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Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wants Seniors to Shut Up and Sit Down if They Don’t Receive Their Social Security Check
“The Trump Administration just told seniors that they should shut up and sit down if they don’t receive their Social Security checks on time. The real ‘fraudsters’ are Trump’s out-of-touch billionaire ...
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'Never Happened Before': WMO Finds Past 10 Years Have Been 10 Hottest on Record
"While a single year above 1.5°C of warming does not indicate that the long-term temperature goals of the Paris agreement are ...
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Campaign Legal Center Files Complaint Against U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for Violating Federal Ethics Rules
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is calling on the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and ethics officials at the U.S. Department of Commerce to hold Howard Lutnick accountable for violating federal ethics ...
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Instead of Dealing with the Weakening Economy, Administration Officials Are Making it Harder to Get Accurate Economic Data
As recession indicators mount, the Trump Administration fired key advisors to the Department of Labor’s statistical agency this week. Instead of addressing his weakening economy, President Trump is ...
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AFSCME’s Saunders: Leland Dudek is willing to see millions of senior citizens suffer all because he didn’t get his way in court
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after acting Commissioner Leland Dudek threatened to shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge temporarily ...
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Students launch “Study-in” at Dept of Education, protesting Trump’s plan to abolish the Department
Students say they will remain there until Musk and DOGE come and look in the eyes the students whose education they are defunding ...
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The Trump Administration is Threatening to Shut Down Social Security
The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on the news that Trump-appointed acting commissioner Leland Dudek is threatening to shut down Social Security rather ...
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'Nothing Short of Genocide': Israel Kills 200 Children
Nearly 200 children are among those killed by Israel in Gaza over the last three days since the powerful U.S. ally broke a ...
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s Call to Buy Tesla Stock Violates Federal Ethics Rules
In an appearance on Fox News yesterday evening, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick encouraged viewers to buy stock in Tesla, the car company owned by Elon Musk, a “special government employee” ...
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Ethically Challenged Commerce Sec. Lutnick Tells National TV Audience to Buy Tesla Stock As His Family Business Apparently Holds ~$840M In Tesla
During a March 19 national television appearance, billionaire Trump Commerce Secretary and “close” Elon Musk associate, Howard Lutnick, urged the public to “buy Tesla” stock -- a glaring ethics ...
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Youth-Led Coalition Urges Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: Fight for Us or Step Aside
Sunrise Movement, alongside College Democrats of America, Gen Z Against Trump, Voters of Tomorrow and United We Dream — released an open letter calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to fight ...
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Gaza: Israeli Military War Crimes While Occupying Hospitals
“The Israeli military’s occupation of Gaza’s hospitals has transformed sites for healing and recovery into centers of death and mistreatment,” Van Esveld said. “Those responsible for these horrific ...