The nomination of Billy Long, said one lawmaker, indicates “Trump’s intention to make the agency less responsive to the American people, while giving a green light to wealthy tax cheats.” U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Internal Revenue Service, former Rep. Billy Long, didn’t serve on the House committee tasked with writing tax […]
The comparisons between Mussolini’s declaration of dictatorship in 1925 and Trump’s re-election are striking. In June 1924, Benito Mussolini—the Prime Minister of a tottering Liberal Italy—ordered the assassination of a left-wing Member of Parliament, Giacomo Matteotti. When Matteotti’s body was discovered two months later in a wooded area north of Rome, political rumors and controversies […]
“If you’re trying to ram through nominees without Senate and public scrutiny, it’s a pretty good guess that you have something to hide.” Dozens of civil rights and pro-democracy organizations teamed up Wednesday to express opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s push to use recess appointments to evade the Senate confirmation process for his political nominees, […]
“Trump paid plenty of lip service to working-class Americans, but as president-elect, he’s moved quickly to stack his administration with billionaires that share his vision of a rigged economy that only works for people like them.” Since winning the presidential election earlier this month, Donald Trump has wasted no time working to fill his incoming administration with […]