“Elon Musk, who NO ONE VOTED FOR, wants to mess with our earned benefits,” said one advocacy group. “Hell no.” President Donald Trump has claimed the spending cuts he proposes won’t impact Medicare and Social Security, but new reporting on the sudden departure of the U.S. Treasury Department’s highest-ranking career official after a dispute over the payment systems that distribute those […]
One controller was doing the work of two people at the long-understaffed tower in the Washington, D.C. area. A preliminary report on Wednesday night’s crash involving a American Airlines commercial flight and a military helicopter revealed that the air traffic control tower in the vicinity of the accident was not staffed at “normal” levels, with just one […]
“The problem is that Kennedy isn’t ‘anti-establishment’ in any way that would actually help working-class people at the expense of wealthy plutocrats.” Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to direct federal health policy, faced the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday having made a name for himself as a public figure bent […]
Scott Bessent’s “3-3-3” agenda “requires brutal cuts to health and nutrition and higher costs for families at the grocery store,” said analysts at the Center for American Progress. At his confirmation hearing on Thursday, hedge fund manager and U.S. treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent told the Senate Finance Committee that at the helm of the […]
