Fighting on All Fronts

Not all of Trump’s dangerous schemes can fit into a category, so here is Public Citizen’s miscellaneous work to stop Trump from attacking important legislative policies and protections.

• September 18, 2019: Trump’s Environmental Attack on California Is Unlawful
• September 11, 2019: Did Trump Order Mulvaney to Spread Lies About Dorian?
• August 28, 2019: No FEMA Disaster Money for Racist Immigrant Detention Plan
• July 24, 2019: Mueller Tells Lawmakers That His Report Does Not Exonerate Trump
• July 23, 2019: MEDIA ADVISORY: Mueller Has a Chance to Set the Record Straight During Testimony Before Congress
• July 8, 2019: Trump Boasts Environmental Record While Repealing Vital Environmental Protections
• June 11, 2019: House Committee Chairs to Take Subpoena Fights Directly to Court
• June 4, 2019: Has Every Member of Congress Read the Mueller Report?
• May 29, 2019: Why Would Trudeau Help Trump and Pence Move a NAFTA That Would Raise Canadian Medicine Prices Instead of Waiting for U.S. Congressional Democrats to Fix Those Terms?
• May 28, 2019: Mueller Book Club Is Taking Off, Garnering More Than 20,000 Views
• May 16, 2019: Mueller Book Club Launches
• April 22, 2019: Government Says It Won’t Use National Emergency Funding for Border Wall Construction in Rio Grande Valley; Public Citizen Dismisses Case
• April 18, 2019: Mueller Report: We Need the Truth and Nothing But
• April 10, 2019: Tone-Deaf: Trump’s Texas Visit to Include Environmental Protections Rollback, Week After Deadly Chemical Fire
• April 8, 2019: Activists to Greet William Barr’s Capitol Hill Testimony with Derision for Mueller Report Smokescreen; Demand Barr Release Full Mueller Report
• April 4, 2019: At D.C. Auto Show, Activists Denounce Ford Motor Company’s Greenwashing
• April 3, 2019: Locals Join Trump is Not Above the Law National Day of Action; Demand Barr Release Mueller Report
• April 2, 2019: At 2019 Washington Auto Show, Activists to Denounce Ford’s Collusion with Trump Administration to Roll Back Clean Car Standards
• March 26, 2019: Veto Override Notwithstanding, Trump Lost the Fight on ‘National Emergency’ Powers
• March 24, 2019: Full Mueller Report and Underlying Evidence Must Be Released
• March 22, 2019: Justice for All Means Mueller Report Should Be Public
• March 15, 2019: In Veto, Trump Shows His True Authoritarian Colors
• March 14, 2019: Senate Vote Is Powerful Rejection of Trump’s Illegal Use of Emergency Powers, Authoritarianism
• March 12, 2019: Lawmakers Would Be Naïve to Believe Trump Would Accept Emergency Authority Limits
• March 5, 2019: Trump’s Declaration Prompts More Than Half a Million Opposition Petitions Opposing Nation’s Non-Emergency Declaration
• March 5, 2019: 2018 Annual Trade Data to Show Highest-Ever U.S. Deficit with China, Highest NAFTA Deficit in a Decade
• February 27, 2019: Texas Landowner to Explain that No National Emergency Exists in Her Backyard
• February 26, 2019: House Vote to Block Trump’s Fake Emergency Is a Stand Against Racism, For Democracy
• February 15, 2019: Trump’s Emergency Declaration Is Abuse of Power; Public Citizen Will Challenge It, Urge Congress to Overturn Quickly
• February 15, 2019: Fight Over the Wall Funding Is Not a National Emergency, Lawsuit Says
• February 8, 2019: Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Public Citizen v. Trump
• February 7, 2019: Advocates Condemn Unlawful Foundation of Trump Administration’s Effort to Attack America’s Clean Car Standards
• February 5, 2019: State of the Union: Will Trump Declare a National Emergency?
