| No Images? Click here   Trump Walks Out Of Meeting With Top Democrats, Blames Impeachment TalkNegotiations over a bipartisan infrastructure package meant to overhaul the nation’s crumbling roads, bridges and waterways collapsed suddenly on Wednesday after President Donald Trump walked out of a previously scheduled meeting with top congressional Democrats at the White House.Democrats waited about 15 minutes for Trump. Once he arrived, he spoke for about three minutes before leaving the room. In a press conference at the White House Rose Garden just afterward, Trump said he would not deal with Democrats on infrastructure matters until they ceased investigations of his administration following special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. People before power. We think regular people’s stories are important – and we think you do too.  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday made a sweeping promise to focus her first 100 days in office if she wins the 2020 presidential election on a wide-ranging set of progressive proposals to support children and families.The ambitious agenda, which Gillibrand is calling the “Family Bill of Rights,” includes promising parents a right to maternal care, paid leave, affordable nursery and child care, universal pre-kindergarten, and the right to fertility treatments or adoption regardless of religion, or sexual orientation or identity.Bucking the antiabortion political trends in several other states, the Nevada state Assembly approved a pro-choice bill on Tuesday to remove criminal penalties for people who terminate a pregnancy without consulting a physician.The Trust Nevada Women Act, which passed on a 27-13 vote, would also decriminalize other abortion-related actions, such as selling miscarriage-inducing medications. It would remove requirements that doctors tell pregnant people about the “emotional implications” of an abortion.Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin wants to pass the buck to the next administration on putting famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman on a redesigned $20 bill.Mnuchin told the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday the Treasury Department won’t meet its own deadline for a redesigned $20 bill, originally scheduled to be unveiled in 2020 and set to feature Tubman, a dedicated abolitionist and women’s suffrage advocate who died in 1913.
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