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Trump To Sign Anti-Critical Race Theory Executive Order, Seek Reinstatement Of His '1776 Commission'
When President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Jan. 20, and he immediately started signing executive orders to ban DEI from the federal government, we should all have been waiting for the other shoe to drop — that “shoe” being critical race theory. According to the LA Times, Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would pull federal funding from any school that teaches CRT, a college-level academic framework for studying systemic racism that Republicans have demonstrated time and time again that they know nothing about. MORE:...
Trump takes aim at FEMA in new executive order
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that establishes a task force to conduct a review of the Federal Emergency Management Agency after he trashed the agency in trips to North Carolina and California earlier this weekend. Trump teased an overhaul of FEMA in both stops, saying in North Carolina that he would be signing an executive order to “begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA.” He also said in California that the state would be better off with a “good state...
North Carolina Open Thread: Tillis/Hegseth-Trump/Asheville -In FEMA‘s defense-Environmental stories
Social media critics raked Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) over the coals after he, along with Vice President J.D. Vance, proved to be the deciding votes to confirm former Fox News weekend co-host Pete Hegseth to serve as President Donald Trump's secretary of Defense. The overall vote count Friday night was 51-50, with three Republican Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) all breaking rank and voting no, forcing Vance to break the tie. It marked just the second time in modern history a vice president...