Worth watching this chilling account from Amb. Samantha Power about Elon Musk & Trump ignoring evidence in plain sight that destroying USAID would lead to deaths around the world: “There was no regard for human lives at stake.”
Labor force participation has fallen to 61.5% — the lowest since 2021, erasing the entire post-pandemic recovery.
Since Trump's inauguration, over a million people have left the job market — which explains part of the reason the unemployment rate dropped last month.
President Trump's claim that "$19.2 trillion" is being invested in the US, which he repeated tonight, continues to be fiction.
The White House's own website lists "$10.6 trillion" in "major investment announcements" this term, $8.6 trillion lower than Trump's figure, and even the White House figure is a wild exaggeration that counts vague pledges, vague statements that don't even rise to the level of pledges, and pledges that are about two-way trade rather than investment in the US. Previous fact check (when the president was claiming it was "$17 trillion"): https://t.co/yaAEApwIzy
Former Presidents Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden share their messages for America on the nation's 250th birthday.
President Trump is unsurprisingly missing.
Bush – “One of the things about the 250th is the fact that you can worship freely without the government telling you how to worship, speak in a public square without being jailed, a press that's willing to hold the powerful to account.”
Clinton – “America is bigger than anybody's personal hopes and dreams. The country will survive by the freedom to speak, freedom to vote, freedom to be active in politics.”
Obama – “Remember what's best in us. The basic principle upon which this country was founded which is we don't have rulers, kings, monarchs, aristocracies-- we have citizens.”
Biden – “250th anniversary of the country reminds people that democracies depend on certain basic rules. Democracy is dictated by the rule of the Constitution.”
I would encourage everyone to listen to this.
Then, compare it to the absolute bile you’re going to hear from Trump tonight.
Our government doesn’t have to be a walking clown show. Vote accordingly.
@NotCubby@SenWhitehouse And how many more people and companies do they have? They built the best high speed rail system in the world that covers the whole country with multiple routes to save all kinds of gas pollution from driving.
CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 26%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
In the first year of his presidency, Trump made more money than in the rest of his life combined.
A total of $2.2 billion from the presidency.
Meanwhile, most Americans worked hard to just break even.
This is the cost of corruption.
https://t.co/isHrlo9Dsl
Wow.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views
He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation
https://t.co/0GEyvQd51z
NY Times investigative Reporter Eric Lipton breaks down his investigation into how President Trump and Howard Lutnick's families stand to profit from a $1.6 billion mining deal with Kazakhstan.
Fighting for kids to receive state-mandated Bible instruction while fighting against those same kids receiving free lunch is exactly the kind of religious hypocrisy Christians should stand against.
This is what it looks like to take the Lord’s name in vain.
@ReallyAmerican1 Met young people have health insurance just in case they have a need for serious hospitalization, it will save them from bankruptcy. But lots of young people don't go to the doctor every year That doesn't mean they don't need insurance and that doesn't mean fraud!
AIPAC and its allies have already spent $50 million this election cycle.
AI has spent $185 million.
Crypto has spent $288 million.
This is legalized bribery.
End Citizens United and move to the public funding of elections NOW.
Wildfires have ravaged hundreds of thousands of acres in Utah and Colorado, killing 3.
This comes after the Trump administration cut millions of dollars in wildfire prevention efforts.
Dems telling me they dodged a big bullet and won a big victory with the ruling on mail ballots. They were expecting Trump and Republicans to try to use that to rig some of the House races in California, which will be important to winning a majority.
Musk is right that many problems can't be solved just by "throwing money" at them.
But US aid to fight AIDS, child hunger & other global plagues has one of the highest ROIs in government.
The data is clear: cutting this $ means millions will die. The question is how many.