Agents of Behemoth

It sure seems like the Qatari government is using a dummy office to pay the president. Countless other foreign and American companies are also handing Trump money—sometimes without even knowing it—creating the most tangled web of ethical pitfalls the White House has ever seen.

Beneficiaries of the PPP included a lettuce farming venture backed by Trump’s son, Kushner companies, and a dentist who golfs with the president. The figures were released after a lawsuit by several news organizations, including ProPublica.

That the Interior Department has now blessed oil and gas drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge comes as no surprise. It was a foregone conclusion once Lisa Murkowski, in 2017, persuaded her Senate colleagues to authorize drilling in the refuge as part of a tax bill, ending protections that have been in place since the Eisenhower administration.

This looks really bad.

This week, as the economy revealed that the U.S. GDP cratered, President Donald Trump teased putting a hold on the November election. While it is unclear if the president was attempting to distract from the economy in freefall or his falling poll numbers. 

That’s the question taxpayers should be asking as the Trump administration refuses to reveal where a half-trillion dollars of our hard-earned cash has gone.

The government has paid at least $970,000—including $340,000 since March—to Trump's company for room rentals at hotels and clubs and other expenses.

Democrats have tried to prevent Trump from receiving taxpayer money at his businesses for three years. This week, they finally scored a small victory. 

The Congressional Budget Office released an updated budget outlook, including the pandemic’s impact on the economy.

Former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney sold up to $550,000 in securities the same day that his boss declared that the “economy is doing fantastically.”

While most of the supply chain issues for food that arose at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis have been resolved, food costs for consumers are still higher than they were back in January, in some places significantly so. 

Dozens of billionaires have donated to the RNC's legal fund that is being used to fight against expanded access to mail voting.

The emerging details represent a counteroffer to Democrats, who blasted the proposal and have pushed to extend the full $600 payment.

A CBS News investigation found the man behind one of the biggest pro-Trump Super PACs tried to jump into the market for N95 masks by touting connections with American manufacturer 3M.

The government’s coronavirus response is just another example of quid pro quo.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ripped into President Donald Trump’s continued bungling of the coronavirus crisis, and begged him to use his executive powers to help contain the pandemic. The “Morning Joe” co-hosts called for him to order more ventilators, personal protective equipment and other necessary items as hundreds die every day from COVID-19 […]