HIS IS A BIG DEAL. THIS IS THE CORRUPTION ON AN UNIMAGINABLE LEVEL. THIS IS A CODE RED ALARM.
Trump has removed the chairman of the federal panel Congress created to oversee his administration’s management of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package — the latest action by the president to undermine the system of independent oversight of the executive.
Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, saying he no longer has confidence in him. He will be removed 30 days from now. Trump is using a global pandemic as cover to exact political revenge against the Intelligence Community Inspector General who revealed his misconduct.
Trump is firing the intelligence community inspector general whose insistence on telling lawmakers about a whistle-blower complaint about his dealings with Ukraine triggered impeachment proceedings last fall...
Republicans are consistent on following the orders of the gun and ammunition lobby. In early March 2020, the Trump administration loosened rules around small arms exports.
The Trump administration has implemented new export rules for American small arms, ammunition, and gun parts — a major victory for the American gun industry, which has lobbied for the change for more than a decade.
A federal judge on Sunday March 1, 2020, ruled that Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, was unlawfully appointed.
Nearly two years ago in July 2018, Smart Dissent posted about a new task force under US Citizenship and Immigration Services to revoke citizenship - click our post here.
In October 2019, Smart Dissent posted that the task force was well underway, well-funded, and going after Americans - click our post here.
Trump is threatening 25% tariffs on European autos, supposedly to protect national security. He has NO RIGHT to impose tariffs as that is up to Congress. This is a clear abuse of presidential power. It gets worse: the Republican administration won't release the report supposedly justifying its actions:
The Trump regime is considering adding seven more countries to its travel ban, the majority again will be Muslim. Trump is doubling down on his bigotry and xenophobia.
The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries...
A document outlining the plans — timed to coincide with the third anniversary of Trump’s January 2017 executive order — has been circulating the White House. But the countries that would be affected if it moves forward are blacked out...
The United States asylum policy is to demand children sleep on the streets in Mexico in encampments while tricking them because they're never going to give them asylum. This is pure evil trickery happening on our watch with little awareness and outrage.
Trump is working to deport young people despite promising to protect them, and before the Supreme Court rules. This monstrous action cannot move forward.
In an escalation of its pursuit of undocumented immigrants, the Trump administration is moving to deport members of the very group that seemed until a few years ago the most protected: DACA recipients.
Someone in the U.S. Senate cut the words “white nationalists” from a measure in the defense authorization - after the House passed it. As the measure’s purpose is keeping white nationalists out of the military, we should know who in the Senate wants them in.