[Midnight Rulemaking]
House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) expressing their strong concern against a potential last-minute roll-back of protections by the outgoing Trump Administration, and urging OMB and OIRA to instruct executive branch agencies not to engage in “midnight rulemaking.”
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Trump Administration
NY AG: Trump, Republicans Trying to Rip Health Coverage Away from Millions
[Affordable Care Act]
James: “The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land for a decade now, but President Trump, his administration, and Republicans allies are trying to take us backwards in time by stripping health coverage away from millions of Americans.”
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Democrats Send Letters Directing White House, Federal Agencies to Preserve Documents
[Presidential Records Act\Federal Records Act]
In today’s letters, the Chairs directed the Administration to preserve all records in accordance with the Presidential Records Act, the Federal Records Act, and related regulations…
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Democrats seek info on Trump’s efforts to withhold funds from “Anarchist Jurisdictions”
[Trump’s “Anarchist Jurisdictions” Designations]
Democratic Chairs: “This bizarre treatment of great American cities appears to be political retaliation by President Trump against municipal authorities that have refused to abet a brutal federal response to peaceful protests for racial equity in law enforcement.”
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Trump Refuses to identify CBP employees who made racist, sexually violent posts
[Customs and Border Protection]
Rep. Maloney: ““It is unclear why the Trump Administration is going to such extreme lengths to protect these employees who posted racist and sexually violent material, but President Trump himself has set the example of publicly and repeatedly defending similar actions by himself and others.”
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Trump tried to use $250 Million Ad Campaign for Covid to Help his Reelection
[Trump Administration]
$250 million contract awarded by the Trump Administration to launch a massive advertising campaign just weeks before the election to “defeat despair and inspire hope” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Assembly of Caribbean People: “Dump Trump” and Republicans
[Assembly of Caribbean People]
ACP: “We issue an urgent call to action to preserve and expand our freedoms and protect the futures of our children in the midst of deeply regressive and challenging times…we call on you to “Dump Trump”, because of his nefarious domestic and foreign policy agenda.”
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Lincoln Project, PFAW, Releases Ad on the Trump’s Child Separation Policy
[Immigration\Child Separation]
Ben Jealous: ““Donald Trump’s hateful and racist anti-child, anti-immigrant, and anti-family policies have left hundreds of children vulnerable to horrific abuses…Trump’s disgusting and cruel treatment of children is more proof that he is unfit to lead this nation.”
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Amy Barrett Confirmation Is “Grotesque Hypocrisy” By Republicans–Jumaane Williams
[Judge Amy Coney Barrett]
Williams: “This action by Republican Senators and the Trump administration is among the most grotesque embraces of hypocrisy in order to grab at power in recent history, and history will condemn it as its corrosive impact on our country reverberates for decades.”
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Barrett’s Nomination and Beyond: The Green Case for Supreme Court Reform
[Amy Coney Barrett]
“Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett…have raised anxieties about a reconfigured court’s impact on our environmental laws. Barrett’s refusal to answer questions on climate change during her confirmation hearings has only increased worries.”
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