2: TRUMP’S DISASTROUS ACTS AS PRESIDENT

0.       Jordan Fabian, “Trump Says He’s Accomplished More Than Anyone but FDR in Six Months,” The Hill, June 12, 2017, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/337421-trump-says-hes-accomplished-more-than-anyone-but-fdr-in-six-months; Lauren Gill, “Trump Has Signed Fewest Bills into Law of Any Modern President, Research Shows,” Newsweek, December 21, 2017, http://www.newsweek.com/trump-has-signed-fewer-bills-law-any-modern-president-research-shows-756111.

0.       Gregory Krieg, “Trump’s History of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Hits Dangerous New Low,” CNN, November 30, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/donald-trump-muslim-attacks/index.html.

0.       Jenna Johnson, “Trump Calls for ‘Total and Complete Shutdown of Muslims Entering the United States,’” The Washington Post, December 7, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/07/donald-trump-calls-for-total-and-complete-shutdown-of-muslims-entering-the-united-states.

0.       Jaweed Kaleem, “From ‘See You in Court!’ to the Supreme Court: Who’s Up and Down in the History of Trump’s Travel Ban,” Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/nation/immigration/la-na-travel-ban-history-2017-htmlstory.html.

0.       Ibid.

0.       Ibid.

0.       Ibid.

0.       Mark Sherman, “Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban,” AP, June 26, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/3a20abe305bd4c989116f82bf535393b.

0.       Ana Campoy, “Trump’s Tweets Have Sunk His Own Travel Ban—Again,” Quartz, October 18, 2017, https://qz.com/1105690/travel-ban-a-maryland-federal-judge-cited-trumps-tweets-as-evidence-to-block/; Amrit Chan, “Trump’s Lawyers Say the Muslim Ban Has No Bias, but His Tweets Show Otherwise,” ACLU, November 30, 2017, https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/trumps-lawyers-say-muslim-ban-has-no-bias-his-tweets-show-otherwise.

0.     Campoy, “Trump’s Tweets Have Sunk.”

0.     Ibid.

0.     Ibid.

0.     Katie Reilly, “President Trump Praises Fake Story About Shooting Muslims with Pig’s Blood-Soaked Bullets,” Time, August 17, 2017, http://time.com/4905420/donald-trump-pershing-pigs-blood-muslim-tweet/; Matt Zapotosky, “Trump’s Tweets Could Again Complicate,” The Washington Post, November 29, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/29/thanks-see-you-in-court-trumps-tweets-could-again-complicate-effort-to-defend-travel-ban/.

0.     Ariane de Vogue, “Judges in Travel Ban Case Concerned About Trump Tweets,” CNN, December 8, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/travel-ban-trump-tweets/index.html; Zapotosky, “Trump’s Tweets Could Again.”

0.     Chris Sommerfeldt, “President Trump’s Muslim Ban Excludes Countries Linked to His Sprawling Business Empire,” New York Daily News, February 1, 2018, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-muslim-ban-excludes-countries-linked-businesses-article-1.2957956.

0.     Ibid.

0.     Ibid.

0.     Ryan Grim and Alex Emmons, “How Sudan Got Off Donald Trump’s Latest Travel Ban List,” The Intercept, September 25, 2017, https://theintercept.com/2017/09/25/sudan-trump-travel-ban-uae-yemen/.

0.     Jordan Fabian, “Trump Says He Has ‘Great Love’ for Dreamers,” September 5, 2017, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/349295-trump-says-he-has-great-love-for-dreamers.

0.     Amanda Holpuch, “Dreamers React to Trump’s DACA Dispute: ‘We Feel Like Bargaining Chips,’” The Guardian, January 11, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/11/confusion-over-fate-of-daca-leaves-dreamers-in-limbo.

0.     Ibid.

0.     Gregory Korte, Alan Gomez, and Kevin Johnson, “Trump Administration Struggles with Fate of 900 DREAMers Serving in the Military,” USA Today, September 7, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/07/trump-administration-struggles-fate-900-dreamers-serving-military/640637001/.

0.     Scott Clement and David Nakamura, “Survey Finds Strong Support for ‘Dreamers,’” The Washington Post, September 25, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/survey-finds-strong-support-for-dreamers/2017/09/24/df3c885c-a16f-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html; Max Greenwood, “Poll: Nearly 9 in 10 Want DACA Recipients to Stay in US,” The Hill, January 8, 2018, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/369487-poll-nearly-nine-in-10-favor-allowing-daca-recipients-to-stay.

0.     Sara Wise, “Trump’s DACA Flip-Flops: A Timeline,” Roll Call, January 30, 2018, https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/tracking-trumps-daca-flip-flops; Miriam Valverde, “Timeline: DACA, the Trump Administration and a Government Shutdown,” PolitiFact, January 22, 2018, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jan/22/timeline-daca-trump-administration-and-government-/.

0.     Valverde, “Timeline: DACA.”

0.     Ibid.; Holpuch, “Dreamers React.”

0.     Valverde, “Timeline: DACA.”

0.     Ibid.

0.     Ibid.

0.     Tal Kopan, “A Timeline of DACA Offers Trump Has Rejected,” CNN, March 23, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/politics/daca-rejected-deals-trump/index.html.

0.     Alan Gomez and David Agren, “First Protected DREAMer Is Deported Under Trump,” USA Today, April 18, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/18/first-protected-dreamer-deported-under-trump/100583274/.

0.     Eric Levitz, “Paul Ryan Scrambles to Block Vote on DREAM Act,” New York, May 17, 2018, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/paul-ryan-scrambles-to-block-discharge-petition-on-dreamers.html.

0.     Holpuch, “Dreamers React”; Dylan Scott, “The Senate Put 4 Immigration Bills Up for a Vote. They All Failed,” Vox, February 15, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/15/17017682/senate-immigration-daca-bill-vote-failed; Dara Lind, “DREAMers Are at Risk Because of Donald Trump. Period,” Vox, February 16, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/16/17017908/immigration-congress-fault-daca.

