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....new internal emails from the US Department of Agriculture show big food industry lobbyists are working hand-in-glove with agency staffers.... top USDA political appointees -- former lobbyists themselves -- are in frequent contact with their old employers and others who are lobbying the agency, and...those lobbyists are seeking to influence the agency on issues large and small.
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Since Jeff Sessions became Attorney General, the question has not been 'if' but 'when' he would take action to enforce Federal laws contradicted by legalized recreational marijuana use laws in eight states and Washington DC. Smart Dissent reported on this back in February 2017.
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Sometimes Republicans give away the entire game without realizing it. OUR Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), designed to protect us, is doing just the opposite. Want proof?
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Trump said he's eliminating a pay raise for civilian federal employees slated for 2019 in order to "put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course." He and Republicans fell all over themselves to give trillions of dollars of tax cuts to the wealthy and to big businesses, and they want to give them even more. But when it comes to working people, retirees, and the disabled, suddenly deficits matter again.
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THEY ARE COMING FOR AMERICANS.
The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown on their citizenship.
Cases identified by The Washington Post and interviews with immigration attorneys suggest a dramatic shift in both passport issuance and immigration enforcement.
For example, an American citizen and Army veteran: