Mark Pocan

Is The CBO Score A Death Sentence For The Republican Congressional Majorities?

The CBO sums up their report on the new version of TrumpCare with one sentence: "CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the American Health Care Act would reduce federal deficits by $119 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 23 million in 2026 relative to current law." The original version would have kicked 24 million off their health insurance but it would have reduced the deficit by $150 billion.

Why Are The Imbeciles At The DCCC Boycotting Wisconsin This Cycle?

There are 16 House Democrats with perfect scores from ProgressivePunch for the current session-- a score of 100. One, Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is a freshman, which means her lifetime crucial vote score is also 100. The other freshmen with eye-popping great scores are Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA).

The Extremists In The Freedom Caucus Have A Secret Weapon Undermining Healthcare: Tom MacArthur (R-NJ)

A headline at Axios yesterday: GOP health care plan has momentum. This is the new plan where, aside from kicking 24 million people off health insurance, the Republicans gut protections for the sick (by eliminating protections for people with pre-existing conditions)-- and all to allow a tax cut for the super-rich.

Trump's Trip To Wisconsin-- A State The DCCC Has Already Surrendered To The GOP

Trump's America First economic nationalism agenda has been almost entirely abandoned, courtesy of by the Wall Street crew he's turned the presidency over to and, in retrospect looks like it was never anything more than a shiny lure laced with racism and xenophobia to win votes in the hard-hit industrial Midwest where Hillary's dull centrism wasn't resonating. Wisconsin is a good example.

This Democrat lawmaker has “damning evidence” Russia meddled in US elections. His smoking gun is John McCain (Video)

How many lies can a politician say in one 5 minute TV segment.
Wisconsin Democrat Mark Pocan says he’s read classified reports and there’s “damning evidence” of Trump-Russia collusion and that reporters will be breaking stories.
We are eight months into this complete liberal left scam, and we have exactly zero evidence from anyone.
Mark Pocan “damning evidence” of Russian US election meddling…