0.     Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus,” quoted in Walt Hunter, “The Story Behind the Poem on the Statue of Liberty,” The Atlantic, January 16, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-story-behind-the-poem-on-the-statue-of-liberty/550553/.

0.     Miriam Jordan, “Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave,” The New York Times, January 8, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/us/salvadorans-tps-end.html.

0.     Ibid.; Tal Kopan, “DHS Ends Protections for Nearly 90,000 Central Americans,” CNN, May 6, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/immigration-tps-honduras/index.html.

0.     Kopan, “DHS Ends Protections”; Kathryn Johnson, “Trump Has Ended Temporary Protected Status for Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants. Here’s What You Need to Know,” American Friends Service Committee, May 4, 2018, https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/trump-has-ended-temporary-protected-status-hundreds-thousands-immigrants.

0.     “‘Temporary’ Status But Long-Term US Lives,” Human Rights Watch, April 4, 2018, https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/04/temporary-status-long-term-us-lives.

0.     Miriam Jordan, “Trump Administration Ends Temporary Protection for Haitians,” The New York Times, November 20, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/us/haitians-temporary-status.html.

0.     Jordan, “Trump Administration”; Raymond Bonner, “America’s Role in El Salvador’s Deterioration,” The Atlantic, January 20, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/trump-and-el-salvador/550955/.

0.     Jordan, “Trump Administration”; Ted Hesson, Seung Min Kim, and Heather Caygle, “Trump to End Protected Status for Salvadorans,” Politico, January 8, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/08/trump-end-salvadorans-protected-status-327570.

0.     Jordan, “Trump Administration”; Micaela Sviatschi, “By Deporting 200,000 Salvadorans, Trump May Be Boosting Gang Recruitment,” The Washington Post, February 12, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/02/12/by-deporting-200000-salvadorans-trump-may-be-boosting-gang-recruitment.

0.     Nick Miroff, “9,000 Nepalis Face Deportation as Trump Administration Prepares to Cancel Residency Permits,” The Washington Post, April 25, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/9000-nepalis-face-deportation-as-trump-administration-prepares-to-cancel-residency-permits/2018/04/24/e6cd7594-4800-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f223_story.html; Kopan, “DHS Ends Protections.”

0.     Mark Joseph Stern, “Domestic Abuse Victims Need Not Apply,” Slate, March 13, 2018, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/jeff-sessions-looks-poised-to-bar-domestic-abuse-victims-from-getting-asylum-in-america.html; Natasha Lennard, “The Misogynistic Logic of Jeff Sessions’s Horrifying New Asylum Policy for Domestic Violence Victims,” The Intercept, June 15, 2018, https://theintercept.com/2018/06/15/domestic-violence-asylum-jeff-sessions/.

0.     Serena Marshall, “Obama Has Deported More People Than Any Other President,” ABC News, August 29, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-deportation-policy-numbers/story?id=41715661; Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti, “ICE Arrests of ‘Noncriminal’ Immigrants Double Under Trump,” The Washington Post, February 12, 2018, https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/12/trump-takes-shackles-off-ice-which-is-slapping-them-on-immigrants-who-thought-they-were-safe/.

0.     Miroff and Sacchetti, “ICE Arrests of ‘Noncriminal’ Immigrants”; Alastair Boone and Tanvi Misra, “Immigration Raids, Coming to a Store Near You,” CityLab, January 18, 2018, https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/immigration-raids-coming-to-a-store-near-you/550289/.

0.     Miroff and Sacchetti, “ICE Arrests of ‘Noncriminal’ Immigrants.”

0.     Brian Tashman, “Congress Needs to Hold ICE Accountable for Abuses,” ACLU, February 2, 2018, https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/congress-needs-hold-ice-accountable-abuses.

0.     Tania Unzuetta Carrasco, “Trump Is Going After Immigration Activists Like Me. Will You Be Next?,” USA Today, February 7, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/02/07/trumps-ice-going-after-immigration-activists-like-me-whos-next-tania-unzueta-carrasco-column/1080396001/.

0.     Kate Mettler, “‘This Is Really Unprecedented’: ICE Detains Woman Seeking Domestic Abuse Protection at Texas Courthouse,” The Washington Post, February 16, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/16/this-is-really-unprecedented-ice-detains-woman-seeking-domestic-abuse-protection-at-texas-courthouse.

0.     Lizzy Acker, “Watch ICE Agents Arrest Man After Entering Portland Home Without Warrant,” Oregonian, October 20, 2017, http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/10/watch_ice_agents_arrest_man_af.html.

0.     Maryam Saleh, “Excessive Force: ICE Shackled 92 Somalis for 40 Hours on a Failed Deportation Flight. That Was Just the Start of the Abuse,” The Intercept, March 4, 2018, https://theintercept.com/2018/03/04/somali-deportation-flight-ice-detention-center/.

0.     Clio Chang, “ICE Allegedly Puts Woman in Solitary Confinement to Get Her to Recant Claims of Sexual Assault,” Splinter News, February 14, 2018, https://splinternews.com/ice-allegedly-puts-woman-in-solitary-confinement-to-get-1822993354; John Washington, “ICE Wants to Destroy Its Records of In-Custody Deaths, Sexual Assault, and Other Detainee Files,” The Nation, September 13, 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/ice-wants-to-destroy-its-records-of-in-custody-deaths-sexual-assault-and-other-detainee-files/.

0.     Robin Urevich, “Deadly Detention: Why Are Immigrants Dying in ICE Custody?,” Capital and Main, December 20, 2017, https://capitalandmain.com/deadly-detention-why-are-immigrants-dying-in-ice-custody-1220.

0.     Cindy Carcamo, “ICE Launches New Immigration Sweep in L.A. Area; At Least 100 Detained So Far,” Los Angeles Times, February 14, 2018, http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ice-raids-20180213-story.html.

0.     Megan Flynn and Avi Selk, “ICE Spokesman Resigns, Citing Fabrications by Agency Chief, Sessions About California Immigrant Arrests,” The Washington Post, March 13, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/13/ice-spokesman-resigns-over-false-statements-by-top-officials-about-calif-immigrant-arrests.

