
Caitlin Babcock
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1 week ago |
csmonitor.com | Henry Gass |Caitlin Babcock
Amid a running separation-of-powers battle between President Donald Trump and the federal courts, Congress is stepping forward with an audacious proposal. The House of Representatives last week passed a more than 1,000-page budget and spending bill, the Trumpian-titled “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” Buried in the bill is a paragraph that experts say would neuter, at least in the short term, a key judicial power.
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2 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Stephanie Hanes |Caitlin Babcock
Only a week after the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to weaken limits on some of the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in drinking water, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again Commission released a much-anticipated report Thursday outlining what it sees as a health crisis among American children.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Caitlin Babcock
Americans are waiting to see whether their country will correct what the Justice Department has called a mistake – a deportation that the Supreme Court has also called illegal.
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2 months ago |
csmonitor.com | Francine Kiefer |Caitlin Babcock
As Democrats struggle to push back against a Trump tidal wave of government cuts and aggressive policy actions, a familiar, Brooklyn-accented voice is once again rising through the wilderness. “This country faces enormous crises. And how we respond to these crises today, will impact not only our lives, but the lives of our kids, future generations, and in terms of climate change, the very well-being of the planet,” Vermont Sen.
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2 months ago |
csmonitor.com | Ali Martin |Caitlin Babcock
This week the tariff wars have been heating up – and the stock market has been going down. The United States imposed a 25% levy on steel and aluminum imports Wednesday, implementing a February order by President Donald Trump. The European Union and Canada, America’s largest steel supplier, responded quickly by raising tariffs of their own. China had already retaliated Monday against other new U.S. tariffs, with higher fees on American farm products. It’s classic trade-war behavior.
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