Trump mishandling money
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
Quote:The IMLS is a relatively small federal agency, with around 70 employees, that awards grant funding to museums and libraries across the United States.
This month, President Trump named Keith E. Sonderling — the deputy secretary of labor — the new acting director of IMLS. This followed Trump's previous executive order shrinking seven federal agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
According to a statement from AFGE Local 3403, which represents IMLS workers, the agency's staff was notified by email about being placed on paid administrative leave for up to 90 days, after a "brief meeting between DOGE staff and IMLS leadership." Employees had to turn in government property, and email accounts were disabled.
Happy National Library Week, by the way. There is an online support website and petition for the IMLS.
Opinion | The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing
Quote:This isn’t a dig. The president genuinely seems to think of tariffs as fees that foreign countries pay to the United States. “We have massive Financial Deficits with China, the European Union, and many others,” he wrote on his Truth Social website on Sunday. “The only way this problem can be cured is with TARIFFS, which are now bringing Tens of Billions of Dollars into the U.S.A.” Here, you also see his related belief that a trade deficit is an actual absence of funds, akin to a negative balance in a bank account.
Trump committing crimes
Trump ‘simply floated’ idea of deporting U.S. citizens, White House’s Leavitt says
Quote:White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the Trump administration is not sure it is legal to deport U.S. citizens to El Salvador, but that President Donald Trump has “simply floated” the idea for the sake of transparency.
Trump said Sunday that he loves the idea of deporting incarcerated Americans to El Salvador, but that he doesn’t “know what the law says on that.” A reporter had asked Trump about El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to house American prisoners.
State Dept. gives El Salvador a massive upgrade as it disappears U.S. immigrants
Quote:In February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Bukele had offered to jail U.S. citizens in El Salvador, a move that Rubio admitted was likely to hit some legal hurdles — you know, because it’s blatantly illegal to expatriate U.S. citizens to foreign prisons.
When Trump was asked about the idea again last Sunday he responded, “I love that.” He added that he’d be “honored” to send incarcerated Americans to El Salvador, before noting, “I don’t know what the law says on that.”
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