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Apr 05 2019
News
Economy added solid 196,000 jobs in March, unemployment stays at 3.8%
Hiring rebounded strongly in March as employers added 196,000 jobs, easing fears that payroll growth is slowing sharply amid a cooling economy.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.8%, the Labor Department said Friday.
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had estimated 175,000 jobs were added last month.
Job gains for January and February were revised up by a modest 14,000
USA TODAY
Jul 05 2019
Opinion
How to Put Citizenship Back in the Census
The Trump administration said Wednesday it will attempt to add a citizenship question on the 2020 census while complying with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Department of Commerce v. New York. Five justices held that the Census Act allows the question, but a separate five-justice majority found the rulemaking that added the question was procedurally deficient. There is a way forward. The
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
Jan 31 2017
News
Trump borrowed the legislative branch—without bothering to tell the legislators
It might seem that the Trump regime didn’t bother to talk with anyone about their Muslim ban. After all, they didn’t discuss it with the people at Homeland Security who would have to enforce it. They didn’t share it with the State Department to see how it would affect America’s relationships overseas. They didn’t give the military a peek, so someone could determine how to prepare.
Daily Kos
Aug 12 2019
News
Potential jurors for trial of Greg Craig, former Obama W.H. counsel, asked about Mueller, Manafort
The jury selection process for former Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig began Monday morning as potential jurors were asked about their knowledge of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former special counsel Robert Mueller.
Mr. Craig is accused of lying to Justice Department officials about Manafort’s lobbying work for the Ukrainian government. The former White House
Washington Times
Apr 16 2020
Opinion
Trump taking credit for stimulus checks is good politics
President Trump wants to make everyone know who to thank when their coronavirus aid comes in the mail: namely, Donald J. Trump.
A big chunk of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act that Congress recently passed will be individual aid payments to millions of Americans — $1,200 in many cases, but phasing out for individual incomes above $75,000 a year. About 80 million people got that money as a
Jeff Spross
Apr 29 2022
Headline Roundup
Government Launches 'Disinformation Governance Board,' Irking Conservatives
Is the government's new Disinformation Governance Board necessary to combat fake news, or is it a threat to free speech?
During a House of Representatives hearing Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head Alejandro Mayorkas announced "a just recently constituted misinformation/disinformation governance board." The board will be led by Nina Jankowicz, a misinformation
New York Post (News)
Associated Press
Homeland Security Today
Mar 11 2020
News
Trump administration wants hundreds of thousands of federal workers to be ready to telework full time
The Trump administration is racing to develop contingency plans that would allow hundreds of thousands of employees to work remotely full time, an extreme scenario to limit the coronavirus that would test whether the government can carry out its mission from home offices and kitchen tables.
The Office of Personnel Management, which oversees policy for the workforce of 2.1 million, has
Washington Post
Jun 28 2019
News
Kamala Harris Stakes Claim as Top 2020 Contender in Clash With Biden
Kamala Harris staked her claim to top-tier status in the Democratic primary with a searing indictment of Joe Biden on race, putting the front-runner on defense and puncturing the aura of inevitability that he had carefully sought to cultivate.
The deeply personal confrontation at a Democratic debate on Thursday pitted the 54-year-old daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants against a
Bloomberg
Dec 11 2019
News
IG Horowitz says FBI's Trump probe was a failure by 'the entire chain of command'
Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz will told lawmakers Wednesday the FBI’s investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the Trump campaign was a failure by the bureau’s “entire chain of command.”
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Horowitz said the FBI’s application to monitor a Trump campaign aide was riddled with errors and omissions, and
Washington Times