“The racism here is on steroids,” said one critic about Trump’s statements on immigrant farmworkers. President Donald Trump gave a lengthy interview to CNBC on Tuesday and critics quickly pounced on the president for telling a large number of false claims on topics ranging from monthly jobs numbers to the price of gas to international trade agreements. Toward the […]
The Coast Guard was established as the Revenue-Marine, Aug. 4, 1790, when President George Washington signed a bill drafted by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, authorizing the construction of 10 cutters that would be part of the Treasury Department. The new fleet was used to clamp down on smuggling, resulting from the high tariffs the U.S. […]
“The worst we’ve been waiting for,” wrote one legal scholar in response to an internal DHS-DoD document reportedly authored by Philip Hegseth. New reporting based on a leaked briefing memo from a recent meeting between high-level officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department sparked fresh warnings on Saturday about the Trump administration’s […]
“Trump’s definition of ‘winning’ is hitting the American people with ever-higher taxes,” said economist Dean Baker. President Donald Trump on Thursday used emergency authority to impose high tariff rates on imports from dozens of American trading partners, including Canada—a move that economists criticized as a senseless approach to global trade that will further increase costs for consumers […]