Amudalat Ajasa, Anna Phillips · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Over the past four years, the Biden administration said it has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to help towns and neighborhoods most harmed by pollution. The money, largely through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, paid for electric school buses to replace diesel-burning vehicles, brought […]
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What Trump’s second administration could mean for environmental justice
Amudalat Ajasa, Anna Phillips · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Over the past four years, the Biden administration said it has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to help towns and neighborhoods most harmed by pollution. The money, largely through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, paid for electric school buses to replace diesel-burning vehicles, brought […]
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Romney denounces politicians who ‘tear at our unity’ in farewell Senate speech
By Maegan Vazquez, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who later criticized fellow Republican Donald Trump, delivered his farewell address on the Senate floor Wednesday, stressing the importance of bipartisanship and promising to be “a voice of unity and virtue” after he leaves Washington. “There are […]
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Romney denounces politicians who ‘tear at our unity’ in farewell Senate speech
By Maegan Vazquez, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who later criticized fellow Republican Donald Trump, delivered his farewell address on the Senate floor Wednesday, stressing the importance of bipartisanship and promising to be “a voice of unity and virtue” after he leaves Washington. “There are […]
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The emerging Trump fealty caucus of the GOP
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 It seems unlikely that President-elect Donald Trump’s various Cabinet picks will be confirmed via recess appointments or without FBI background checks. Both are ideas that Trump and his team have floated to avoid the meddlesome problems involved in actually winning the votes they need – even as […]
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The emerging Trump fealty caucus of the GOP
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 It seems unlikely that President-elect Donald Trump’s various Cabinet picks will be confirmed via recess appointments or without FBI background checks. Both are ideas that Trump and his team have floated to avoid the meddlesome problems involved in actually winning the votes they need – even as […]
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Democrats strongly opposed a Hunter Biden pardon. Now, they back it.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden isn’t the only one to pull a shocking and sudden reversal on pardoning his son Hunter Biden. So too, it seems, has the Democratic base. As the dust settles on a pardon that the president and his White House repeatedly assured would not happen, […]
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Democrats strongly opposed a Hunter Biden pardon. Now, they back it.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden isn’t the only one to pull a shocking and sudden reversal on pardoning his son Hunter Biden. So too, it seems, has the Democratic base. As the dust settles on a pardon that the president and his White House repeatedly assured would not happen, […]
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It’s not just Kash Patel. Many Trump picks have suggested retribution.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent withdrawal as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general represented a significant early setback for Trump’s nascent effort to wreck shop in American government – and possibly seek his promised retribution against his political foes and the “enemy within.” But the Florida Republican […]
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It’s not just Kash Patel. Many Trump picks have suggested retribution.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Matt Gaetz’s recent withdrawal as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general represented a significant early setback for Trump’s nascent effort to wreck shop in American government – and possibly seek his promised retribution against his political foes and the “enemy within.” But the Florida Republican […]