government shutdown
Routine FDA food inspections suspended by shutdown
January 11, 2019Americans only just survived the great romaine lettuce scare of 2018, and now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has postponed routine domestic food safety inspections.
Read moreGovernment shut down, but oil development mostly open for business
January 10, 2019“The oil industry is still getting business as usual and everybody else is getting shut out, so it’s fundamentally not fair."
Read moreWe do have a border crisis—the one Trump created
January 9, 2019Finally, words of truth from the mouth of Donald J. Trump.
Read moreTrump’s speech: Even Fox called out his lies
January 9, 2019The speech was a ploy to raise money for the President’s campaign. Media Matters noted that the networks, which gave him the time, “got played and they know it.”
Read moreOne government worker’s perspective on fighting the Trump shutdown
December 28, 2018There is no strengthening of the labor movement to come from calling the switchboard of this White House unless your name is Rush Limbaugh or Anne Coulter.
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