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A secret trove of documents were revealed Thursday showing that the Trump administration added a citizenship question to the 2020 census as part of a right-wing plan to change how voting districts are drawn in the United States—a plan hatched to benefit “non-Hispanic whites.”
A major Republican redistricting strategist played a role in the Trump administration's push to get a citizenship question on forms for the 2020 census.
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The evil and hate is the point. Let's not mince words. This is a government of Republicans who are attempting to discriminate against everyone except non-white males.
Trump administration officials are working on a new rule that... could blow up the nondiscrimination protections of the Affordable Care Act for LGBTQ individuals and make it easier for hospitals, physicians or insurers to deny care or coverage to transgender people for religious reasons.
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This is a very big deal that must not be lost amidst all else going on. The pain caused by their evil is their goal.
The Trump administration hastaken a step toward changing the way the poverty threshold is calculated, a move that could strip many low-income Americans of their federal benefits.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, written about dozens of times at Smart Dissent including last week, is at it again. CFPB and the Department of Education are supposed to protect students from loan companies that break the law. But Republicans like Betsy DeVos is running the Education Department, giving student loan companies the green light to ignore regulators’ oversight.
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Two weeks ago, House Democrats continued to work For The People by passing legislation to undo the Trump Administration’s sabotage of the consumer protections created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms.
The House passed the Consumers First Act, which reverses the Trump admin's efforts to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and restores the ability of the CFPB to protect American consumers who purchase financial products, such as home mortgages, auto loans, student loans, and retirement plans.