“Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is all risk with no reward,” said one advocate. Wildlife protection groups and Indigenous leaders in Alaska said Monday that they would push to discourage bidding in an oil and gas lease sale just announced by the U.S. Interior Department for part of the Arctc National […]
“The Constitution provides no impoundment power to the president to unilaterally withhold funds appropriated by Congress,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro. The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee warned Friday that President-elect Donald Trump is planning to “steal from the programs and services that affect middle-class, working, and vulnerable families” by refusing to spend money appropriated by Congress. Rep. […]
The nomination of Billy Long, said one lawmaker, indicates “Trump’s intention to make the agency less responsive to the American people, while giving a green light to wealthy tax cheats.” U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Internal Revenue Service, former Rep. Billy Long, didn’t serve on the House committee tasked with writing tax […]
The comparisons between Mussolini’s declaration of dictatorship in 1925 and Trump’s re-election are striking. In June 1924, Benito Mussolini—the Prime Minister of a tottering Liberal Italy—ordered the assassination of a left-wing Member of Parliament, Giacomo Matteotti. When Matteotti’s body was discovered two months later in a wooded area north of Rome, political rumors and controversies […]