Tag: budget
New budget deal preserves all 19 social spending programs Trump tried...
Economic relief agencies as well as support for arts and culture got nearly a five-month reprieve from the more radical cuts proposed in Trump’s budget.
Feeding one kid, starving the family
Trump just donated his pay to the Park Service, which would be great if his budget didn't starve the rest of the government.
The public is clueless about the federal budget and it’s the...
We should be able to get reporters to do their jobs and report budget numbers in a way that means something to their audience.
What slashing the labor department budget by 21 percent would mean
“This is not so much a budget as an ideological statement.”
‘America first’ budget is unworthy of our nation
“We are struggling to save the soul of America.”
Trump’s bonkers budget
Trump’s spending and tax priorities are not in the best interest of most Americans.
Trump budget puts 12 million people at risk of losing housing
The White House is hoping that Congress will approve of a $54 billion boost to Pentagon coffers.
War: Where 69¢ of Each of Your Tax Dollars Goes
A high majority of U.S. tax dollars are not going to schools, universities, parks, roads, science, environment, or health, but to war. In order to shy away from this type of militaristic government, we need a peace president and congress.
An End to 'Mindless Austerity:' Obama Pushes for Taxing the Rich...
President Obama is calling for Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations as a way to fund education and fix America's infrastructure. Could Obama's budget proposal help poor and middle-class families?
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.