...about their President: Another day passes and Trump is still in violation of the Constitution he swore to uphold. According to the Center for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington, a citizen's watchdog group, "The foreign emoluments clause of the Constitution prohibits Trump from receiving anything of value from foreign governments, including foreign government-owned businesses, without the approval of Congress."
President Trump has not asked Congress for a review and approval of what his businesses around the world will receive from foreign governments. To conduct such a review, Congress would need him to release his tax returns. He refuses to do that, thus denying the public its right to know about any foreign entanglements.
For more about the CREW's suit, follow this link: http://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/17451/
...about the work of government agencies: As of yesterday, these government agencies have reported receiving messages from the White House telling them to cease communications with members of Congress and the press: The
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Department of Agriculture
- National Institutes of Health
- Department of Transportation
More information here: http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/24/federal-government-in-lock-down-mode/
Be it noted that authoritarian governments believe in controlling the information that is available to the public. They are anti-transparency. The operate under the assumption that what we don't know, won't hurt them.
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