“Our country is going to be based on merit again,” said President Trump in the White House’s official statement on the April 23 signing of an Executive Order to ‘Restore Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy.’ Our, perhaps more appropriate title, may have been Restoring Racism. The sweeping order aims to eliminate the use of disparate-impact […]
Author: Kristy Bendall
Trump’s promised economic ‘boom’ looking more like a bust
Often quoted on the campaign trail, then presidential candidate Donald Trump promised American voters that, if elected, the country would see an economic “boom like no other.” Well, Trump’s promised boom is looking increasingly like a big bust. Yesterday, S&P released its flash PMI Index and business sentiment survey, and the downward trends should make the Administration take […]
Relentless Pursuit – Rubio uses blog post to detail targeting ‘radically liberal civil servants’
In what seems to be an increasing trend with this Administration of using non-official communication platforms, Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to Substack to release his official statement on his proposed overhaul of the State Department. He does know that the State Department has its own website that he could post to, right? Anyway, […]
Can’t stop his meddling ways – President continues to interfere where he doesn’t belong
In an incredibly incoherent, statistically false, and grammatically questionable post to Truth Social, President Trump again publicly put himself in the middle of a policy debate in which he doesn’t belong. Although painful to read, to give context, here is the full text of the post: “”Preemptive Cuts” in Interest Rates are being called for […]
SNAP… Administration looks to break food security program
As April winds down, we’re moving ever closer to the May target date that the Republicans are pushing, for movement on a bill that would see at least $230 billion in cuts to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s core program – the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The Administration is eyeing cuts to […]
Trump’s new Civil Service Regulations: a government workforce without independent thought
“We must root out corruption and implement accountability in our Federal Workforce!,” President Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post on April 18. His plan for doing such a task? Removing independent thought and critical policy analysis from the civil service. The post detailed that this initiative was all part of his ‘Day One […]
Sound Administration: give us your money … get nothing in return
“Principles of sound administration demand that taxpayer-funded benefits be provided only to eligible persons and not encourage or reward illegal immigration to the United States,” stated an April 15, 2025, Presidential Memoranda entitled Preventing Illegal Aliens from Obtaining Social Security Act Benefits. The Memoranda was directed to six key officials: the Attorney General, the Secretary […]
Pre-tariff panic buying drives the auto sector as consumers look to avoid Trump’s chaos
March consumer retail spending data came in hotter than expected yesterday – led by surging motor vehicle and parts sales. Up a whopping 5.3% month-over-month, auto and auto parts sales seem to have been impacted by those consumers who wanted to get ahead of looming 25% tariffs that took effect on April 2. Consumers spent […]
Working double (or triple) duty? The new normal in Trump’s ‘golden age of America’
“The golden age of America has only just begun,” President Trump said at the beginning of March during his speech at the Joint Session of Congress. “It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.” One must wonder if the growing number of Americans working multiple jobs to afford the Trump era really […]
Cultural repatriation campaign 2.0? Administration ‘studying the law’ on deporting U.S. citizens
During the 1930s, it is estimated that upwards of 600,000 American citizens who happened to be of Mexican descent were deported from the United States under a cultural repatriation campaign conceived by President Hoover. Is President Trump destined to repeat one of the most horrendous acts of US policy? On April 13, following a sit-down […]