But the CPB reversed course under mounting pressure from the Trump administration, according to NPR. The agency redirected federal interconnection funds away from NPR to an entity that didn't exist and wasn't statutorily authorized to receive it, NPR says. CPB attorneys denied that the agency retaliated against NPR to appease Trump. They had argued that NPR's claims are factually and legally meritless. On May 1, Trump issued an executive order that called for federal agencies to stop funding for NPR and PBS.
MAGA politicians and members of their movement split a friggin' gut leading up to the impending "No Kings" mass demonstrations proposed and organized in over 2,500 sites throughout the United States in protest of the draconian policies and actions undertaken during the past 10-month period of President Trump's second regime. Like all good little brown-shirted propagandists marching in lockstep with their orange-faced leader, their hysterical outbursts included Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives' Mike Johnson's misrepresentation:
So, today I gave [reporters] about a three-hour press conference on changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, because you know, we won World War I, World War II, everything in between and everything in front of it. It was called the Department of War And then we went woke after the Second World War. Incredible victory. And we said, Let's change it to Defense. And look.
Donald Trump is no friend of organized labor. Nor is Trump a friend of federal workers-or the unions that represent them. In fact, on March 27, the president issued an executive order demanding that most federal agencies terminate their union contracts. The president claimed he had the power to suspend collective bargaining for national security reasons-sparking ongoing legal and legislative battles.
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The changes open the door to discrimination based on non-protected characteristics, allowing healthcare professionals to refuse treatment based on personal beliefs and political affiliations.
Senate Democrats and the Biden administration abandoned plans to cap drug prices based on payments in other wealthy nations during negotiations to empower Medicare's negotiation capabilities.