UPDATE: October 26, 2020: Senator Murkowski is a liar and now says she will confirm Amy Barret. We gave her too much credit in our original article. Senator Susan Collins of Maine did vote against the confirmation. UPDATE: September 22, 2020: “My statement was a model of clarity. … I made it very clear, yes,…

In 2016, Donald Trump promised that under his administration, “No one will gain more from tax cuts than low and middle-income Americans.” And in 2017, Congress passed the Trump-backed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, much to the delight of corporations. The law lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. It also adjusted tax…

It has been four months since House Democrats passed a second Coronavirus relief bill. Trump and Senate Republicans have been fine slow walking the process for more help for American families. But when the opportunity to pursue a nakedly hypocritical power grab comes, they act immediately. In order to mitigate ongoing economic pain caused by…

In 2016, following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel said “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.” Ignoring the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular…

On June 1st, federal police tear-gassed peaceful protestors to clear the streets for Donald Trump’s bible photo-op. Tear gas has become a commonly used crowd control device for the police but did you know tear gas is a chemical weapon banned for use in war? It was originally banned as part of the Geneva Protocol…

D.C. National Guard Maj. Adam D. DeMarco told lawmakers that defense officials were searching for crowd-control technology deemed too unpredictable to use in war zones and had authorized the transfer of about 7,000 rounds of ammunition to the D.C. Armory as protests against police use of force and racial injustice roiled Washington. That’s according to…

Red in a blue state? Trump doesn’t think you count. In a September 17 briefing, he suggested that America should exclude COVID-19 deaths in blue states from official counts, again politicizing the virus instead of acting to stop it. According to Trump, “If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level [of fatalities]…

In June, the Trump Administration declared that it would work to overturn the Affordable Care Act through the courts, a continuation of its years-long effort to dismantle the law. This move would not only strip coverage from at least 20 million Americans, it would also cost the U.S. an estimated $30 billion a year in…

With close to half a million qualified electors, Donald Trump isn’t the only person to get nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize with questionable accomplishments. Snopes pointed out several other historical figures that were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize including Joseph Stalin (1945 and 1948), Benito Mussolini (1935), Josip Broz (“Tito”) — “Controversial Yugoslav…

In a September 15th ABC Town Hall, Donald Trump repeated claims that the COVID-19 health crisis can be solved through herd immunity, claiming, “it’s going to be herd-developed, and that’s going to happen. That will all happen.” According to the Mayo Clinic, herd immunity occurs when a large enough portion of a population becomes infected…

At least seven children died in CBP custody since 2018. Some forced to travel while vomiting, denied medical attention, and held past the 72 hours allowed. The immigration policies of Trump’s Administration were implemented swiftly without planning which caused a swell of detainees, a policy of separating children from their parents – some of which…

Lawyers for the Trump Administration defended the inhumane treatment of detained children, some of which separated from their families, saying that kids did not need soap or toothbrushes to live in sanitary conditions. According to the ACLU, “Detention facilities are dangerously overcrowded, where migrants are forced to wear soiled clothes for days at a time. To…

The Trump administration announced in June that it would help try to overturn the Affordable Care Act through the courts. This move would strip coverage from an estimated 20 million people, while throwing markets into chaos, removing insurance subsidies and increasing costs for millions of Americans. Obamacare also imposed taxes on the wealthy to help…

Donald Trump has repeatedly accused his political rivals of planning to do exactly what his administration is already trying to do: dismantle healthcare protections for millions, including protections for pre-existing conditions. Trump promised an executive action on pre-existing conditions by the end of August, but has issued none. Donald Trump’s facade of defending healthcare for…

This fact first came to light in the 2016 Republican primary debates. Republican candidate and former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, accused Donald Trump of trying to take an elderly widow’s house to build a limo parking lot in Atlantic City. Trump said he never took the house. Well, that’s true, but only because he lost…

The EPA’s guidelines don’t require notification of lead found in water until it reaches 15 ppb (parts per billion). That’s 3 times 5ppb which is when lead in water can cause developmental and behavioral issues in children. If utilities discover 10 – 15 ppb in their pipes, they will have to replace it. Under the…

In an October 2016 campaign event, Donald Trump promised, “Our poorer citizens will get new jobs and higher pay and new hope for their life.” However, his administration’s policies consistently put the interests of large corporations over worker welfare. The right to overtime pay applies to most hourly and salary workers, with the exception of…

From Betsy Devos to Stephen Miller, 8 officials (passed and present) in the Trump Administration are using personal emails for official business according to a probe launched by the House Oversight Committee last summer. “DeVos was added to House Democrats’ personal email probe after “disturbing new revelations” about her personal email use from the Education…

While Donald Trump spent much of his time on the 2016 campaign trail rallying against Hillary Clinton’s email, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner used personal emails throughout much of 2017. While Ivanka Trump defended this action as a learning curve during hers and her husband’s transition to government life, one has to wonder if she…

Jared Kushner uses his personal WhatsApp account to conduct official business and even used it to discuss a proposal to “transfer U.S. nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia.” That’s according to PBS News Hour. “The dispute arose as Cummings also released information about Kushner’s use of WhatsApp and raised questions about personal email accounts used…

“Tricia Newbold, an 18-year government employee who oversees the issuance of clearances for some senior White House aides, says she compiled a list of at least 25 officials who were initially denied security clearances last year because of their backgrounds. But she says senior Trump aides overturned those decisions, moves that she said weren’t made…

CIA officers who make clearance decisions called over to the White House security division, wondering how Kushner got even a top-secret clearance. That’s according to a report from NBC News published last Spring. The report went on to say that “Kushner’s FBI background check identified questions about his family’s business, his foreign contacts, his foreign…

Trump coined the phrase, “blue-collar boom” in his 2020 State of the Union address. Unfortunately for manufacturing workers, that boom is a bust. Real wages are down over 4% since Trump took office. “That’s not what I heard!” The President loves to brag about wages going up but unfortunately, those are “nominal” wages (meaning raw…

In a September 2016 Florida rally, Donald Trump promised, “We will help the Hispanic American people who have been treated so badly, and so unfairly in our nation. We will help them. I will deliver like you’ve never seen before.” Donald Trump may like to talk about how much Hispanic people love him, but his…

In 2019, the Trump administration began dismantling restrictions “forbidding such things as killing mothers with babies, shooting swimming caribou from boats, and using dogs to hunt bears.” Nursing wolf mothers can now be killed under the new rules. Also, according to the New York Times, “In October, when black bear hunting season begins, females settling…