President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order calling for an end to taxpayer funding for NPR and PBS, an escalation of his dangerous assault on public media that could shutter hundreds of local stations across the country. The president’s order, which he signed behind closed doors, echoes a section of Project 2025, a far-right agenda that called for stripping public…
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As people worldwide filled the streets Thursday to celebrate International Workers’ Day and mobilize against attacks on the working class, a new analysis showed that average global CEO pay has surged 50% since 2019 — 56 times more than the pay of ordinary employees. The Oxfam International analysis examined figures from nearly 2,000 corporations across 35 countries where CEOs were paid more…
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A progressive watchdog organization on Wednesday urged key congressional committees to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump’s involvement in a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency deal that the group warned could open the door to corrupt and unlawful self-dealing. In a letter to the top members of financial services and banking panels, Accountable.US president Caroline Ciccone called for a…
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that his country’s “old relationship with the United States… is over” after leading his Liberal Party to victory in Monday’s federal election, a contest that came amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s destructive trade war and threats to forcibly annex Canada.
“As I have been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats,” Carney, a former central banker who succeeded Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister last month, said after he was projected the winner of Monday’s election.
On the day of the contest, Trump reiterated his desire to make Canada “the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America.”
“President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us,” Carney said Monday. “That will never, ever happen.”
Carney: President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, ever happen pic.twitter.com/dUEI0YGSM2
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 29, 2025
It’s not yet clear whether the Liberal Party will secure enough seats for a parliamentary majority, but its victory Monday was seen as a stunning comeback after the party appeared to be spiraling toward defeat under Trudeau’s leadership.
Pierre Poilievre, the head of Canada’s Conservative Party, looked for much of the past year to be “cruising to one of the largest majority governments in Canada’s history,” The Washington Post noted.
But on Monday, Poilievre—who was embraced by Trump allies, including mega-billionaire Elon Musk—lost his parliamentary seat to his Liberal opponent, Bruce Fanjoy.
Vox‘s Zack Beauchamp wrote Tuesday that “Trump has single-handedly created the greatest surge of nationalist anti-Americanism in Canada’s history as an independent country,” pointing to a recent survey showing that “61% of Canadians are currently boycotting American-made goods.”
“Trump’s aggressive economic policy isn’t, as he claimed, making America Great or respected again. Instead, it’s having the opposite effect: turning longtime allies into places where campaigning against American leadership is a winning strategy,” Beauchamp added. “If we are indeed witnessing the beginning of the end of the American-led world order, the history books will likely record April 28, 2025, as a notable date—one where even America’s closest ally started eying the geopolitical exits.”
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Congressional Republicans on Sunday released legislation that would pump an additional $150 billion into the Pentagon — a morass of waste and profiteering — over the next decade as part of a sweeping reconciliation package that’s also expected to include deep cuts to Medicaid and tax breaks for the wealthy. The House Armed Services Committee, a major target of weapons industry lobbying…
The Trump administration announced late Wednesday that it is moving to implement new permitting procedures designed to speed up reviews and approvals of oil and gas development, a plan that environmentalists called an attack on the public’s right to weigh in on projects that would directly impact communities across the United States. The U.S. Department of the Interior, led by billionaire oil…
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An analysis released Monday in the wake of new Federal Election Commission filings shows that the Trump administration has dropped or paused federal enforcement cases against at least 17 corporations that donated to the president’s inaugural fund, an indication that companies’ attempts to buy favor with the White House are already paying off. In the new analysis, the watchdog group Public…
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The Trump administration quietly announced Thursday that it is abandoning a Biden-era effort to close a loophole that allows large business partnerships to repeatedly manipulate the value of their assets to minimize their tax obligations. The Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department announced the decision in a notice that received little attention in the mainstream press.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that aims to delay Medicare negotiations for a broad category of prescription drugs, handing the deep-pocketed pharmaceutical industry a major win as it lobbies aggressively against efforts to rein in its pricing power. Trump’s order, titled “Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First,” instructs Health and Human…
Sen. Bernie Sanders warned late Monday that President Donald Trump’s open refusal to comply with court orders requiring him to bring home a Maryland resident his administration wrongly deported represents “just another step forward” in his “move toward authoritarianism.” “Just a few weeks ago, the Trump administration admitted that the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia…
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The Trump administration’s plan to cut the workforce of the Internal Revenue Service in half and gut enforcement efforts could enable the richest people in the United States to evade an additional $30 million in taxes per day on average, according to an analysis published Monday on the eve of the nation’s tax filing deadline. The analysis by the humanitarian group Oxfam America notes that the…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a crowd of more than 20,000 people in Salt Lake City, Utah on Sunday for the latest stop on the progressive duo’s “Fight Oligarchy” tour, which has attracted energized audiences across the United States as public anger at the Trump administration mounts. “We’re here in so-called ‘conservative’ Utah, and tomorrow we’re gonna be in…
