The Trump administration is not granting Visas in a timely matter to let athletes, officials and fans into the U.S. for the FIFA World Cup 26 and the 2028 Olympic Games. At this point it is almost too late to correct the World Cup situation and it may need to be moved somewhere else on an emergency basis. US Scrambling For Ideas As World Cup And Olympics In Jeopardy Due To Visa Backlog https://www.thetravel.com/us-scramb...and-olympics-in-jeopardy-due-to-visa-backlog/
Trump tells rural red-county homeowners on well water to monitor their own wells from now on, he's not gonna let them freeload off of him any longer. USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable. https://www.hcn.org/articles/usgs-biological-research-arm-could-vanish-next-week/
If it did then you won't hear about it from the CDC. Just look for rows of children in iron lungs at your local hospital.
Trump pushes the concept of merit. His entire administration has been selected on the basis of loyalty rather than merit. Nearly all of his appointees are totally unqualified for their positions which is why his entire administration is floundering. Trump's administration is off the rails because it's unqualified to do the job Why is it so much to ask that President Trump follow the law and ask his administration to do the same? https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...8/trump-due-process-deportations/83824951007/ When President Donald Trump was asked whether everyone deserves due process in early May, he responded, “I don't know. I'm not, I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.” That answer highlights a glaring problem within this administration. Trump is not a lawyer, so who he surrounds himself with really matters. This administration is a trainwreck because of the people Trump hired to help run the country. The result is an administration that's not qualified enough to be trusted within the guardrails of the law or to do what is best for the country. Between trying to write birthright citizenship out of the Constitution and the attempts to flaunt due process in immigration proceedings, the Trump administration's lack of legal guardrails is hindering its ability to get things done. Trump is actually deporting fewer illegal immigrants than Joe Biden did during his presidency, in part because of the self-inflicted legal battles. If he just used the same tools as Biden, he could be far more effective in deporting than he is right now. Trump's administration can't be bothered to know the law Trump doesn’t have a thorough understanding of many policy areas, and that is particularly glaring when it comes to the law. Making matters worse is that his advisers don't help fill that need. Instead, they are an echo chamber that encourages all of his bad ideas and rarely steers him in the right direction. Both Trump and his supporters, who give attention to anyone who sings their supreme leader’s praises, allow disingenuous grifters to elevate their status by loyally defending the president. Past Republican administrations have had a relatively straightforward vetting process that filters out the grifters, meaning they consider merit when selecting people for roles. Many conservative leaders welcome disagreement from their aides and colleagues because iron sharpens iron. Even as recently as his first presidency, Trump was guided by his vice president, Mike Pence, a devout Christian conservative who had a strong spine when it came to defending the constitutional structure. Pence and Trump differed on quite a bit, and that was by design. His role was to keep Trump within the lines. Trump 2.0 has no interest in that because his chief concern is loyalty. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who is also not a lawyer, is the president's most useful acolyte. Miller’s superpower is that he can spin any illegal action by the administration into the courts, attacking the office of the American presidency itself. Others, like Vice President JD Vance, a Yale lawyer, clearly should know better about the law than they let on. Vance’s problem is that he gains more by manipulating his understanding of the law to meet Trump’s ends than he does by advising the president of what is actually constitutional. This is precisely what Trump wanted in a vice president, and why he threw Pence to the curb following his rejection of Trump's false stolen election claims. Trump administration is off the rails because of a lack of merit Despite the positive discussions of merit-based hiring replacing diversity, equity and inclusion once again, the Trump administration doesn’t practice what it preaches. Instead of hiring the best fits for the job, Trump simply hires the most loyal defender that he can slot in and moves on. The result is a bunch of idiots who don’t actually understand the law screaming at the courts for blocking their schemes instead of doing the job by passing legislation. All this comes down to is the lack of a sensible voice in the White House. Trump’s first term didn’t run into these same problems because he had advisers who truly cared about the law. Now, Trump has the political capital within the GOP to surround himself with whomever he wants. The result is that everyone bends over backward to say yes to Trump, who, to his own admission, is not a lawyer and has no idea what he is doing when it comes to the law. It's too bad nobody else in his inner circle wants to fix it.
Are you an African nation aligned with the US but no longer receiving economic aid? Don't worry, China has got your back and won't ask for any pesky "democratic reforms" either. AFRICOM chief warns China attempting to ‘replicate’ US assistance as Washington pulls back https://breakingdefense.com/2025/05...icate-us-assistance-as-washington-pulls-back/
Get ready for financial institutions to screw you in every way possible -- and for your next 2008-style banking crisis. 'What could possibly go wrong?': Trump rollback of banking rules is creating shockwaves https://www.alternet.org/rump-banking-rules-politico/
The government reports coming out of the Trump administration no longer have any integrity. USDA redaction of trade analysis causes concern about report integrity https://finance.yahoo.com/news/usda-redaction-trade-analysis-causes-233631599.html