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Washington, D.C. — Tomorrow, President Donald Trump will travel to a Yuma, Arizona, airport hangar where he is expected to deliver remarks on immigration and border security instead of focusing on the dire economic and public health crises facing the state. Arizona is reeling from the president’s failed response to the coronavirus, with some of...
Washington, D.C. – Center for American Progress Action Fund CEO Neera Tanden today called for the resignation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy amid reports that he has taken steps to disrupt mail service ahead of the November election: President Donald Trump’s handpicked postmaster general—a partisan fundraiser with no postal experience—has been taking steps to slow...
Louisville, KY — On Friday, August 14, Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) will join Center for American Progress Action Fund CEO Neera Tanden and Dr. F. Bruce Williams, senior pastor at Bates Memorial Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, to discuss how the White House and U.S. Senate's failure to vote on a coronavirus recovery package is leaving Kentucky...
Washington, D.C. — Today, Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden selected Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) to be his running mate, making her the first Black woman and first Asian American person to ever be named to a presidential ticket. Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, released the following statement: As she has...
Watch the video here. Washington, D.C. — This week, the United States hit a new record in the coronavirus pandemic, approaching 5 million confirmed cases and more than 159,000 fatalities. This comes as Democratic leaders call for U.S. Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, to reverse new policies that would delay mail services. These policies are seen by...
Washington, D.C. — Today, on the 55th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, a new report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State (DASS) examines the important role secretaries of state play in protecting voting rights for African Americans. As the top election administrators in most...
Washington, D.C. — Today, President Donald Trump will travel to Clyde, Ohio, to tour the Whirlpool Corporation’s washing machine facility and deliver remarks on revitalizing the U.S. manufacturing industry. He will also hold a high-dollar fundraiser in Cleveland, with tickets ranging from $5,600 to $100,000. This comes as the United States nears 5 million coronavirus...
Watch the video here. Washington, D.C. — Last week, President Donald Trump came under fire after revealing in an interview with Axios that he did not confront Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent phone call, after learning that U.S. intelligence concluded that Russian military officials secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops...
Washington, D.C. — In response to a recently issued memo by the Trump administration—which blocks more than 300,000 Dreamers from filing new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications and slashes protections for existing DACA recipients—Arizona leaders called on Congress today to pass H.R. 6, or the American Dream and Promise Act, during a press call...
Washington, D.C. – Today, Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, issued the following response to President Donald Trump’s tweets about delaying the presidential election: President Trump is doing everything possible to disrupt and delegitimize the November election as he faces news that the U.S. economy saw the largest quarterly...
