“ICE shows up, and nothing but chaos.” Less than a week after Republicans in Congress passed $70 billion in new funding for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, an immigration agent reportedly shot at a fleeing vehicle in New Jersey on Monday. According to the police department of Stafford Township, Immigration and Customs Enforcement “was attempting to apprehend a suspect when […]
“The money that Trump wants to burn on war should instead be spent on the needs of the American people, including restoring funding for healthcare, food, housing, and climate action,” said one critic. Republicans in both houses of Congress voted Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s request for record-high US military funding for 2027, prompting rebuke from […]
“The result,” said the author of a new Public Citizen analysis, “is a self-reinforcing loop where corporate cash buys policy, and policy pays cash back.” Eighty-eight corporations that paid no federal income tax last year spent roughly $852 million on US campaign contributions and lobbying during recent election cycles, a report published Thursday revealed. […]
“There you have it: President Trump loves that you’re paying higher prices,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. US President Donald Trump’s remarks Wednesday expressing “love” for new inflation figures were seen as yet another callous dismissal of the economic pain facing the nation’s working class as price hikes driven by the Iran war erase wage gains and make it […]