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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, May 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM EDT Unqualified Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been making the rounds on cable television to blame former President Joe Biden and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for air traffic control problems at Newark Airport that Donald Trump and his co-President Elon Musk helped create. Duffy's latest effort to shirk responsibility for air traffic woes comes as travelers worry about the delays and dangerous radar outages that have been plaguing Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the country's busiest airports and a hub for major carrier United Airlines. May 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM EDT Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into trade wars abroad -- all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty. Trump launched a trade war during his first term as well, taking particular aim at China by putting taxes on most of its goods. Beijing responded with its own retaliatory tariffs on a range of U.S. products. Trump used the threat of more tariffs to force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate a North American trade pact, called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, in 2020. May 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM EDT In an all-too-familiar move, House Republicans are proposing to drastically cut food assistance for poor Americans in order to give well-heeled Americans even more money and to shore up support for President Donald Trump. In other words, it's business as usual. The bill would cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and other federal nutrition assistance programs by a whopping $290 billion over the next decade, according to the draft text of the agricultural portion of their reconciliation bill. That's how Republicans have decided to meet the target of $230 billion in cuts. May 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM EDT A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related |Trump is very proud of himself for selling access to the White House May 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT The massive legislation that would reauthorize President Donald Trump's tax cuts for the rich and fund his evil immigration agenda is in serious jeopardy""and not because of objections to the bill's cuts to Medicaid. Republican-led House committees this week have been releasing the text of Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act," which shows that the GOP plans to kick millions off of Medicaid, cut food stamps, rescind funds intended to combat climate change, and tax college and university endowments in a way that would jeopardize critical medical research as well as scholarships for students. However, those cuts alone won't pay for the legislation's cost, which the nonprofit Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says will add an "unprecedented" $5.8 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. May 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM EDT It's budget time, and you know what that means: The GOP is sneaking goodies for corporations into the reconciliation bill. This time, it's a big giveaway to artificial intelligence companies, many of which made massive contributions to President Donald Trump's inauguration. The House Energy and Commerce Committee wants to appropriate $500 million to replace or modernize databases with "state-of-the-art commercial artificial intelligence systems" and to adopt AI to "increase operational efficiency." Half a billion dollars seems like a lot, but that money is just for one agency: the Department of Commerce. May 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT Donald Trump has made it clear that refugees aren't welcome in the United States""unless they're white. Despite suspending all refugee admissions into the country as soon as he was sworn in this past January, the president and his state department bros made an exception and welcomed a planeload of 59 white Afrikaners Monday, many of whom are farmers of Dutch descent who settled in South Africa. They were greeted by Deputy Secretary of State Christoper Landau and Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar with open arms. May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to block the federal government from collecting personal health data related to autism, a direct rebuke to the Trump administration. Democrat Pritzker, who has been one of the more vocal critics of Trump's second administration, signed the order last week, saying he wanted to protect "dignity, privacy, and the freedom to live without fear of surveillance or discrimination." May 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM EDT A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | Trump proves that he has no idea what the Constitution is""again May 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT It turns out that a lot of religious groups aren't all that interested in President Donald Trump's plan to create a white ethnostate by barring certain refugees from entering the country. Trump signed an executive order banning refugees on Day 1, but now he's created what is basically an affirmative action program for white South Africans, opening U.S. doors for them and only them. Now, the ostensibly oppressed Afrikaners have landed in Washington, D.C., a mere three months after Trump decided that they're the most persecuted people on Earth. May 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT It turns out that a lot of religious groups aren't all that interested in President Donald Trump's plan to create a white ethnostate by barring certain refugees from entering the country. Trump signed an executive order banning refugees on Day 1, but now he's created what is basically an affirmative action program for white South Africans, opening U.S. doors for them and only them. Now, the ostensibly oppressed Afrikaners have landed in Washington, D.C., a mere three months after Trump decided that they're the most persecuted people on Earth. May 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. How red states are the biggest victims of Trump's cuts |
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