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With Wrestling Pick, Trump Treats Voters Like "a Bunch of Jabronies"
Donald Trump's recent cabinet picks have a history of being very good … to Donald Trump. Working Americans won’t be as lucky. His latest hire is wrestling billionaire Linda McMahon. In wrestling terms, he's treating voters like "jabronies."
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Still Unpopular Trump still unpopular in Pew poll: "55% of the public says that, so far, they disapprove of the job he has done explaining his policies and plans for the future, while 41% approve of the job he has done ... In December 2008, 72% said they...
Trump's Punch Down Strategy
Trump, believe it or not, is President-elect of the United States. That is a position of great power, commanding great influence over what people think and do.
America Did Not Vote For This Cabinet
Donald Trump is creating an executive branch of government in service to a narrow set of special interests that no Democrat, and not even all Trump voters, would ever want.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Attacks Local Union Leader Trump attacks Carrier's union head. NYT: "Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, told The Washington Post on Tuesday that the president-elect had 'lied his ass off' when he claimed he had saved 1,100 jobs ......
Principles To Guide The Vetting Of Betsy DeVos
As the vetting of Betsy DeVos goes forward, policy leaders should look beyond "facile" comparisons of how charter schools compare to public schools and consider the impact of school choice on all students and the whole education system
Workers Challenge Trump To Follow Through On His Promises
Donald Trump has promised that “every policy decision we make must pass a simple test: Does it create more jobs and better wages for Americans?” Will he at least make federal contractors stop stealing wages from their workers?
Ike’s Rich vs. Trump’s Rich: No Contest
In the years right after World War II, average Americans got ahead. Now Americans are getting headaches — from a ferociously top-heavy distribution of the nation’s income.
Sorry, Donald. Taxes in the United States Are Actually Very Low.
Newly published data confirms that, conservative rhetoric notwithstanding, Americans pay very little in taxes compared to residents of other developed countries. That includes US corporations.
Trump's EPA Pick Scott Pruitt Literally Built The Swamp Himself
But considering Trump said he wants to "drain the swamp," you might be surprised he picked someone who literally built the swamp. Scott Pruitt is a pioneer in turning government over to corporate special interests.
