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Economy

Sen. Perdue lies about debt to get more money for the rich

Millionaire Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., is claiming that the Senate must approve the GOP’s “tax cut for the one percent” tax plan in order to “avoid escalating the national debt over the next decade.” How could giving millionaires $46,000 extra per year help our country save money? The short answer is, “it can’t and it won’t.” “National debt” is the reason Republicans have always given for tax reform, but the truth is it doesn’t work

Immigration and Refugees

End of DACA absolutely unacceptable

Donald Trump’s administration has officially ended the DACA program. It took just ten minutes for Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions to announce the end of the popular Obama-era program. Thousands of young people who want to work and study in the only country some of them have ever known will now have their lives thrown into limbo by a president determined to push through a racist, xenophobic agenda. DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,

Immigration and Refugees

Perdue’s plan to slash immigration

Perdue’s plan for immigration seeks to reduce the number of immigrants and refugees, separate families and freeze employment-based green cards. The Trump-backed plan would be disastrous for families. It would also have noticeable effects on businesses like agriculture, which relies heavily on immigrants. His plan seeks to separate families by prioritizing “high-skilled foreigners” over the extended family members of people who are already here. Currently, there is also no provision for “Dreamers,” people who were brought

Immigration and Refugees

Sen. Perdue champions anti-immigrant RAISE Act

Georgia’s Sen. David Perdue and Donald Trump today announced the anti-immigrant, anti-refugee RAISE Act, the latest attempt by the Trump administration to promote xenophobic policies. With the explicit goal of cutting overall immigration by half and capping limits on refugees able to get permanent residency to 50,000 per year, this RAISE Act builds on an identically named policy floated by Sen. Perdue along with Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton earlier this year. Sen. Cotton is also

Nathan Deal

Gov. Deal stands by Donald Trump

Yesterday, as conservative leaders across the country denounced Donald Trump’s comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Mexican heritage as racist, Trump dug in deeper, telling his critics to “get over it.” Apparently, that’s exactly what Gov. Nathan Deal has done. Gov. Nathan Deal and Sen. David Perdue made news yesterday by announcing their plans to host a fundraiser  in Georgia next week for the increasingly toxic megalomaniac. By the end of the day, even Sen. Perdue, an