Tag: politics
All the articles with the tag "politics".
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Trump's Justice Department turned Ilhan Omar's investigation into an election spectacle
A raid three weeks before an election can punish a politician even if prosecutors never win a case. Trump's Justice Department has put Ilhan Omar in exactly that position. On October 12, Homeland…
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CMS canceled 760,000 people's health coverage without accounting for its mistakes
The Trump administration said it had confirmed the enrollments were unauthorized. Now insurers say some of those people should never have lost their health coverage.
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Republicans scheduled the Medicaid paperwork trap for January
On January 1, Republicans will put a new condition between millions of low-income Americans and a doctor. Adults covered through Medicaid expansion will have to show that they worked, studied,…
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Trump reopened Putin's diesel trade to fix prices his own war drove up
Three weeks separated Trump's signature on a new Russia sanctions law from his decision to reopen the American market to Russian diesel. On September 18, Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham…
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ICE held people in a warehouse under a court-ordered conversion freeze
On September 4, masked immigration agents swept through Dover, New Jersey, and cornered a 59-year-old worker against a wall. His daughter recognized him in a video while getting her children ready…
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The Justice Department is treating citizenship revocation like a numbers game
The Justice Department chose a revealing title for Monday's announcement: "Justice Department Moves to Strip Citizenship from 40 Criminals". "Criminals" reaches the reader before the department…
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Trump put the intelligence chief in charge of AI self-policing
On September 29, leaders from six of the country's most powerful AI companies stood at the White House and signed a one page promise to police themselves. CBS News reported that OpenAI, Anthropic,…
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Russ Vought used the calendar to erase $810 million Congress approved
Article I puts federal spending in Congress's hands. No money may be drawn from the Treasury without an appropriation made by law. Congress writes the spending law. The executive branch carries it…
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Bill Lee chose execution after Christa Pike's jury missed the worst of her childhood
The United States Supreme Court denied Christa Pike's petition and request for a stay on Tuesday. Barring another intervention, the state will execute her Wednesday morning. She would be the first…
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The White House is airing Trump's campaign ads with your tax money
There is a 30 second commercial running on television right now. It opens with a moody black and white shot of Donald Trump staring into the camera. The audio comes from one of his rally speeches:…