Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney Just Said You’ll “Never” See Trump’s Taxes
Hayne Palmour Iv/San Diego Union-Tribune via ZUMA White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that Democrats will “never” see President Donald Trump’s tax returns, arguing that Trump’s election was proof that the American people didn’t care. Last week, Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), chair of the House Ways & Means Committee, wrote a…
Critics of the Green New Deal Rail Against Socialism. We’ve Seen This Before.
NurPhoto/Getty Images This story was originally published by High Country News and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Green New Deal and its proponents aim to tackle the intertwined issues of social and environmental justice in our age of anthropogenic climate change. To accomplish this, they believe they must deploy the federal government, since it…
Trump Was Greeted at Las Vegas’s Airport by Disgraced Casino Owner Steve Wynn
AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta When President Donald Trump exited Air Force One at the start of his Saturday trip to Las Vegas, he was greeted on the tarmac by former casino executive Steve Wynn, a longtime business rival and friend who was a major fundraiser for the president during the 2016 campaign. Wynn has kept a…
Trump Meets with Megadonor Sheldon Adelson and the Republican Jewish Coalition
Trump smiles and points at Sheldon Adelson before his speech. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump appeared in Nevada on Saturday afternoon, addressing the conservative Republican Jewish Coalition, where he mocked Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, one of the first two female Muslim Americans to…
Stephen Colbert Hits Trump Where It Hurts—His E-Score
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week the New York Times released some new polling data on President Trump, but as Stephen Colbert discovered while combing through it, it’s not the top line approval numbers that are likely to get under Donald Trump’s skin most—it’s his E-score. That’s a…
Rep. Ilhan Omar Keeps Getting Death Threats
Douglas Christian/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, federal court filings revealed that a New York man, Patrick W. Carlineo, had been arrested and charged with threatening to assault and murder Representative Ilhan Omar. The Democratic congresswoman, who represents a Minneapolis-based district, was first elected to Congress in 2018,…