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On April 1, 2020, if not for a court’s injunction, the Trump Administration’s cruel rule to take food assistance away from hundreds of thousands of Americans would have gone into effect. SNAP, known for decades as "food stamps," is for families to put food on the table. Food so children don’t have to go to bed hungry. SNAP gives on average just $1.40 per meal. It lifts 8 million out of poverty. And Republicans are eviscerating it.
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Evil Betsy DeVos may attempt to advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to pull back protections for students with disabilities. Seriously. We absolutely can not allow our special education law to be waived and must protect students’ rights.
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As the coronavirus outbreak spreads across the country, leading to fears of overrun hospitals and shortages of key items in ERs, many have begun to look for help from something they didn't previously know existed: the Strategic National Stockpile.
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A new machine designed to churn out millions of masks at high speed during a pandemic was green-lit by the Obama administration.
In September 2018, the Trump administration received detailed plans for a new machine designed to churn out millions of protective respirator masks at high speed during a pandemic.
The plans, submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by the medical manufacturer O&M Halyard, were the culmination of a venture unveiled almost three years earlier by the Obama administration.
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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...