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Unfortunately, we've written about nutritional assistance several times on Smart Dissent. Otherwise known as 'food stamps,' it's been necessary to add post to our database as Republicans, including the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) Sonny Perdue, seek to harm the most vulnerable people in our society. Meanwhile, they proudly hand out corporate welfare to massive corporations and uber wealthy people.
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Trump's pick as Department of Treasury spokeperson Monica Crowley ran a blog where she spread conspiracies about Obama, suggesting he was a secret Muslim loyal to Islam & endorsing an article calling him an "Islamic community organizer" trying to conform the U.S. "to Islam and Sharia."
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A sycophant becoming the Director of National Intelligence is one of the more worrisome moves in this administration. Modern autocrats often use the intelligence institutions to attack/undermine their opponents.
Trump is consolidating his personal control over the intelligence community. Between loyalists Barr and Radcliffe, and pliant CIA and FBI directors, Trump is close to neutralizing intelligence and law enforcement as spoilers in his bid to amass unprecedented executive power.
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It’s almost as if the president of the United States is trying to protect the oil and gas industry. Actually, that’s exactly what it is.
In the biggest blow he’s dealt to the renewable energy industry yet, Trump decided on Monday [July 1, 2019] to slap tariffs on imported solar panels. The U.S. will impose duties of as much as 30 percent on solar equipment made abroad, a move that threatens to handicap a $28 billion industry that relies on parts made abroad for 80 percent of its supply.
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The most far-reaching legacy of the Trump presidency will be his success working with the Republican majority-controlled Senate in confirming large numbers of extremist right-wing federal judges, many of whom will be serving on the bench for the next 30 years or more.