0.     Dara Lind, “The Trump Administration’s Separation of Families at the Border, Explained,” Vox, June 15, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17443198/children-immigrant-families-separated-parents.

0.     Ibid.; Philip Bump, “Why the Trump Administration Bears the Blame for Separating Children from their Families at the Border,” The Washington Post, June 15, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/15/why-the-trump-administration-bears-the-blame-for-separating-children-from-their-families-at-the-border/. Adam Edelman, “Trump Says He Won’t Sign GOP Immigration Bill that Would Stop Separating Families at Border,” NBC News, June 15, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-says-he-won-t-sign-gop-immigration-bill-would-n883526.

0.     Laura Bush, “Laura Bush: Separating Children from Their Parents at the Border ‘Breaks My Heart’,” The Washington Post, June 17, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laura-bush-separating-children-from-their-parents-at-the-border-breaks-my-heart/2018/06/17/f2df517a-7287-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html.

0.     Michael E. Miller, Emma Brown and Aaron C. Davis, “Inside Casa Padre, the converted Walmart where the U.S. is holding nearly 1,500 immigrant children,” The Washington Post, June 14, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/inside-casa-padre-the-converted-walmart-where-the-us-is-holding-nearly-1500-immigrant-children/2018/06/14/0cd65ce4-6eba-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html; Jacob Soboroff, Courtney Kube, and Julia Ainsley, “Administration Will House Migrant Kids in Tents in Tornillo, Texas,” NBC News, June 14, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-will-house-migrant-kids-tents-tornillo-texas-n883281.

0.     Abby Vesoulis, “Here’s the Constitutional Problem With Trump’s Call to Deport Immigrants Without Seeing Judges,” Time, June 25, 2018, http://time.com/5321318/donald-trump-immigration-due-process/.

0.     Jared McBride, “The Next Time ICE Rounds Up Workers, Remember That We Didn’t Do the Same with Nazi-Era War Criminals,” Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2018, http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcbride-nazi-immigrants-in-america-20180204-story.html.

0.     Ron Nixon and Linda Qui, “Trump’s Evolving Words on the Wall,” The New York Times, January 18, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/us/politics/trump-border-wall-immigration.html.

0.     “Everything We Know About Donald Trump’s Proposed Border Wall,” Fortune, January 19, 2018, http://fortune.com/2018/01/19/donald-trump-border-wall/.

0.     Jorge Ramos, “Donald Trump’s Wall Is Totally Useless,” Time, January 28, 2017, http://time.com/4652648/jorge-ramos-donald-trump-wall-useless/.

0.     Ibid.

0.     Michael Dear, “5 Problems the Wall Won’t Solve,” Politico, February 28, 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/trump-wall-mexico-problems-immigration-214837.

0.     Ariane de Vogue and Joan Biskupic, “How the Trump White House and GOP Senators Fast-Track Judicial Nominees,” CNN, December 15, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/15/politics/trump-judges-nominees/index.html.

0.     Shira A. Scheindlin, “Trump’s New Team of Judges Will Radically Change American Society,” The Guardian, November 30, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/30/donald-trump-legacy-judiciary.

0.     Rebecca Savransky, “80 of Trump’s First 87 Judicial Nominees Are White,” The Hill, February 13, 2018, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/373676-80-of-trumps-first-87-judicial-nominees-are-white.

0.     Jennifer Bendery, “Donald Trump Renominates Court Picks Rated ‘Not Qualified’ to Serve,” HuffPost, January 8, 2018, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-judicial-nominees-not-qualified_us_5a4fc2cae4b01e1a4b14e51d.; Philip Bump, “How Unusual Are Trump’s ‘Not Qualified’ Judicial Nominations?,” Washington Post, December 15, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/10/how-unusual-are-trumps-not-qualified-judicial-nominations/.

0.     Bump, “How Unusual”; Aaron Blake, “That Painful Exchange Between a Trump Judicial Pick and a GOP Senator, Annotated,” The Washington Post, December 15, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/15/that-painful-exchange-between-a-trump-judicial-pick-and-a-gop-senator-annotated/.

0.     De Vogue and Biskupic, “How the Trump White House.”

0.     Seung Min Kim, “Trump’s Judge Picks: ‘Not Qualified,’ Prolific Bloggers,” Politico, October 17, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/17/trump-judges-nominees-court-picks-243834; Harsh Voruganti, “Judge Charles Barnes Goodwin—Nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma,” Vetting Room, December 12, 2017, https://vettingroom.org/2017/12/12/judge-charles-goodwin/; Bendery, “Donald Trump Renominates.”

0.     Kim, “Trump’s Judge Picks”; Bendery, “Donald Trump Renominates.”

0.     Zoe Tillman, “One of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Once Wrote That Diversity Is ‘Code for Relaxed Standards,’” BuzzFeed, February 15, 2018, https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/one-of-trumps-judicial-nominees-once-wrote-that-diversity.

0.     Bendery, “Donald Trump Renominates.”

0.     Jennifer Bendery, “Senate Advances Judicial Nominee Who Can’t Say if Racial Bias Exists in the Justice System,” Huff Post, February 15, 2018, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-brennan-trump-judicial-nominee_us_5a85dc8ae4b00bc49f4212ad.

0.     Jordain Carney, “Senate Confirms Trump Judicial Pick Over Objections of Home-State Senator,” The Hill, May 10, 2018, http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/387129-senate-confirms-trump-judicial-pick-over-objections-of-home-state-senator; David Dayen, “Trump’s Judicial Picks Are Keeping Republicans Happy—and Quiet,” New Republic, June 9, 2017, https://newrepublic.com/article/143227/trumps-judicial-picks-keeping-republicans-happyand-quiet.

0.     Bruce Bartlett, “First, Republicans Want Tax Cuts. Next, They’ll Try Gutting Medicare and Social Security,” The Washington Post, November 16, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/16/first-republicans-want-tax-cuts-next-theyll-try-gutting-medicare-and-social-security; Julian Zelizer, “Blowing Up the Deficit Is Part of the Plan,” The Atlantic, December 19, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/blowing-up-the-deficit-is-part-of-the-plan/548720/.

