Saturday, February 8, 2025
■ The Week in Review
"Rather than standing up for average Americans," said the Independent U.S. senator, the president is "protecting the interests of some of the wealthiest people in the world."
By Jon Queally • Feb 8, 2025
"We're in a right-now hour-by-hour constitutional emergency and they have a duty to be at their posts."
By Jake Johnson • Feb 7, 2025
"Now that Vought is officially running the show, he'll be able to unleash his radical agenda across the federal government. And if the courts stop him, he's got a billionaire friend with the government's keys and checkbook: Elon Musk."
By Jake Johnson • Feb 7, 2025
One observer wrote: "Skull. Measuring. Freaks."
By Eloise Goldsmith • Feb 6, 2025
Democrats "should be blowing past McConnell-level obstruction in a way that makes it look like business as usual," said one commentator.
By Jake Johnson • Feb 6, 2025
"He won't have to worry about medical bills or skipping tests because he has high-quality, government-funded healthcare—the thing he's fought to deny the rest of us," said one single-payer campaigner.
By Jessica Corbett • Feb 5, 2025
"The people who keep our food and medicine safe know more about how to make government efficient than an outsider whose companies benefit from the very agencies he is infiltrating."
By Julia Conley • Feb 5, 2025
"The Trump administration is moving this country very aggressively into an authoritarian society where the rule of law, and our Constitution, are being ignored and undermined."
By Jessica Corbett • Feb 4, 2025
Standing beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said that "the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip," which would be emptied of Palestinians.
By Brett Wilkins • Feb 4, 2025
One think tank urged Congress to "create a more equitable federal tax system that raises revenue sufficient to meet the nation's needs and requires wealthy households and corporations to pay their fair share."
By Jessica Corbett • Feb 4, 2025
The same day the report was released, billionaire Elon Musk said that he was working to shut down the agency with U.S. President Donald Trump's blessing.
By Eloise Goldsmith • Feb 4, 2025
"There has to be a political price to pay" for Elon Musk's takeover of federal agencies, said the congresswoman.
By Julia Conley • Feb 4, 2025
