Now that the election’s over and they no longer need to pretend to be concerned about the budget and reduced spending, Republicans are ready to open the coronavirus spending spigot as they once again prove that there’s no difference between…
In June 2018, his trade war wasn’t going very well so Trump and then–Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin gave us the Foxconn Hustle, a $10 billion scheme that was supposed to result in a 20 million-square-foot factory on outskirts of…
Donald Trump made many promises in 2016 about how he would fix the economy, including a promise to shrink the trade deficit. But according to a new Department of Commerce report, Trump’s ill-advised economic policies and trade wars have caused…
Coronavirus hysteria has brought the U.S. economy to the brink of another Great Recession, but Trump’s economic policies and trade wars had already put it on that path well before the so-called pandemic showed up. One of the topics discussed…
What does the current so-called impasse between Mark Meadows and Nancy Pelosi over another round of coronavirus bailouts have to do with a possible government shutdown at the end of the month? Well, it’s an election year, so the answer…
Earlier this year, Trump celebrated the two-year anniversary of imposing steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada. In March of 2018, Trump imposed tariffs of 25 percent on imports of steel and 10 percent on aluminum, a move he claimed was necessary…
Early last week, the Mitch McConnell-led Republican Party introduced a $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus benefit package as a counteroffer to Nancy Pelosi’s $3 trillion Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act (HEROES Act). Discussions on the need for another…