0.     Zelizer, “Blowing Up the Deficit.”

0.     Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwall, “House Speaker Ryan to Quit, Shaking Republicans as Elections Near,” Reuters, April 11, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-ryan/house-speaker-ryan-to-quit-shaking-republicans-as-elections-near-idUSKBN1HI1TE.

0.     Jonathan O’Connell, David A. Fahrenthold, and Jack Gillum, “As the ‘King of Debt,’ Trump Borrowed to Build His Empire. Then He Began Spending Hundreds of Millions in Cash,” The Washington Post, May 5, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-the-king-of-debt-trump-borrowed-to-build-his-empire-then-he-began-spending-hundreds-of-millions-in-cash/2018/05/05/28fe54b4-44c4-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html; Linda Qui, “Yep, Donald Trump’s Companies Have Declared Bankruptcy … More Than Four Times,” PolitiFact, June 21, 2016, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/21/hillary-clinton/yep-donald-trumps-companies-have-declared-bankrupt/; Aaron Blake, “Trump Won’t Even Try to Balance the Budget Anymore—Thereby Breaking Oodles of Campaign Promises,” The Washington Post, February 12, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/12/trump-wont-even-try-to-balance-the-budget-anymore-thereby-breaking-oodles-of-campaign-promises/.

0.     Blake, “Trump Won’t Even Try.”

0.     Ibid.

0.     Stephanie Kelton, “How We Think About the Deficit Is Mostly Wrong,” The New York Times, October 5, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/deficit-tax-cuts-trump.html; Lisa Mascaro, “‘Deficit’ No Longer a Dirty Word for the GOP: Trump’s Tax Plan Adds More Than $2 Trillion in Red Ink,” Los Angeles Times, October 5, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-gop-taxplan-20171005-story.html.

0.     Jordain Carney, “CBO: Senate Tax Plan Increases Deficit by $1.4 Trillion,” The Hill, December 2, 2017, http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/362905-cbo-senate-tax-bill-increases-deficit-by-14-trillion.

0.     Richard Cowan and Amanda Becker, “U.S. Senate Leaders Reach $300 Billion Federal Spending Deal,” Reuters, February 7, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-usa-congress-shutdown/u-s-senate-leaders-reach-300-billion-federal-spending-deal-idUSKBN1FS0AY.

0.     Yuval Rosenberg, “The Trump Budget’s $7.1 Trillion Hole,” Fiscal Times, February 12, 2018, http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2018/02/12/Trump-Budgets-71-Trillion-Hole; Brooks Jackson, “Trump’s ‘Deficit Reduction,’” FactCheck, February 14, 2018, https://www.factcheck.org/2018/02/trumps-deficit-reduction/.

0.     Louis Nelson, “Trump: ‘I’m the King of Debt,’” Politico, June 22, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-king-of-debt-224642.

0.     Zoë Carpenter, “Obama: Inequality Is ‘the Defining Challenge of Our Time,’” The Nation, December 4, 2013, https://www.thenation.com/article/obama-inequality-defining-challenge-our-time/; Pope Francis (@Pontifex), Twitter, April 28, 2014, 4:28 a.m., https://twitter.com/pontifex/status/460697074585980928; Larry Elliott and Graeme Warden, “Justin Trudeau Tells Davos: Tackle Inequality or Risk Failure,” The Guardian, January 23, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/23/justin-trudeau-tells-davos-tackle-inequality-or-risk-failure; Dylan Scott, “The Republican Tax Bill Is a Disaster for Income Inequality,” Vox, December 20, 2017, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/20/16790606/gop-tax-vote-2017-income-inequality.

0.     Scott, “The Republican Tax Bill.”

0.     Ibid.; Damian Paletta, “Trump Could Personally Benefit from Last-Minute Change to Senate Tax Bill,” The Washington Post, November 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/11/27/trump-could-personally-benefit-from-last-minute-change-to-senate-tax-bill.

0.     Scott, “The Republican Tax Bill.”

0.     Ibid.

0.     John Cassidy, “The Final G.O.P. Tax Bill Is a Recipe for Even More Inequality,” The New Yorker, December 14, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-final-gop-tax-bill-is-a-recipe-for-even-more-inequality.

0.     Ibid.

0.     Charles Ballard, “Many of Trump’s Policies Will Further Intensify Income Inequality,” The Hill, February 10, 2017, http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/318941-many-of-trumps-policies-will-further-intensify-income.

0.     Ibid.

0.   David Graham, “‘As I Have Always Said’: Trump’s Ever-Changing Positions on Health Care,” The Atlantic, July 28, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/as-i-have-always-said-trumps-ever-changing-position-on-health-care/535293/.

0.   Matthew Nussbaum, “Agitated Trump Lashes Out at McConnell, Ryan, Obama, Clapper, Media,” Politico, August 24, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/trump-twitter-storm-attacks-241983.

0.   Rachel Roubein, “TIMELINE: The GOP’s Failed Effort to Repeal ObamaCare,” The Hill, September 26, 2017, http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/other/352587-timeline-the-gop-effort-to-repeal-and-replace-obamacare.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.; Asawin Suebsaeng, Gideon Resnick, and Sam Stein, “A ‘Suicide’ Mission: White House and GOP Leadership Fear New Obamacare Repeal Push,” The Daily Beast, June 5, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-suicide-mission-white-house-and-gop-leadership-fear-new-obamacare-repeal-push.

0.   Sarah Kliff, “Trump Is Slashing Obamacare’s Advertising Budget by 90%,” Vox, August 31, 2017, https://www.vox.com/2017/8/31/16236280/trump-obamacare-outreach-ads; Paul Demko and Rachada Pramkan, “Trump’s War of Attrition Against Obamacare,” Politico, July 21, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/21/trumps-war-of-attrition-against-obamacare-240777.

