Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued to stop construction, and lower courts have agreed, saying the ballroom requires congressional approval, although they have permitted construction of an underground bunker to continue.
On august seventh, an appeals court wrote, We are aware of no instance in American history in which a president unilaterally and using privately collected funds demolished substantial portions of the White House that Congress authorized to be built and American taxpayers paid for.
Until now.
Nonetheless, construction has continued, and now U.S.
Solicitor General D.
John Sauer is telling the Supreme Court the ballroom is critical for national security and that it is too late to stop the project.
He claims it is 65% complete and has a 250-person crew working twenty hours a day, seven days a week to keep the project ahead of schedule and under budget.
The administration wants the Supreme Court to step in to allow Trump's vanity project to continue.
The timing of Trump's request that the Supreme Court allow him to ignore Congress and the law in order to spend taxpayer money on a vanity project provides a dramatic contrast to the actions of the government ninety one years ago.
On august fourteenth, nineteen thirty five, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.
While he had already put in place new measures to regulate business and banking, and had provided temporary work relief to combat the depression, the
This law permanently changed the nature of the American government.
The Social Security Act established a federal system of old age benefits, unemployment insurance, aid to homeless, dependent, and neglected children, funds to promote maternal and child welfare, and public health services.
It was a sweeping reworking of the relationship between the government and its citizens, using the power of taxation to pool funds to provide a basic social safety net.
The driving force behind the law was FDR's Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins.
She was the first woman to hold a U.S.
cabinet position and still holds the record for having the longest tenure in that job.
She served from nineteen thirty three to nineteen forty five.
Perkins brought to the position a vision of government very different from that of the Republicans who had run it in the nineteen twenties.
While men like President Herbert Hoover had embraced the idea of a rugged individualism in which men provided for their families on their own, Perkins recognized that the vision of a hard working man supporting his wife and children was more myth than reality.
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