Sheldon Whitehouse: “Before I join the colloquy with Senators Blumenthal and Schumer, I have two bits of housekeeping.”

This is a hugely important milestone but there are two big pieces of work in front of us.

President Trump’s 2017 tax law and Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires bill handed billionaires and big corporations massive tax breaks on private jets. The Trump administration now says it would be ‘burdensome’ to close the private jet tax…

The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.

The fossil fuel-captured EPA’s decision to end its regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants is a tragic and expensive mistake.