Elizabeth Warren to Ted Cruz: You want a fight over Planned Parenthood? Bring it on
Liberal firebrand Elizabeth Warren took to Ted Cruz‘s home turf Sunday to taunt her U.S. Senate colleague over his high-stakes crusade against Planned Parenthood.
“We will not let Ted Cruz shut down this government over Planned Parenthood! He wants a fight over Planned Parenthood? My answer is, ‘Bring it on, Ted!’” Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said during a speech in Austin, drawing loud applause.
Cruz is playing a starring role in the charge against Planned Parenthood, whose officials have been captured in a series of undercover videos that raise questions about its practice of letting patients donate fetal tissue for medical research. Planned Parenthood has denied any wrongdoing, but Cruz has not ruled out shutting down the federal government in pursuit of cutting off taxpayer dollars to what he calls an “ongoing criminal enterprise.”
After hitting Cruz, Warren went on to take a shot at another GOP presidential candidate: Donald Trump, the real estate mogul whose inflammatory comments on illegal immigration have roiled the 2016 race.
“No matter what Donald Trump says, we believe that immigration makes this country strong,” Warren said.
As Warren finished her remarks, she spoke personally of her ties to Texas, which include a diploma in 1970 from the University of Houston. She recalled how it only cost $50 a semester to attend the school back then.
“I grabbed that opportunity, and I held on with both hands,” she said, “and that college diploma opened a million doors for me.”
Warren was speaking at a fundraiser for the Texas Democratic Party that was closed to reporters, but video was provided by those in attendance.
Disclosure: Planned Parenthood was a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune in 2011. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.
By Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune
When Robert Mueller completed his long-awaited investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, he left many questions unanswered.
But one conclusion was unequivocal: Russia unleashed an extensive campaign of fake news and disinformation on social media with the aim of distorting U.S. public opinion, sowing discord and swinging the election in favor of the Republican candidate Donald Trump.
The Democratic presidential candidate uses his eighth policy announcement to focus on an area that he prioritized in Congress.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke on Monday morning released a plan to improve the lives of veterans, returning to an area of priority during his time in the U.S. House for his latest 2020 policy rollout.
In keeping with measures he supported in Congress, the plan calls for a "responsible end" to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — reinvesting $1 out of every $2 saved in veterans programs — and the creation of a Veterans Health Care Trust Fund for each future war. The fund would be paid for by a "war tax" on households without service members or veterans.
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Conservative Ben Shapiro tweeted something many found offensive — so now he’s calling his critics ‘garbage’
Right wing "thought leader" Ben Shapiro appeared today to say not using the "N" word is nearly impossible as he defended conservative, pro-gun teen Kyle Kashuv, one of the Parkland survivors who just had his acceptance to Harvard rescinded over his racist remarks, which included repeated use of the "N" word.
To be clear, Shapiro denies that's what he meant.
Here is Shapiro on Twitter, in what many took as him appearing to call not using the "N" word – in Kashuv's case, repeatedly, over and over and over again, "an insane, cruel standard no one can possibly meet."
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