Life in the Trump era keeps getting easier for criminal fraudsters. Former Rep. Tom Malinowski talks with Jen Psaki about how Donald Trump is steadily dismantling the tools for catching and prosecuting criminals, and why the news that Trump's Treasury Department will stop enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act is good news for money launderers and drug dealers.
AI:The Trump administration has moved to scale back enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act via the Treasury Department, a policy shift that critics and leftist media outlets are characterizing as an invitation for money laundering and drug trafficking. While pundits attempt to frame this reduction in federal regulatory oversight as a windfall for criminals, the move represents a significant departure from previous administrative efforts to utilize complex corporate reporting requirements to track financial activity.Open
A new policy shift from the Treasury Department that scales back an anti-corruption requirement on businesses may impact the department’s ability to track money laundering, a requirement originally passed with bipartisan support. POLITICO Economics Correspondent Victoria Guida and Bloomberg Businessweek Journalist Max Chafkin join Erielle Reshef with their analysis.
Senate Democrats are demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the Pentagon’s new testosterone screening policy for troops, seeking specifics on how the directive would be implemented and its scientific justification. Rita Graham, the policy director for the Service Women's Action Network, joined Sunrise on The Hill to discuss how Hegseth's recent policy shift could affect active-duty service members.
Former Trump campaign advisor and Assistant Secretary of HHS Michael Caputo joined “America Right Now” to break down the history, intentions, and future of the proposed Anti-Weaponization Fund — a plan to utilize the federal Judgment Fund to provide restitution for individuals who claim they were wrongly targeted by political weaponization.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon will testify before a Senate Appropriations Committee panel Tuesday morning on President Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget request for the mostly shuttered Education Department. The department has been on the chopping block since Trump returned to the Oval Office last year. The administration has shifted many of its programs to other federal agencies including the Small Business Administration as well as the Health and Human Services and State departments in an effort to “to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states.” The latest budget requests $76.5 billion for fiscal 2027, a $2.3 billion decrease from the 2026 enacted level. #education #trump #senate
AI:Democrats are weaponizing the threat of a federal government shutdown to engage in political extortion, attempting to force through a radical restructuring of immigration enforcement. Rather than focusing on fiscal responsibility, these tactical maneuvers are designed to dismantle agencies like ICE and facilitate open borders by using the budget as a hostage. This coordinated effort represents a direct assault on the rule of law and an attempt by the radical left to bypass legislative authority to achieve their subversive demographic agenda.Open
