Greenlanders are giving the administration of President Donald Trump—who renewed threats to take the Danish territory—the cold shoulder. U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Second Lady Usha Vance, and two top Trump administration officials traveled to Greenland on Friday on an itinerary that was markedly curtailed from its original plans due to Greenlanders’ frosty reception amid […]
“We are seeing the rise of an oligarchy… And yet here we are talking about dismantling the estate tax, the one tax at the federal level that actually slows this concentration of wealth and power,” said one expert. Americans for Tax Fairness has crunched the numbers and found that a Republican push to do away […]
As the Social Security Administration prepared to cut phone services for beneficiaries, the acting administrator admitted: “The reason that we’re on this timeline is because we received a request from the White House.” The Trump administration’s massive cuts to the agency that oversees Social Security benefits that are the primary source of income for 40% […]
“Social Security needs a commissioner whose loyalty is to beneficiaries, not Elon Musk,” said one advocate. As Democrats on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee grilled financial services executive Frank Bisignano at his confirmation hearing to oversee Social Security on Tuesday, a progressive think tank reported that the Trump administration’s cuts to the popular program have […]