Stressed, Struggling, and Suicidal: America’s Farmers Are Begging for Mental Health Services
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Farmers’ advocacy groups called on Congress Monday to reauthorize, “with adequate funding,” a program that provides mental health services to distressed American farmers and their families. “Despite the growing need,” notes a letter to House and Senate agricultural committees signed by 36 rural and farming…
FBI Raids Office of Longtime Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI raided the office and hotel room of President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday. Agents seized records related to several topics, among them Cohen’s 2016 payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actress who says…
Scott Pruitt Is Having Yet Another Scandal-Ridden Day
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, the scandals just won’t let up. The acting director of the Office of Government Ethics has written a stern letter outlining concerns over Pruitt’s seemingly endless list of controversies, warning that the American public’s trust in…
CBO Projects $1.5 Trillion Trump Tax Cut Will Cost $1.9 Trillion
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today’s CBO budget report is out, and it tells us that the Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax cut will increase the federal debt by…$1.9 trillion: This comes from Table B-3 in the report. In other words, the tax cut doesn’t pay for itself. It doesn’t even…
Pope Annoys Traditionalists With Call to Holiness
Massimo Valicchia/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pope Francis offers up some words on holiness today: 95. In the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel (vv. 31-46), Jesus expands on the Beatitude that calls the merciful blessed. If we seek the holiness pleasing to God’s eyes, this text offers…
Add Mick Mulvaney to the List of Big Spenders With Other People’s Money
Don’t worry about the taxpayers. They’re the little people. Come work for me and I’ll make you rich!Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It appears that Scott Pruitt isn’t the only conservative who rails against overpaid bureaucrats unless they’re his overpaid bureaucrats: Mick Mulvaney, President Donald…