Author: Stephanie Moffat

Koch Brothers Planning To Spend $400 Million On 2018 Election Koch Brothers Promise Massive Spending Assault In 2018 Election.  Charles and David Koch’s political organization plans to spend $400 million supporting Republican candidates and conservative causes in the 2018 election. According to a Fox News report, Tim Phillips, who leads the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, said “Three-hundred million to $400 million for this cycle for politics and policy — we believe we’re headed to the high end of that range.” “What we’re urging Republicans in the House and the Senate to do is to be bold, to go big,”...

Senator Grassley Runs Away After Being Confronted About GOP Health Bill At Airport Republicans Are Literally Running Away From People Who Want To Talk About Health Care. [watch the video below] Republican Senator Chuck Grassley was confronted by an activist at the airport and his reaction was…priceless The activist who works with the Center For American Progress was attempting to speak with Grassley about the newly released GOP health care bill, but as the video shows Grassley is having none of it. Grassley quickly gets up from his seat and runs away. Watch the incident here: More of this. pic.twitter.com/nG2aB7rNOS...

Nevada Republican Senator Comes Out Against The GOP Health Bill (Video) Senate Republicans Just Lost A Crucial Moderate Republican Vote On Obamacare Repeal. [watch video below] Nevada Senator Dean Heller just announced that he will not vote for the current Senate health bill. During a press conference Friday Heller said, “I’m announcing today that in this form I will not support it.” Specifically, Heller called out his concerns about the bill’s Medicaid cuts saying that it would hurt hundreds of thousand of people in Nevada who depend on Medicaid. It’s going to be very difficult to get me to...

FBI Is Investigating Manafort and Son-in-Law For Financial Crimes The legal trouble for Paul Manafort continues to mount. The FBI is investigating real-estate deals financed by Paul Manafort and his former son-in-law, The New York Times reports. According to the report, Jeffrey Yohai, who used to be married to Manafort’s daughter, and Manafort formed shell companies to buy luxury properties. Manafort invested millions of dollars into Yohai’s companies. Yohai was accused by his sister-in-law of “running a Ponzi scheme,” and he was sued by an investor last year over the same allegation. The New York Times reports that “The...

AARP Blasts ‘Harmful’ Republican Health Bill AARP Just Said It Will Hold Senators Accountable For Their Votes On Obamacare Repeal.   The AARP on Thursday blasted the Senate GOP health care bill, calling efforts repeal Obamacare “harmful. In their statement, the AARP called out the Republican bill for being an “Age Tax” affecting the nation’s senior citizens. The organization said that Republican legislation “would hit millions of Americans with higher costs and result in less coverage for them.” “This new Senate bill was crafted in secrecy behind closed doors without a single hearing or open debate—and it shows. The...