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Donald Trump, theGrio.com
July 4, 2025
Trump’s massive tax-and-spending bill is headed to his desk, packed with cuts to Medicaid and boosts for the wealthy.
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May 19, 2025
In a narrow Sunday night vote, Republicans move Trump’s tax cuts forward but face deep internal rifts over Medicaid.
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March 31, 2023
Damar Hamlin visited Capitol Hill Wednesday to ask lawmakers to support legislation that would provide AEDs in schools.
February 26, 2023
Mississippi’s Republican-controlled House recently passed a bill expanding areas of Jackson patrolled by a state-run Capitol Police force.
June 27, 2021
The 223-page bill draft includes provisions regulating the use of no-knock warrants and proposes the creation of a police misconduct…
Rep. Maxine Waters thegrio.com
June 26, 2021
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Friday announced new legislation seeking to provide a significant financial boost for exonerated individuals.
June 20, 2021
Though there are nationwide efforts around police reform in states controlled by the GOP, they are actually gaining more power.
June 12, 2021
Biden said that he has “stayed in touch with families of the victims and with the survivors who have turned…
June 7, 2021
This new legislation allows for schools or companies to get tribal approval if they want to use Native imagery for…
Voting Access Bill Sparks Controversy In Georgia
March 9, 2021
Georgia Senate passes the sweeping voter restriction bill following the Democrat election win during the senate runoffs and 2020 election.
January 2, 2021
Rodney Hawkins has taken on the task of preserving his family history after finding the Hawkins' family cemetery in disarray.
Speaker Pelosi Briefs Media In Weekly News Conference
October 8, 2020
Pelosi is introducing legislation on Friday that will establish a "Commission on Presidential Capacity" related to the 25th Amendment.
September 28, 2020
The new law requires inmates to be asked if they identify as transgender, nonbinary or intersex, then they must be…
June 25, 2014
MSNBC -- Hundreds of mostly poor minority students who used a controversial Missouri law to transfer out of failing schools…
December 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Florida Public Defender Association has announced it will back a measure (HB 89) that would grant…
September 26, 2013
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — Paparazzi and others who harass the children of public figures will face tougher penalties under legislation…
April 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A Tennessee bill that would reduce welfare benefits to low-income families if their child performs poorly in…
February 5, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they…
February 4, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The proposed action of one Mississippi lawmaker has led some to believe politicians have gone too far…
December 27, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - With all the fallout from the hazing death of a young drum major at Florida A&M University…