Tag: Trump administration
Trump administration disbanded marine life and health advisory boards
The White House is currently making moves to eliminate three federal advisory boards that deal with the protection of marine life.
Trump admin: There’s no ‘climate crisis,’ so drill baby drill
The Trump administration has asserted that "there is not a climate crisis" as justification for expanding drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
‘Just absurd’: Flood of ridicule as Trump readies executive order to...
"Not only did Trump's own budget make deep cuts to Medicare, but can someone explain to me how a socialist program can be saved from socialism?"
Busted deal with the devil by stooge Republicans puts Senate in...
What was an improbable prospect only weeks ago — Democrats retaking the Senate — increases in direct proportion to the severity and duration of the Trump train wreck.
California sues for right to stronger pollution standards
The Trump administration made a "demonstrable move, to assert power and dominance."
Inside the Trump administration’s chaotic dismantling of the federal land agency
Internal records from the Bureau of Land Management contradict what its chief told Congress about a plan to ship 200 D.C.-based career staff out West. The plan would weaken the agency, which stands between federal lands and oil, gas and mineral companies.
Trump admin to officially revoke California’s waiver to set stricter emissions...
In its latest move to undermine action on the climate crisis, the Trump administration will formally rescind California's waiver to set stricter auto emissions standards under...
The threat of Bolton has receded — but not the threat...
The national security adviser entered the Trump administration as a predictable warmonger with an unslakable thirst for power. He streamlined the national...
“Biological annihilation”: The danger of opening Alaska’s ANWR to oil &...
The plan calls for the creation of landing strips, drill pads, pipeline supports, a seawater treatment plant, 175 miles of roads, and other infrastructure in Alaska’s north coast.
The American people will impeach the Republican Party and its members
Based on their record, what they say and what most of them refuse to do, the vow they made has become meaningless.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.