“Trump and his billionaire Cabinet have their priorities backwards. Instead of focusing on lower costs and higher wages, they’re only trying to line their own pockets while breaking promises to working families,” said one critic. Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for treasury secretary, indicated during his confirmation hearing […]
“Alito claims it was to help a former clerk get a job,” wrote one legal commentator. “Doesn’t matter. Federal law requires Alito now be DISQUALIFIED from the Trump stay petition.” Following the revelation that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had a private phone call with Trump the day before Trump’s legal team petitioned the Supreme […]
“Welcome to the Elon Musk presidency,” wrote Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia. Congress is careening toward a government shutdown after U.S. President-elect Trump, egged on by billionaire Elon Musk—who helped bankroll Trump’s reelection campaign and is slated to help oversee cuts to government spending and regulation in the new administration—torpedoed a federal spending bill that would have kept the government […]
“Summer can be the hungriest time for children,” said one anti-hunger advocate. A dozen states are poised to walk away from a combined $1.14 billion in federal funding that would help alleviate hunger for nearly 10 million children next summer, according to Food Research & Action Center, or FRAC, a nonprofit that addresses poverty-related hunger. The 12 […]