Biden is considering declaring a climate emergency in an executive order and last-ditch attempt to salvage his green agenda after Sen. Joe Manchin killed chances of a climate bill.
healthcare providers. every situation is unique. and why do you care? get out of people s bedroom, and let them live their lives. the status quo right now cannot stand. as governor pritzker said, chicago and illinois are an island surrounded by women who can t have access to healthcare. and the results will be inequitable and it will be worse for black and brown women and people who can t afford to travel long distances. are people focused more on the economy as the polls indicate, as governor sununu was talking about? abortion rights, gun rights matter to people. when you talk to voters in cincinnati, what do they talk to you about? they talk about the gun violence. they talk about abortion. but of course they talk about the economy as well. president biden has led on this issue. if not for president biden s
the president knows that. do you think he should declare a public health emergency because of the situation that so many women and girls are facing in some of these states, including the ones surrounding illinois? well, there s no doubt it is an emergency for women all across the nation. that seeking to protect, to exercise your reproductive rights should not be something that is difficult to do. it should not be something where if you can t afford it, you may not be able to actually access it. we re providing funding here in illinois for illinois women who seek to exercise their reproductive rights. other states should be doing that but aren t. the people who are most affected by this decision, this terrible decision by the u.s. supreme court are women who are marginalized, women who are poor. black and brown women across the nation. so it s an emergency for them,
questions answered, and you can t do that in a live format. you heard from another key witness this week, pat sippoloni who sat with you on friday. your committee said he gave critical testimony that shows, quote, donald trump s supreme dereliction of duty, unquote. what does the committee mean by that? are we going to hear excerpts of the video testimony in this week s hearings? yes, we will have some excerpts of the testimony. he was able to provide information on basically all of the critical issues that we re looking at, including the president s, what i would call, dereliction of duty on the day of january 6th. so yes, that was important. as you know, the committee rules don t allow us to disclose the testimony without a vote of the committee. that hasn t happened yet, but it was important testimony. did he discuss trump
one of the big criticisms of president biden s white house is they re not responding aggressively enough to the challenges put forward, and there s a quote from the communications director that s getting a lot of attention responding to democrats who say he s not doing enough to protect abortion rights. joe biden s goal in responding to dobbs, the supreme court decision, is not to satisfy some activists consistently out of step with the mainstream democratic party. what was your response to that, ashley? i was disappointing as an activist. as someone she nod today the coalition that joe biden built. i ran the coalition department on that campaign. guess who was a part of that coalition? activists. in 2020 when people took to the streets because of the death of george floyd, it invigorated the base in a way that allowed us to have record turnout. now, yeah, we were fighting an authoritarian president like donald trump. these people going into the