On Infrastructure: Trumpspeak is Cheap … and Empty

EPI’s Josh Bivens and Hunter Blair find that, in addition to “enormous cuts to public investment already embedded in their overall budget plan,” Trump’s budget funds only $200 billion of the $1 trillion he pledged for new infrastructure—leaving state taxpayers and infrastructure

House Democrats Call for Outside, Independent Commission to Investigate Trump-Russia Ties

Dear Democratic Colleague, It has been reported that days before President Trump fired Comey, the FBI Director had asked for more resources for the Russian investigation.  Given Director Comey’s confirmation of the Trump-Russia inquiry, the President’s actions raise questions about whether this

Udall, Democratic Senators Condemn Trump Executive Order Threatening National Monuments

Senators to Trump: ‘These monuments have been built upon the support of local communities and are economic drivers across the United States’ Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall led a group of 31 Democratic senators in condemning President Trump’s executive order which threatens

Falsehoods and Incoherence

If there’s one thing we can say about Trump’s presidency, it’s that it foments lies – blatant, continuous, and unsubstantiated lies.  Advance forward through his first 100 days, and his most recent AP interview and here are 16 falsehoods he perpetrated on

‘Sheer Reckless Folly’: Trump Destroys Obama-Era Climate Rules

“Aside from provoking a large-scale nuclear war, it is hard to imagine an American president taking an action more harmful to the U.S. than Trump’s effort to accelerate greenhouse gas emissions” — by Nika Knight, staff writer at CommonDreams President Donald Trump