GOP Sen. Tillis to vote for resolution blocking Trump’s emergency declaration | TheHill

  GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said on Monday that he will support a resolution to block President Trump national emergency declaration on the U.S.-Mexico border. “I would vote in favor of the resolution disapproving of the president’s national-emergency declaration, if and when it comes before the Senate,” Tillis wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. Tillis’s decision comes…

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Democrats Take Aim at the Gig Economy – Bloomberg

Leading Democrats are proposing a labor law overhaul that could extend collective bargaining rights to huge swaths of the gig economy, the latest sign of gathering blowback for companies committed to maximizing profits by denying workers rights and benefits often associated with regular employment. On Wednesday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with…

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