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Trump has started a trade war with China at the behest of a couple almost entirely unknown advisors. The impacts are negative to our economy, our business owners small and large, our consumers.... everyone.
Almost half of all Chinese imports into the U.S. are now subject to a tariff, for a total of $250 billion. China has already retaliated with tit-for-tat tariffs on billions of dollars of imported U.S.-made goods, noting earlier this month that trade officials there would not be swayed by Trump's tactics.
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Republicans' fabricated war on "illegal" immigration is a proxy for their broader mission to eliminate as much immigration as possible, specifically the legal types. Under our Immigration page you will find numerous examples of this, the most heinous of which relates to our refugee program which used to admit 100,000+ a year and should have been double or tripled but instead is being effectively eliminated.
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Every decade since 1790, as required by the Constitution, the federal government has undertaken a painstaking census of its people, the accuracy and fairness of which serves the interests of both political parties and of every citizen. The decennial count is used to apportion seats in the House of Representatives and set the boundaries of congressional districts.
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Trump administration officials and many Republicans are so lost in their bubble they sometimes say out loud exactly the evil they plan to do. It's as if their stupidity overtakes their evil for a moment and they give up their entire game plan to us. Is anyone paying attention?
A top economic adviser to Trump said on Monday [9/17/18] he expects.... there would likely be an effort in 2019 to cut spending on entitlement programs. Kudlow did not specify where future cuts would be made.
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The headline of this post is a completely accurate statement. There's hardly anything else we can say but we'll include portions of the sourced articles below.
The Department of Health and Human Services is diverting millions of dollars in funding from a number of programs, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, to pay for housing for the growing population of detained immigrant children.