The Trump Administration’s Treatment of Migrant Children is a Travesty
"The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that it’s discontinuing or scaling back recreational, legal, and educational services for detained unaccompanied migrant minors. That means a loss of soccer games, a loss of English classes, and a loss of legal aid. The request will undoubtedly make life worse for the thousands of immigrant children detained in HHS facilities, but the department claims it does not have the funds to continue services and must instead prioritize “safety”. But let’s not kid ourselves. If Trump wanted migrant children to be cared for, they would be cared for. Instead, the administration has long seen children as pawns in the immigration fight, in blatant disregard of both child development and, most likely, the law. So much for being a country that cares about children".
http://news.yahoo.com/trump-administration-treatment-migrant-children-210739319.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index
A war is brewing between Trump and corporate America
"They may not like his combative style, but business leaders have applauded much of President Trump’s economic agenda. Trump slashed their taxes starting in 2018, sending profits soaring. And he’s killing regulations, making it easier for business to operate.
But the honeymoon is ending as a tariff-happy Trump disrupts supply chains all over the world and threatens some U.S. companies outright. Businesses are responding to Trump’s escalating tariffs on imports from China, Mexico and other countries by curtailing investment, which will weaken the economy as Trump is heading for reelection in 2020. And investors unnerved by trade and immigration wars are selling stocks and other risky assets, signaling concern about economic damage Trump may be causing—and even a possible recession. The S&P 500 stock index is down 7% since the end of April, largely on trade worries".
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-war-is-brewing-between-trump-and-corporate-america-130242396.html
New York Offers Up Trump's State Tax Returns—But One Lawmaker Stands in the Way
"(Bloomberg) -- House Democrats clamoring for Donald Trump’s tax information have eagerly awaited a newly passed New York law allowing limited access to the president’s state returns.
They’re about to be sorely disappointed.
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal would be the only Democrat allowed by the new law to ask for the documents, but so far he has said he won’t do it.
Neal has said he fears that getting the state returns would bolster Trump administration arguments that Congress is on a political fishing expedition -- and not, as Neal has claimed, overseeing the Internal Revenue Service’s annual audits of the president.
But Neal’s patience may wear thin if a lengthy legal battle with the Trump administration looms while the 2020 presidential campaign heats up and Democratic voters want to see the House hold Trump accountable".
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-05/trump-tax-fight-sows-discord-between-wary-and-warlike-democrats
US recovery closes in on 10-year milestone as fears abound that the party is ending
"As the U.S. economy inches closer to a record-setting decade of sustained growth, experts are increasingly worried that a cliff — caused by a multi-front trade war —could be looming".
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-economys-expansion-nears-10-year-mark-amid-fears-the-party-ending-132612236.html