The Trump administration has asked local governments and nonprofit organizations that received federal grants to identify immigrants they have housed, suggesting in a letter that they may have violated human smuggling laws. The Department of Homeland Security has “significant concerns” that organizations and governments receiving Federal Emergency Management Agency grants “may be guilty of encouraging...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation As Donald Trump looks for new methods to crush the Palestine solidarity movement some groups allied with his cause are suggesting potential targets. A coalition of 45 pro-Israel organizations, led by the Zachor Legal Institute, have sent a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department,...
Along with multi-year suspensions and expulsions, it’s unclear how many students and graduates are impacted. As the Trump administration’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil sparks legal battles and demonstrations, Columbia University announced Thursday that it has revoked degrees from some other pro-Palestinian campus protesters. A campuswide email reported by The Associated Press and shared on...
Washington, D.C. — A federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate thousands of jobs for probationary federal workers fired as part of billionaire Elon Musk’s campaign to slash the federal workforce. Judge William Alsup ruled Thursday morning that tens of thousands of workers must be rehired across numerous federal agencies, including...
Citibank was following requests from the Trump White House when it froze the accounts of several nonprofits last month. Recently disclosed court documents reveal that Citibank froze the accounts of several nonprofit organizations and state agencies in February in response to directives from multiple federal entities. These included the FBI, which cited ‘credible information’ of...
Senate Democrats have signaled that they will not support a continuing resolution bill to fund the government that is being offered by Republican lawmakers, setting up a potential government shutdown if a deal cannot be reached by Friday at midnight. The resolution offered by Republicans, already passed in the GOP-run House of Representatives, would make...
The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are waging a multi-front war on nutrition benefits for children, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture moving this week to end programs that provided over $1 billion in funding for schools and charity organizations to buy food from local farmers as GOP lawmakers simultaneously take aim at school...
A new report by United Nations experts says Israel has carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians in Gaza, including the destruction of women’s healthcare facilities, intended to prevent births, and the use of sexual violence as a strategy of war. This comes as talks on resuscitating the ceasefire deal continue in Qatar and as Israel...
After weeks of Donald Trump’s threats to “take back” the Panama Canal, the White House has ordered the military to come up with an assortment of plans to make the president’s imperial fantasy a reality. According to NBC News, which first reported on the directive, the plans range from increasing military partnership with Panama to...
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he is planning to impose a 200 percent tariff on European countries’ alcoholic products sold to the U.S., responding to a much smaller tariff imposed by the European Union (EU) that was itself was in response to tariffs by Trump earlier this month. The EU announced on...
On March 6, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum held a meeting with nearly 40 representatives of Mexico’s national bourgeoisie to discuss her government’s plans in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Sheinbaum would later confess that the meeting was set up to share what her government was planning on doing should her phone...
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Donald Trump expressed little remorse over his administration’s firing of thousands of government workers through Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), baselessly suggesting that the people who have been fired thus far were incompetent at their jobs. Trump offered no evidence to back...
A record number of people are struggling to afford housing, and leaders from across the political spectrum have called for action. But the Trump Administration, including Elon Musk and the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), has taken one step after another that will undermine the most effective policies to help people afford housing, including cutting...
