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have flipped since trump s inauguration. lot of people reading the signs on that one. president trump s controversial pick to run the 2020 census has withdrawn his name from consideration after months of democratic pushback. trump tapped thomas burrell a university of texas dallas professor to helm back in november. he faced criticism for having little to no experience outside of academia and his long history of testifying in defense of republican redrawing of voting maps, putting him directly at odds with the nonpartisan task of counting u.s. residents. his poimts raised fears among civil rights advocates that the 2020 census would not count minority communities accurately and the results would be used politically to bolster federal funding and gerrymandering efforts. the census bureau will continue the 2020 preparations with no leadership, a slashed budget and new i.t. system the government accountability office has deemed high risk. the bureau director resigned last may. coming
discrimination. but there is a lot of work to do. the government has acknowledged that it has set aside billions of dollars. in the millions but billions. tom tom that s thomas burrell president of the black farmers and according to the national review he has been a one stop shop for adjudication of racial grievances of the federal government dishing out billions of dollars, the payouts stem from a class action suit now known as pigford. the new york times ran a story about the pigford payments citing they have become a run away train driven by racial politics. pressure from influential members of congress and law firms that stand to gain more than 130 million in fees. rich, this is not a new story. it s not. it came to attention first when the late andrew breitbart was involved the conflict with shirley sherrod and andrew got his
0 to undue the sequester cuts, there was a bill that you threatened to veto that got 92 democrats in the house voting yes. so, my question to you is do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through this congress? if you put it that way, jonathan, maybe i should just pack up and go home. golly. jon: president obama, a rare appearance there in the white house briefing room taking some tough questions from the press corps. jim, it was all kicked off by fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry who asked the president about his red line on libya how did the president do. i think the president had a very tough week. is he looking feckless on the syria, whatever you think of the syrian intervention and by the way i might add, anybody that thinks that the fbi and homeland security did fine on boston ought to be judged do you really want him managing your syria liberation operation. when you see dana milbank tell us something we don t know, mr. president.
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