• January 23, 2018: Shutdown Is ‘Extortion, Plain and Simple,’ Say 78 Groups
• January 18, 2018: Trump’s Lack of Support Slows the Inevitable Electric Vehicle Revolution
• January 17, 2018: Regulations.gov Goes Offline: Latest Casualty of the Trump Shutdown Denies the Public’s Fundamental Right to Comment on Rulemakings
• January 11, 2018: Cheating Workers Out of Their Paychecks Is How Trump Does Business
• January 9, 2018: With Rosenstein’s Likely Exit, Protecting Mueller Becomes Imperative
• January 9, 2018: Trump Shutdown Disrupts Consumer, Worker, Health, Safety Protections
• January 8, 2018: The Revised NAFTA Deal Will NOT Fund Trump’s Border Wall, Directly or Indirectly
• January 4, 2018: Only Structural Reforms Can Fix Our Political System – and the For the People Act Delivers
• December 18, 2018: New York’s Attorney General Shuts Down a Key Element of Trump’s Grift and Corruption; Congress Should Follow Suit
• December 14, 2018: Department of Education Belatedly Implements Protections for Student Borrowers
• December 10, 2018: TEACH Grant Program Plagued by Mismanagement, Inadequate Oversight
• November 28, 2018: How Trump’s Policies Hurt Children
• November 21, 2018: Public Citizen Calls on Pentagon to Release Order Permitting Military to Use Force at the Border
• November 7, 2018: As Sessions Departs, His Replacement Must Publicly Commit to Protect the Mueller Investigation
• October 31, 2018: Trump’s Bank Cops Roll Back Safeguards
• October 26, 2018: White House Lacks Public Support for Dangerous Clean Cars Rollback
• October 15, 2018: U.S. Treasury Report to Congress on Trade Partners’ Currency Practices Will Once Again Fall Short of Its Mandate
• October 10, 2018: Fact Check: Trump is Dead Wrong on Medicare-for-All
• October 9, 2018: IRS Report Confirms Nonprofit Political Activity Guidelines Are Needed Now
• October 5, 2018: In Light of Racist Writings, Senior CFPB Official Should Not Lead CFPB Anti-Discrimination Office
• September 28, 2018: Senior Trump-Appointed CFPB Official Who Supported Discrimination and Doesn’t Acknowledge Existence of Racism, Not Fit for the Job
• September 30, 2018: Renegotiated NAFTA Deal: Improvements on Some Key Demands and More Work Needed
• September 24, 2018: Revised U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement Is Not What Was Promised
• September 24, 2018: Vital Medicine Prices Skyrocket Despite Trump Promises to the Contrary
• September 21, 2018: Rosenstein Allegations Are a Minor Attraction, Mueller Investigation Into Russian Interference Must Continue
• August 21, 2018: Manafort Verdict: No Witch Hunt Here, Mueller Investigation Must Continue
• August 21, 2018: EPA Unveils Plan to Undo Obama-Era Restrictions on Coal-Fired Power Plants
• August 17, 2018: Trump Can’t Delay Protections From Chemical Plant Hazards
• August 16, 2018: Clean Cars Rollback: The Absurdity of the Trump Administration’s Safety Claims
• August 13, 2018: Trump Administration on Verge of Permanently Repealing Critical Protections for Nursing Home Patients and Families
• August 7, 2018: Azar’s Prescription Cost Plan Needs Closer Scrutiny
• August 2, 2018: Clean Cars Rollback Is Equivalent of a 100-Car Pileup
• August 1, 2018: Health Care Sabotage: Final Rule Lets Insurers Offer Junk Plans That Can Discriminate Against Patients and Provide Minimal Benefits
• August 1, 2018: Trump Should Not Undermine the Rule of Law; His Desperate Tweet Should Be Disregarded
• July 18, 2018: Americans Deserve a Consumer Financial Protection Hero. Kraninger Is a Zero.