0.   Larry Levitt, “The Trump Administration’s Hidden Attacks on the Affordable Care Act,” the Washington Post, January 5, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-administrations-hidden-attacks-on-the-affordable-care-act/2018/01/05/bd7002da-f237-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html; Catherine Rampell, “Trump’s Obamacare Order Could Destroy the Health Care System,” The Washington Post, October 12, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-obamacare-order-could-destroy-the-health-care-system/2017/10/12/9660da88-af8a-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html; Carolyn Johnson, “Trump Scrapped a Key Obamacare Payment. Here’s What Comes Next,” The Washington Post, October 13, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/13/how-trumps-big-health-care-decision-could-play-out/?utm_term=.dad8f45d6c6e.

0.   Paige Winfield Cunningham, “The Health 202: A Eulogy for the Individual Mandate,” The Washington Post, December 21, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2017/12/21/the-health-202-a-eulogy-for-the-individual-mandate/5a3a94d430fb0469e883fd24/.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Dan Mangan, “3 Obamacare Taxes, Including One on Higher-Value Plans, Are Suspended in Deal to End Shutdown,” CNBC, January 23, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/obamacare-taxes-were-suspended-in-deal-to-end-government-shutdown.html.

0.   Matt Novak, “Trump Regime Says Obamacare Shouldn’t Protect People with Pre-Existing Medical Conditions,” Gizmodo, June 8, 2018, https://gizmodo.com/trump-regime-says-obamacare-shouldnt-protect-people-wit-1826662463.

0.   Levitt, “The Trump Administration’s Hidden Attacks”; Ezra Klein, “Poll: Republicans Hate ‘Obamacare,’ but Like Most of What It Does,” The Washington Post, June 26, 2012, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/06/26/poll-republicans-hate-obamacare-but-like-most-of-what-it-does/.

0.   Dylan Scott, “Children’s Health Insurance Has Become a Political Hostage,” Vox, January 19, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/18/16901526/congress-chip-crisis.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Natalie Schreyer, “The Trump Files: When Donald Took Revenge by Cutting Off Health Coverage for a Sick Infant,” Mother Jones, August 25, 2016, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-sick-infant-medical-care/.

0.   Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Twitter, May 15, 2015, 8:38 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/596338364187602944.

0.   Ryan Koronowski, “Trump’s Budget Cuts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, Breaking Core Campaign Promise,” ThinkProgress, February 12, 2018, https://thinkprogress.org/trump-promises-cuts-medicare-medicaid-social-security-36a0e8a57ae0/.

0.   Ibid.; Margarida Jorge and Ethan Rome, “Seniors Will Pay the Price for Trump’s Medicare Cuts,” Marketwatch, February 18, 2018, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/seniors-will-pay-the-price-for-trumps-medicare-cuts-2018-02-14.

0.   Koronowski, “Trump’s Budget Cuts Medicare.”

0.   Ibid.

0.   David Dayen, “The Biggest Trojan Horse in the Republican Tax Plan,” The New Republic, November 7, 2017, https://newrepublic.com/article/145688/biggest-trojan-horse-republican-tax-plan; Sean Williams, “The 1 GOP Tax Provision Social Security Recipients Must Be Aware Of,” Motley Fool, December 18, 2017, https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/12/18/the-1-gop-tax-provision-social-security-recipients.aspx.

0.   Dylan Scott, “The Trump Administration’s Plan for Medicaid Work Requirements, Explained,” Vox, January 12, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/11/16877916/medicaid-work-requirements-trump-guidance.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.; Adam K. Raymond, “Michigan’s Proposed Medicaid Work Requirement Comes with a Racist Twist,” New York, May 3, 2018, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/michigans-medicaid-work-requirement-comes-with-racist-twist.html.

0.   Addy Baird, “Trump Administration to Allow Lifetime Limits on Medicaid, Coverage for Thousands at Risk,” ThinkProgress, February 6, 2018, https://thinkprogress.org/trump-medicaid-lifetime-coverage-70965a6cab92/.

0.   Phil Galewitz, “Trump Officials Say No to Lifetime Limits on Medicaid,” CNN, May 5, 2018, http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/08/news/economy/lifetime-limits-medicaid/index.html.

0.   David Emery, “Read His Lips,” Snopes, December 10, 2016, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-social-security/.

0.   Glenn Thrush, “Trump’s ‘Harvest Box’ Isn’t Viable in SNAP Overhaul, Officials Say,” The New York Times, February 13, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/us/harvest-box-snap-food-stamps.html; Ryan Teague Beckwith, “Donald Trump Railed About a ‘Food Stamp Crime Wave’ in 2011. Now He Wants to Cut SNAP,” Time, February 13, 2018, http://time.com/5155778/donald-trump-food-stamps-cuts/; “93 Percent of Federal SNAP Spending Is for Food,” Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, https://www.cbpp.org/93-percent-of-federal-snap-spending-is-for-food-0.

0.   Sasha Abramsky, “‘America’s Harvest Box’ Captures the Trumpian Attitude Toward Poverty,” The New Yorker, February 14, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/americas-harvest-box-captures-the-trumpian-attitude-toward-poverty.

0.   Beckwith, “Donald Trump Railed.”

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.; Thrush, “Trump’s ‘Harvest Box.’” Abramsky, “‘America’s Harvest Box.’”

0.   Sharon Parrott, Aviva Aron-Dine, Dottie Rosenbaum, Douglas Rice, Ife Floyd, and Kathleen Romig, “Trump Budget Deeply Cuts Health, Housing, Other Assistance for Low- and Moderate-Income Families,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities February 14, 2018, https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and.

0.   Terry M. Neal and Juliet Eiperin, “Bush Faults House GOP Spending Plan,” The Washington Post, October 1, 1999, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/congress100199.htm.

0.   Maggie Haberman, “Donald Trump’s More Accepting Views Set Him Apart in G.O.P,” April 23, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/us/politics/donald-trump-gay-rights.html; “Timeline: Key Dates in President Trump’s Relationship with the LGBT Community,” The Boston Globe, January 16, 2018.

0.   “Timeline: Key Dates in President Trump’s Relationship.”

