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After President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs earlier this month, the White House released a list of more than a thousand products that would be exempted.
And it makes less sense now when a state with the ninth highest personal income per capita in the country can’t balance its budget without cutting $50 million from its University System, capping school budgets and trimming social services while giving a green light to gambling interests.
Massive budget cuts for the state’s prisons will not save money and could place the facilities and the state in danger and cause real legal trouble, the commissioner told the Senate Finance Committee Monday.
“It is beyond belief that anyone in Secretary Hegseth’s position – or in a significantly more junior role, for that matter – would think that sharing sensitive operational details in an unsecured messaging app, and with family members, is remotely acceptable. “
Jeffery A. Strelzin is expected to return to the New Hampshire Department of Justice where he worked for 22 years after a stint with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Hundreds of people from all over southwest New Hampshire thronged Keene’s Central Square, most carrying signs denouncing Trump administration actions they see as contrary to democratic principles.
At a freedom rally in Derry, NH, today former United States Senator Gordon Humphrey called upon New Hampshire’s U.S. Representatives Pappas and Goodlander to support the impeachment of President Trump.
Four ACLU affiliates and law firm Shaheen & Gordon filed a federal class action lawsuit on Friday seeking to represent over 100 students in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico who had their F-1 student immigration status unlawfully and abruptly terminated with no specified reason as to why.
Two weeks after the last national day of anti-Trump protests and two hundred and fifty years after American patriots fired the “shot heard round the world” in Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19 will be another day of nationwide demonstrations, many of them with a theme of “No Kings.”