Tag: Trump Administration

Did Melania Trump Use Personal Email for Government Business?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Did Melania Trump Use Personal Email for Government Business?

The government’s failure to preserve its emails dates all the way back to January 1989 – beginning with an attempt by the outgoing Reagan White House to destroy its email backup tapes. This destruction was only thwarted by the National Security Archive’s lawsuit, which first established emails as federal records. Read more about the Archive’s decades-long battle to preserve White House email here.

President’s Budget Would Hurt People With Disabilities

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

President Trump’s 2021 budget would make it harder for millions of people with disabilities to afford such basics as food, housing, and health care by cutting tens of billions of dollars from disability programs, including Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). And it would compound the hit for those with disabilities by also
— Read on www.cbpp.org/blog/presidents-budget-would-hurt-people-with-disabilities-1

Trump’s Administration sees SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance) as welfare, therefore he can say that he didn’t cut Social Security!

Scientists fault gov’t and private industry response for U.S. coronavirus spread

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Two top scientists—the chief of occupational medicine at the University of Illinois and the Dean of the Baylor University’s School of Tropical Medicine—are faulting the federal government’s and private industry’s response for the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus in the U.S.

And the top union for registered nurses, National Nurses United, found in a nationwide survey of 6,500 nurses, and counting, that only 44% report their hospitals and nursing homes have trained them in how to recognize and cope with the coronavirus, and only 29% have plans to isolate coronavirus sufferers.

The remarks, from Dr. Peter Orris of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor University, came as the U.S. death toll from coronavirus rose to 14, and as data shows workers and older patients at nursing homes are particularly at risk of becoming ill and—for the elderly—dying.
— Read on www.peoplesworld.org/article/scientists-fault-govt-and-private-industry-response-for-u-s-coronavirus-spread/