Economy

Mnuchin Sabotages Americans By Eliminating $455,000,000,000 of CARES Act Funds

Sabotage, pure and simple.

$455,000,000,000 that could be spent easily to help the US, which is clearly suffering greatly from COVID, might not be, as Republicans rediscover their love of deficit reduction in or around January 20th.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will put $455 billion in unspent CARES Act funding into an account that.... Janet Yellen, will need authorization from Congress to use.

Trump’s Labor Secretary, Son of Antonin Scalia, Is a Wrecking Ball Aimed at Workers

This administration has never been about the people, safety, employees rights to even be able to go to work secure knowing that they will work in a safe environment. Profit always above lives.

Last September, Scalia became the Secretary of Labor. The son of the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia.... Like many other Cabinet officials in the Trump Administration, Scalia had credentials that suggested an antagonism toward the agency he was appointed to run.

Judge Strikes Down Trump Plan To End Food Stamps For 700,000 Unemployed Americans

The Trump Administration’s cruel rule to take food assistance away from hundreds of thousands of Americans was scheduled to go into effect on April 1, 2020.  A court injunction in late March halted it temporarily as reported by Smart Dissent here

Now in mid-October 2020, a Federal judge just blocked the effort entirely, calling it “arbitrary and capricious.”

Republican Labor Dept Attacks Microsoft For Its Goal To Double Black Leaders in Company

Private company: "We are going to work hard to encourage more diversity."

Republican government: "We think you are harming the majority white people and we will use big government to attack you."

Microsoft in June said it plans to increase the number of Black and African-American leaders within the company by devoting an additional $150 million to diversity and inclusion efforts.

Corruption: Trump Cuts COVID-19 Funding to All States Except Texas and Florida

Trump plays favorites with governors that are loyal to him by rewarding them with our taxpayer dollars.  The rot of corruption is endless.

Trump agreed to continue paying for the full cost of National Guard troops deployed to help with the coronavirus response in just two states -- Texas and Florida -- after their Republican governors appealed directly to him.

Trump Is Helping Companies Use COVID to Strip Workers' Rights

If you think for one minute that Trump or Republicans gives one damn about working class people, read below and then vote.

On April 28th, forty-eight hours after Tyson Foods, the world’s second-largest meat company, ran a full-page ad in several newspapers warning that “the food supply chain is breaking,” Trump issued an executive order defining slaughterhouse workers as essential.  The executive order commanded meat-processing facilities to “continue operations uninterrupted to the extent possible.”

Trump Financial Regulator Ends Discrimination Probes Into Redlining By Banks

Redlining: If you’re not sure of what it is, google it. One of the many ways that racism and discrimination still exist.

Since Trump took office, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has quietly shelved at least six investigations of discrimination and redlining....  The OCC has historically prioritized the well-being of banks over bank customers, said current and former examiners, but the balance has shifted even further under the Trump administration.

Trump Freezes Green Cards and Work Visas For Best and Brightest

The administration continues to use the pandemic to advance Trump’s and Stephen Miller’s long-standing anti-immigrant, white nationalist agenda. Shameful.

Trump on Monday [6/22/20] extended a freeze on green cards for new immigrants and signed an executive order to suspend new H-1B, L-1, J and other temporary work visas for skilled workers, managers and au pairs through the end of the year.

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