Trump swears he’s bringing jobs back to the US. He’s done the opposite.
Trump’s claims of vast job creation are easily debunked.
By Amy Lieu - October 23, 2020Trump’s claims of vast job creation are easily debunked.
By Amy Lieu - October 23, 2020Trump has been trying to remove undocumented immigrants from the decennial population count.
By Emily Singer - September 11, 2020Some suggested the effort is insensitive during a pandemic and the widespread unemployment it has caused.
By Associated Press - July 14, 2020Donald Trump’s reelection team has apparently not noticed the nearly 17 million newly unemployed Americans.
By Josh Israel - April 14, 2020Trump himself voted by mail just last month.
By Emily Singer - April 10, 2020Trump and members of his administration see bright spots for themselves as the world confronts a deadly new coronavirus.
By Emily Singer - March 06, 2020Thousands of cases of the deadly virus have been confirmed, and 170 people have already died, but Wilbur Ross is pleased that a fast-spreading virus could help the U.S. economically.
By Josh Israel - January 30, 2020Ross is the latest administration official to be caught using unofficial channels to conduct business.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 24, 2019Trump has refused to accept the reality that Hurricane Dorian never threatened Alabama.
By Oliver Willis - September 09, 2019The House of Representatives voted to hold both Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 17, 2019Trump insists he still wants to rig the 2020 census even after his own administration has given up on the effort.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 03, 2019The Supreme Court stopped the Trump administration’s attempt to rig the 2020 census.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 27, 2019Trump’s attorney general and secretary of commerce refused to comply with a subpoena for documents related to a citizenship question in the 2020 Census.
By Emily Singer - June 12, 2019Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross refuses to discuss why he was entertaining the idea of meeting with Holocaust denier Chuck Johnson.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 14, 2019The conservatives on the Supreme Court looked likely to uphold the citizenship question on the Census, which could undercount the population by 6.5 million and take power away from Democratic areas.
By Emily Singer - April 23, 2019Trump’s nominee to lead the Interior Department continued to lobby for the very industry he will be regulating — after he signed paperwork saying he was no longer lobbying.
By Emily Singer - April 04, 2019Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is refusing to appear before House and Senate committees after he was caught lying in his last appearance.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 03, 2019‘You are complicit in the Trump administration’s intent to suppress the growing political power of the non-white population,’ Rep. Lacy Clay told Wilbur Ross.
By Oliver Willis - March 14, 2019Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated the Constitution in an attempt to manipulate the 2020 census.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 07, 2019Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lied on his required financial disclosure form. Again.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 19, 2019If you really want insight into the problems facing American workers, multi-millionaire CEOs are not your best bet.
By Emily Singer - February 13, 2019Trump’s shutdown is forcing federal workers to go to food banks — but Trump’s commerce secretary says let them eat cake.
By Oliver Willis - January 24, 2019Asking about citizenship on the census is racist, and gives us a less accurate count of the country’s population.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 15, 2019We don’t know exactly how much Trump will benefit, because he still refuses to release his tax returns.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 09, 2018Wilbur Ross is ‘a pathological liar,’ says a former colleague.
By Eric Boehlert - August 07, 2018The Trump administration quickly reversed course on sanctions against China’s ZTE just days after the company hired one of Trump’s former campaign staffers.
By Oliver Willis - June 02, 2018NBC’s Chuck Todd couldn’t keep a straight face while listening to a Trump adviser’s absurd excuses.
By Tommy Christopher - March 04, 2018Trump cabinet secretary Wilbur Ross says if Trump’s proposed tariffs increase the costs of cars it’s “no big deal.” Ross is a multimillionaire, and most Americans are not.
By Oliver Willis - March 02, 2018