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Washington, D.C. — As the Trump administration continues to threaten the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—including lifetime caps and protections for Americans with preexisting conditions—in the federal courts, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is releasing a new video in a social media campaign to educate Americans on what’s at stake. The campaign will tell stories...
Washington, D.C. — The Center for American Progress Action Fund is withdrawing as a co-sponsor of the September 23 presidential climate summit hosted by The New Republic and Gizmodo. CAPAF strongly supports the idea of giving the candidates a forum to address climate change. But it is not possible for us to continue our association with this...
Washington, D.C. — On September 23, The New Republic and Gizmodo will host a presidential climate summit in New York City, where all the Democratic presidential candidates are invited to discuss one of the most pressing issues facing the planet: climate change. This summit offers candidates a chance to address head-on an issue that received little...
Washington, D.C. — Tomorrow, President Donald Trump will travel to Milwaukee, where he will tour Derco Aerospace Inc. and deliver remarks on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 2.0, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)—part of his erratic trade policy that is bankrupting farmers, increasing the costs on staples for working families, and includes massive giveaways to...
Washington, D.C. — As the Trump administration continues to threaten the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including lifetime caps and protections for Americans with preexisting conditions in the federal courts, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is releasing a new video in a social media campaign to educate Americans on what’s at stake. The campaign will tell the...
Washington, D.C. — The United States is facing more than four decades of stagnant wages, near-record levels of economic inequality, and large economic divides across gender and, especially, race and ethnicity. To address these fundamental economic challenges, many more workers need to be able to collectively bargain. In 2016, the Center for American Progress released...
Washington, D.C. — As a part of the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s ongoing seven-figure effort to educate Americans about President Trump’s broken promises—and with President Trump’s 2020 budget expected to cut billions in funding for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—CAPAF is releasing a new video in a social media campaign. The campaign will tell...
Washington, D.C. — As President Donald Trump makes claims about “promises made, promises kept,” the Center for American Progress Action Fund is launching a new national and state-by-state online platform, TrumpsBrokenPromises.org, that uses CAP Action data and analysis—and highlights stories of the serious consequences of Trump’s harmful policies—in order to break down and localize Trump’s broken promises and examine how they...
Washington, D.C. — As the Trump administration’s recent budget would put an end to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is releasing a new video in a social media campaign to educate Americans on what’s at stake. The campaign will tell the stories of Americans such as John Wallis...
Washington, D.C. — Today, President Donald Trump will travel to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he will give remarks at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy before heading to a private political fundraiser in West Des Moines. At repeated stops in the state during the 2016 presidential campaign and from the White House, President Trump has made sweeping promises...