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…
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Says He Will Cooperate with Russia Probes
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Sunday morning’s “Meet the Press,” former Cambridge Analytica staffer Christopher Wylie made a number of stunning revelations about the data mining firm hired by Trump during the 2016 election. Cambridge Analytica has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks, following media reports that the firm improperly obtained…
SNL Skewers Mark Zuckerberg Ahead of His Trip to Congress
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg heads to Washington for a marathon of hearings on Capitol Hill, following revelations that the social media giant learned more than two years ago that the data of up to 87 million of its users was obtained by political…