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    Jan 15, 2025As a U.S. Senate committee held a confirmation hearing for Russell Vought—Republican President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the White House Office of Management and Budget—progressive critics underscored what they called the extremism of the controversial nominee, who played a key role in crafting a proposed initiative to expand executive power and purge the federal civil service.
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    3 days agoThe second nationwide protest day is titled "Not My Presidents' Day," with attendees rejecting Project 2025, the right-wing policy agenda whose proposals have been well-represented by the administration's actions so far; Musk's takeover of agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the U.S. Agency for International ...
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    Feb 7, 2025Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations—delivered straight to your inbox. ... arrives for a Senate confirmation hearing on January 15, 2025. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) ... the U.S. Senate confirmed right-wing extremist and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to lead the White House budget ...
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    Jan 23, 2025A report released earlier this week estimates that fossil fuel industry interests spent nearly $450 million during the 2024 election cycle on campaign donations, lobbying, and other efforts to bolster U.S. President Donald Trump, his Republican allies, and policies that benefit oil and gas corporations.. That investment "is already paying off," said Alex Witt, senior adviser for oil and gas at ...
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    4 days agoJournalist and media critic Adam Johnson welcomed the growing push for concrete evidence regarding the large-scale fraud DOGE purports to have revealed during the first 30 days of Trump's second White House term. "Musk's definition of 'fraud' is 'spending priorities duly approved by Congress and previous presidents (including Trump 1.0!) that the richest person on Earth randomly decided he ...
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    Jan 15, 2025With Inauguration Day less than a week away, a watchdog group on Tuesday published research shining light on the unprecedented level of financial support President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund has received from corporations and executives seeking to court favor with the incoming administration.. The new research from Public Citizen includes a tracker that lists known corporate donations ...
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    Jan 15, 2025Jan 15, 2025 As President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general pick Pam Bondi faced Senate questioning on Wednesday, progressive critics opposed to her nomination cited her record as a lobbyist, her role in amplifying Trump's claims of election fraud in 2020, and her history of catering to corporate interests to argue she is unfit to lead the ...
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    Nov 20, 2024Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations—delivered straight to your inbox. ... Signup Form Location. 5 #000000. #FFFFFF. HOME > Opinion > u.s. house of representatives > President-elect Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally at the Greensboro Coliseum on October 22, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina ...
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    Feb 6, 2025The head of the largest federal employees' union is urging U.S. senators to vote against confirming Russell Vought as Office of Management and Budget director, as the Senate's top Democrat delivered a scathing floor speech Wednesday highlighting Vought's "role as the chief architect of Project 2025 and the devastating impact his policies would have on working families across the country."
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    Jan 31, 2025With the help of 25 Democrats, the Senate voted Thursday to confirm U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of the Interior, billionaire and former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum—an ally of the fossil fuel industry.. Environmental groups expressed alarm over Burgum's nomination. As secretary of the interior, Burgum will oversee hundreds of millions of acres of federal land ...

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