“His call for strict ‘rules of origin’ requirements would encourage carmakers to produce outside the U.S.” More …
Month: October 2017
Trump Visits His Golf Clubs At Least 69 Times in the Last Nine Months
” …. at a cost of at least $74,000,000.” Your tax dollars at work. More …
America’s Gun Fantasy
“Three percent of the nation owns half the firearms—to prepare for an ultraviolent showdown that exists only in their imagination.” More …
7 Trips Steven Mnuchin Took on Government Planes for $811,800
“A probe of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s use of government planes found no evidence of wrongdoing — but said the Trump administration cut corners in approving the trips.” More …
Did Manafort Use Trump to Curry Favor With a Putin Ally?
“Emails turned over to investigators detail the former campaign chair’s efforts to please an oligarch tied to the Kremlin.” More …
How Facebook Ads Helped Elect Trump
“Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale says Donald Trump won election on Facebook with highly targeted ads — and infrastructure was a key issue.” More …
9 Ways Trump Is Undercutting Obamacare Without Congress
9 ways the president is trying to dismantle the law without help from Congress. More …
EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose ‘No Harmful Health Effect’
“In the event of a dirty bomb or a nuclear meltdown, emergency responders can safely tolerate radiation levels equivalent to thousands of chest X-rays, the Environmental Protection Agency said in new guidelines that ease off on established safety levels. The EPA’s determination sets a level ten times the drinking water standard for radiation recommended under President Barack Obama. It could lead to the administration of President Donald Trump weakening radiation safety levels, watchdog groups critical of the move say.” More …
A Brief Dictionary to Help Understand the U.S. Far Right
“The campaign and election of US President Donald Trump have emboldened the country’s far-right movement, which celebrated his policies designed to limit immigration and repeal affirmative action, among others.” More …
McConnell Pulls Out the Stops to Help Trump’s Judicial Picks
“One of the big mysteries of 2017 has been whether Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley would stick to the practice (following that of his immediate Democratic predecessor, Pat Leahy) of letting the home-state senators of judicial nominees veto them, or bend to conservative pressure to let Donald Trump’s nominees go forward no matter what. ” More …