A little bit of everything
In a press conference Wednesday and I’m sure at other times as well, President Trump repeated his argument for shutting down the Department of Education. There are two things wrong with his explanation.
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President Trump is a bully. Everything he does in business and politics is based on his leveraging wealth – his or that of the country whose executive branch he now manages – over financially weaker opponents, to his advantage at their expense. In the private sector, it’s how he gets away with not paying his contractors. In the Oval Office, it’s what he’s doing when he uses tariffs to hurt even our closest, most essential allies. Being a bully is all he knows.
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Maryland Rep. Johnny Olszewski and Democratic colleagues at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Thursday attacked the Trump administration for attempting to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Amid efforts by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), created by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, to shut down some agencies, cut federal jobs, and slash agency leases, Van Hollen, Alsobrooks and Robert Shriver of Democracy Forward, a legal organization that promotes democracy and social progress, addressed public concerns over Social Security, buyouts, proposed cuts to public health and disability, and other issues.
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Henceforth, I – an ordinary citizen of these United States – am replacing the traditional elephant mascot of the Republican Party with the Lemmus Spinus or, in English, the Spineless Lemming, a small rodent, lacking courage or convictions, with an undeserved reputation for committing mass suicide.
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Maryland Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks joined other members of the state’s congressional delegation and federal employee unions near the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to denounce the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal civil service.
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House and Senate Democrats, the minority in both chambers, have staged protests across Washington all week. They demonstrated outside USAID headquarters Monday, the Treasury Department Tuesday, and the Labor Department following Wednesday’s rally near the Capitol.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Obama and Biden administration diversity policies for Wednesday’s fatal collision of a jetliner and helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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President Trump is reviving an Affirmative Action program that is as old as our constitutional republic. At the dawning of the United States, the privileged class bequeathed privileges to the privileged. Caucasian male property owners were not only at the top of the heap, they were the entire heap and everyone else was just plain old other.
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The week of Jan. 20 has been almost a sacred one for Maryland lawmakers, as they reflect on the messages of two different icons – President Donald Trump and Martin Luther King Jr. Monday marked both Inauguration Day and MLK Day, conjuring a range of emotions in Maryland’s State House. For Republicans, it kicked off a week of exultation, and for Democrats, a call to vigilance.
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