“This facility echoes some of our nation’s darkest history,” said a civil liberties advocate. Civil liberties advocates expressed horror on Tuesday after President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a joint press event at a massive new detention facility in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The facility was first announced last month when Republican Florida […]
“We’re not going to let Trump and RFK Jr. dismantle our nation’s health systems to promote conspiracy theories and tax breaks for billionaires,” said Connecticut Attorney General William Tong. A federal judge on Tuesday blocked planned mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services while declaring that the firings were likely unlawful. Judge Melissa DuBose […]
Artificial intelligence systems, the four senators argue, “represent a troubling pattern that if continued, would significantly impede Americans’ ability” to access their benefits. Four U.S. senators—three Democrats and Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders—demanded answers Tuesday from the Trump administration about its “reckless rollout” of artificial intelligence chatbot technology into phone systems “that have blocked people from […]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the deciding vote to pass Republicans’ massive social safety net cuts through the Senate. She said she didn’t like the bill, but voted for it anyway after getting Alaska exempted from some of its worst harms. By the thinnest possible margin, the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to pass a budget that includes the […]