“President Donald Trump claimed direct credit for Toyota’s new investment in a Kentucky plant, calling it new evidence of economic improvement in a White House discussion with CEOs. The company says the move was planned long before Trump even announced he was running for president.” More.
Month: April 2017
Trump’s EPA Scott Pruitt Requests 24/7 Security Detail Amid Massive Budget Cuts
“The Trump administration has proposed whacking the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by nearly a third, eliminating thousands of employees and scrapping dozens of programs, including climate-change research and cleanup efforts in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay. But a detailed budget plan includes a request to add positions within the agency’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance ‘to provide 24/7 security detail’ for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.” More.
U.S. Cost of Betsy DeVos’s Security Detail — Nearly $8 million Over 8 Months
“Federal marshals are protecting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at a cost to her agency of nearly $8 million over nearly eight months, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.” More.
Betsy DeVos Undoes Student Loan Protections
“Trump’s education secretary wants to limit costs at a time when more than 1 million Americans are annually defaulting.” More.
Wag the Dog: Trump Lavished with Media and Bipartisan Praise for Bombing Syria
“In every type of government, nothing unites people behind the leader more quickly, reflexively or reliably than war. Donald Trump now sees how true that is, as the same establishment leaders in U.S. politics and media who have spent months denouncing him as a mentally unstable and inept authoritarian and unprecedented threat to democracy are standing and applauding him as he launches bombs at Syrian government targets.” More.
Trump Administration Moving Quickly to Build Up Nationwide Deportation Force
“The Trump administration is quickly identifying ways to assemble the nationwide deportation force that President Trump promised on the campaign trail as he railed against the dangers posed by illegal immigration.” More.
Trump Budget Director Admits GOP Goal Is Wealth Retention, Not Low Deficits
“Donald Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney, in a new interview with CNBC’s John Harwood, basically admits that what he cares about is reducing transfers from the rich to the poor.” More.