Matthew Cullen

Ontario, Vancouver

Sports Journalist and Reporter at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

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Articles

Republican Megabill Projected to Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Matthew Cullen

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office announced today that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes and slash some federal programs would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade. The analysis was all but certain to inflame intraparty tensions between fiscal conservatives and President Trump, who does not share the party's longstanding aversion to government debt. The bill, which was designed to enact the president's agenda, has already passed the House.
Man Charged With Murder in Killing of Israeli Embassy Aides

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Matthew Cullen

5 hours agoTrump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign studentsWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country. The Department of Homeland Security …2 hours agoShould you practice Appstinence?
Trump Told Republicans to Get in Line

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Matthew Cullen

President Trump went to Capitol Hill today to pressure House Republicans to unify around a wide-ranging bill that was designed to deliver his domestic agenda. He joined their weekly closed-door meeting and made it clear that he saw the legislation as a test of loyalty to him. Anyone who voted against the package "wouldn't be a Republican much longer," the president declared.
El Salvador Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Man

2 months ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Matthew Cullen

Share In an Oval Office meeting today with President Trump, El Salvador’s leader said that he would not return a man who was wrongly deported from the U.S. and sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.“Of course I’m not going to do it,” the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, said.
A Judge Ordered the U.S. to Detail Its Efforts to Return a Deported Man

2 months ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Matthew Cullen

Share A federal judge in Maryland ordered the Trump administration today to provide daily updates about its progress toward returning a migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who administration officials acknowledge was wrongly deported nearly a month ago to a notorious prison in El Salvador.“We are going to make a record of everything the government is doing and not doing,” the judge, Paula Xinis, said.Her order temporarily defused a showdown between the judicial and executive branches after...
A Judge Ordered the U.S. to Detail Its Efforts to Return a Deported Man

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Matthew Cullen

A federal judge in Maryland ordered the Trump administration today to provide daily updates about its progress toward returning a migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who administration officials acknowledge was wrongly deported nearly a month ago to a notorious prison in El Salvador. "We are going to make a record of everything the government is doing and not doing," the judge, Paula Xinis, said.
A List of Who Trump Has Targeted for Retribution: Biden, Law Firms and Others

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Michael Schmidt |Matthew Cullen |Lazaro Gamio

Since returning to office, President Trump’s campaign to exact revenge against his foes has turned out to be far more expansive, creative, efficient — and less reliant on the justice system — than anticipated. Here's a breakdown of what he's done. Mr. Trump revoked the security clearances of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., as well as a number of members of his administration and other prominent Democrats. Joseph R.
Trump Officials Disclosed Military Plans in a Group Chat

Mar 24, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Matthew Cullen

The White House confirmed today that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had revealed secret war plans in an encrypted chat group that included a journalist, two hours before U.S. troops launched attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen. It was an extraordinary breach of American national-security intelligence that shocked several Defense Department officials.
Imino‐Pyrrole Zn(II) Complexes for the Rapid and Selective Chemical Recycling of Commodity Polymers

Mar 24, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Matthew Cullen |Gabriele Kociok-Kohn

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The Senate Voted to Avoid a Shutdown

Mar 13, 2025 | flipboard.com | Matthew Cullen

10 hours agoHere’s the story behind how the media missed the story. In 2023, a small website called The Dallas Express picked up a startling allegation: Texas Rep. Kay Granger, one of the most powerful GOP members of Congress, was struggling with dementia. The publication “actually got a tip from a senior staffer …