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riversedge's JournalTrumps big jobs announcement points to Obama-era success story
Source: msnbc
03/29/17 10:00 AM—Updated 03/29/17 11:03 AM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump declared with pride yesterday morning, “Big announcement by Ford today. Major investment to be made in three Michigan plants. Car companies coming back to U.S. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!” Soon after, Kellyanne Conway, a top aide to the president, added that Ford’s investments come just “two weeks after” Trump’s meeting with auto-industry executives.
The implication wasn’t subtle: Americans are supposed to believe that the president met with industry leaders, which led to Ford’s good news soon after.
But the White House’s latest effort to take credit for good economic news is eerily similar to its previous efforts – which is to say, it was wildly misleading. CNBC reported:
The White House on Tuesday promoted a Ford investment in American plants, most of which was part of a plan the automaker first announced in 2015...............................
Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-big-jobs-announcement-points-obama-era-success-story?cid=eml_mra_20170329
https://twitter.com/voter1vote/status/847160057670389766
At White House:.....
Amy Siskind?Verified account @Amy_Siskind 4m4 minutes ago
It's refreshing to hear we'll take it where it leads from Warner and Burr, vs Nunes who said nothing there before the start of hearings.
Amy Siskind?Verified account @Amy_Siskind 6m6 minutes ago
If Senate Intel Committee does as they say (?able), Russia will be front and center until impeachment starts. Trump will get nothing done.
MEANWHILE................
Frederick Douglass? @HITEXECUTIVE 5m5 minutes ago
Senate Intel Cmte:
Richard Burr: Including Jared Kushner, 20 people to be interviewed about #TrumpRussia
Mark Warner: Ditto
At White House:
https://twitter.com/HITEXECUTIVE/status/847156730505048064
Trump promised to bring back coal jobs. That promise will not be kept, experts say.
Source: washington post
By Darryl Fears March 29 at 8:00 AM
..............................With coal miners gathered around him, Trump signed an executive order rolling back a temporary ban on mining coal and a stream protection rule imposed by the Obama administration. The order follows the president’s campaign promise to revive the struggling coal industry and bring back thousands of lost mining jobs in rural America.
“I made them this promise,” Trump said, “we will put our miners back to work.”
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As power companies switch fuels, “the amount of coal in the national energy generation mix (both Fuels and Electricity Generation) has declined by 53 percent since 2006,” according to a Department of Energy report released in January. Over the same period, electricity generation from natural gas increased 33 percent.
The shift was mirrored by employment, with jobs in natural gas and other cleaner energy resources rising and coal jobs declining, the report said. It cited a Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis showing that coal mining and support employment declined by nearly 40 percent between March 2009 and March 2016...................................
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/29/trump-promised-to-bring-back-coal-jobs-that-promise-will-not-be-kept-experts-say/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_coaljobs-923a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.be76089ac1e7
[The West’s largest coal fired power plant is closing. Not even Trump can save it.]
Trump heralds 'new era in American energy' with climate actions
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Flanked by cabinet members and coal miners, President Trump introduced and signed an executive order on March 28, that revokes Obama-era climate regulations and puts "an end to the war on coal,” he said. (The White House)
USA Today: Trump repeatedly turned to at least 10 Russian mobsters and oligarchs to expand his bus
Source: shareblue
USA Today: Trump “repeatedly turned” to at least 10 Russian mobsters and oligarchs to expand his business
By Oliver Willis | March 29, 2017
Donald Trump involved several figures associated with Russian mafia activity in his business dealings, according to a new report from USA Today.
In order to expand his real estate business, Trump “repeatedly turned to wealthy Russians and oligarchs from former Soviet republics — several allegedly connected to organized crime.”
The newspaper documents at least 10 different figures from Russia with ties to criminal organizations and money laundering that did extensive work with Trump.
Evidence clearly shows Trump was lying when he said, “I have no dealings with Russia.” What is not known is the extent to which Russian crime money comprises Trump’s net worth (and ongoing income) because he has refused to release his tax returns (and congressional Republicans continue to help him cover them up).
Trump’s Russian crime cabinet includes the following figures:....................
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Read more: http://shareblue.com/usa-today-trump-repeatedly-turned-to-at-least-10-russian-mobsters-and-oligarchs-to-expand-his-business/#.WNviJdcqQZY.twitter
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"Resist, insist, persist, enlist": Hillary Clinton's speech targeted the Trump administration
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Ex-Maricopa County sheriff wants his campaign talk banned at trial
Ex-Maricopa County sheriff wants his campaign talk banned at trial
http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2017/03/27/ex-maricopa-county-sheriff-wants-his-campaign-talk-banned-at-trial/
By: Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press March 27, 2017 , 5:36 pm
Sheriff Joe Arpaio stands in front of volunteer posse members and reflects on his 24 years in office at a press conference in the Park Central Mall parking lot on Nov. 28, 2016. (Photo by Andres Guerra Luz/Cronkite News)
For nine years, Joe Arpaio enjoyed solid popularity as the sheriff of metro Phoenix by locking up immigrants in the U.S. illegally and regularly telling news reporters that no one would stop his crackdowns.
