Trump regime update

Elon Musk’s Companies Were Under Investigation by Five Inspectors General When the Trump Administration Fired Them and Made Musk the Investigator

Reason -  President Donald Trump outlined plans on Thursday to overhaul America's entire system of tariffs in order to charge what he calls "reciprocal" taxes based on the country where goods are sourced.If the White House's preliminary assessment is accurate, it would be the largest tax increase on Americans since World War II—and one that Trump would apparently seek to implement without congressional approval. More

 Aging Democrats Are Still Telling the Same Old Story. It’s Time to Turn the Page

Hegseth roasted for stepping back from Ukraine comments

The Nation -  The United States has been a leader in biomedical research for decades. Drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics that have been developed through research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has extended the lives of millions of people both here and around the world. The economic benefits of the national investment in biomedical research flow down to local communities in jobs and businesses that support the vast infrastructure needed to do this work. By some estimates in the fiscal year 2023, NIH funding created over 400,000 jobs across the US and pumped $92 billion into towns and cities across the country. And the US has been a beacon for scientists globally—millions of people come here to study—some to stay when they are done, some to return home to build their own countries’ research ecosystems.  More

In a little over three weeks, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Russell Vought will destroy this national treasure. Their plan is to attack the NIH with deep ideological motives in order to root out any focus on anyone other than white people and to shrink the agency—so that, in the words of Grover Norquist, “it is small enough to drown in the bathtub.” The earliest moves made against the NIH, in late January, were meant to destabilize the system: The administration froze grant funding, banned communication from agency employees, and made a list of forbidden terms that were to be applied to grants and contracts. Then, in early February came the hammer—the NIH issued a non-legal edict that cut indirect costs to universities to 15 percent. Let me explain what I think is going on. 

Daily Kos - Co-President Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has added a bunch of useless data to its website after being called out for not being transparent about the cuts the unelected billionaire is unilaterally trying to make to the federal government.In an Oval Office news conference on Tuesday, Musk said that DOGE is "trying to be as transparent as possible” about what it is up to.

“In fact, our actions—we post our actions to the DOGE handle on X and to the DOGE website. So all of our actions are maximally transparent. In fact, I don’t think there’s been—I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization," Musk said.

That statement was a flat-out lie. At the time Musk made that comment, the DOGE website had zero information about the cuts it had made. It was just a black background with the ridiculous DOGE logo that said "The people voted for major reform."

Donald Trump just picked Kathleen Sgamma to lead the Bureau of Land Management, the agency responsiblefor overseeing drilling on our public lands. Sgamma is an oil and gas lobbyist who literally wrote the energy policy for Project 2025.

Trump regime suspending enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.