• July 13, 2018: Trump Must Cancel His Visit With Putin After Mueller Indicts 12 Russian Military Intelligence Officers For Election Interference
• July 3, 2018: Blame Trump at the Pump: Highest July Fourth Gas Prices Since 2014
• July 2, 2018: Bipartisan Group of Current and Former House Members File Brief Opposing  Trump’s Anti-Union Executive Orders
• June 21, 2018: Public Citizen Calls on Ethics Officials to Investigate Whether Interior Department Chief Violated Federal Code
• May 23, 2018: Public Citizen Updates Ethics Complaint Against Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen, Alleging He May Have Violated Foreign Agents Registration Act
• May 22, 2018: Demonstration at D.C. Gas Station to Highlight How Trump Policies Are Driving Up Prices at the Pump to Four-Year Highs
• May 15, 2018: Groups to Federal Court: Force Trump’s EPA to Uphold Popular Consumer Clean Car Standards
• May 10, 2018: Public Citizen Files Ethics Complaint Against Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Alleging Violations of Federal Lobbying Laws
• April 19, 2018: Trump Administration Unlawfully Terminated Grants Awarded for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs, Court Holds
• April 11, 2018: As a Result of Public Citizen Lawsuit, the Trump Administration Is Releasing Visitor Logs for Four Agencies in the White House Complex
• April 2, 2018: 300 Alarm Clocks Send Message to Ford: Wake Up! Stop Colluding With Trump to Make Cars Dirty Again
• March 26, 2018: Public Citizen Files 30 Ethics Complaints for Likely Violations of Trump’s Own Ethics Rules
• March 9, 2018: FEC Must Not Shirk Its Responsibility to Prevent Russian Meddling in Our Elections
• February 26, 2018: Court Issues Decision in Challenge to Trump’s Deregulatory Executive Order
• February 16, 2018: Thirteen Russian Nationals, Three Russian Entities Indicted in Election Meddling Investigation
• February 15, 2018: HHS Sued Over Unlawful Termination of Grants Implementing Evidence-Based Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy
• February 15, 2018: Win: Trump Administration Settles Lawsuit Over Visitor Logs; Information Will Be Released to the Public
• February 14, 2018: Broad Coalition of Civic Groups, Academics Endorse Legislation to End Secretive Spending by Presidential Inaugural Committees
• February 7, 2018: Before Trump’s Prayer Breakfast, 145 Groups Call on Legislators to Keep Churches Nonpartisan
• January 22, 2018: Public Citizen Sues Trump Administration Over Workplace Safety Records
• January 18, 2018: One Year of America’s First White President
• January 18, 2018: Report: One Year in, Trump Administration Remains Unconstitutionally Racist
• January 4, 2018: Hey Tough Guy Trump: Stop Being a Crybaby
• January 3, 2018: Score Another Victory for the Democratic Resistance: The Pence-Kobach Voter Suppression Commission Is Disbanded
• January 3, 2018: More Than 60 Groups Urge Senators to Reject Azar to Run HHS
• December 21, 2017: Nearly 80 Groups Urge Congressional Leaders to Strengthen Public Support for Special Counsel Mueller’s Investigation
• December 18, 2017: More Than 100,000 Americans Nationwide Pledge to Protest if Trump Fires Mueller
• December 8, 2017: Consumer Advocates File in Support of Acting CFPB Director Leandra English
• November 15, 2017: Protest Outside Pence’s Celebration With Lobbyists and Tax Dodgers Highlights How Republican Tax Scheme Is for Corporate Donors
• November 13, 2017: Trump’s Department of Education Signals Its Intention to Protect Predatory, For-Profit Colleges Over Students
• November 13, 2017: Ruling in Trump Protest Case Protects Anonymous Speech but Limits Protections for Organizers
• November 2, 2017: Federal Officials Are Illegally Withholding Documents on Trump’s Old Post Office Lease, Lawsuit Alleges
• November 1, 2017: Justice, Civil and Human Rights Groups Host Event Sounding Alarm on Trump Administration, Congress’ Attacks on Access to Courts
• November 1, 2017: As Ivanka Trump Travels to Asia, Human Rights, Labor, Union and Public Interest Groups Call on First Daughter to Pledge Improvements for Workers Making Her Brand’s Clothes in China
• October 25, 2017: Go ‘Forward Not Backward’: Environmental and Consumer Groups Launch Campaign Calling on Ford, Volkswagen and Other Automakers to Drop Efforts to Roll Back Clean Car Standards
• October 23, 2017: Civil Rights Groups Sue U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Over Suspension of Rule Assisting Low-Income Families
• October 16, 2017: What Happened to the Surplus Funds From Trump’s Inauguration?