The former lawman who made his fight against illegal immigration a fixture of his speeches and media interviews during his last three campaigns asked a judge on March 24 to prohibit prosecutors from mentioning those statements at his April 25 trial on a criminal contempt-of-court charge.
Arpaio, who was defeated last November after 24 years as sheriff for sprawling Maricopa County, faces the misdemeanor charge for disobeying a court order to halt his immigration patrols, which continued for 17 months after a judge issued the order.
To win a conviction, prosecutors must prove that Arpaio intended to violate the judge’s order. The 84-year-old Arpaio, who would face up to six months in jail if convicted, has acknowledged prolonging the patrols, but insists he did so unintentionally..................................
Trump scraps Obama's anti-wage theft protections
Source: Independent
Justin Carissimo New York
28 March 2017 15:14
President Donald Trump has signed new legislation repealing regulation designed to protect workers from wage theft. The Obama-era rule penalised businesses that violated wage and safety laws by pulling their government contracts if they racked up too many offences.
Those employee protections are now a thing of the past and, as the Huffington Post reports, Congressional Republicans argued that the regulation were too restrictive and killed jobs. Lawmakers used the Congressional Review Act on Monday to effectively repeal the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule. Republicans have employed the rarely used law to revoke more than a dozen Obama-era policies since Mr Trump took office.
On Monday evening, President Trump commended the new resolution. “Today I'm signing 4 bills under the Congressional Review Act that cancels regulations & eliminates unnecessary, job-killing rules," he wrote on Twitter.
The regulation forced businesses to disclose each time they broke a law in the past three years, including violations relating to civil rights, health and safety, and minimum wage and overtime violations...........................
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-scraps-obama-anti-wage-theft-protections-a7654241.html
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At some point, there has to be a realization that this-#ACA-is about real people and real lives
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Four Things Trump Could Do Right Now To Fix Obamacare
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/four-things-trump-could-do-right-now-to-fix-obamacare-214962
A bipartisan scheme if Trump decides to save the system, rather than sabotage it.
By Michael Grunwald
March 28, 2017
.............Pelosi sent a letter to her caucus today asking for suggestions to improve the ACA. If Trump and congressional Republicans are also interested in pursuing reform instead of repeal, here are a few things they could do.
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Defuse the Crisis. The leading enemy of stability is uncertainty, and for insurers who must decide what to do about the exchanges by June, the leading source of uncertainty before last Friday was the Republican repeal push itself. That threat has apparently subsided, but the House lawsuit over cost-sharing subsidies could still blow up the exchanges. The House put the suit on hold after Trump’s election, anticipating Obamacare’s repeal, but if the Republicans want to avoid a major mess, they need to make the suit go away and make sure the subsidies keep flowing.
The lawsuit aims to block subsidies that reduce out-of-pocket costs for more than 6 million customers on the exchanges with incomes below 250 percent of the poverty line, or about $60,000 for a family of four. Insurers say it would be almost impossible to make their numbers work without those subsidies. Centene CEO Michael Neidorff, whose Fortune 500 company covers 1 million customers on the exchanges, says it’s “absolutely critical” for Trump and Congress to send a clear signal they’ll continue. “If they do that, we’ll stick with this,” Neidorff says. “I’m an eternal optimist. I don’t think they want to see millions of people lose insurance.”
On the other hand, if Trump and congressional Republicans decide to kill the cost-sharing subsidies, or even if their fate remains unclear, insurers of all types will be reluctant to risk another year on the exchanges. “Without clarity, it’s going to be very difficult for even the most committed nonprofit to stay in that business,” says Ceci Connolly, president of the Alliance of Community Health Plans.
If Congress wanted to go even further to stabilize the exchanges, it could increase the cost-sharing subsidies, or for that matter Obamacare’s other subsidies and tax credits designed to ease the cost of insurance. Republicans have balked at spending more money to expand coverage, but their bill did boost aid to the young and the middle class; if they were willing to support those provisions without the bill’s cuts to the elderly and the poor, they could make insurance more attractive to more people, which could make the exchanges more attractive to more insurers.
“I don’t know of insurers who see the exchanges as a big profit center,” says Marilyn Tavenner, a former Obama administration health official who now runs America’s Health Insurance Plans. “They just want to avoid big losses. We would love to send a message that stability is here, that you can stay in this market.”
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