The Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 passed the House by a vote of 217-215 on April 26. Every Democrat present and four far-right Republicans voted “no.”  In exchange for raising the debt ceiling for about a year, the NEA-opposed bill would slash funding for essential education programs by at least 22 percent, cancel student debt relief, and […]

  Last week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023—the latest example of damaging legislation driven by MAGA Republicans. This week, he plans to put it before the House for a vote.  MAGA Republicans are trying to engineer a devil’s choice: the first default in the U.S. government’s 246-year history vs. […]

Six innocent victims—three just nine years old—died last week in Nashville in the 39th incident so far this year involving gunfire on school grounds, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. The story is as familiar as it is tragic.  Rear Admiral Barry C. Black, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, put it this way: “When […]