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To Account for the Wall: Why States Are Suing Trump
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WASHINGTON - February 21, 2019 A coalition of sixteen US states has filed a lawsuit against Trump's administration over his declaration of a national emergency to unlock funds for the US-Mexico border wall. The Congress refused to finance the Trump project, so he resorted to a state of emergency. Congress later granted him $1.375 billion for the barrier construction--less than a quarter of the $5.7 billion he requested. Trump's declaration, under the National Emergencies Act, aims to allow him to take some $6.1 billion from Title 10 funding for the armed forces. This wo...
President Trump’s Inadequate Speech to the Venezuelan Military
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Despite his overweening hubris, the American President Donald J. Trump has never known what it is to be a soldier or come from poverty and enter the ranks as a common soldier, and therefore he knows nothing about war, governance, or the harsher essences of existence. Never was this as apparent as on February 18, when the USA's obese Chief Executive, who could not run across a battlefield with a rifle in his hands if his life depended on it, issued a bizarre ultimatum to the Venezuelan military commanders and their troops to cross over and join the reactionary — and shall...
February 18: First of fourteen shots in the Teapot series is detonated, the Wah Mee massacre, and other events of the date
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A number of important events have taken place on February 18 in U.S. history. Here is our take on the most interesting and valuable of them. 1955 – Operation Teapot: the First of fourteen shots in the Teapot series is detonated Operation Teapot was a series of fourteen nuclear test explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955. It was preceded by Operation Castle, and followed by Operation Wigwam. Wigwam was, administratively, a part of Teapot, but it is usually treated as a class of its own. The aims of the operation were to establish military...
Is the Female Factor a Real Threat to Trump in 2020?
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USA – February 16, 2019 We're still about 21 months out from the 2020 election, but the field of presidential contenders is already very crowded and we are seeing a record number of female candidates running for the U.S. president. The 2018 midterm elections, branded the Year of the Woman, were a watershed for women in politics, as more women were elected to Congress than ever before. The current Congress is also the most diverse ever, a sign of a changing electorate that could boost the candidacies of women of color. Voters who want to see a woman in the White House wi...
Migrant Families Demand $18 Million From Trump Administration
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USA – February 14, 2019 On Monday, six illegal immigrant families filed multi-million dollar claims against both the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services over last year’s family separations, saying they need the money to pay for counseling and other medical care to heal from the “torture” they say they suffered. The claims were filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The families are being represented by Arnold & Porter, the American Immigration Council, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin....
Newspaper Drops Cartoonist Who Hid “Go F*** Yourself Trump” Comment on Kids’ Coloring Page
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A Pennsylvania newspaper has discontinued a syndicated comic strip after a cartoon published Sunday included a hidden message telling President Trump to go “f— yourself.” A syndicated cartoon has been dropped from a local newspaper in Pennsylvania after a reader spotted an obscene comment made against President Donald Trump hidden in a drawing on the children’s coloring page published inside Sunday’s comics section. The sentiment was pointed out to the Butler Eagle by a reader, according to the newspaper’s publisher and general manager, Ron Vodenichar. “A reader brought...
US National Debt Exceeds $ 22 Trillion: How Trump Is Different From Obama
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WASHINGTON, DC – February 13, 2019 The US national debt has exceeded $22 trillion for the first time, just 11 months after it hit $21 trillion. Thus, since Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the national debt has grown by $2 trillion. The acceleration was particularly noticeable last year, when Trump cut taxes by $1.5 trillion, and Congress took measures to increase spending on domestic and military programs. The Congressional Budget Office predicts a deficit of $897 billion this year, which is 15% more than last year. And from 2022, the figure will exceed $1 trillio...
Trump’s Ten Biggest Fails
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USA - February 7, 2019 On February 5, President Donald Trump gave his State of the Union address in front of a joint session of Congress. It was President Trump's second State of the Union address where he laid out his agenda for his third year in office. While the theme of the address to the nation was "Choosing Greatness", President Trump has done a lot of controversial things since his 2016 election, and some of them have been scandalous. Let’s try to make our own unbiased list (not full, though) of Trump’s main fails since he entered the White House. 1. Trump decert...
“Is This Is the New Beginning?”: What We Learned From This Year’s State of the Union Address
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USA – February 6, 2019 After the end of the longest shutdown in American history, caused by the conflict between the Deep State and the President over funding the wall, President Trump’s State of the Union Address was of special interest for society. The State of the Union Address fulfills the requirement in Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution for the President to periodically "give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” In the early days the presiden...