In Trump's Washington, public business increasingly handled behind closed doors

[TexasTowelie]

The Senate bill to scale back the health-care law known as Obamacare is being written in secret by a single senator, Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and a clutch of his senior aides.

Officials at numerous agencies of the Trump administration have stonewalled friendly Republicans in Congress — not to mention Democrats — by declining to share internal documents on sensitive matters or refusing to answer questions.

President Trump, meanwhile, is still forbidding the release of his tax returns, his aides have stopped releasing logs of visitors to the White House and his media aides have started banning cameras at otherwise routine news briefings, as happened Monday.

Trump even refuses to acknowledge to the public that he plays golf during his frequent weekend visits to his private golf courses.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-trumps-washington-public-business-increasingly-handled-behind-closed-doors/2017/06/19/29f9047c-54fb-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html

[WhiteTara]

1. Isn't this what dictators do?

[hedda_foil]

2. It is. I've been waiting for six months for our very own Reichstag fire moment.

[ProudLib72]

3. They've adopted a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy

It's best not to ask because we sure as shit ain't telling.