Author: Sydney Robinson

The election is long over and the debate over Trump’s taxes has raged for far too long, and yet on Tax Day Saturday, April 15, thousands took to the streets across the country to demand that President Trump at long last release his tax returns. Even now, with so many other issues ongoing, the American people still want to see Trump’s taxes. While some may consider this debate long over and fruitless, the reality is that a whopping 80 percent of Americans want the President to increase his transparency by releasing his tax returns. That number comes from a...

Senator Elizabeth Warren says that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to speak to her since a controversial incident between the two Senators occurred earlier this year. In February, McConnell used an obscure rule to silence the progressive Senator on the floor. Warren was reading a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King at the confirmation hearing for Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions when McConnell used the rule to silence her for the remainder of the hearing. The rule barred Senators from making critical comments regarding the personal character of fellow elected officials, and McConnell argued that the contents of...