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.; German Lopez, “Military to Trump: We Won’t Ban Transgender Service Members Just Because You Tweeted About It,” Vox, July 27, 2017, https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/7/27/16050286/trump-transgender-military-ban.

0.   Aaron Blake, “‘It Will Be Fun to Watch [Democrats] Have to Defend This’: Why Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Should Frighten GOP,” The Washington Post, July 26, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/26/why-trumps-decision-to-ban-transgender-people-from-the-military-should-frighten-republicans/.

0.   Zack Ford, “Pence Secretly Drafted Trump’s Latest Transgender Military Ban,” ThinkProgress, March 25, 2018, https://thinkprogress.org/pence-responsible-for-trump-transgender-military-ban-f4d3b67bde47/; Martha Bebinger, “Trump Swaps Complete Ban for ‘Qualified Ban’ on Transgender Military Service,” NPR, March 24, 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/03/24/596656712/trump-swaps-complete-ban-for-qualified-ban-on-transgender-military-service.

0.   Ryan J. Reilly, “Judge: Transgender People a Protected Class, and the Military Can’t Enact Trump Ban,” HuffPost, April 13, 2018, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transgender-ban-trump-military_us_5ad1572ee4b0edca2cb9eea1; Samantha Allen, “How Trump’s Trans Military Ban Backfired. Spectacularly,” The Daily Beast, April 22, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-trumps-trans-military-ban-backfired-spectacularly.

0.   “Timeline: Key Dates in President Trump’s Relationship”; Scott A. Schoettes, “Trump Doesn’t Care About HIV. We’re Outta Here,” Newsweek, June 16, 2017, http://www.newsweek.com/trump-doesnt-care-about-hiv-were-outta-here-626285.

0.   “Timeline: Key Dates in President Trump’s Relationship.”

0.   Ibid.

0.   Editorial Board, “Where, Oh Where, Are All Trump’s Political Appointees?,” The Washington Post, August 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-oh-where-are-all-trumps-political-appointees/2017/08/25/0217d2c4-7c62-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html.

0.   Brian Naylor, “Trump Administration Has More Than 250 Unfilled Jobs,” NPR, November 22, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/11/22/566098660/trump-administration-has-more-than-250-unfilled-jobs.

0.   Editorial Board, “Where, Oh Where?”

0.   Tamara Keith, “Trump Leaves Top Administration Positions Unfilled, Says Hollow Government by Design,” NPR, October 12, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/557122200/trump-leaves-top-administration-positions-unfilled-says-hollow-government-by-des.

0.   John W. Schoen, “After 500 Days, Hundreds of White House Jobs Remain Unfilled by Trump Administration,” CNBC, June 4, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/after-500-days-dozens-of-white-house-jobs-remain-unfilled.html.

0.   Elaine Kamarck, “Federal Vacancies Have Left Trump’s Government Home Alone,” Brookings, December 14, 2017, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/12/14/trumps-government-home-alone/.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Christopher Ingraham and Tauhid Chappell, “Vermont Just Became the 9th State to Legalize Marijuana. Here’s What Makes It Different,” The Washington Post, January 22, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/01/22/vermont-just-became-the-9th-state-to-legalize-marijuana-heres-what-makes-them-different; Aaron Smith, “Colorado Passes a Milestone for Pot Revenue,” CNN, July 2017, http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/19/news/colorado-marijuana-tax-revenue/index.html; Abigail Geiger, “About Six-in-Ten Americans Support Marijuana Legalization,” Pew Research Center, January 5, 2018, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/05/americans-support-marijuana-legalization/; Katie Zezima, “Study: Legal Marijuana Could Generate More Than $132 billion in Federal Tax Revenue and 1 Million Jobs,” The Washington Post, January 10, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2018/01/10/study-legal-marijuana-could-generate-more-than-132-billion-in-federal-tax-revenue-and-1-million-jobs/.

0.   German Lopez, “The Trump Administration’s New War on Marijuana, Explained,” Vox, January 5, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/4/16849866/marijuana-legalization-trump-sessions-cole-memo.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.; Alan Feuer, “Lawsuit Takes Aim at Trump Administration Marijuana Policy,” The New York Times, February 13, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/nyregion/marijuana-lawsuit-trump-sessions.html.

0.   Willa Frej, “Trump Named the World’s No. 1 Oppressor of Press Freedom,” HuffPost, January 9, 2018, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-oppressor-press-freedom_us_5a54bc75e4b003133ecc3439.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Seth Stevenson, “A Week on the Trail with the ‘Disgusting Reporters’ Covering Donald Trump,” Slate, March 20, 2016, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/03/on_the_trail_with_donald_trump_s_disgusting_press_corps.html.

0.   Chris Wallace, “The Media Is Giving Up Its Place in Our Democracy,” Washington Post, November 17, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-assaulting-our-free-press-but-he-also-has-a-point/2017/11/17/b3b8ec24-c8b2-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html.

0.   Jeff Nesbit, “History Repeats: Propaganda and the Destruction of the Free Press,” US News & World Report, October 26, 2017, https://www.usnews.com/news/at-the-edge/articles/2017-10-26/trump-propaganda-and-the-destruction-of-the-free-press.

0.   Wallace, “The Media Is Giving Up.”

0.   Ken Bredemeier, “Two Republican Senators Assail Trump for Media Attacks,” Voice of America News, January 18, 2018, https://www.voanews.com/a/republican-senators-assail-trump-media-attacks/4211911.html.

0.   Daniel Politi, “Trump Calls NBC’s Chuck Todd a ‘Sleeping Son of a Bitch,’” Slate, March 11, 2018, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/donald-trump-calls-nbcs-chuck-todd-a-sleeping-son-of-a-bitch.html.

0.   Natasha Bach, “Trump Continues ‘Fake News Media’ Attacks After Calling for The Washington Post Reporter to be Fired,” Fortune, December 11, 2017, http://www.fortune.com/2017/12/11/donald-trump-fake-news-washington-post-weigel/; “Trump Declares Unprecedented War on Media,” Axios, November 29, 2017, https://www.axios.com/trump-declares-unprecedented-war-on-media-1513307240-f6e837e9-54bb-4d4b-8ed0-91db897ee609.html.

