The Trump Administration’s cruel rule to take food assistance away from hundreds of thousands of Americans was scheduled to go into effect on April 1, 2020. A court injunction in late March halted it temporarily as reported by Smart Dissent here.
Now in mid-October 2020, a Federal judge just blocked the effort entirely, calling it “arbitrary and capricious.”
Did the current administration waste so much money that now their immigration services need a bailout? It sure does look like it.
The immigration agency admonishing immigrants to pull themselves up by their bootstraps seems to have destroyed its own boots. For three years, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — the federal agency that processes visas, work permits and naturalizations — has lectured immigrants about how they should become more self-sufficient. It has alleged, without evidence, that too many immigrants are on the dole.
This is the real looting, right in front of us. The American people deserve to know how their money is being spent. We need full transparency. Elected officials and the citizens resisted firmly on this and late last week, we won.... for now.
The U.S. has spent more than half of $3 trillion in economic rescue funds passed by Congress -- with little of the oversight intended to ensure the money goes to the right places.
Last week, I started to read a tweet that said Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, a former defense contractor lobbyist with no qualifications to lead the strongest military in history, was reallocating defense funds. I immediately thought it would have something to do with mitigating the impact of COVID-19. Silly me.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is directing Pentagon budget planners to defer $545 million worth of construction projects... in Europe meant to counter Russian aggression - to pay for Trump’s border wall with Mexico.
Millions of families need federal help right now for the food, shelter, income, and health care they need. The absolute last thing Congress should be doing is shoveling money to boost the profits of defense contractors. No. Just no. But....
The Pentagon will ask for billions of dollars in the next version of a stimulus package to help defense contractors hit by closures or other effects of the coronavirus pandemic...
The White House is proposing deep budget cuts for the Interior and Energy departments, according to the fiscal 2021 budget request.
The White House budget request would reduce spending at the Energy Department by 8 percent and cut 16 percent from the Department of the Interior's budget.
The proposed spending reductions mark the latest effort by the administration to chip away at government agencies focused on science, the environment and public lands.
HIS IS A BIG DEAL. THIS IS THE CORRUPTION ON AN UNIMAGINABLE LEVEL. THIS IS A CODE RED ALARM.
Trump has removed the chairman of the federal panel Congress created to oversee his administration’s management of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package — the latest action by the president to undermine the system of independent oversight of the executive.
As the coronavirus outbreak spreads across the country, leading to fears of overrun hospitals and shortages of key items in ERs, many have begun to look for help from something they didn't previously know existed: the Strategic National Stockpile.
A new machine designed to churn out millions of masks at high speed during a pandemic was green-lit by the Obama administration.
In September 2018, the Trump administration received detailed plans for a new machine designed to churn out millions of protective respirator masks at high speed during a pandemic.
The plans, submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by the medical manufacturer O&M Halyard, were the culmination of a venture unveiled almost three years earlier by the Obama administration.
As the old refrain goes, “Nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” However, for the corporations and the wealthy, there is no certainty about paying taxes at all. In fact, in the United States, evading taxes has become as simple as creating a shell company in Bermuda.