Latest News
Showing the Latest Trump Transition Results
-
Trump Labor Nominee Defends Sweetheart Plea Deal in Billionaire’s Sex Case Involving Underage Girls
Alex Acosta defended the sweetheart plea deal as a “point of pride.”
-
Politico: Sanders, Warren Gang Up Against Trump’s SEC Nominee
“Clayton’s nomination signals that President Donald Trump is putting Wall Street ahead of hard-working Americans in what amounts to a hostile takeover of our country’s future,” said the liberal coalition, which includes Our Revolution, Public Citizen, CREDO and Allied Progress.
-
Labor Nominee Acosta’s Record Exposed: Scandal, Mismanagement, Callous Disregard for Concerns of Hard-Working Americans
Acosta’s record was exposed as one of scandal, mismanagement, and a callous disregard for the concerns of American workers.
-
U.S. News & World Report: Alexander Acosta Still an Unknown Walking Into Labor Confirmation
“Anyone willing to look beyond Mr. Acosta’s Wikipedia page would see that he is a controversial figure whose mismanagement of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division led to scandal and a years-long investigation,” Karl Frisch, executive director of progressive advocacy group Allied Progress, said in a statement last month. “Simply put: the last time Alexander Acosta managed a division of a federal agency, it ended in scandal and now President Trump wants him to manage an entire federal agency.”
-
Huffington Post: Donald Trump Literally Nominated The Goldman Sachs Bailout Lawyer To Run The SEC
The vote will instead serve a more symbolic purpose. If moderate Democrats can’t vote against Goldman’s bailout attorney, what Wall Street-friendly vote would they oppose?
-
The Mortgage Report: The Department of Justice Changed Its Tune, What Now?
On Friday, the U.S Department of Justice (DOJ) turned against the CFPB, as the DOJ formally announced their support of PHH Corp in the case against the CFPB.
-
CNN: Trump Hires Yet Another Goldman Sachs Banker
Trump’s latest Goldman hire is Jim Donovan, a two-decade veteran of the Wall Street bank, who was nominated to the No. 2 position at the Treasury Department on Tuesday.
-
Politico’s Morning Money: Donovan Gets Treasury Gig, Left Reacts
Allied Progress’s Karl Frisch: “President Trump should give candidate Trump a call if he’s going to keep bringing Goldman Sachs executives into his administration. By handing over our economy to Goldman Sachs, Trump continues to betray working class Americans who took him at his word when he promised to ‘drain the swamp.’”
-
With Donovan Nomination, Trump Adds Yet Another Goldman Sachs Alum to Its Ranks
Goldman Sachs banker James Donovan tapped to serve as Deputy Secretary of Treasury under “Foreclosure King” Steven Mnuchin.
-
Daily Bulldog: Vanishing Land
Collins tried to accommodate the liberal group Mainers for Accountable Leadership by meeting with its members. The next day the same activists picketed her in Bangor for being inaccessible. Meanwhile, another leftist organization, Allied Progress, slammed her for not opposing more Trump nominees.