Most people think that one of Trump's most important pledges during the 2016 campaign was to "Drain the swamp." But he didn't even launch that phrase until Oct. 18, 2016, just a couple of weeks before the election.
How was the most corrupt administration of all time assembled? They drained the swamp — into the White House.
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.
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.
Trump’s administration will propose a rule that would allow homeless shelters to deny transgender people equal access. This combined with allowing denial of healthcare services to transgender individuals, which we will be adding to the Smart Dissent database next week, mean that Trump and Republicans have UNDONE EVERY TRANSGENDER PROTECTION PUT IN PLACE BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMIN.
For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 and we're wrapping up our Series by posting exclusively about it this week.
In today's Budget Cut Series we're talking about Trump again attempting to gut the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative before changing his mind when someone told him he's an idiot.
The one thing, literally the one thing, Trump has ever said that made a single ounce of sense was that prescription drug prices are too high. Of course, he has no idea what to do about that and the Republicans surrounding him have zero interest in lowering prices. In fact, they are former execs from drug companies and healthcare lobbyists who have worked to maintain the power of the drug industry.
For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.
In today's Budget Cut Series we're sharing that Trump's 2020 budget ends a ban on dumping in Lake Erie. Happy Earth Day!
Another Swamp Alert for you all. This is becoming an unintentional series for Smart Dissent. There's just so many it's impossible to keep up but we try to share a few so here you go. Repeat after us: Regulations Protect Us.
As he moved through the FAA's ranks, the now-acting FAA chief Dan Elwell exchanged emails with lobbyists and other industry players discussing everything from reversing consumer protections to airport privatization.
Healthier school lunch nutrition standards were one of Michelle Obama's signature programs.
Two years ago in May 2017, we posted that Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) Sonny Perdue set his sights on school lunches, postponing rules to make school lunches healthier.
In every aspect of life, there are complex decisions with a multitude of factors to consider and difficult choices to be made. Conversely, there are those that the dumbest person you've ever met can understand and make the correct decision. Except Republicans in 2019 are so corrupt, they go ahead anyway either figuring we are stupid or not paying attention.