Senator #VanHollen — also refreshingly given the lies & obfuscation from the #Trump admin & #DOJ — tells EXACTLY what he did today in #ElSalvador to try to see or speak with #KilmarAbregoGarcia, exactly what the VP of El Salvador said in response to his queries & exactly what steps he will take now.
Ahhh (sigh of relief) #Democrats are so nice that way.
The Food and Drug Administration (#FDA) has already lost 19% of its staff, the Centers for Disease Control (#CDC) 18%, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (#CMS) 9%.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115145
This video is a little weird because Sen #VanHollen’s translator is standing behind him—I suspect she didn’t want her face broadcast out of fear for her life—it’s a little funny to watch the reporters arms swing back & forth as they record audio, but if you can get through it, it is very refreshing because the senator gives the facts of #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s case & lays out the facts of #Trump’s illegal actions.
It’s a long video otherwise I’d upload it, here’s the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZPzHyCtt0
“Io credo che #Meloni farà un discorso di geopolitica internazionale, è tra i leader europei che ha le maggiori possibilità di mediare con l’amministrazione #Trump”.
… ma gli occhi di #Senaldi non sembravano molto convinti di quello che la lingua pronunciava in quel momento con grande determinazione…
Update. "#CDC's #STD Lab Shuttered by #Trump Layoffs"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/stds/115065
"A critical laboratory for surveilling sexually transmitted diseases (#STDs) in the US has been lost in the Trump administration's mass layoffs…One of its most remarkable projects is a one-of-its-kind repository of 50,000 isolates of gonorrhea used to monitor antibiotic resistance, which is quickly becoming a global health concern. The lab has been doing this work for nearly 40 years -- but will now, at best, have a gap in data."
Also see the public statement by the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (#ASTDA).
https://www.astda.org/statement-from-astda-on-cuts-to-the-cdcs-division-of-std-prevention/
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USDA closing local offices- so much for being “where the farmers are”
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ICYMI: Trump Envoy Signals Putin’s Openness to ‘Permanent Peace’ with Ukraine https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/04/trump-envoy-signals-putins-openness-to.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Trump #Putin #Ukraine #PeaceTalks #Russia
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Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/law-firms-deals-trump.html
He has an offer they cannot refuse, it seems...
#VanHollen said he told #KilmarAbregoGarcia's family he would do everything he could to aid his return.
"This is about the rule of #law, this is about #DueProcess, this is about not letting people be whisked off the street, which the #Trump admin said was done in error, & I just want people to think about what that means”
"When he gets back here, if they want to bring charges, they can do that. But, so far, they've come up w/nothing. They've lied about him...this is a person who is here legally”
#Maryland Democrat Senator #VanHollen shares update from #ElSalvador as he tries to meet with #KilmarAbregoGarcia.
At the airport Wednesday morning, Van Hollen said he hopes to visit Abrego Garcia to "check on his well-being," & meet w/Salvadoran govt officials.
"I do believe the government of El Salvador, the president of El Salvador will recognize that it's very much in their interest to help bring him home so he can have #DueProcess," Van Hollen said.
'The president is in a hell of a pickle right now' with little way out: Axios founder - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariff-problems-axios/
Trump's tariff war has done what appears to be irreparable damage to the reputation of the U.S. and he has put himself into a box he can't escape from to get the economy back on track.
In cities and towns across the country, thousands of members of the National Association of Letter Carriers rallied this weekend to say HELL NO to Trump’s plans to privatize the United States Postal Service! Privatization will not solve the issues that working class people experience with USPS. It’ll only put more money in the pockets of billionaire companies and their CEOs, while worsening the problems the majority of us face!
Andy Bunday @bundaycartoons on #Trump #China #Trumptariffs – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
The 3 major #US #stock indexes extended declines in afternoon trading on Wednesday while #JeromePowell spoke.
"Powell’s saying what the market has been fearing all along. And it’s coming from the Fed chief, confirming all these things," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.
#US #economy #Trump #policy #Fed #US #law #regulation #currency #inflation #tariffs #recession 
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Trump fired NCUA Board Members
Trump fired National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board Members Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka earlier today. The sole board member remaining is Board Chairman Kyle Hauptman. Perhaps no coincidence that DOGE arrived at the agency last week. https://www.cuinsight.com/harper-otsuka-removed-from-ncua-board-in-unexpected-shake-up/
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French President Emmanuel Macron will on Thursday meet with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US envoy Steve Witkoff, the Elysee palace said, as transatlantic tensions soar over the war in Ukraine. Witkoff, who recently met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Rubio are heading to Paris for talks on ending the war in Ukraine, the State Department said separately. FRANCE 24's Kethevane Gorjestani looks ahead to the meeting.
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@KimPerales The #TrumpEffect is the opposite of the Meidas touch (everything #Trump touches turns to 
), but the result is the same; #tragedy.
