| Trump just put "For Sale" signs on America's public lands. He is expected to nominate Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)—a.k.a. CMR—for Interior Secretary. McMorris Rodgers is Chair of the House Republican Conference, and the only woman in Republican congressional leadership. She also unenthusiastically voted for Trump. Nevertheless she's been tapped to safeguard America's national parks, protect endangered wildlife, regulate the oil, gas, and mining industries, and uphold the U.S.'s responsibilities to tribal nations. | | The problem? McMorris Rodgers has consistently supported auctioning off our public lands to the highest bidder, prioritizing the fossil fuel industry over protecting our public lands and waters. Also—like the president-elect, vice president-elect, and nominee for EPA administrator—she is a climate denier. Get the full scoop on McMorris Rodgers here. | | MORE SWAMP. Third time's the charm for Donald Trump's economic team it seems—if by charm you mean packing the Administration full of Goldman Sachs alums. After saying "Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us," Trump has chosen current Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn to be the Director of the National Economic Council. Cohn rounds out the Goldman Sachs trifecta in Trump's top leadership roles, joining Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin and chief strategist (and white nationalist) Steve Bannon. | | Trump. Remember him? A lot of attention may have been on his nominees lately, but there's still plenty to keep an eye on Trump for. As his thank you tour heads to Michigan and Louisiana today, check out our interactive map to see the impact his campaign promises would have on the states. | | Wall Street Don. Probably not one of the first ways Donald Trump would describe himself. You may have heard Trump promise that he's going to be a president for working people, but it doesn't look like that's going to be the case as he's filling his cabinet with Wall Street big wigs and anti-worker billionaires. It's starting to look like working families are going to have a hard time in a Trump era. So what can be done? Check out CAP's discussion on how progressives can defend the working class in the Trump era on Monday morning—you can watch it here. | | South Korea. The country's parliament just voted to impeach its President, Park Guen-Hye, the nation's first female president. It has a lot to do with the recent corruption scandal that has clouded her administration and led to hundreds of thousands of protestors taking to the streets to demand her resignation. She still hasn't formally resigned. It's an ominous warning to other countries, including our own, about the corrosive effect of cronyism and corruption in modern democracies. | | #DivestDonald. You can expect this to keep trending. Trump keeps wading into deeper waters each day that he refuses to resolve his unprecedented conflicts of interests. And now he's facing a growing chorus of experts from across the aisle who have joined together to demand that Trump immediately take action to completely remove himself from his business enterprises and put his businesses into a true blind trust. But he won't. | | True Colors. They aren't always beautiful. Public Citizen turned Trump's "drain the swamp" campaign ad on its head to show Trump's true colors. Watch the video. | | Ohio State University. In rolled the Trump Train yesterday, when the President Elect decided to pay a visit to victims of the campus stabbing that wounded eleven students just weeks ago. Afterwards, Trump called the stabbing a "tragic reminder" of the need to take a more restrictive position towards immigration. He's specifically alluding to refugees and Muslims, since the alleged attacker was a Somali-born refugee. Trump's response to the attack is not only hurtful but also counterproductive. The type of exclusive rhetoric we keep hearing from Team Trump not only makes every American less safe and leaves the entire American Muslim population at risk of hate, but it is also false and misleading. | | The Great Outdoors. It's been a rough couple days for the environment since climate denier and EPA enemy Scott Pruitt was nominated to head the EPA. But yesterday President Obama brought some good news to the great outdoors when he signed the "Outdoor REC Act." Thanks to the Outdoor REC Act, the government will, for the first time ever, measure the economic impact of the booming outdoor recreation industry—which generates hundreds of billion dollars a year. According to reports from the industries themselves, U.S. outdoor recreation accounts for more direct jobs than oil, natural gas, and mining combined. But, until now, the government hasn't measured the economic impact of outdoor recreation so the scales have been tipped in favor of oil and gas extractive uses in public lands planning decisions. | |
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