Yet Another Person Bails on the State Department “Redesign”
Mai/Rex Shutterstock via ZUMA Like Spinal Tap drummers, the folks tapped to lead Rex Tillerson’s overhaul of the State Department just keep imploding. The latest is Maliz Beams, former CEO of Voya, who lasted only 90 days: An early leader of the overhaul was William Inglee, a former Lockheed Martin executive, who quickly moved on.…
Elizabeth Warren is Taking Her War with Donald Trump to the Streets
Ashley Dejean While two rival acting directors battled in court for legal control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, several dozen protesters gathered outside the watchdog agency’s headquarters on Tuesday afternoon to oppose the one backed by President Donald Trump. Mick Mulvaney, who was announced as interim head of the bureau by the White House…
Republican Critics of Tax Bill Vote to Send Bill to Senate Floor
President Donald Trump arrives on Capitol Hill on Tuesday with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to discuss the Senate tax bill. Tom Williams/AP On Tuesday, a Senate committee voted along party lines to send a $1.4 trillion tax cut to the Senate floor. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), two of the tax bill’s…
Tillerson: State Department Won’t Need Much Money After Trump Solves World Problems
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave a major speech today. Laura Rozen reports: Tillerson on State budget: proposed cuts reflective of expectation we are going to have success in resolving some of these conflicts. — Laura Rozen (@lrozen) November 28, 2017 As a joke, this might not have been bad. But it wasn’t a joke:…
How Do You Round Up Votes for a Republican Tax Bill? Take a Guess…
Here is your headline of the day: Of course that’s what they’re doing. How else would you round up votes from a bunch of Republicans? I’ve sort of given up on the latest batch of estimates about the effect of the tax bill. They all say the same thing: It gives big cuts to the…
Robots Are Becoming Alarmingly Strong
From the Los Angeles Times: Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have developed a variety of origami-inspired artificial muscles that can lift up to a thousand times their own weight — and yet be dexterous enough to grip and raise a delicate flower. The devices, described in the Proceedings of the…