trump administration

The U.S. Postal Service warned states in late July that it might not be able to deliver mail-in ballots in time to be counted. Amid a growing outcry from rural leaders, the agency's director has backed down from planned broad cuts and changes.

National

Why Rural America Is Fighting The Trump Administration On The Post Office

3:22pm August 20, 2020

by Kirk Siegler

The agency serves areas where private carriers won't go. And in those remote communities, which helped elect the president, the Postal Service can be seen as a lifeline as well as a human connection.

Honduran migrants, Ricardo Sr., (left), his son Ricardo Jr., 13, and his cousin Jorge, 16, walk near their home in Texas. When the two teenage boys crossed the border illegally into Texas last month, they turned themselves in to the Border Patrol. They we

Shadow Immigration System: Migrant Children Detained In Hotels By Private Contractors

10:50am August 20, 2020

The children are held at hotels, instead of shelters, until they can be put on planes to their home countries. This bypasses the normal process that gives children a chance to ask for asylum.

Queue Listen Now

The extra $600-a-week unemployment benefit has kept jobless people from plummeting into further debt and has allowed for sustained spending, a boon for the struggling economy.

U.S. Economy On High Alert Over Shaky Future Of Extra Jobless Benefits

10:48am August 06, 2020

by Scott Horsley

As Congress debates whether to renew supplemental unemployment benefits for people thrown out of work by the pandemic, new research shows those benefits offer a critical boost for the U.S. economy.

Queue Listen Now

A federal judge blocked further implementation of a rule issued last year by the Department of Homeland Security.

Twin Rulings By Federal Judge Block 'Public Charge' Rules For Immigrants

2:05pm July 31, 2020

by David Welna

The judge cites the coronavirus pandemic in blocking the Trump administration's attempt to widen the criteria for what makes an immigrant a "public charge."

A new report found that citations for over-prescribing antipsychotics to nursing home residents declined significantly between the end of the Obama administration and the first half of the Trump administration.

National

Study: Nursing Home Residents Not Protected From Antipsychotic Drugs Under Trump

5:00am July 28, 2020

by Ina Jaffe

Enforcement of rules protecting nursing home residents from antipsychotic drugs has declined during the Trump administration, according to a new report.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., organized a letter signed by 44 Senate Democrats and the chamber's two independents on Friday, urging the White House to withdraw changes to hospital reporting requirements.

Congressional Democrats Demand White House Restore COVID-19 Data Collection To CDC

3:17pm July 17, 2020

by Pien Huang

Senators and House members have separately issued letters calling for the Trump administration to undo a controversial move redirecting hospitals' coronavirus information.

The Department of Veterans Affairs blocked the University of Phoenix, Perdoceo Education Corp., Bellevue University and Temple University from enrolling GI Bill students after the Federal Trade Commission laid enormous penalties on them for deceptive adve

Trump Administration Clears For-Profit Colleges To Register Veterans Again

2:15pm July 16, 2020

by Quil Lawrence

The Department of Veterans Affairs is no longer blocking several for-profit schools that the Federal Trade Commission penalized for deceptive advertising from enrolling GI Bill students.

Queue Listen Now

Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, says his organization has a big role to play in reducing racial economic inequities, which he says, is crucial to a stable economy.

Economy

Racism Has An Economic Cost, Atlanta Fed President Warns

9:15pm July 15, 2020

by Emma Bowman

Raphael Bostic, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta says his organization is committed to reducing racial economic inequities, which he says, is crucial to a stable economy.

Queue Listen Now

A Border Patrol agent walks along a border wall separating Tijuana, Mexico, from San Diego, in March 2020.

National

Migrant Mother Given A Choice: Leave Her Newborn In U.S. Or Return To Mexico Together

3:32pm July 13, 2020

by Max Rivlin-Nadler

As the Trump administration has effectively shut down the asylum system at the border during the pandemic, one mother was given the choice to go to Mexico with or without her newborn, a U.S. citizen.

Queue Listen Now

The Trump administration announced two new political appointees Tuesday at the U.S. Census Bureau, which is headquartered in Suitland, Md.

Trump Appointees Join Census Bureau; Democrats Concerned Over Partisan 'Games'

10:51pm June 23, 2020

by Hansi Lo Wang

Some Democrats are calling new political appointments at the federal government's largest statistical agency a Trump administration attempt to interfere with the 2020 census.