Sheldon Whitehouse: “It reinforces how vital Social Security and Medicare are to our safety net and to assuring that Americans have a decent…”

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

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

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

We need more clarity on that, and when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.