• October 12, 2017: Government Lacks Probable Cause to Request Identities of Facebook Users
• October 10, 2017: Court Upholds Protestors’ Anonymity Rights in Trump Inauguration Case
• October 5, 2017: Public Citizen to House Lawmakers: Trump Administration Proposal to Subsidize Nuclear and Coal Would Burden Consumers
• October 4, 2017: Monopoly Man Photobombs Senate Equifax Hearing
• September 26, 2017: Public Citizen Hosts Panel Discussion About the Effect of Trump’s Leaked Executive Order on Affordable Medicines at Home and Abroad
• September 19, 2017: Bipartisan Group of Security, Ethics and Investigations Experts Urge Senators to Support Legislation Protecting the Independent Special Counsel
• September 1, 2017: Public Citizen Urges Court to Protect Internet Users Who Emailed Trump Protest Website
• August 24, 2017: The DOJ’s ‘Narrower’ Search Warrant in DisruptJ20.org Case Is Still Too Broad; Public Citizen Attorney Available for Comment
• August 22, 2017: Trump Administration Lawyers Relent – Ask Judge to Exclude Request for IP Addresses of January Inauguration Protesters
• August 21, 2017: Public Citizen Represents Inauguration Protest Website Visitors Who Are Resisting DOJ Witch Hunt
• August 17, 2017: Public Citizen Sues Trump Administration for Withholding Visitor Logs
• August 8, 2017: Public Citizen Goes to Court Thursday to Protect Critical Regulations From Trump’s Reckless Executive Order
• August 7, 2017: Mueller Must Be Protected
• July 31, 2017: Koch Brothers, Mnuchin, Draw D.C. Protesters at Corporate Tax Giveaway Convention
• July 10, 2017: Public Citizen Sues Trump Administration to Prevent Government’s Collection of Voter Information
• July 6, 2017: Public Citizen and Project on Predatory Student Lending Represent Students Suing to Stop Education Department’s Illegal Delay
• June 27, 2017: Wednesday: Protest of $35,000-Per-Plate Trump Fundraiser at Trump International Hotel
• June 23, 2017: Public Citizen Harshly Criticizes Proposal to Roll Back Parts of the Beryllium Rule
• June 20, 2017: Draft Trump Order Abandons Campaign Promises to Challenge Big Pharma and Make Medications Affordable
• June 15, 2017: Trump Administration Meets on Pharmaceutical Proposals, We Can Tell You How They Will Affect Patients
• June 15, 2017: Energy Efficiency Initiatives Targeted by Trump and His Allies Would Save Consumers Trillions of Dollars
• June 8, 2017: Trump and Zinke Must Disavow Plans to Re-Create Troubled Offshore Drilling Agency
• June 7, 2017: House Energy and Commerce Members Challenge Administration to Increase Access to Medicines
• June 7, 2017: MEDIA ADVISORY: Ahead of Comey Testimony, Groups Rally on Capitol Hill to Deliver Signatures of 4 Million Americans Demanding Independent Commission Investigate Trump’s Campaign Ties to Russia
• June 5, 2017: EDITORIAL BOARD ALERT: Regulatory Accountability Act Would Let Corporations Rig the Rules and Block Lifesaving Protections
• May 31, 2017: Trump’s Rejection of Paris Climate Accord Is Epic Blunder
• May 22, 2017: Trump Budget Would Slash Public Protections and Programs, Threatening Basic Standards of Living
• May 22, 2017: Exelon Corporation to U.S. Chamber: ‘I Wish I Knew How to Quit You’
• May 18, 2017: Will NAFTA Renegotiation Produce TPP 2.0 and Intensify Damage? Or Fulfill Trump Promise of a ‘Much Better’ Deal for Working Americans? Maintaining Secretive Process With 500 Official Corporate Advisers Does Not Bode Well
• May 17, 2017: Amid Trump Bombshells, Independent Investigation Is Needed
• May 16, 2017: Warning: Beware of Deceptive Responses to Upcoming CBO Report on the Revised AHCA
• May 16, 2017: Trump’s ‘One-In, Two-Out’ Executive Order on Regulations Violates Constitution and Should Be Blocked, Groups Tell Court
• May 11, 2017: After Comey Firing, Trump’s Tax Returns Matter More Than Ever
• May 11, 2017: ‘Voter Fraud’ Executive Order: Trump’s Fraud on Democracy
• May 10, 2017: Comey’s Firing Is an Assault on Democracy; Attorney General Jeff Sessions Must Go
• May 9, 2017: Trump Nominates Two Republicans for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• May 4, 2017: Trump Administration’s Bait-and-Switch on Religion
• May 4, 2017: Today’s Five-Year Korea FTA Data Show March Imports From Korea Higher Than All But One Month Since Pact Started: What Is Trump’s Plan for Pact?
