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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Monday that he's planning to introduce legislation in the coming weeks to expand the electric vehicle tax credit and link it to domestic manufacturing, calling the bill a way to help both the environment and the economy.
"That's a pretty concrete application of how the Green New Deal can create jobs in the United States," Khanna, the first vice chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a progressive Democrat, called for Republicans and Democrats alike to put their differences aside and back President Donald Trump's efforts to withdraw the United States from the war in Afghanistan.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a progressive Democrat who is the co-chairman of the 2020 Democrat presidential campaign for Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he hopes a bipartisan coalition comes together to work with President Donald Trump to end a number of wars and U.S. military conflicts worldwide.
US Rep. Ro Khanna of California believes that healing the nation's divisions starts with equal opportunity in the digital age for Rural America.
Khanna represents Silicon Valley. So what is he doing helping Pillar Technologies of California launch a digital "forge" in Jefferson in conjunction with Iowa Central Community College? It opens in August, with jobs paying $75,000 per year.
"You can't put the fabric of the country back together when some places prosper and others don't," said Khanna, who was reared in Bucks County, Pa.
Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, discusses his call for big tech to aid Congress in limiting foreign intrusion into U.S. elections, the increased scrutiny of big tech and his call for the release of the full Mueller report. He speaks with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."
Rep. Ro Khanna, who sits on the Armed Services Committee, tells Lawrence that he believes the acting Defense Secretary was reluctant to move Pentagon funds to build Trump's border wall, but that he likely had no choice because Trump ordered it.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has completed his investigation of what happened regarding Russia's interference in the 2016 election. It is time now to pivot to addressing what needs to be done to prevent future meddling from Russia or any other foreign government.
Obviously, we still have not seen all the details of what Mueller and his team have learned regarding Russia's violation of our sovereignty in 2016. But the clock is ticking; we cannot wait for the publication of that report to begin taking necessary actions to protect the vote of the American people in 2020.
On the fourth anniversary of the War in Yemen, this brutal and ongoing onslaught has taken the lives of more than 60,000 Yemenis and left half the population—14 million people—on the verge of famine. What began as a civil war in Yemen escalated into what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen became an international killing field, with Saudi Arabia leading a vicious bombing campaign, which the Obama and then Trump administrations helped unleash.
Expensive measures such as "Medicare for All" and the Green New Deal are among the issues facing the House Democrats who will weigh the fiscal aspects of the party's most ambitious ideas now that they control the majority.
But the rise of Modern Monetary Theory within the party has some lawmakers wondering whether it even matters whether those programs increase the deficit, as long as the country isn't at risk of significant inflation.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a humorous Twitter exchange on Thursday over Jared Kushner's use of WhatsApp for official White House duties, which may have violated federal records laws.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a CNN segment about this with the caption, "But his WhatsApp." The tweet alluded to an online joke about Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state, "But her emails," which was meant to be a jab at critics who frequently brought up the issue during the 2016 election.