President Trump has repealed an Obama-Biden era rule that he said will be beneficial to suburbanites. The program was called: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing or AFFH. According to The Daily Wire: The Obama era rule was written under the Fair Housing Act and “required local governments to prove that federal subsidies for housing projects would
President Trump has appointed a record number of judges to the federal bench and this could shape the courts for decades to come. According to The Hill: Trump last week saw the Senate confirm his 200th judicial appointment, marking a significant milestone for the administration, the conservative legal movement and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision upheld DACA dealing a major blow to President Trump. According to The Hill: The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to block the Trump administration from ending an Obama-era program that shields nearly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation, upending a key feature of President Trump’s immigration agenda. In a
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated that he supports subpoenaing Obama-era officials implicated in spying on the Trump campaign. According to The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled on Tuesday that he is backing efforts to subpoena Obama-era officials. McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor, referenced Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) announcement that he will
President Trump is being sued by multiple green groups over his rollback of Obama-era waterway restrictions. According to The Hill: A coalition of environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, challenging a rollback of protections for the nation’s waterways. The Navigable Waters Protection Rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in January limits
The Trump administration will face court battles over President Trump’s decision to loosen the regulations on fuel mileage of vehicles. According to The Hill: President Trump’s rollback of Obama-era mileage standards last week may prove to be one of the administration’s most vulnerable environmental overhauls as opponents prepare to challenge it in court. The Trump
The Trump administration has dealt another blow to the Obama administration’s restrictive environmental regulations by loosening the rule on fuel efficiency. According to The Hill: The Trump administration on Tuesday rolled back an Obama-era law that pushes automakers to produce more fuel efficient vehicles, severely limiting a rule designed to decrease pollution from transportation in
A new Senate report has indicated that the Obama administration what unprepared to respond to the hacking attempts of the Russians. According to The Hill: The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report Thursday that found that the U.S. government was “not well-postured” to counter Russian interference attempts in 2016, and strongly encouraged the Trump administration
Trump turned the focus toward the Obama administration recently when he pointed out that it also withheld foreign aid. According to The Hill: President Trump pointed to former President Obama in a tweet ahead of the resumption of the Senate impeachment trial on Thursday, saying that his predecessor withheld aid from multiple countries too. “The Democrats
California Democrat Representative Ro Khanna has claimed that no American contractors were killed or embassy protests under former President Obama’s watch. He must have forgotten about Benghazi. According to Town Hall: Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) claimed Tuesday there were no embassy protests or deaths of American contractors under the Obama administration. Speaking with Fox News’s
