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A network of right-leaning individuals and groups....has helped incubate the fervor erupting in state capitals across the country.... being amplified, and in some cases coordinated, by longtime conservative activists, whose robust operations were initially set up with help from Republican megadonors.
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Trump and coal-lobbyist-turned-EPA-administrator Andrew Wheeler are using this crisis as a cover to roll back environmental laws.
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Predatory, for-profit schools owned by Wall Street are poised to reap enormous amounts of the COVID-19 bailout funds for education. Millions of taxpayer dollars going to schools who are under active investigation by the Department Justice.
Dozens of for-profit colleges that are among those most likely to benefit from stimulus funding face thousands of claims from students demanding their money back because they say they were defrauded.
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Another inexcusable proposal by the Trump administration. Maybe our title saying "shockingly" is wrong because what's shocking about Republicans seeking to harm people?
New White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to see how to reduce wage rates for foreign guest workers on American farms, in order to help U.S. farmers struggling during the coronavirus...
U.S farmers who say they are struggling... the industry was already hurting because of Trump's tariff war with China.
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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.