“Homelessness is a policy failure,” said one ACLU leader. “Weaponizing federal funding to fuel cruel and ineffective approaches to homelessness won’t solve this crisis.” Advocates for mental health and unhoused people blasted U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday over his executive order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” Trump’s order directs U.S. Attorney General Pam […]
“Many of our participants are living on the edge of poverty,” said the head of one organization impacted by the termination of the Senior Community Service Employment Program. The Trump administration has reportedly terminated the Department of Labor’s only job training program for low-income seniors, a decision that came as older Americans braced for new […]
“I am convinced that the DOJ ignored evidence found in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Epstein file,” wrote Sen. Ron Wyden. A Democratic senator on Wednesday sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi outlining potentially explosive financial reports that could detail the funding of the sex-trafficking ring run by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. […]
“This action is not only morally indefensible, but also wasteful, strategically shortsighted, and completely counter to the entirety of your work while in the Senate.” More than 50 congressional Democrats on Friday condemned U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decision to withhold and destroy nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food aid for Afghanistan and […]