• April 18, 2017: Trump Buy American Order Good First Step, But Enacting EO’s Goals Will Require Elimination of Trade Pact Buy American Waivers for 59 Nations
• April 14, 2017: White House Visitor Log Secrecy Will Increase Corruption
• April 5, 2017: White House and Public Citizen Agree: The Congressional Review Act Is an Important Story
• March 30, 2017: Draft NAFTA Renegotiation Plan in Official Fast Track Notice Letter Would Not Fulfill Trump’s Pledge to Make NAFTA ‘Much Better’ for Working People or Enjoy a Congressional Majority
• March 28, 2017: Trump Rollback of Climate Policies Is a Historic Move Toward Catastrophe
• March 27, 2017: Trump’s Repeal of Regulatory Protections Using the CRA Is Corrupt Insider Dealing
• March 16, 2017: Misappropriated by Mick Mulvaney
• March 15, 2017: Trump Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards Would Cost Americans $5,700 Per Car, $8,200 Per Truck
• March 1, 2017: Trump’s Joint Address Attack on FDA Signals Complete Ignorance of Medication Approval Process
• Feb. 27, 2017: Trump’s Initial Budget Offering Would Emaciate Public Services and Protections
• Feb. 27, 2017: Behind the Rhetoric of Trump’s Congressional Address
• Feb. 24, 2017: Trump’s Executive Order Will Cut Deep Into Essential Public Protections
• Feb. 20, 2017: Attacking Public Protections and Endangering Americans Is Not Presidential
• Feb. 20, 2017: Trump’s First 30 Days: A Wholesale Corporate Takeover of Government
• Feb. 9, 2017: A First: Presidential Transition Team May Have Used Nondisclosure Agreement to Conceal Congressional Staffers’ Work on Muslim Ban
• Feb. 8, 2017: Public Citizen to Spicer: Now Is the Time to Revoke the Wrongheaded Executive Order on Regulations
• Feb. 8, 2017: Consumer, Environmental and Workers Groups File Legal Challenge to Trump’s ‘One-In, Two-Out’ Executive Order on Regulations
• Feb. 3, 2017: Trump Executive Orders Overturning Wall Street Reform Betray Campaign Promises; Media Availability
• Feb. 2, 2017: Trump’s Reckless Threat to End Johnson Amendment Will Corrupt the Pulpit, Open Church Groups to Political Manipulation
• Jan. 31, 2017: Trump Proposal to Eviscerate FDA Regulations Would Endanger Public Health
• Jan. 30, 2017: Trump’s ‘Two-Out, One-In’ Executive Order on Regulations Is Radical, Unworkable and Dangerous
• Jan. 27, 2017: Trump’s Ban of Refugees Weakens Democracy and Threatens America’s Global Leadership Role
• Jan. 25, 2017: Doesn’t Inspire Confidence: Dark Money Kingpin to Advise Trump Businesses on Ethics
• Jan. 25, 2017: Trump’s Voter Fraud Lies: A Fraud on Democracy
• Jan. 23, 2017: Trump’s ‘Fake Facts’ About Regulation Could Lead to Real Catastrophes
• Jan. 23, 2017: President Trump’s Executive Orders Formally Bury TPP’s Corpse, but What About TTIP, TISA, China BIT?
• Jan. 19, 2017: ‘Send Special Interests Packing’? Trump Already Has Broken That Pledge
• Jan. 19, 2017: Corporate Contributors to Trump Inauguration Seek to Curry Favor
• Dec. 9, 2016: Trump Transition Team Asks Disturbing Questions About Civil Service Employees
• Nov. 29, 2016: Congress Must Drain the Swamp, Not Clog the Drain
• Nov. 11, 2016: Bailed-Out Auto Industry Asks Trump’s Lobbyist Transition Team to Ease Off Rules That Save Consumers Money
• Nov. 10, 2016: Here’s How We Can Face the Massive Challenges Ahead