An email went out to the federal workforce Tuesday evening, offering federal employees up to eight months pay to resign.
WASHINGTON — President Trump is ordering a freeze on federal aid. A White House internal memo reportedly said the temporary pause will go into effect at 5 p.m. Eastern and allow for agency programs to be reviewed. The freeze will not impact Social Security, Medicare or direct payments to individuals. “The use of Federal resources […]
Civil rights leaders and justice organizations gathered at the Demand Diversity Roundtable to address Trump rolling back DEI programs.
Justice Department released its report on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of 2020 presidential election in early January.
Today is tax day, and millions of Americans will have to show the government everything: their salaries and social security numbers, their expenses and their benefits, their profits and their losses. It’s like Uncle Sam is a peeping Tom, and he is every room in your house. And we gotta let him see it all, […]
Solomon Jones’ BIG THREE: White House Messaging Falls In Line With Trump’s Sanctuary Cities Proposal
President Donald Trump’s proposal to release detained undocumented immigrants into so-called sanctuary cities, categorically dismissed by the administration days ago, inched closer to reality on Sunday, with White House officials confirming that the controversial plan was back under consideration and urging immediate action in response to a surge of Central American migrants at the southern […]
Barack Obama don’t say much these days. He’s too busy chilling with Michelle, going on vacation, and trying to figure out how we voted in a reality star who rose to fame by telling folks—you’re fired. Over the last two years, Donald Trump has turned the White House into a real-life version of The Apprentice. […]
Solomon Jones’ BIG THREE: DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s Ouster Exposes Trump’s Immigration Crisis
The forced resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is not just the usual story of an administration racked by chaos and the short shelf life of almost everyone who works for an imperious and grudge-bearing President. Nielsen was hardly a moderate out of step with President Donald Trump on his signature issue of immigration. […]
With all that’s going on in the world—from climate change to wanton violence and political turmoil—I simply don’t have the energy to watch Saturday Night Live. But President Donald Trump, who apparently has much more free time than most of us, is a regular viewer and critic of the show. How else to explain Trump’s […]
Solomon Jones’ Big Three: Senate Rejects Trump’s Border Emergency Declaration, Setting Up First Veto
A dozen Republicans joined Senate Democrats on Thursday to overturn President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southwestern border, arguing that the president had exceeded his powers in trying to build a border wall over Congress’s objections. The 59-to-41 vote on a measure already approved by the House set up the first veto […]
Beto O’Rourke announced Thursday he is running for president, entering the 2020 race with a call for Americans to look past their differences in order to confront the challenges facing the country. “This is a defining moment of truth for this country and for every single one of us,” the 46-year-old Democratic former congressman from […]
President Donald Trump called on Monday for spending more U.S. taxpayer money on the military and a U.S.-Mexico border wall, while overhauling social safety-net programs in a budget plan likely to die in Congress but live on in his 2020 re-election campaign. Like past presidential budget proposals, Trump’s plan was highly unlikely to become law. […]
