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![Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at the National Parent-Teacher Association's 2018 Legislative Conference March 13, 2018, in Arlington, Virginia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0312-betsy-devos-400x300.jpg)
In Stunning Bipartisan Rebuke of DeVos, Senate Overturns Anti-Student Rule
The Senate overturned a new rule that would have prevented defrauded students from having their loans forgiven.
![Anti-abortion demonstrators listen to President Trump as he speaks at the 47th annual "March for Life" in Washington, D.C., on January 24, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0312-roe-v-wade--400x300.jpg)
The Trump Administration Is a Culmination of the Right’s Efforts to End “Roe”
Trump's dedication to anti-abortion views has made an opening for overturning “Roe v. Wade.”
![Donald Trump](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0311-trump-400x300.jpg)
Experts Say Trump Is Exploiting Coronavirus Crisis to Attack Social Security
Economists say Trump's proposal to cut the payroll tax is “a Trojan Horse attack” on Social Security.
![President Trump speaks during the 9th Shale Insight Conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on October 23, 2019, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0310-trump-shale-400x300.jpg)
Crashing Oil Prices Undermine Trump’s Aim to Drill Toward “Energy Dominance”
Relying on an unstable shale industry may have left the U.S. economy more vulnerable during times of crisis.
![Mike Pence is seen speaking to reporters through a white house window](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0309-mike-pence-400x300.jpg)
It’s Not Just Pence. Evangelicals Are Leading US Coronavirus Response.
CDC Director Robert Redfield and other important public health officials are Pence-approved evangelical Christians.
![a sign that says "do not drink the water. Contaminated."](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0803-TCE-400x300.jpg)
White House Rewrites EPA Assessment of Chemical Linked to Fetal Heart Damage
EPA scientists found a toxic chemical damages fetal hearts. The Trump White House rewrote their assessment.
![Indur Goklany speaks at the Heartland Institute's 12th International Conference on Climate Change in this screenshot from a video on YouTube.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0305-g1--400x300.jpg)
Trump Interior Official Pushed Climate Misinformation Into Federal Reports
An Interior official with ties to fossil fuels industry has modified federal reports to include misleading information.
![Airport workers organized by the SEIU strike at Denver International Airport over lack of training, understaffing, and unsafe working conditions in June 2019. The SEIU played an important role in 2014 in demanding support and planning for workers on the front lines of the ebola epidemic, and its workers are again demanding more training and equipment in the face of the coronavirus.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0305-airport-workers-400x300.jpg)
Unions Helped Stop the Spread of Ebola. They’re Trying Again With Coronavirus.
This isn’t the first time working people have used their collective power to slow the spread of an infectious disease.
![Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives to campaign in Franklin Township, Indiana, on November 3, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0305-rudy-giuliani-400x300.jpg)
Rudy Giuliani Has Emerged as Trump’s Shadow Secretary of State
Giuliani has had a hand in U.S. foreign policy and politics from Iran to Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and beyond.
![Mike Pence speaks into a microphone at a podium](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_0304-coronavirus-400x300.jpg)
Trump White House Bars Press From Filming or Recording Coronavirus Briefing
Some journalists characterized the press conference as merely a photo-op.