The premise of this web site database in January 2017 was to track what Republicans and Trump are doing that often does not ever reach the mainsteam. Here, unfortunately, is a perfect example.
In a move that worries many public health experts, the federal government is quietly shutting down a surveillance program for dangerous animal viruses that someday may infect humans.
Despite his false claims otherwise, the cost of Trump's trade-war-by-tweet will land "entirely" on American families. Imagine that.
Americans are paying more because of Trump's Tariffs against Chinese goods. The Trump admin's erratic trade policy means that there remains the risk of further escalation and a further burden on the American people.
The Open Skies Treaty is not something you have ever heard of most likely. It is a post-Cold War agreement that allows countries to operate reconnaissance flights over other nations and collect data on military activities with the aim of building trust between countries. Since coming into force in 2002, the treaty has become a key tool for the U.S. and its European allies to monitor Russian military deployments to former Soviet satellite countries, including Russian aggression in Ukraine.
By pulling out the Iran Deal he has brought about the acceleration of Iran's nuclear program. This is a big move by Iran described below and underscores the utter failure of Trump's policy.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday [9/4/19] ordered all limits on nuclear research and development to be lifted, the country's third step in scaling down its commitments to a 2015 deal with world powers.
Surprising? No. Infuriating? VERY.
Trump plans to reduce the annual refugee cap to 18,000 in the coming fiscal year, the State Department said Thursday [9/26/19]. The lower ceiling follows a trend under Trump of cutting refugee levels every year.
The coming year’s 18,000-person cap will be the lowest since the refugee resettlement program began in 1980, a major shift from the 110,000 refugee admissions President Barack Obama proposed for fiscal year 2017.
We have been warned that the Trump administration and Republicans might move from targeting illegal immigrants to green card holders to naturalized American citizens to U.S. born citizens with the “wrong” immigrant parents. Trump's tweet just in early August 2019 telling members of Congress to “go home” shows the next progression. And now this:
The Trump administration introduced a new rule Monday [8/12/19] making it harder for low-income, legal immigrants who receive food stamps or other forms of taxpayer-funded assistance to stay in the country legally.
DON'T LOOK AWAY.
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union told a federal judge Tuesday [July 30, 2019] that the Trump administration has taken nearly 1,000 migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border since the judge ordered the United States government to curtail the practice more than a year ago.
A sycophant becoming the Director of National Intelligence is one of the more worrisome moves in this administration. Modern autocrats often use the intelligence institutions to attack/undermine their opponents.
Trump is consolidating his personal control over the intelligence community. Between loyalists Barr and Radcliffe, and pliant CIA and FBI directors, Trump is close to neutralizing intelligence and law enforcement as spoilers in his bid to amass unprecedented executive power.
Alex Acosta, the now-former Labor Secretary, is a despicable person unworthy of the time it takes to type this post. However, it's important we know the harmful actions he began so we can try to correct them when sanity is restored to our federal government someday.
"The cruelty is the point." We are concentrating people who are different than us in camps and denying them services. You've likely seen in the past few days that our own government is arguing "we" should not have to provide hygiene products like soap or toothbrushes to impoverished, desperate children. This too: