“Trump’s paramilitary army of ICE agents does not belong in our airports and is not properly trained to do this work,” said one Democratic congresswoman. As Senate Republicans on Saturday voted against advancing a Democratic bill to pay Transportation Security Administration workers during talks over Department of Homeland Security funding, GOP President Donald Trump tried to pin the blame for the partial DHS shutdown […]
After Trump threatened to “obliterate” Iranian power plants, one Democratic congressman said that “his worsening instability is a clear and growing threat, not only to the American people but to the world.” Democrats in Congress sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran after he traded threats to energy infrastructure with the Iranian […]
“Sounds like Trump preparing himself an off-ramp and trying to dump the Hormuz mess on others,” said one observer. President Donald Trump on Friday continued to send contradictory messages on his plans for the US-Israeli assault on Iran, declaring that he is not interested in a ceasefire but is nevertheless considering “winding down” the three-week war, […]
One foreign policy expert noted that fears of a “mass exodus” of refugees come “as the US starves Cuba of energy and food.” As the Trump administration sows chaos with a crushing fuel blockade of Cuba, a general told Congress that the military will “set up a camp” at Guantánamo Bay to detain those who try to […]