Missed warnings & opportunities The Trump administration delayed a CDC warning about travel from Europe early in the pandemic… About 66,000 European travelers were streaming into American airports every day during the week-long delay. CDC officials say their agency’s efforts to mount a coordinated response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been hamstrung by […]
May 9, 2020 5:55 pm
On Tuesday, May 12th, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear the following cases relating to investigations of President Donald Trump’s finances: Trump v. Deutsche Bank, A.G.: a case about the subpoena issued by the House Intelligence and Financial Services Committees to Trump’s biggest lender, Deutsche Bank, for […]
May 8, 2020 1:06 pm
Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the most consequential separation-of-powers case since President Nixon went to battle with Congress over the Watergate Tapes. The Court will meet via teleconference on the morning of May 12 to hear Trump v. Deutsche Bank A.G. and Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP, […]
The lost months The WHO was prepared Contradicting Trump’s recent criticism of the World Health Organization (WHO) – saying they “minimized the threat” and “could have called it months earlier” – the Washington Post reported that Americans working with WHO provided real-time information about the virus when it first emerged last year: More than […]
New guidelines proposed by the Trump administration require all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients who are aged 18 to 49, able bodied, and without dependents to work a minimum 20 hours a week in order to maintain consistent access to the programs benefits. If work requirements aren’t met, […]
March 10, 2020 6:44 am
The Trump administration is under fire for its slow, sometimes incompetent, response to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus, “SARS-CoV-2”, which causes a disease named COVID-19. Though COVID-19 was first recognized in China in December 2019, President Trump’s priorities in the three years leading up to the outbreak put the […]
On July 13 of 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy III died by suicide from carbon monoxide poisoning. Nearly 3 years after his death, Roy’s girlfriend Michelle Carter was convicted for involuntary manslaughter after incriminating text messages and phone calls between the two showed Carter encouraging Roy to commit suicide. Some of […]
January 27, 2020 11:56 am
For the past three years, I’ve been keeping track of employee turnover in the Trump administration using a spreadsheet and an eagle eye on the latest news. While many media outlets have reported on this administration’s high turnover, there has not been a comprehensive list of every detail of every […]