0.   Noah Bierman and Jim Puzzanghera, “President Trump Threatens NBC’s Broadcast Licenses Following Critical Stories,” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-president-trump-goes-after-nbc-s-1507732128-htmlstory.html.

0.   Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Renews Pledge to ‘Take a Strong Look’ at Libel Laws,” The New York Times, January 10, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/business/media/trump-libel-laws.html.

0.   Matt Flegenheimer and Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Hands Out ‘Fake News Awards,’ Sans the Red Carpet,” The New York Times, January 17, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/business/media/fake-news-awards.html.

0.   Wallace, “The Media Is Giving Up.”

0.   Ibid.

0.   Bredemeier, “Two Republican Senators.”

0.   “Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington,” Monticello, January 16, 1787, http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/1289.

0.   Brandon Carter, “Trump Watches Up to Eight Hours of TV per Day: Report,” The Hill, December 9, 2017, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/364094-trump-watches-at-least-four-hours-of-tv-per-day-report; Mallory Shelbourne, “Trump Attacks NYT Report That He Watches Up to 8 Hours of TV a Day,” Hill, December 11, 2018, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/364237-trump-attacks-nyt-report-that-he-watches-up-to-8-hours-of-tv-a-day.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Dave Itzkoff, “Trump Slings Twitter Insults with Alec Baldwin, His ‘S.N.L.’ Impersonator,” The New York Times, March 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/arts/television/trump-alec-baldwin-snl.html; Mark Osborne, “Donald Trump Attacks ‘Alex’ Baldwin on Twitter Over Impersonation,” ABC News, March 2, 2018, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-attacks-alex-baldwin-twitter-impersonation/story?id=53459224.

0.   Itzkoff, “Trump Slings Twitter Insults.”

0.   Zack Beauchamp, “Netanyahu Went on Fox & Friends to Lobby Trump on the Iran Deal,” Vox, May 1, 2018, https://www.vox.com/world/2018/5/1/17306726/netanyahu-fox-and-friends-trump-iran-deal.

0.   Will Oremus, “Fox News Is Losing Its Grip,” Slate, May 25, 2017, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/05/fox_news_refusal_to_cover_trump_s_scandals_makes_for_bad_ratings_and_boring.html.

0.   Christopher Rosen, “All the Times Donald Trump Has Called the Media ‘Fake News’ on Twitter,” EW, June 27, 2017, http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/27/donald-trump-fake-news-twitter/.

0.   Program for Public Consultation, “Overwhelming Bipartisan Majority Opposes Repealing Net Neutrality, Survey Finds,” PR Newswire, December 12, 2017, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/overwhelming-bipartisan-majority-opposes-repealing-net-neutrality-survey-finds-300569665.html.

0.   Gerry Smith, “Why Trump Wants to Toss Obama’s Net Neutrality Rules: QuickTake,” Bloomberg, December 14, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/why-trump-wants-to-toss-obamas-net-neutrality-rules-quicktake/2017/12/14/b0ae190c-e0ca-11e7-b2e9-8c636f076c76_story.html.

0.   John Nichols, “Gutting Net Neutrality Is the Trump Administration’s Most Brutal Blow to Democracy Yet,” The Nation, December 14, 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/gutting-net-neutrality-is-the-trump-administrations-most-brutal-blow-to-democracy-yet/.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Aja Romano, “Net Neutrality Is Now Officially on Life Support. Here’s What Happens Next,” Vox, December 14, 2017, https://www.vox.com/2017/12/14/16774148/net-neutrality-repeal-explained; Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna), Twitter, March 3, 2018, 7:57 p.m., https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/970146062802432001.

0.   “Nearly Two Dozen Attorneys General Sue to Block FCC’s Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules,” USA Today, January 16, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/01/16/nearly-two-dozen-attorneys-general-sue-block-fccs-repeal-net-neutrality-rules/1038532001/.

0.   Cecilia Kang, “Washington Governor Signs First State Net Neutrality Bill,” The New York Times, March 6, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/business/net-neutrality-washington-state.html; Eric Brackett, “Vermont Becomes Fifth State to Sign Order Supporting Net Neutrality,” Digital Trends, February 17, 2018, https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/vermont-supports-net-neutrality/; Eric Fung, “Washington State’s Net Neutrality Law Is the Beginning of a Big Headache for Internet Providers,” The Washington Post, March 6, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/06/washington-states-net-neutrality-law-is-the-beginning-of-a-big-headache-for-internet-providers/.

0.   “Nearly Two Dozen Attorneys General Sue”; Cecilia Kang, “Senate Democrats Win Vote on Net Neutrality, a Centerpiece of 2018 Strategy,” The New York Times, May 16, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/net-neutrality-senate.html.

0.   Jordan Fabian, “Trump Says Puerto Rico Relief Hampered by ‘Big Water, Ocean Water,’” The Hill, September 29, 2017, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353094-trump-says-puerto-rico-relief-hampered-by-big-water-ocean-water.

0.   Daniella Diaz, “Trump: We Cannot Aid Puerto Rico ‘Forever,’” CNN, October 12, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/12/politics/donald-trump-puerto-rico-tweets/index.html.

0.   “Donald Trump Blames Puerto Ricans for Not Being Able ‘to Get Their Workers to Help’ After Hurricane Maria,” Fortune, September 30, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/09/30/donald-trump-blames-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria/.

0.   Dana Milbank, “The Cameras Go Off, and Then Comes the Collapse,” The Washington Post, December 22, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cameras-go-off-and-then-comes-the-collapse/2017/12/22/1c200bb2-e721-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html; Sheri Fink, “Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria Death Toll Could Exceed 4,000, New Study Estimates,” The New York Times, May 29, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/us/puerto-rico-deaths-hurricane.html.

0.   Ibid.; Daniella Silva, “Trump Defends Throwing Paper Towels to Hurricane Survivors in Puerto Rico,” NBC News, October 8, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-defends-throwing-paper-towels-hurricane-survivors-puerto-rico-n808861.

