Trump Administration Archives

The Health-Care Deadline Is This Saturday. Here’s What’s New This Time Around.

Open enrollment for ACA plans and some state Medicaid programs ends December 15th.

Demonstrators march in response to the Trump administration's announcement that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on September 5th, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

Social Justice

DACA Has Not Been Saved—and It May Be in Its Last Days

The program protecting Dreamers from deportation has achieved a string of victories in the courts. But legal experts—and DACA recipients—worry that not much has changed.

Jack Herrera

The Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

News in Brief

EPA Policing of Environmental Violations Plummeted in 2018

Environmental Protection Agency enforcement fell to 10-year lows in 2017, but 2018's numbers may be even lower.

Francie Diep

House Democrats Announce They’ll Hold Climate Change Hearings Early Next Year

Since Democrats gained a majority in the House during the mid-term elections, they've been expected to focus on climate change mitigation and preparation.

Francie Diep

Climate expert and activist James Hansen and his grand-daughter Sophie Kivlehan, who is among 21 young plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit Juliana v. U.S. Government, speak at a press conference at the COP 23 United Nations Climate Change Conference on November 6th, 2017, in Bonn, Germany.

The Trump Administration Asks the Supreme Court to Block a Youth Climate Lawsuit

The Trump administration is asking the United States Supreme Court to block a lawsuit filed by young Americans seeking to force more federal action on climate change.

Kate Wheeling

Nobel Prize winner Tawakkol Karman holds a poster of Khashoggi while speaking to the media during a protest outside the entrance to the Consulate of Saudi Arabia on October 5th, 2018, in Istanbul, Turkey. At the time, some believed that the writer was still inside and being held by Saudi officials.

Tensions Grow Over Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s Disappearance (in Photos)

The Saudi journalist is presumed dead by many, though the evidence isn't conclusive.

Emma Sarappo

Central American immigrant families depart ICE custody in McAllen, Texas, pending future immigration court hearings, in June of 2018.

The Trump Administration’s Proposed Public Charge Rule Is the Next Step in an Ongoing Immigration Crackdown

The rule will impede family-based immigration, but its perceived effects are already widespread—and perhaps even more dangerous.

Emily Moon

New U.S. citizen Davies Garcia, 11, originally from Mexico, stands with his sister, Valerie, during a naturalization ceremony conducted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on September 14th, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.

‘Families Are Living in Fear’: How a Trump Administration Proposal Is Harming Immigrants

Fear of repercussions is keeping immigrant families from using public benefit programs like the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.

Emily Moon

A mother and child await transport to a processing center for undocumented immigrants on July 24th, 2014, in Mission, Texas.

A Memo Reveals How the Trump Administration Built a Family Separation Policy While Denying the Policy Existed

A redacted memo released on Tuesday outlines the administration's "zero-tolerance" policy, which ensured that every adult apprehended crossing the border would be detained and prosecuted.

Jack Herrera