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Trump Administration Removes Official Who Oversees National Climate Assessment
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["The White House has removed the scientist who oversees the National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s definitive report on climate change, The New York Times and The Washington Post reported Monday. Micha...
Trump Administration Lowballs Unemployment Benefits In New COVID-19 Offer
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["The latest stimulus offer from the White House comes with one-time $600 payments for most Americans and a lump of coal for the unemployed. The new proposal offered by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin swapped the $3...
Pompeo Says There Will Be Smooth Transition To ‘Second Trump Administration’
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["Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared to completely dismiss the results of the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, saying “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.” .@SecPompeo: \"The...
Reporter Tweets Perfect Burn After Pompeo’s ‘Second Trump Administration’ Claim
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["We’d imagine NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly was cackling with delight as she typed out her exceptional 77-word retort to Secretary of State’s Mike Pompeo’s dismissive remark about the results of the U.S. presidential elect...
Trump Administration Finalizing Last-Minute Safety Net Cuts
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["The American people have voted to kick President Donald Trump out of the White House, but in its waning weeks, his administration is still trying to fulfill his inaugural promise to “get our people off of welfare.” ...
Trump Administration Ordered To Stop Expelling Children Who Cross Border
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["HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border alone, halting a policy that has resulted in thousands of rapid deporta...
Mnuchin Denies Trying To Hinder Incoming Biden Administration
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin denied that he is attempting to limit the choices President-elect Joe Biden will have to promote an economic recovery by ending several emergency loan programs bei...
Trump Administration Boots Gray Wolves From Endangered Species List
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["The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the removal of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states on Thursday. The agency characterized the decision as a celebratory move ackn...
GM Drops Support For Trump Administration Lawsuit Against California Clean-Air Standards
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["DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California’s right to set its own clean-air standards. CEO Mary Barra said in a letter Monday to environm...
Trump Administration Funds Plasma Company Based In Owner’s Condo
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — An obscure South Carolina company may be in line for millions of dollars in U.S. government funding to produce a coronavirus treatment after a former Republican senator with a financial stake in th...
Trump Administration Finally Clears Way For Biden Transition To Begin
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["Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, said the transition between President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden can begin, releasing millions of dollars in funds and clearing...
A Biden Administration Could Unilaterally Undo A Bunch Of Safety Net Cuts
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["With a lead in key states as of Friday morning, it looks like Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden might be heading to the White House, but Republicans might retain control of the Senate ― which would make it i...
Trump Administration Declined Summer Offer To Buy More Of Pfizer’s Vaccine: Reports
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["The Trump administration declined an offer from Pfizer to buy more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine at the end of the summer, according to several reports. The New York Times first reported Monday that Pfizer offered t...
Biden Seeks To Move Quickly And Build Out His Administration
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["ASSOCIATED PRESS President-elect Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden signaled on Sunday he plans to move quickly to ...
Trump Administration Fully Restores DACA Protections After Court Ruling
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["SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday that it fully restored the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that shields hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation, complyin...
Trump Administration Moves To Freeze Wages For Farmworkers Before Leaving Office
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["The Trump administration is moving ahead with a federal rule that would freeze pay for many agricultural guest workers for the next two years, even as they remain essential personnel during a pandemic. The new regu...