In a move that seems designed to wreck the U.S. economy right as Joe Biden is taking office as president, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Thursday that he would not extend emergency lending programs that have been instrumental in stabilizing financial markets during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to the Washington Post: “Treasury Secretary Steven […]
The $1.8 trillion coronavirus financial relief package that President Donald Trump said would be on his desk no later than today remains bottled up in Congress, in large part because Republicans in the House and Senate insist on stuffing the bill with billions in corporate welfare that would benefit some of the richest multinational corporations […]
While President Donald Trump was busy patting himself on the back for a so-called ceasefire in Syria that he hailed as a “great day for civilization,” two members of Trump’s cabinet found themselves in the middle of a scandal involving a Turkish bank that began with a direct order from Trump. The Daily Beast, citing […]
You may recall that former Trump administration Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta wound up having to resign his cabinet position when it came to light that when he was still a U.S. Attorney in Florida, he made a sweetheart deal with the convicted sexual predator/pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. But now it appears that another top official […]