Tag: Trump administration

“The revelation that the U.S. has initiated a prosecution against Mr. Assange has shocked the international community.”

"This verdict challenges not only No More Deaths volunteers, but people of conscience throughout the country."

The Trump administration intended to "traumatize children and intentionally create a humanitarian crisis at the border."

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman wrote that in deciding to add a citizenship question to the census, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated a “veritable smorgasbord” of federal rules and “alternately ignored, cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued the evidence in the record before him.”

"Today is a good day. Because of this injunction, women in 13 states can still access birth control under the ACA."

As 800,000 federal workers remain furloughed or working without pay in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, we look at how the Trump administration has restarted a division of the Internal Revenue Service to help corporate lenders.

Combined with regulatory rollbacks and structural weakening of the EPA, the steep declines in enforcement nearly across the board show that Trump’s EPA is on what we consider a dangerous path.

The American Federation of Government Employees, or AFGE, says it’s illegal for federal workers to be forced to work without pay.

“As if missed paychecks and working without pay were not enough, now they have been told that they don’t even deserve a modest pay increase.”

The Office of Personnel Management said furloughed government employees could do "painting," "carpentry," or other odd jobs "in exchange for partial rent payments."