70 days in and it’s already been pretty rough for residents of Trumpland. The “Obamacare” repeal? Couldn’t get a vote. The Muslim ban 1.0 and then 2.0? Laughed out of court. The budget? “Dead on arrival,” at least, according to Senator Lindsey
‘The Wall Street bankers against whom Trump ran are making policy now,’ says Public Citizen — by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer at Common Dreams President Donald Trump is handing the U.S. economy “back over to Wall Street” on Friday, with a regulatory
The Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule is a Rule, created by the Obama DOL, that is scheduled to be phased in April 10, 2017 – Jan. 1, 2018. In simple terms, it expands the “investment advice fiduciary” definition under the Employee Retirement Income Security
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— by Michael Phelan, Social Security Works donald trump won’t be sworn in for two weeks, but Republicans in Congress have already begun their assault on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. On the first day of the new Congress, Senator Mike Enzi
by Ralph Nader ‘Want a New Year’s resolution?’ writes Nader. ‘Stay alert.’ There’s an erratic bully on his way to the White House. All signs point to Donald Trump becoming a jawboning president without equal in American history. That is, jawboning by exerting
Since the election, Republicans have made it clear that they plan to use their unified control over government to destroy Medicare. Just before Congress left for the holidays, Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX) introduced the “Social Security Reform Act” – an impressive wish
Elections have consequences and President-Reject donald trump has nominated ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be our next U.S. Secretary of State. Picking the CEO of one of the largest and most environmentally destructive fossil fuel corporations in the world to serve as America’s
These days, the news is so unthinkable it almost seems fake … like fodder for The Onion. If only it was funny and not frightening as hell. Steve Bannon, an extreme-right, white nationalist and Breitbart publisher has been tapped for trump’s chief
In essence, United Technologies took trump hostage, he caved, and United Technologies won. And, that should send a shock wave of fear through all workers across this country. —by Nika Knight, Common Dreams staff writer President-elect donald trump has bowed to corporate
