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Rauner Breaks Silence on Trumpcare to Falsely Claim How Public He’s Been on Trumpcare

Rauner Has Stayed Silent for Months as Republicans Worked to Drive-Up Health Care Costs and Strip Away Protections While signing Charlie’s law today, Bruce Rauner was asked about his near complete silence on Republican efforts to pass Trumpcare. In response, Rauner claimed he spoke up about Medicaid provisions – “These changes can be very damaging…

DGA Statement on Senate Health Care Vote

Today, DGA Chair Gov. Dan Malloy (D-CT) and DGA Vice Chair Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) released the following joint statement on the proposed Senate vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act: “The proposal for health care repeal without any alternative is simply a disaster for states,” said Malloy and Inslee. “It would wreck state budgets, hike…

MEMORANDUM: Rauner Doubling-Down on the Same Failed Tactics with Staff Shakeup

Over the past week, Bruce Rauner dragged his staff through a seismic overhaul of his staff, replacing seasoned policy professionals with right-wing ideologues from the conservative fringe Illinois Policy Institute. Rather than a true operational shakeup, this represents a doubling-down by Rauner on policy and strategy. Rauner is committing himself to the same style of…

Rauner Keeps Playing Games with Illinois Schools

Rauner Keeps Looking to Score Political Points at the Expense of Children’s Education Two weeks ago, Governor Rauner vetoed a bipartisan state budget, which included education funding, that would have ended the state’s two-year budget impasse. Then, Rauner called on legislators to sustain his veto even though it threatened to keep schools from opening in…

Roundup: Trumpcare Bombs at NGA

Dem Govs Opposition to Health Care Bill ‘Unanimous and Fierce’ As governors gathered over the weekend in Providence for the National Governors Association summer meetings, the Trump administration tried once again to pitch its deeply unpopular health care bill. And once again, the governors were not impressed. The Trump administration’s full-court press – with in-person appeals from Vice…

Democratic Governors: Leading the Health Care Debate at NGA

Today at the National Governors Association Summer Meetings in Providence, Democratic governors stepped up to lead the fight against the Republican Health Care Bill in the Senate. Governors from red, purple, and blue states all across the country agree the proposal in Congress would be incredibly harmful to their states. The bill will gut Medicaid…

Rauner’s New Right-Wing Staff Not as Silent as the Governor on Health Care

Will Rauner’s Right-Wing Reset Include Siding with IPI, and Calling for Ending ACA’s Expansion? This morning, the Senate Republicans released their newest version of Trumpcare, and will look to vote on the measure in the coming days. Last time the Senate offered legislation it failed in part due to pressure from Republican and Democratic Governors…not…

Friday at 8:40 AM in Providence: Democratic Governors to Highlight State Impact of Health Care Bill

At press conference to kick off NGA, Democrats to discuss disastrous effect of Senate bill on states’ citizens, budgets On Friday at 8:40 AM, Democratic governors will kick off NGA weekend with a joint press conference to highlight the damaging impact that the pending Senate health care bill would have on their states. As the Senate considers…

News Roundup: Rauner’s Right-Wing Reset

Rauner’s New Staff Signals Conservative, Combative Office In the wake of his bipartisan budget defeat, Governor Bruce Rauner is on Day 3 of a total Right-Wing Reset. On Monday, Rauner’s office announced it was bringing in a new Chief of Staff from the far-right, Koch Brothers-affiliated Illinois Policy Institute. Yesterday more staffers either departed or…

DGA Statement on Rauner’s Decision to Surround Himself with Right-Wing Illinois Policy Institute Staffers

The Democratic Governors Association releases the following statement, attributable to Illinois Communications Director Sam Salustro, regarding the news that Governor Rauner spent most of Tuesday firing old staff and hiring right-wing Illinois Policy Institute staffers into his administration: “Bruce Rauner’s operation is in chaos. Fresh off a stunning bipartisan rebuke of his uncompromising policies, Rauner has turned inward, firing…

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