Trump’s Casual Cruelty as He Tours a New Gulag Celebrating the $75 Billion He Just Got For ICE and DHS
We begin with the casual cruelty of Trump’s tour today of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention camp in the Florida everglades where he joked “we’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison.” Joining us to discuss the enormous influx of money for ICE and DHS in the “Big, Beautiful Bill” that just passed in the Senate is Will Bunch, the national opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of several books, including The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, Paranoia Politics and High-Def Hucksters in the Age of Obama, and The Bern Identity: A Search for Bernie Sanders and the New American Dream. He has won numerous journalism awards and shared the Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting with the New York Newsday staff. We discuss his latest article at the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Inside Trump’s $75B ICE gulag nightmare.”
Republican Senators Shamelessly Pass a Massive Transfer of Wealth From the Poorest to the Richest Americans
Then we look into the massive transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest Americans in the bill that required VP Vance to cast a tie-breaking vote which will make average Americans poorer, sicker, less educated, paying more for electricity and breathing dirtier air as climate change is accelerated. Joining us is James Thurber, the University Distinguished Professor of Government and Founder and Former Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, Washington, D.C. He is author of numerous books and more than eighty articles and chapters on Congress, interest groups and lobbying, and campaigns and elections and he is the author of Congress and Diaspora Politics: The Influence of Ethnic and Foreign Lobbying Campaigns, Elections American Style and his latest book is Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations.
Today’s Misanthropic Assault on Our Kids and Grandkids From Republican Whores and Hirelings of Big Oil and Dirty Coal
Then finally we assess this historic reactionary rollback as all green and alternative energy initiatives have been gleefully stripped from the bill by the Republican whores and hirelings of big oil and dirty coal in a direct and misanthropic assault on the future of our kids and grandkids and the planet. Joining us is Meghan Pazik, the Senior Policy Advocate on the Climate Team at Public Citizen. She most recently worked as the Policy Director at Climate Mayors to help lead member cities into thoughtful policy creation and program implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. She previously worked in Congress for the Office of Congresswoman Brownley, where she led several climate initiatives and managed the Member’s work with the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and Natural Resources Committee.