WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The America First Policy Institute issued the following statement on May 16, 2025: * * * AFPI's Brett Tolman Condemns the Irresponsible Actions of Former FBI Director Washington D.C.-- Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) issued the following statement from Brett Tolman, Chair of the Weaponization Initiative, regarding the recent social media post made by former FBI Director James Comey: "Words cannot describe how despicable it is to see someone of James Co more PR

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The America First Policy Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on May 16, 2025, to Townhall: * * * President Trump's Bold Action for HBCUs Is a Win for the American Dream By Frank Murphy As a former professional athlete in the National Football League, I know the power of opportunity. I know what it means to rise, fight through adversity, and beat the odds stacked against you. That's the promise of America - and it's the very promise that Historically  more PR

TUSTIN, California, May 17 -- The California Policy Center, an organization that says it focuses on education reform, workplace freedom, government transparency and governance, issued the following news: * * * Budget Bloat and Blame Games: Inside Newsom's May Revision By Sheridan Karras, Research Manager, Finance On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom released his May budget revision, proposing $321.9 in total spending for the next fiscal year. Now he must work with the legislature to pass a budget more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 13 -- The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists posted the following article in its May 2025 edition: * * * How to stop the next pandemic By Dan Drollette Jr. Closing businesses and schools. Isolating and quarantining individuals. Banning public gatherings. Requiring masks. These were all highly effective public health measures enacted in a time of a global pandemic, aimed at suppressing the spread of the disease. But the measures were also highly disruptive; some places of  more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 13 -- The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists posted the following article in its May 2025 edition: * * * The impact of DOGE's funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli By Dan Drollette Jr. In the world of biomedical research, one institution towers over the rest--the National Institutes of Health, or NIH. It can be argued that it's largely because of this 138-year-old government agency--a part of the US Department more PR

WASHINGTON, May 16 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Calls on President Trump to Renounce 'Insane' Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza, Force One Million Palestinians to Libya The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on President Trump to address and renounce an "insane" plan to ethnically-cleanse Gaza and force its population  more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, May 17 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on May 16, 2025: * * * MinnesotaCare for undocumented immigrants continues to cause problems for Walz Written by Matt Dean Minnesota Governor Tim Walz unveiled a budget agreement in the capitol reception room, as Democratic representatives and senators protested noisily outside, chanting and pounding on th more PR

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following commentary on May 16, 2025: * * * Administration's "If You Want Welfare" Arguments Conceal Proposals' True Impact By Nick Gwyn The sweeping tax and budget plan that House Republicans are rushing to advance this week would take away health coverage through Medicaid and food assistance through SNAP for many millions of people to partially pay for tax cuts heavily weighted to wealthy individuals and businesses more PR

WASHINGTON, May 16 [Category: Education] -- The National Association of College and University Business Officers posted the following news: * * * Congressional Tax Proposals Target Higher Education The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a bill on May 15 that serves as one component of the reconciliation package heading to the House floor, reportedly by Memorial Day. The reconciliation bill serves as a vehicle to adopt and offset Trump administration priorities of preserving tax cuts fr more PR

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on May 14, 2025: * * * Are U.S. Auto Tariffs Punishing Domestic Investment? By Yuri Unno Liberation Day has come and gone. Many agree with President Trump that we should make more manufacturing goods in the United States, but simply imposing tariffs on foreign goods could have unintended consequences. A proclamation and an executive order on April 29 to lighten the auto and auto parts tar more PR

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on May 15, 2025: * * * Experts React: Energy Policy in the Reconciliation Debate By Joseph Majkut, Clayton Seigle, Kyle Danish, Leslie Abrahams, Jane Nakano, Arushi Sharma Frank and Mathias Zacarias This week, committees in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled their initial legislation responding to instructions in the fiscal year 2025 budget resolution. As budget reconciliation has more PR

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on May 15, 2025: * * * From Tariffs to Tech Power: The Pivot the United States Needs Now By Navin Girishankar For businesses and consumers alike, the joint statement from Washington and Beijing offered signs of a detente in the U.S.-China trade war. Following the weekend's Geneva talks, both sides have decided to roll back tariffs. By some estimates, average U.S. rates on Chinese goods wi more PR

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on May 15, 2025: * * * Mexico's Telecommunications Law: Bolstering Access or Curtailing Competition? By Ryan C. Berg and Henry Ziemer On April 23, 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum submitted an initiative for a new telecommunications law to the Senate. This initiative seemed to catch many off guard, as did the speed with which it was unveiled and initially advanced. After advancin more PR

