Even in a time of unprecedented crisis, Trump and his top aides are playing favorites when awarding contracts and allocating resources. Powerful detail on Trump intervention to control supplies and contracts and hand out rewards— circumnavigating traditional contract rules.
Trump is attempting to reshape the federal workforce into one in which loyalty to the president is the most important qualification.
Loyalty over qualification is a hallmark of authoritarianism.
In a moment when the White House might need to quickly vet and appoint critically needed personnel, the Presidential Personnel Office, the department designed to perform exactly that function...has been gutted and turned into a vehicle for enforcing loyalty and carrying out vendettas.
Trump and coal-lobbyist-turned-EPA-administrator Andrew Wheeler are using this crisis as a cover to roll back environmental laws.
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.
There's zero surprise in reading the title of this post. It's right on brand for Trump and Republicans to seek to destroy the Environmental Protection Agency. The fiscal year 2021 budget proposed in February 2020 is no different.
Trump's proposed budget for fiscal 2021 calls for significant reductions to environmental programs at federal agencies, including a 26 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Trump’s budget would eliminate 50 EPA programs and impose massive cuts to research and development....
Government exists to protect its citizens, to serve them, to keep them safe. Republicans have spent decades seeking to dismantle the rules that govern our society. Now with a pandemic upon us, we face the consequences of Republican evil as they continue efforts to harm our most vulnerable.
On January 30, 2020, our Republican-led Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and FDIC agreed to let big banks invest grandma’s checking account in venture capital firms that make incredibly risky investments often with dire results. What on earth could go wrong?
The Trump Administration just released their plan to roll back NEPA, an important law to keep communities safe and companies in check when planning projects.
There's so much going on it's hard to keep up. That’s why Trump’s latest environmental attack is so dangerous. Hiding behind complicated policy, it’s a change that will affect all of our lives.
Ben Carson, somehow the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is one of many vile individuals appointed by Trump over the past three years who hate the very government department they run and work daily to destroy it. Think Pruitt / Wheeler at the EPA, Zinke at Interior, DeVos at Education, and on and on.
Again... THIS IS THE SWAMP.
The Environmental Protection Agency is pushing ahead with sweeping changes to roll back environmental regulations despite sharp criticism from a panel of scientific advisers, most of whom were appointed by Trump.