Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

It's Trump's economy now. The latest financial numbers offer some warning signs President Donald Trump's economic policies are facing scrutiny as weak indicators emerge. Job gains are dwindling, inflation is rising and growth has slowed compared to last year.

Surround an addled, elderly President with suck-ups and sycophants and this is what you get: “Job gains are dwindling. Inflation is ticking upward. Growth has slowed compared with last year.” Compare Biden economy: “envy of the world.”
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Durham disclosures further undermine Gabbard’s claims of plot against Trump Declassified document contains deflating conclusion for DNI director that Russian spies were behind key 2016 emails

Putin’s pal Gabbard is making up nonsense to deflect the bipartisan, repeated, corroborated findings that Putin interfered for Trump’s election with a covert influence campaign. Vot surpriz!
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Trump Will Slow, but May Not Stop, the Rise of Electric Vehicles

EVs are quieter, simpler, less expensive to run, and more fun to drive than equivalent combustion cars. They’re where world auto markets are going, so why handicap US auto companies competing in those markets? All to pay off fossil fuel donors.
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Political cartoon: President Trump on a TV screen denying connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Two people sit on a couch watching TV, with one of them commenting, “90 denials in 90 days.”

Political cartoon: Two characters representing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Zeldin and a Big Oil representative stand in front of a building labeled “Earnings Protection Agency”.

US judges recount death threats, 'swatting' after rulings against Trump A group of federal judges took the rare step of speaking out publicly about receiving death threats and mysterious pizza deliveries in the name of a judge's murdered son after they issued decisions blocking major parts of U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda.

But will a MAGA DOJ investigate orchestration of threats when the evidence implicates MAGA? This will be a test of the Marshals Service, the MAGA FBI and the MAGA DOJ.
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US judges recount death threats, 'swatting' after rulings against Trump A group of federal judges took the rare step of speaking out publicly about receiving death threats and mysterious pizza deliveries in the name of a judge's murdered son after they issued decisions blocking major parts of U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda.

It’s important that judges speak up about this unprecedented campaign of threats. It’s also important that they be properly investigated. Proper investigation includes investigating orchestration of threats. Law Enforcement 101.

Political cartoon titled “South Park-a-Lago.” It depicts President Trump, Attorney General Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Blanche, and Ghislaine Maxwell standing in front of the White House discussing the Epstein Files.

Breaking the pairing tradition for boards and commissions, appointing only Republicans, and firing sitting Democratic appointees.

Over-ruling the Parliamentarian to destroy emissions standards to let their Big Oil donors sell more gasoline.

Appointing to a United States Court of Appeals a character involved in three prosecutorial misconduct episodes in six months, and a subject of pending contempt of court proceedings.

Republicans are saying that our opposition to Trump nominees is “unprecedented.” Seriously? Let’s take a look at some of the stuff that is really “unprecedented”:

A partisan rescissions bill pulling back funding that was agreed to by both sides in bipartisan appropriations agreements.

Candidate Trump Promised Oil Executives a Windfall. Now, They’re Getting It.

The Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill “was positive for us across all of our top priorities,” said American Petroleum Institute.

What was ROI on fossil fuel political spending from the giveaways? Bet they made their money back and more.
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Today’s report shows a quarter million fewer jobs in May and June than previously asserted by the administration – evidence that Trump’s tariffs are raising costs and slowing the economy. (1/3)

Trump is trying to send the jobs data into the same dark vault where he’s hiding the Epstein report

Because if the facts don’t serve him, he does everything he can to bury them

Trump fires BLS commissioner after weak jobs report Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."

It is seriously dangerous territory when Trump fires anyone who doesn't cook the books for him.

The entire economy hinges on the accurate, nonpartisan data we get from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Republicans need to join us in fighting to protect the integrity of BLS.

Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because they accurately report on your struggling economy isn't just corrupt, it's deeply irresponsible.

Undermining our economic data is only going to create further chaos and uncertainty for our businesses big and small.

"“It makes us ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal actions, especially given his statement two years later that his good friend Jeffrey ‘likes women on the younger side … no doubt about it.’”

Trump EPA moves to repeal landmark 'endangerment finding' that allows climate regulation President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed revoking a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

What good is an Environmental Protection Agency without its power to *protect* our public health?

The Trump Administration is putting polluters over our children's future. apnews.com/article/trum...

Candidate Trump Promised Oil Executives a Windfall. Now, They’re Getting It.

Remember when Trump told Big Oil he'd deliver their wish list if they gave $1B to his campaign?
 
Well, his billionaire tax giveaway gave them an $18 BILLION windfall — while gutting Medicaid. A corrupt bargain through and through and another betrayal of the American people.

Republicans continue to be obsessed with handing seniors’ money off to private equity sleazeballs.

Meanwhile, I have a plan to fix Social Security and protect seniors’ benefits forever by requiring that the wealthy start paying their full fair share.

Just now, MAGA Bondi brought a complaint against the judge whose contempt hearing was stayed, obviously to “create a conflict” that would prevent him from looking into MAGA DOJ’s misconduct and embarrassing Senate “hear no evil” Republicans.

That contempt proceeding? It was “pending” because two Trump judges on the DC Circuit blocked it for three months, with a procedure usually limited to days, possibly so Bove could get through the Senate before the contempt hearing could produce evidence.

They let MAGA AG Bondi and DAG Blanche sit in the hearing to give committee Republicans the MAGA eyeball. (Remember Frank Pentangeli’s father coming to the Senate hearing in “The Godfather Part II”?)

Over in the Senate, the Judiciary Committee “rollover Republicans” ignored three whistleblowers, two career prosecutors’ resignation letters, and a pending contempt proceeding, to stuff Bove through without honest answers. (Hear no evil.)

A misconduct complaint from the New York Bar was referred to the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which never acted on it. (Bondi had cleared out the career OPR person and put in a MAGA person, so I doubt it got a hard look.)

This was a guy who set the all-time Department of Justice record for prosecutorial misconduct, with three significant episodes in six months (plus whatever cover-up he did of Jeffrey Epstein’s files — he wouldn’t answer). Nothing even comes close.

Unnoticed Whistle-Blower Document Alarms Justice Department Veterans

A disappearing IG complaint about Emil Bove? What, “the dog ate it”? This Emil Bove mess could not smell much worse, until you sniff out the rest of the story.

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(Warning: the decision is over 100 pages long, but still a warm bath of logic, fact and law midst the MAGA lies.)

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It signals how low the Trump Administration is that the DC Board of Professional Responsibility just recommended disbarment for one of the Administration’s lawyers in a top position at its powerful Office of Management and Budget.

Ford Takes $800 Million Tariff Hit, Posts First Loss Since 2023 The levies on imported parts helped wipe out the company’s net profit in the second quarter.

So much for tariffs being paid by foreigners. What a scam. Chinese car companies snickering.