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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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.