Executive Branch
The executive branch personnel (White House) including the president, the cabinet and advisors.
Trump’s Budget: Making America Less Great
“Drastic cuts proposed by the administration threaten scientific R&D that provides incredible economic and societal value, and which have always enjoyed bipartisan support.” More …
Trump Turned International Diplomacy Into a Fistfight—and Lost
“President Trump’s performance in the last leg of his first international trip has European leaders fuming—and American diplomats likening him to a ‘drunk tourist.’” More …
General McMaster, Step Down—and Let Trump Be Trump
Thomas Ricks pens an open letter to General McMaster: “Save your reputation while you still can… I no longer believe in the ‘adults in the room’ theory of containing President Trump and the similarly erratic and ignorant people around him.” More …
No, the “Grown-Ups” Won’t Save Us: A Favorite Beltway Fantasy Bites the Dust Again
“Donald Trump’s supposedly respectable advisers have become enablers to a regime of lies, incompetence and idiocy.” More …
Tourism in the US Has Drastically Declined Since Trump Was Elected
“America’s share of international tourism has dropped 16% in March, compared to the same month in 2016, according to Foursquare data. The decline began in October 2016, the month before the presidential election. From October to March, tourism-related traffic has fallen an average of 11% in the US, compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, tourism in the rest of the world has increased 6% year-over-year during the same period. ” More …
As Trump Works to Gut EPA, Report Finds One Quarter of Country Drinks Substandard Water
“Our country has major problems with its drinking water supplies. Nearly one quarter of people living in the United States get their drinking water from one of the 18,000 water systems in all 50 states that reported violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2015, according to a new report. This news comes as the Trump administration eyes deep budget cuts to programs safeguarding drinking water and public health.” More …
Inside Trump’s War on Regulations
“The chaos of Donald Trump’s first four months as president has overshadowed a series of actions that could reshape American life for decades — efforts to rewrite or wipe out regulations affecting everything from student loans and restaurant menus to internet privacy, workplace injuries and climate change.” More …
Trump’s “America First“ Infrastructure Plan: Let Saudi Arabia and Blackstone Take Care of It
” …. But the third [deal struck in Saudi Arabia], which was rolled out much more quietly, is no less stunning: The Saudi kingdom joined forces with a top outside adviser to Trump to build a $40 billion war chest to privatize U.S. infrastructure. The vehicle would employ the same kind of public-private partnerships, known as P3s, the Trump administration has endorsed for its trillion dollar infrastructure plan. The deal hands over control of projects to rebuild American roads and bridges to the private sector [Blackstone] and a foreign country [Saudi Arabia]. More …
Kushner Met With Russian Banker Who Is Putin Crony, Spy School Grad
“The Russian banker Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner met with in December is viewed by U.S. intelligence as a “Putin crony” and a graduate of a “finishing school” for spies who was often tasked with sensitive financial operations by Putin, according to multiple U.S. officials and documents viewed by NBC News.” More …