The Trump administration is considering measures to halt a surge of Central American families and unaccompanied minors coming across the Mexican border, including a proposal to separate parents from their children, according to officials with knowledge of the plans. To curb illegal border crossings, Trump administration weighs new measures targeting families DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen…
Demand Your Members of Congress Take the Dreamer Pledge What is the DREAMer Pledge? It’s simple. If Congress hasn’t passed the DREAM Act by Dec. 8—when funding for the government expires—then they will insist on it being a part of the December spending bill. The pledge is that they will commit to voting against the…
Washington Post reports that the Trump administration told multiple agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) not to use certain phrases in official documents. Officials who asked that their names and agencies remain anonymous, told The Washington Post that they had been given a list of “forbidden” words similar to the one given to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Newsletter #38, Thursday, December 21, 2017 58 weeks down, 46 weeks to mid-term elections PEG Newsletter #38 Source
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who leads the Yale CEO Summit, said in an interview that it’s “astounding” how few companies plan to reinvest their tax savings. He called the idea of a jobs boom from the tax plan “a lot of smoke and mirrors,” especially because the unemployment rate is just 4.1% and companies already have plenty…
During the last big wave of automation in the 1980s and 1990s, technology produced new jobs and made others obsolete. The demand for rote-labor workers had diminished, while that for workers with computer-based skills had gone up. Laborers who didn’t have much experience beyond their rote jobs were, in turn, hit the hardest, and those…
The United Nations general assembly has delivered a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump, voting by a huge majority to reject his unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The vote came after a redoubling of threats by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, who said that Washington would remember which countries “disrespected” America…
A subset of the Republican members of the House intelligence committee, led by Chairman Devin Nunes of California, has been quietly working parallel to the committee’s high-profile inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. They haven’t informed Democrats about their plans, but they have consulted with the House’s general counsel. The people familiar…
Almost immediately, the tax bill will trigger $25 billion in annual, automatic cuts to Medicare under budgetary rules known as “PAYGO.” While congressional leaders have pledged to waive the PAYGO law and prevent these cuts from happening, they are quickly running out of time to do so in 2017. With only one “must do” item…
I first got interested in gerrymandering on that long-ago night in 2012 when President Obama was re-elected. By 10 PM, it was clear that Obama had won. The next morning, I took a closer look at the returns. I grew up, and currently live, in Harris County, Texas, which includes much of the Houston metropolitan…