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The Democratic attorneys general of 21 states and Washington, D.C., are suing the Trump administration for its attempts to defund the Obama-era federal agency created to protect Americans from consumer fraud and discriminatory lending. After the U.S. mortgage market crashed in 2008 and millions of Americans lost their jobs, savings, retirements and homes, Congress in […]

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Oregon is suing the Trump administration for imposing a $100,000 fee on a popular legal pathway employers use to hire highly skilled workers. That’s roughly 13 to 100 times the current fees charged for the limited visas that are reserved for foreign workers. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and a coalition of 18 other Democratic-led […]

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Oregon Democrats have agreed to backfill $7.5 million in lost Planned Parenthood dollars, months after Congress approved a measure blocking access to federal Medicaid funds until at least July 2026.  Senate Majority Leader Kayse Jama, D-Portland, announced late last week that the Oregon Legislature’s Joint Emergency Board will allocate the funding to Planned Parenthood at […]

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Oregon is suing the Trump administration for allegedly holding back emergency grants promised to the state for emergency management, disaster-relief and homeland security operations.  Eleven other states joined Oregon in filing the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Eugene. It lists the U.S.Department of Homeland Security, Department Secretary Kristi Noem, the Federal Emergency Management […]