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Keith Sonderling's nomination for Labor Secretary was just advanced to the full Senate. As acting Secretary of Labor, Sonderling has weaponized the department against blue states. Here is a snapshot of the man to whom Congress could give a rubber stamp. talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/5...
5 Points on Trump’s Loyal Labor Secretary NomineeKeith Sonderling has been acting Secretary of Labor since ex-secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer...talkingpointsmemo.comTwo influential Senate Democrats are pushing back on the nearly unfathomable idea that a company owned by the sitting U.S. president can sell Wall Street early access to that president’s thoughts and actions. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senator...
Senators Urge SEC to Investigate Truth Social Plan to Sell Access to Wall StreetTwo influential Senate Democrats are pushing back on the nearly unfathomable idea...talkingpointsmemo.comThe Fed voted to hold rates as expected. But the vote was split: 3 voting members wanted a rate hike, including Neel Kashkari, a Republican central banker who has defended Fed independence against Trump's attacks www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
www.federalreserve.govLike other aspects of signature Trump administration policies, the stated reasons behind the administration’s freshest round of tariffs smell like a sham, a former trade official and international trade policy expert told TPM. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s New ‘Forced Labor’ Tariffs Were Set Under Sham PretensesPresident Donald Trump has made clear from very early in his second...talkingpointsmemo.comActing Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling has weaponized the Department of Labor for Trump's retribution campaign against blue states talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/5...
5 Points on Trump’s Loyal Labor Secretary NomineeKeith Sonderling has been acting Secretary of Labor since ex-secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer...talkingpointsmemo.comICYMI: Last August, Trump ordered his admin to make a "new" census that excluded undocumented immigrants. Now, it appears the Census Bureau is on the way to do just that by adding an 'unprecedented' question about immigration status, in addition to a citizenship question
Trump Administration May Add Immigration Status Question on Census to Influence Apportionment, Experts WarnPresident Donald Trump may have learned from his last go at manipulating...talkingpointsmemo.comA federal prosecutor who marched to the Capitol on Jan. 6 was appointed this year to run a national task force targeting alleged left-wing political violence. New from @joshkovensky.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like...talkingpointsmemo.comCBP is still paying out tariffs refunds. According to a new court filing, CBP has sent $86 billion to Treasury for refunds, more than half of the $166 billion importers are owed. The biggest reasons for failed refunds are company administrative errors www.courtlistener.com/docket/72034...
Long, wonky read but worth it. A new Census Bureau policy altering privacy protections comes straight out of policy pushed by Russell Vought's think tank and a law suit backed by Stephen Miller's America First Legal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/right-w...
Right-Wing Groups Just Got a Big Win on the CensusA new Trump administration prohibition on privacy protections at the Census Bureau...talkingpointsmemo.comHelp @talkingpointsmemo.com keep good, unique political reporting free and accessible by supporting our annual Journalism Fund drive! TPM is reader supported and exactly 0 billionaires have any say in what we publish and how we publish it. Give here: accounts.talkingpointsmemo.com/contribute?u...
TPM: Talking Points Memo - AccountsTPM: Talking Points Memo - Accountsaccounts.talkingpointsmemo.comNot long after SCOTUS ruled to protect Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook against Trump's attempts to remove her without due process, the president all but vowed to try and fire her again talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...
SCOTUS’ Narrow Protection of the Fed Means Cook, and Fed Independence, Still at RiskEven though the Supreme Court ruled Monday, in Cook v. Trump, that...talkingpointsmemo.comThe government seems to be walking back a plan to collect better race and ethnicity stats that has been targeted by Russ Vought's conservative think tank as "woke... neo-Marxist ideologies.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/census-...
Census Bureau Quietly Scraps Plan for Improved Data Collection on Race and EthnicityThe Census Bureau is walking back plans to unveil a new, more...talkingpointsmemo.comTrump said back in March that he would torpedo the bipartisan housing affordability law if it passed, unless legislators passed the deeply controversial SAVE America Act. Today, he's following through on that promise: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-s...
Trump Says He’s Concerned About Housing Access. His Policies Are Making it Worse.It would be unjust to say the U.S. real-estate-mogul-in-chief created today’s housing...talkingpointsmemo.comICYMI, Georgia's next Senator could be a congressman who posts violent far right memes and whose chief of staff worked to free a known Holocaust denier from jail talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
Trump Endorses Ossoff Challenger Who Is Extreme Even by MAGA StandardsThere’s a particular genre of Georgia political reporting with which Americans nationwide...talkingpointsmemo.comKevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting went how economists and policy experts expected it would. The Fed held rates and the decision was unanimous. Warsh slimmed down communication about the board's decision and opted against issuing forward guidance. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Heads to First Rate Decision Under a Cloud of Distrust About His IndependenceThroughout his confirmation hearing, Democrats didn’t trust that President Donald Trump’s new...talkingpointsmemo.com(obvious) this is an extremely unserious administration I just...
Ken VogelSCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.