The Trump administration released its plan to start oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) this winter.
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The administration calls Moncef Slaoui, who leads its vaccine race, a “contractor” to sidestep rules against personally profiting from government positions. Slaoui owns $10 million in stock of a company working with his team to develop a vaccine. 
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Call for ’emergency charity stimulus’ as billionaire wealth soars and US nonprofits sink – Raw Story
Mandating an increase of giving from charitable funds, says one advocate, “would move an estimated $200 billion off the sidelines and into front-line working charities without increasing taxes or adding to the deficit.” As billionaires have seen their collective wealth increase by nearly $700 billion...
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The emerging details represent a counteroffer to Democrats, who blasted the proposal and have pushed to extend the full $600 payment.
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First things first: Donald Trump is not going to “pivot.” Yes, on Tuesday he stood at a podium and, in stiff and sulky fashion, said words that, as written, were relatively serious and realistic. He admitted the coronavirus pandemic will “get worse before it gets better.”
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has been caught breaking House ethics rules by funneling taxpayer money to a private speech-writing consultant who also happens to be a scandal-plagued former aide to President Donald Trump.
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President Trump’s budget proposes closing a network of climate science centers, prompting concerns the administration will hamstring climate change research while booting employees from the federal workforce.
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Forty lobbyists with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than US$10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report.
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The Trump EPA wants to reapprove a dangerous herbicide and is hiding behind the COVID-19 pandemic to excuse its manufacturer from monitoring levels of the poison in Midwest lakes and streams.The Trump EPA plans to raise the concentration of atrazine, the nation’s second-most used herbicide, allowed...
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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,” said Mark Twain. Over 100 years later, Twin could never have predicted a president like Donald Trump.During his press conference Sunday, and in previous press conferences, Trump has delighted in coming to the podium to cite numbers...
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday said that he expects Americans to be able to survive for two and a half months on just $1,200, which is about $17 per day.
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German government tries to fight off aggressive takeover bid by US, say reports
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"According to According to an anonymous source quoted in the newspaper, Trump was doing everything to secure a vaccine against the coronavirus for the US, “but for the US only”." - Philip Oltermann in Berlin.
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For the second year in a row the Trump administration has proposed defunding a federal grant program that provides scholarships to Native American students.
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On Sept. 11, the New York Daily News reported that the Trump administration had been somewhat secretly siphoning off millions from the Fire Department of New York’s (FDNY) World Trade Center Health Program.
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Eastman Kodak Co. significantly increased its spending to lobby the federal government in the months before the Trump administration announced a $765 million loan to the beleaguered camera company.
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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.
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A new complaint alleges the campaign is obscuring where its funds are going.
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BuzzFeed News spoke to 17 DHS employees, who asked to remain anonymous, and decried the government's decision to send federal agents to Portland.
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CREW has revealed 24 instances in which changes to federal rules and regulations under the Trump administration may benefit his businesses.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Friday ordered the U.S. Forest Service to expedite environmental reviews on its land, paving the way for more grazing, logging and oil development on public lands.
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“This is a roadmap to national forest destruction, and it’s painful to read.” - Randi Spivak: Director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s public lands program.
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Hedge fund and private equity firms are not eligible for the types of US government loans designed to provide relief to small businesses.
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(RNS) — Data from the Pew Research Center indicates that Republicans may have risked their lives because they trusted the president’s views on the pandemic.
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Donald Trump isn't trying to help anyone but himself. He knew about the virus and he didn't warn the rest of us until it was too late, so the answer is yes.
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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 […]
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If you think it's bad now, just wait until Trump cuts Social Security & Medicare. It's only a matter of time.
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This budget is Trump's pledge that as long as he stays in office, slashing Social Security, Medicaid, and whatever's left of SNAP will remain a White House priority."
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