by Bill Scher | Dec 7, 2016 | Blog, The Trump Swamp
Reuters is reporting that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt will be Donald Trump's choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Unsurprisingly, Pruitt is one of the conservative attorneys general who has sued to block President Barack Obama's Clean Power...
by Bill Scher | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
During a CNBC interview, Greg Hayes, the CEO of Carrier's parent company United Technologies, reveals some of those 800 factory jobs allegedly saved in the deal engineered by Donald Trump will eventually be lost to automation: ...we're gonna make up $16 million...
by Bill Scher | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog, The Trump Swamp
The announcement that Ben Carson has been tapped to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development has come with reminders that Carson opposes President Barack Obama's new rules intended to strengthen enforcement of the 1968 Fair Housing Act and reduce the...
by Bill Scher | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog
President-elect Donald Trump is shaking up the Republican Party's economic orthodoxy. He wielded the threat of government power to pressure United Technologies, the parent company of Carrier, to partially rescind plans for sending 800 jobs to Mexico (though 1300 jobs...
by Bill Scher | Nov 28, 2016 | Blog
While Ben Carson was rumored to have been offered the post of Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Buzzfeed is now reporting that former congressman J.C. Watts is now the favorite. Who leads HUD is incredibly important. The Obama administration is in the midst of...