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Lies and Rounding Errors White House denies "egregious" $2 trillion math mistake in budget. BBC: "Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers pointed out the spending plan double-counts $2tr... but White House budget director Mick Mulvaney told reporters: 'We...
Of Budgets and Beatitudes: The Pope Meets the Donald
Contrary to what some might have expected, the universe did not explode in an antimatter fireball when these two opposites came together. Nevertheless, the Pope’s dissatisfaction, and their different views of justice, are plain to see.
How Compassion Becomes Contempt in America
We need to do more than assail the heartless new Trump administration budget. We need to understand its deep roots in our chronic and continuing maldistribution of income and wealth, and the ways we justify this inequality to ourselves.
The Great Betrayal: Donald Trump’s Budget
Donald Trump’s FY 2018 budget raises a long, fat middle finger to the working class voters who helped to put him in office; it's a stunning betrayal. Far worse is that it opens the door for Republicans in Congress to do extreme damage.
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When in Rome Trump and Pope have little in common but a date at the Vatican. Bloomberg: "Pope Francis believes climate change is one of the greatest threats to humanity. Donald Trump thinks it might be a Chinese hoax. Francis wants the world’s doors swung open...
What Betsy DeVos Calls Education Transformation Is Actually Public Theft
Betsy DeVos wants to give your tax dollars to private schools and businesses, and tell you it's an education "transformation." She's eager to "get Washington and the Federal bureaucracy out of the way," but she wants you to pay for it.
Trump's Budget Builds a Wall Between the Wealthy and All of Us
The Trump administration's 2018 budget proposal makes plain its vision for America: one where the sick, children, families and the disabled are sacrificed for tax breaks for the very wealthiest and giveaways to trillion-dollar corporations.
Fed Up with a Budget Crisis, Illinois Citizens Take to the Streets
Joe Padilla and Egle Malinauskaite are part of a group marching 200 miles from Chicago to the Illinois State Legislature in Springfield. They hope to break a logjam that has kept Illinois without a state budget for more than two years.
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There's a Hole in My Budget Trump $1 trillion social cuts hit his own voters hardest. Politico: "Trump's spending blueprint follows established conservative orthodoxy, cutting taxes on the wealthy, boosting defense spending and taking a hatchet to programs for the...
They're Talking a Better Game, But Will the Democrats Fight?
They're proposing bold ideas - but not bold enough. Democrats need to take on the billionaires and corporate interests that have suborned democracy and hijacked our economy if they want to win back voters.
