“Freezing these EV charging funds is yet another one of the Trump administration’s unsound and illegal moves,” said one climate advocate. Climate campaigners are blasting the Trump administration’s move to halt a $5 billion initiative to build electric vehicle chargers along highways across the United States and calling on Congress to fight back against the […]
“They do not reliably increase employment, but they do kick people off essential benefits like food assistance and healthcare,” said an expert at the Economic Policy Institute. After nominees for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Cabinet this week endorsed work requirements for social safety net programs, an economic think tank released a Friday report detailing the policy’s drawbacks. […]
“Americans: We just want higher wages and lower costs. Republicans: We are going to take away your healthcare.” Some Democratic lawmakers and other critics of congressional Republicans on Friday pointed to a document obtained by Politico as just the latest evidence that the looming GOP trifecta at the federal level poses a threat to working families nationwide. “Americans: We […]
“Donald Trump will have no penalty for criminal wrongdoing, which is an affront to accountability and to a system where no one is above the law, though the judge had little alternative,” said one ethics expert. After being convicted of 34 felonies in New York last year, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday received an unconditional discharge during a sentencing hearing […]