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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Did the current administration waste so much money that now their immigration services need a bailout? It sure does look like it.

The immigration agency admonishing immigrants to pull themselves up by their bootstraps seems to have destroyed its own boots.  For three years, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — the federal agency that processes visas, work permits and naturalizations — has lectured immigrants about how they should become more self-sufficient. It has alleged, without evidence, that too many immigrants are on the dole. 


Tuesday, June 23, 2020

This is the real looting, right in front of us.   The American people deserve to know how their money is being spent.  We need full transparency.  Elected officials and the citizens resisted firmly on this and late last week, we won.... for now.

The U.S. has spent more than half of $3 trillion in economic rescue funds passed by Congress -- with little of the oversight intended to ensure the money goes to the right places.


Monday, June 22, 2020

In Janaury 2019, Smart Dissent wrote about former Senator and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions's last act as AG in which ue drastically limited the ability of federal law enforcement officials to use court-enforced agreements to overhaul local police departments accused of abuses and civil rights violations.  


Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The acting USAID administrator John Barsa is a disgrace to the agency.  Two recent appointees by Barsa are hateful people who have no place in a government agency.

A new Trump appointee to the United States’ foreign aid agency - Merritt Corrigan, who recently took up a position as deputy White House liaison at the U.S. Agency for International Development - has a history of online posts denouncing liberal democracy and has said that the country is in the clutches of a “homo-empire” that pushes a “tyrannical LGBT agenda.”


Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Trump swamp creature David Bernhardt is at it again, destroying our Department of Interior that he leads despite hating its existence.  You likely don't know his name and that's because he's very good at destroying the United States quietly without the prior scandals of swamp creatures like Ryan Zinke and Scott Pruitt.  The United States rapid decline into a totalitarian nation under Trump continues.


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