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on May 16, 2025: * * * PEPFAR's Golden Era Is Over. It Urgently Needs a Five-Year Transition Plan By Jirair Ratevosian, J. Stephen Morrison and Katherine E. Bliss On January 20, President Trump announced a 90-day review of U.S. foreign assistance, which was later extended to 120 days. The review, which is set to conclude in the third week of May, was supposed to cover a wide range of deve more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 13 -- GBH, a multiplatform creator for public media, issued the following news release: * * * GBH's Series BREAKING THE DEADLOCK Launches New Episode on Executive Power BOSTON, Mass. - May 13, 2025 - BREAKING THE DEADLOCK, a dynamic new series from GBH airing and streaming nationwide on PBS, is releasing a new episode focused on the topic of executive power in government. Designed to encourage civil dialogue, the series brings together a diverse panel of prominent v more PR

NEW YORK, May 17 -- The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University issued the following news release: * * * Knight Institute Launches New Podcast, "The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment" Legal journalist Cristian Farias joins Institute as podcast writer and host NEW YORK--The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University today launched "The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment," a new weekly podcast that will follow the Trump administration's assault more PR

WASHINGTON, May 16 [Category: Political] -- Democracy Forward, an organization that says it advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education and regulatory engagement, issued the following news release: * * * Law Students Suing to Oppose Trump Administration's Ongoing Assault on Legal Profession Expand Suit to Class Action Complaint New Filing Seeks to Protect All Employees From Weaponization of Civil Rights Laws Washington, D.C. - The group of law stud more PR

WASHINGTON, May 16 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Progressive Policy Institute posted the following news release: * * * Loss of AAA Rating for U.S. Credit Underscores Grave Consequences of Trump's Budget-Busting Bill WASHINGTON -- Today, Ben Ritz, Vice President of Policy Development at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future, issued the following statement on Moody's decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating from AAA: "Even as all t more PR

NEW YORK, May 17 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on May 15, 2025, to the New York Post: * * * Qatar's 'Gestures' to Trump Raise Suspicions on Both Ends of the Political Spectrum By Douglas Murray The government of Qatar had a surprise for President Trump on his recent visit to the Middle East. That was the release of the last American-born hostage being held in Gaza. Edan Alexander, 21, was freed by the Qatari-funded group Hamas as a gesture to Trum more PR

NEW YORK, May 17 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on May 16, 2025, to the Washington Examiner: * * * Financial Aid Follies: The Trump Administration and College Affordability By James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley "Maybe breaking these programs is not an unfortunate side effect that might happen. It's actually the intended goal, to cause disruption." That was Judith Scott-Clayton, a professor of economics and education at Columbia University's Teac more PR

WASHINGTON, May 16 [Category: Political] -- Democracy Forward, an organization that says it advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education and regulatory engagement, issued the following news release: * * * New Details About DOGE Access to Sensitive Systems at IRS Emerge in Legal Filing Coalition of Tax Experts and Taxpayer Advocates, Small Businesses, and Unions Amends Filing in Case Seeking to Stop DOGE From Unprecedented Unlawful Access to Sensitive  more PR

NEW YORK, May 17 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund posted the following news: * * * On 71st Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education,... Today, May 17, 2025, marks the 71 st anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared the "separate but equal" doctrine unconstitutional and marked a new standard for American education. The watershed victory occurred only after a hard-fought, multi-year campaign co more PR

WASHINGTON, May 16 [Category: Environment] -- The League of Conservation Voters posted the following news release: * * * THIS WEEK IN CLIMATE ACTION - MAY 16, 2025 Your weekly resource to learn what the environmental movement is saying about the news of the day and the political fight of our generation. This week, we're covering House reconciliation markups, the administration's attempts to weaken PFAS protections, and the House and Senate's bipartisan criticism of the administration's propos more PR

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Free Press, an advocacy group that is part of the media reform or media democracy movement, issued the following news release: * * * Verizon Cowardly Capitulates to Trump and Carr's Racist Bullying WASHINGTON -- On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission, under the direction of President Trump's FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, approved Verizon's acquisition of Frontier Communications. The deal hands control of Frontier's telecommunications networks in 25 states to Veriz more PR