Rachel Maddow

Bottom line, they're marketing themselves as a consumer airline for the general public. But they are also simultaneously signing a huge contract with the Trump administration to use Avelo flights and aircraft and their flight attendants and everything for deportation flights.

I don't know how you market yourself to the general public while telling the general public, oh, also our flights and flight attendants and planes are being used by Trump to send people to other countries. But... These protests against Avello Airline at New Haven Airport I thought was going to be a one-off thing. It's now becoming a regular thing, and they are getting bigger over time.

I don't know how you market yourself to the general public while telling the general public, oh, also our flights and flight attendants and planes are being used by Trump to send people to other countries. But... These protests against Avello Airline at New Haven Airport I thought was going to be a one-off thing. It's now becoming a regular thing, and they are getting bigger over time.

At this latest one, protesters were joined by the U.S. Senator from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal. They're alongside the protesters. And, you know, there's no shortage of stuff that the Trump administration is doing that would be a stop-the-presses moment in any other administration. It's just that he's doing so many of these things at once that they can get lost in the sauce, right?

At this latest one, protesters were joined by the U.S. Senator from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal. They're alongside the protesters. And, you know, there's no shortage of stuff that the Trump administration is doing that would be a stop-the-presses moment in any other administration. It's just that he's doing so many of these things at once that they can get lost in the sauce, right?

I mean, Trump just this week has revealed a budget plan that will entirely eliminate the Head Start program everywhere in the country. This would have been a month's worth of headlines in any other administration. I mean, Head Start is preschool, and Trump is going to cut it to zero.

I mean, Trump just this week has revealed a budget plan that will entirely eliminate the Head Start program everywhere in the country. This would have been a month's worth of headlines in any other administration. I mean, Head Start is preschool, and Trump is going to cut it to zero.

Nearly 50% of all Head Start funding in the whole country goes to rural areas in which there often is no other child care option available for young parents. Head Start is it, and Trump is zeroing out Head Start. Zero. He's eliminating it. This week, Trump has yanked all AmeriCorps volunteers off their projects all across the country.

Nearly 50% of all Head Start funding in the whole country goes to rural areas in which there often is no other child care option available for young parents. Head Start is it, and Trump is zeroing out Head Start. Zero. He's eliminating it. This week, Trump has yanked all AmeriCorps volunteers off their projects all across the country.

AmeriCorps is like the Peace Corps, but here at home, it sends young people aged 18 to 26 all around the country to do disaster response and conservation projects and education. They do things like building housing for veterans. They just do good works on a voluntary basis in every state in the country. And they do it in exchange for helping pay for college.

AmeriCorps is like the Peace Corps, but here at home, it sends young people aged 18 to 26 all around the country to do disaster response and conservation projects and education. They do things like building housing for veterans. They just do good works on a voluntary basis in every state in the country. And they do it in exchange for helping pay for college.

It is considered to be a 100% successful program. It is broadly popular and non-controversial with both parties. Trump himself supported it and funded it in his first term.

It is considered to be a 100% successful program. It is broadly popular and non-controversial with both parties. Trump himself supported it and funded it in his first term.

But now, inexplicably and without warning, he has ended all AmeriCorps volunteer assignments right now, in the middle of this week, pulled all those people out of what they were doing all over the country, effective immediately, no warning, no explanation. And they are cutting virtually all the staff of the agency that oversees the volunteers and make sure the program runs.

But now, inexplicably and without warning, he has ended all AmeriCorps volunteer assignments right now, in the middle of this week, pulled all those people out of what they were doing all over the country, effective immediately, no warning, no explanation. And they are cutting virtually all the staff of the agency that oversees the volunteers and make sure the program runs.

Why is Trump doing that? Do you remember Trump running for office saying he was going to kill AmeriCorps? Get rid of all those kids building housing for veterans. Yeah, and we're going to get rid of preschool too. Am I right? I mean, do you remember that from his rallies? They were hard to pay attention to. They were long, but I don't remember that. Who's clamoring for this?

Why is Trump doing that? Do you remember Trump running for office saying he was going to kill AmeriCorps? Get rid of all those kids building housing for veterans. Yeah, and we're going to get rid of preschool too. Am I right? I mean, do you remember that from his rallies? They were hard to pay attention to. They were long, but I don't remember that. Who's clamoring for this?

AmeriCorps volunteers are already suing Trump to stop what he's doing. Now California's governor, Gavin Newsom, says the state of California is going to sue him over this as well. We shall see. But that's, like I said, one among many. Trump has now fired so many people at the National Weather Service that the agency yesterday sent out a blanket notice.

AmeriCorps volunteers are already suing Trump to stop what he's doing. Now California's governor, Gavin Newsom, says the state of California is going to sue him over this as well. We shall see. But that's, like I said, one among many. Trump has now fired so many people at the National Weather Service that the agency yesterday sent out a blanket notice.

advising their staff that they're going to need to reduce or suspend weather balloon launches all over the country. Weather balloon launches make weather forecasts accurate. The former administrator of NOAA tells USA Today that that factor and the staff shortages imposed by Trump are already degrading our weather forecasts in this country.