced Tuesday that her campaign raised a massive $5.2 million in the first three months of 2017. The $5.2 million in Q1 brings Warren’s total cash on hand up to $9.2 million, according to Politico. Even more impressive for Warren is that over 90 percent of the contributions were $50 or less and 98 percent of the contributions were $100 or less. Warren tweeted out a map of the nearly 16,000 people from “every corner of Massachusetts.” In the first three...

Maddow Explains Why The Carter Page FISA Story Is The Most Important Break Yet In The Trump-Russia Scandal Trump adviser Carter Page being investigated by FBI for being an agent of a foreign government. On Tuesday evening the Washington Post reported a bombshell story about Trump adviser Carter Page being the subject of an FBI FISA warrant. Unsurprisingly, Rachel Maddow kicked off her show on Tuesday with an in-depth explanation of why the Carter Page FISA story is the most important break in the Trump-Russia scandal. Maddow interviewed Adam Entous who is a national security reporter for The Washington Post,...

Bill O’Reilly Announces Vacation Amid Sexual Harassment Scandal Tuesday’s show could be Bill O’Reilly’s last on Fox News according to reports.  As his enormous sexual harassment scandal continues to snowball, Bill O’Reilly announced at the end of his show on Tuesday that he was leaving for “a pre-planned vacation.” O’Reilly said he would return on air in a few weeks. “We all need R&R. Put it to good use,” he told his viewers. However, according to ta New York Magazine report, some at Fox News don’t think that Bill O’Reilly will return to the air. New York Magazine reports that “according...

Devin Nunes Surveillance Claims Contradicted By Classified Documents: Report A CNN report Tuesday night confirmed that former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’s previous statements about the Obama administration are false. The report noted, “After a review of the same intelligence reports brought to light by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal, multiple sources in both parties tell CNN.” The CNN story also contradicts Donald Trump’s allegation that Susan Rice, President Obama’s national security adviser, broke the law...