Trump wants to gut housing for military families to pay for his wall
The plan would also steal money from disaster relief funds intended for California and Puerto Rico.
By Oliver Willis - February 12, 2019The plan would also steal money from disaster relief funds intended for California and Puerto Rico.
By Oliver Willis - February 12, 2019The congressional funding compromise hammered out by Congress rejects Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion for a wall.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 12, 2019In a rant detached from reality, Trump tried to say ‘rust’ explains why no one likes his racist wall idea.
By Oliver Willis - February 12, 2019Donald Trump held a ‘Finish the Wall’ rally in El Paso, but he couldn’t be bothered to actually acknowledge negotiations about how to build the wall in the first place.
By Lisa Needham - February 12, 2019The Association of Flight Attendants union warns that a second Trump shutdown would threaten air travel safety.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 11, 2019Gavin Newsom is the second governor to pull National Guard troops from the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 11, 2019El Paso residents are furious Trump is having a rally in their city and are speaking out about his border wall.
By Emily Singer - February 11, 2019Some federal workers still haven’t gotten back pay from the 35-day Trump shutdown — and Trump is threatening another one if he doesn’t get what he wants.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 08, 2019He’s deploying even more troops to the border for a useless, expensive political ploy.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 08, 2019New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is pulling National Guard troops out of what she called Trump’s ‘charade of border fear-mongering.’
By Dan Desai Martin - February 06, 2019Trump’s State of the Union address was filled with the same lies and racist tropes about the wall that he always tells.
By Emily Singer - February 05, 2019He’s lazier than we even imagined.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 04, 2019Right-wing extremists killed more people in the U.S. last year than in any year since 1995 — and Trump is dismantling our ability to deal with the threat.
By Caroline Orr - February 03, 2019Unlike Trump, the White House National Drug Control Strategy doesn’t say that a border wall will help tackle issues like the opioid epidemic.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 01, 2019When it comes to the border, Trump has been treating the troops as his own personal army. With Democrats in the House, that has to change.
By Lisa Needham - February 01, 2019Republicans bragged about a major drug bust at the border — but all they did was point out that our existing border security works just fine without Trump’s wall.
By Oliver Willis - January 31, 2019Trump keeps making up stories to justify his useless border wall. But even his underlings can’t back them up.
By Oliver Willis - January 31, 2019After the disastrous 35-day Trump shutdown, even Republicans want to stop Trump from inflicting more harm upon the country.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 29, 2019And $3 billion can’t ever be recovered — all to withhold federal workers’ pay and endanger lives for a useless wall.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 28, 2019Trump’s acting chief of staff says Trump is prepared to shut down the government again in mid-February.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 28, 2019GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy defended Trump’s tantrums and table-slapping over the shutdown as ‘reasonable.’
By Dan Desai Martin - January 28, 2019Trump gave in to what Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have demanded all along: ending the government shutdown before even beginning negotiations on border wall funding.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 25, 2019Trump can’t even convince right-wing extremists to stick with him anymore.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 24, 2019Republicans showed yet again that they care more about their allegiance to Trump than the good of the American people.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 24, 2019Unions representing 131,000 airline workers send a stark warning about airline safety as the Trump shutdown shows no signs of ending.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 24, 2019In refusing to offer a real compromise to end the shutdown, Trump once again prioritizes his anti-immigrant agenda over the well-being of the country.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 23, 2019Americans know Trump can’t make a deal.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 23, 2019Mitch McConnell and most of his fellow Senate Republicans have been cowed by Trump’s ransom demands.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 21, 2019If Trump truly cared about Dreamers, he wouldn’t be using them as bargaining chips.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 21, 2019Pence twisted MLK’s words to say he would have supported a wall to keep immigrants out.
By Lisa Needham - January 21, 2019