0.   Patricia Mazzei and Agustin Armendariz, “FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered,” The New York Times, February 6, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/us/fema-contract-puerto-rico.html.

0.   Tami Abdollah, “AP EXCLUSIVE: Big Contracts, No Storm Tarps for Puerto Rico,” Associated Press, November 28, 2017, https://www.apnews.com/cbeff1a939324610b7a02b88f30eafbb.

0.   Steven Mufson, Jack Gillum, Aaron C. Davis, and Arelis R. Hernández, “Small Montana Firm Lands Puerto Rico’s Biggest Contract to Get the Power Back On,” The Washington Post, October 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/small-montana-firm-lands-puerto-ricos-biggest-contract-to-get-the-power-back-on/2017/10/23/31cccc3e-b4d6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html.

0.   David Leonhardt, “Remember Puerto Rico,” The New York Times, February 14, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/opinion/remember-puerto-rico.html.

0.   German Lopez, “Trump’s Pathetic Response to the Opioid Epidemic,” Vox, January 23, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/23/16909984/trump-opioid-epidemic-2017; Lori Robertson, “Trump Misleads on Opioid Epidemic Fight,” FactCheck, June 5, 2018, https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/trump-misleads-on-opioid-epidemic-fight/.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Ibid.

0.   Jesse Mechanic, “After Months of Inaction on the Opioid Crisis, Trump Sets the Stage for a Harmful Response,” Truthout, February 15, 2018, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43548-after-months-of-inaction-on-the-opioid-crisis-trump-sets-the-stage-for-a-harmful-response; Sari Horwitz, “Sessions Assigns Dozens More Federal Agents to Combat Illicit Opioid Sales Online,” The Washington Post, January 29, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-assigns-dozens-more-federal-agents-to-combat-illicit-opioid-sales-online/2018/01/29/910eae46-0522-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html.

0.   Dan Diamond, “Exclusive: Trump Finalizing Opioid Plan That Includes Death Penalty for Dealers,” Politico, March 15, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/15/exclusive-trump-finalizing-opioid-plan-death-penalty-418488; Seung Min Kim, Jenna Johnson, and Philip Rucker, “At Pennsylvania Rally, Trump Again Calls for the Death Penalty for Drug Dealers,” The Washington Post, March 10, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-rally-in-pennsylvania-ahead-of-special-house-election/2018/03/10/3eed9dc0-23f4-11e8-86f6-54bfff693d2b_story.html; German Lopez, “Trump’s Opioid Crisis Plan: More Death Penalty, Fewer Prescriptions, More Treatment,” Vox, March 19, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/19/17137852/trump-opioid-epidemic-plan-death-penalty.

0.   Robertson, “Trump Misleads.”

0.   Ibid.

0.   Paul Rosenberg, “This Is How the GOP Rigged Congress: The Secret Plan That Handcuffed Obama’s Presidency, but Backfired in Donald Trump,” Salon, June 13, 2016, https://www.salon.com/2016/06/13/this_is_how_the_gop_rigged_congress_the_secret_plan_that_handcuffed_obamas_presidency_but_backfired_in_donald_trump/; Tim Dickinson, “How Republicans Rig the Game,” Rolling Stone, November 11, 2013, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-republicans-rig-the-game-20131111.

0.   David Daley, “Gerrymandering Did This: How the GOP’s Redistricting Master Plan Brought Us Trumpcare—Even Though Most People Hate It,” Salon, May 6, 2017, https://www.salon.com/2017/05/06/gerrymandering-did-this-how-the-gops-redistricting-master-plan-brought-us-trumpcare-even-though-most-people-hate-it/.

0.   David Graham, “Has the Tide Turned Against Partisan Gerrymandering?,” The Atlantic, January 23, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/pennsylvania-partisan-gerrymandering-north-carolina-wisconsin-scotus/551177/; Ari Berman, “Trump’s Pick to Run 2020 Census Has Defended Racial Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression Laws,” Mother Jones, January 2, 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/trumps-pick-to-run-2020-census-has-defended-racial-gerrymandering-and-voter-suppression-laws/.

0.   Berman, “Trump’s Pick to Run 2020 Census”; Ari Berman, “Trump’s Controversial Pick to Run the 2020 Census Withdraws,” Mother Jones, February 12, 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/trumps-controversial-pick-to-run-the-2020-census-withdraws/.

0.   Kevin Modesti, “Census ‘Citizenship’ Question Sets Off New California vs. Trump Immigration Argument,” LA Daily News, February 16, 2018, https://www.dailynews.com/2018/02/16/census-citizenship-question-sets-off-new-california-vs-trump-immigration-argument/; Emily Baumgaertner, “Despite Concerns, Census Will Ask Respondents if They Are U.S. Citizens,” The New York Times, March 26, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/us/politics/census-citizenship-question-trump.html; “Trump-Pence Sued Over Citizenship Question on 2020 Census,” Wisconsin Gazette, June 6, 2018, http://www.wisconsingazette.com/news/trump-pence-sued-over-citizenship-question-on-census/article_8b719df0-6994-11e8-bb15-6b59b7e924a1.html.

0.   “Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Isn’t a Plan. It’s a Fantasy,” Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2018, http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trump-infrastructure-20180213-story.html.

0.   Igor Bobic, “Trump’s ‘Infrastructure Week’ Crumbles Again,” HuffPost, February 15, 2018, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-infrastructure-week_us_5a8593fde4b0058d5566a668.

0.   Bobic, “Trump’s ‘Infrastructure Week’”; “Trump’s Infrastructure Plan.”

0.   Michelle Chen, “Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Great, Unless You Want Actually Functioning Infrastructure,” The Nation, February 16, 2018, https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-infrastructure-plan-is-great-unless-you-want-actually-functioning-infrastructure/; Igor Bobic, “Do You Like Paying Tolls? You’re Gonna Love Trump’s Infrastructure Plan,” HuffPost, February 12, 2018, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tolls-infrastructure_us_5a81b8bbe4b08dfc930673bb.

0.   “Trump’s Infrastructure Plan.”