The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is reportedly expected to resign over a new agreement that would allow the tax agency to give immigration authorities access to highly sensitive data to aid U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawless mass deportation campaign. Numerous outlets reported late Tuesday that Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause and other top agency officials…
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President Donald Trump on Monday publicly backed an annual budget of roughly $1 trillion for the U.S. military as his administration rushed ahead with a destructive tariff scheme that amounts to a major tax increase on American households, with working-class families set to bear much of the pain. Speaking to reporters at the White House during a sit-down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
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In an op-ed dictated to his attorney from a detention facility in Louisiana, Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil late last week condemned the Ivy League institution’s complicity in the Trump administration’s targeting of Palestinian rights advocates and campus dissent more broadly. Khalil, who has said he is a political prisoner, argued in the Friday op-ed that Columbia “laid the…
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Analysts puzzling over the bizarre formula the Trump administration used to calculate its country-by-country tariff rates are wasting their time, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said in a response to the American president that has gone viral in recent days as global markets continue to nosedive. “It’s not economic policy, it’s not trade policy,” Murphy (D-Conn.) said in remarks recorded after Trump…
A new analysis indicates Republicans’ plan to extend soon-to-expire provisions of their party’s 2017 tax law, as well as their push to tack on additional tax breaks largely benefitting the rich and big corporations, would cost $7 trillion over the next decade, a figure that a group of congressional Democrats called “staggering.” The analysis from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation…
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The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are waging a multi-front war on nutrition benefits for children, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture moving this week to end programs that provided over $1 billion in funding for schools and charity organizations to buy food from local farmers as GOP lawmakers simultaneously take aim at school meal programs as part of an effort to fund tax…
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A group of progressive U.S. senators on Monday pushed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, to disclose what he and President Donald Trump discussed with pharmaceutical executives at recent private dinners as the industry pressures the new administration to end Medicare drug price negotiations. In a letter to Kennedy, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)…
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At a press conference last week, U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise claimed Democrats are lying when they warn that Medicaid is in the Republican Party’s crosshairs. “The word Medicaid is not even in this bill,” Scalise (R-La.) declared, waving the text of a budget resolution that House Republicans went on to pass over unified Democratic opposition. But an analysis released late…
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President Donald Trump late Monday ordered a suspension of all American military assistance to Ukraine after his conduct in a televised meeting with the war-torn country’s president in the Oval Office last week sparked international dismay and outrage. Trump’s decision reportedly impacts over $1 billion worth of weaponry and ammunition that was set to be delivered to Ukraine…
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House Republicans rammed through their budget blueprint late Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened to pressure wavering members to vote for the resolution, which jumpstarts the process of enacting sweeping cuts to Medicaid and other programs to finance trillions of dollars in proposed tax cuts primarily for the rich. Just one Republican — Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky — joined…
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The collective fortune of the world’s billionaires grew by roughly $10 billion per day during the first month of 2025 as billionaire Donald Trump took office in the United States, ushering in an administration that includes the world’s richest man and other elites hellbent on eviscerating government and delivering fresh tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. The new analysis of billionaire wealth…
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Republicans on the House Rules Committee voted late Monday to advance a budget resolution that, if translated into law, would enact painful cuts to Medicaid and federal nutrition assistance, potentially stripping critical benefits from tens of millions of low-income Americans to help fund trillions of dollars in tax giveaways that would flow primarily to the rich. The rules panel voted 9-4…
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President Donald Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission has delivered a significant victory to the cryptocurrency industry by agreeing to drop a major lawsuit against Coinbase, a crypto exchange platform company that spent heavily on the 2024 election and donated a million dollars to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The SEC’s decision, announced Friday by Coinbase’s chief legal…
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Senate Republicans approved a budget resolution early Friday after rejecting a flurry of Democratic amendments aimed at preventing cuts to Medicaid, school meal initiatives, and other programs. Republicans in the House and Senate are moving in the direction of legislation that would slash critical programs to help fund trillions of dollars in tax cuts, which would primarily benefit the…
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On the surface, a widely reported memo authored by Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth appears to call for significant cuts to the massive U.S. military budget over each of the next five years — a proposal that quickly received positive feedback from some progressives. But the details of Hegseth’s proposal, and a public statement from the defense secretary’s deputy, raise serious doubts about whether…
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