CUBA/TRUMP ADMIN: “We also need a new Cuba policy. The administration’s approach is not working. Cuba is no closer to freedom and democracy than it was four years ago. The fact there’s more political prisoners, the secret police are as brutal as ever, and Russia is once again a major presence in Cuba in Havana… […]
Category: Trump Admin
10/3/2020
COVID-19/TRUMP ADMIN: “When the [Trump] administration was told that there’s a thousand people a day dying of COVID, the response was, ‘It is what it is.’ It is what it is? It is what it is because they are who they are. That’s why it is what it is. We can change this. I promise […]
9/25/2020
CENSUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Friday from ending the 2020 census a month early, the latest twist in years of political and legal warfare over perhaps the most contested population count in a century… The ruling came after evidence filed this week showed that top Census Bureau officials believed ending […]
9/23/2020
DOJ/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP ADMIN: “This has been the most corrupt administration in modern American history. The Justice Department has turned into the president’s private law firm. He actually has them representing him on women who accused him of rape. Where does that come from? And the Justice Department under my administration will be totally independent of […]
9/15/2020
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP ADMIN/WOMEN: “[T]he Trump Administration has completely abdicated U.S. leadership on women’s rights globally and sought to roll back protections for women here at home. The United States must champion gender equality, at home and abroad. We must accelerate our progress. Women’s leadership is critical.” -Joe Biden, “Statement By Vice President Joe Biden On The […]
9/11/2020
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP ADMIN: “About 8,800 unaccompanied children have been quickly expelled from the United States along the Mexico border under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum, authorities said Friday. The Trump administration has expelled more than 159,000 people since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emergency order took effect in March, a figure […]
9/11/2020
CDC/CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “The health department’s politically appointed communications aides have demanded the right to review and seek changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly scientific reports charting the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, in what officials characterized as an attempt to intimidate the reports’ authors and water down their communications to health […]
9/8/2020
ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP ADMIN: “My administration is proving every day that we can improve our environment while creating millions of high-paying jobs. This is a really sharp contrast to the extreme, radical left that you’ve had to deal with… The left’s agenda isn’t about protecting the environment, it’s about punishing America, and that’s true.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks […]
9/5/2020
MILITARY/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Trump administration moved to close Stars and Stripes, a popular state-supported newspaper serving US military members, and was criticized for the plan Friday. Shortly afterward, President Donald Trump reversed the Pentagon decision and said the federal government won’t cut funding to the paper… Aides showed Trump news reports that blamed him […]
9/4/2020
RACISM/TRUMP ADMIN: “It has come to the President’s attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date ‘training’ government workers to believe divisive, anti- American propaganda… The President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions. […]
9/4/2020
CONGRESS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP ADMIN: “While my administration has fought every day to restore prosperity, however, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress are holding additional China virus relief hostage to — to reasons that nobody understands. I guess I do; I think I understand. It’s called politics… Now, we have $300 billion in a — an […]
9/2/2020
EDUCATION/TRUMP ADMIN: “Let me be clear: if President Trump and his Administration had done their jobs America’s schools would be open. Instead, America’s families are paying the price for his failures. I’ve heard from parents all throughout this pandemic. They’re struggling to do the right thing – but they’re worried.” -Joe Biden, “Remarks As Prepared For Delivery By […]
9/2/2020
CIVIL UNREST/CRIME/FEDERAL FUNDING/PROTESTS/TRUMP ADMIN: “My Administration will do everything in its power to prevent weak mayors and lawless cities from taking Federal dollars while they let anarchists harm people, burn buildings, and ruin lives and businesses. We’re putting them on notice today. @RussVought45“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 2, 2020 2:27 pm […]
9/2/2020
CIVIL UNREST/FEDERAL FUNDING/TRUMP ADMIN: “Unfortunately, anarchy has recently beset some of our States and cities. For the past few months, several State and local governments have contributed to the violence and destruction in their jurisdictions by failing to enforce the law, disempowering and significantly defunding their police departments, and refusing to accept offers of Federal […]
9/1/2020
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP ADMIN/VOTING: “There’s still a significant effort in this [Trump] administration to make it more difficult for Americans to vote. When you [Kamala Harris] and I get elected, God willing, we’re going to push hard to make voting, Election Day, a national holiday, so people don’t have to take off work. There should be […]
9/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/HOUSING/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Trump Administration announced Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will use its authority to temporarily ban residential evictions for certain renters through the end of the year… Renters seeking protection under the new program must certify that they are unable to pay their rent because of the coronavirus […]
