Trump’s fiscal pledge buried under $64 trillion debt as Republican deficits soar
President Donald Trump promised in his 2024 campaign to eliminate the national debt within eight years. “We’ll have it all paid off,” he told supporters in New Hampshire. “It won’t be hard.” On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office released figures showing the national debt on track to reach $64 trillion within a decade, propelled by…
Legal experts say local law enforcement can arrest & charge federal agents
by Andy Mannix, Melissa Sanchez, and Nicole Foy | ProPublica Minutes after a federal agent shot and killed a Mexican immigrant in a Chicago suburb last September, a group of police officers stood on the sidewalk trying to figure out the answer to a question of protocol: Who would investigate the shooting? “Wouldn’t it be…
Polluter’s power creates islands of impunity amid escalating hostility
Amid an unprecedented U.S. naval blockade against Venezuela, described by one member of Congress as “unquestionably an act of war,” a single American corporation continues to operate with undisturbed privilege. While other ships are turned away or seized, only tankers chartered by Chevron have been able to leave Venezuelan ports carrying crude oil despite the…
Abandoning science, Trump strips the EPA of power to fight climate change
Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1963 to regulate local pollution around the country, and regulators did that for decades. In 2009, the EPA decided it would treat greenhouse gases like other pollutants, based on their global damage than local. Congress needs to pass a new law, because the benefits of regulating greenhouse gases…
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