8/31/2020
ENVIRONMENT/EPA/REGULATIONS/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Trump administration on Monday [Aug. 31, 2020] relaxed strict Obama-era standards for how coal-fired power plants dispose of wastewater laced with dangerous pollutants like lead, selenium and arsenic, a move environmental groups said would leave rivers and streams vulnerable to toxic contamination. The Environmental Protection Agency regulation scaled back the types of […]
8/31/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “One of President Trump’s top medical advisers is urging the White House to embrace a controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy to combat the pandemic, which would entail allowing the coronavirus to spread through most of the population to quickly build resistance to the virus, while taking steps to protect those in nursing homes and […]
8/29/2020
CONGRESS/DNI/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is scaling back its election security briefings to Congress, according to two sources familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by POLITICO. ODNI told the House and Senate intelligence committees that it will still provide written briefings, but that they should not expect verbal, in-person […]
8/27/2020
JOE BIDEN/RACISM/TRUMP ADMIN: “The vast majority of the American people are ready to deal with systemic racism, and all this [Trump] administration does is keep pouring gasoline on the fire. They don’t have a dog whistle, they use a bullhorn. It’s all about division.” -Joe Biden in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “Joe Biden […]
8/27/2020
FDA/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP ADMIN: “Did you ever seen any administration put so much pressure on the FDA?… I mean, there’s no bounds to what this guy [Donald Trump] does and his team does. We should listen to the scientists… What’s he doing?” -Joe Biden, “Andrew Mitchell Report,” MSNBC, Aug. 27, 2020 […]
8/27/2020
DOJ/PROTESTS/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Justice Department [in the Trump administration] is the most corrupt Justice Department in modern American history. It’s just a violation of all the basic tenants of what we say are democratic institutions… The thing that bothers me the most is idea of just pouring gasoline on the racial flames that are burning […]
8/26/2020
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP ADMIN: “Sudha Narayanan and Neimat Awadelseid looked forward to Tuesday—the day, after a yearslong process, they would become U.S. citizens. They found out only minutes before the ceremony that President Trump would attend, and they didn’t know it would be aired during the Republican convention that night. Ms. Narayanan and Ms. Awadelseid said they […]
8/26/2020
CDC/COVID-19/TRUMP ADMIN: “Trump administration officials on Wednesday [Aug. 26, 2020] defended a new recommendation that people without Covid-19 symptoms abstain from testing, even as scientists warned that the policy could hobble an already weak federal response as schools reopen and a potential autumn wave looms. The day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
8/26/2020
GOP/TRUMP ADMIN: “Democrats and government watchdogs have fumed over Trump holding RNC activities at the White House and raised various alarms, from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo making a convention speech while on a diplomatic trip to Jerusalem to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf conducting an immigrant naturalization ceremony at the White House with […]
8/26/2020
GOP/TRUMP ADMIN: “White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday dismissed accusations that Trump administration officials violated federal law by speaking at the Republican National Convention, arguing that critics have overstretched the bounds of the Hatch Act… “Nobody outside of the Beltway really cares. They expect that Donald Trump is going to promote Republican […]
8/24/2020
CHINA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP ADMIN: “TikTok, the video-sharing application owned by China-based ByteDance, filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. government challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to ban the company’s American operations… The Trump administration has expressed concern about U.S. data security and data privacy with several Chinese companies, including Huawei and WeChat. ByteDance argued that is […]
8/19/2020
IRAN/NUCLEAR/TRUMP ADMIN: “My administration will not allow this Iran nuclear situation to go on. They will never have a nuclear weapon. Iran will never have — mark it down. Mark it down: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 19, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 19, […]
8/12/2020
JOE BIDEN/KAMALA HARRIS/TRUMP ADMIN: “Kamala took on the big banks over mortgage fraud and won. Took on big oil that wanted to pollute without consequences. She was a pioneer in marriage equality and tackled the gun lobby. You know, we’ve all watched her in the United States Senate go toe to toe with Trump officials […]
8/11/2020
JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/TRUMP ADMIN: “Don’t forget that in the middle of this pandemic, the Trump Administration is in court trying to eliminate Obamacare and rip health insurance away from millions. It’s heartless. I’ll protect and build on the ACA to ensure everyone gets the care they need.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 11, 2020 12:00 pm […]
8/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN/VACCINES: [Stacey Vanek Smith: “Having a vaccine before the end of the year, does that seem realistic?”] “No, it doesn’t… What you don’t want to have happen is you don’t want the [Trump] administration to reach their hand into the Warp Speed bucket where there are tens of millions of doses, pull out one or […]