Lack of Iran war plan has unleashed chaos and could stymie US military for decades, say critics

White House contends with reality of shoddy preparations for war and unclear conditions for victory…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/goal-plan-iran-war-military

 

Over 24 hours, Trump makes his authoritarian-style vision plain

Every once in a while, the president has a day — a single, 24-hour period — in which his authoritarian vision comes into sharp relief…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/24-hours-trump-makes-authoritarian-style-vision-plain-rcna201288

Videos Reveal Trump Adviser’s “Shadow” Plan for Second Administration — ProPublica

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," he said. "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so."

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga

How Trump’s tariff plans could kill jobs and worsen inflation | CNN Business

"The policy is very bad. Tariffs make consumers poorer. They shrink the economy," Alex Durante, an economist at the Tax Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, told CNN in a phone interview. "This would probably be the most damaging part of a Trump 2.0 economic agenda."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/economy/trump-tariffs-trade-jobs-inflation/index.html

The anti-abortion plan ready for Trump on Day One - POLITICO

"They have laid out an 887-page blueprint that includes, in painstaking detail, exactly how they plan to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access," she said. "Trump's close advisers have actual plans to block access to abortion in every single state without any help from Congress or the courts."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/29/trump-abortion-ban-2024-campaign-00138417

Recorded conversation shows Ted Cruz outlining plan to challenge 2020 results - The Washington Post

"Ted Cruz is a lawyer who knows the difference between factual evidence and idle speculation and he recognized what a fraud Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani were perpetrating on the country — and yet he continued to play along with it, like so many people did," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack, told The Post on Tuesday evening...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/25/ted-cruz-fox-election-fraud/

‘Republicans, Show Us Your Plan’: Chuck Schumer Hammers GOP Over Debt Ceiling Fight

During Senate Floor remarks on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the death of Tyre Nichols, the debt ceiling and bipartisan infrastructure law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdlxEmLhJ7w

Opinion | Republicans Have No Inflation Plan - The New York Times

"The bottom line is that while the G.O.P.'s election strategy is all about blaming the Biden administration for inflation, the Republican Party doesn't actually have any plan to reduce inflation. To the extent it has an economic plan at all, it would make inflation worse."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/opinion/columnists/republicans-biden-inflation-policy.html

Government Docs Show There Was Never a Plan in Afghanistan

"It's really much worse than you think,"…

https://www.thedailybeast.com/government-docs-show-there-was-never-a-plan-in-afghanistan

A New President To Bring A New Plan To Combat COVID-19 : Shots - Health News : NPR

Murthy said a Biden administration will have a unified message and strategy on how to proceed. "Rebuilding public trust is about communication. It's about following the science," he added.....

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/08/930887069/hold-president-elect-biden-has-a-plan-to-combat-covid-19-heres-what-s-in-it

Biden Trolls Trump With New COVID Website

Joe Biden wants the very online crowd to know that Donald Trump does not have a pandemic plan. At least, that’s the pitch the Democratic nominee’s campaign is making through a gag website, TrumpCovidPlan.com, their newest digital endeavor to one up the president on the virus. The homepage opens to a signature “Not Found” greeting used for defunct or broken pages with the adjoining message: “The Trump plan to defeat the coronavirus and reopen safely does not exist.”....

https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-trolls-trump-with-new-covid-website

Democrats have a plan to automatically expand health coverage in a pandemic - Vox

Here are the highlights of the task force’s proposal.....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/13/21323294/coronavirus-democrats-health-care-coverage

Biden previews manufacturing plan to counter 'America First' president - Reuters

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday promised to revive U.S. manufacturing so that the country is not dependent on China, taking aim at his rival’s promises to revive factories. Biden’s team said a policy plan to create manufacturing jobs is coming “soon” but offered early hints in a document outlining how they would prevent shortages of equipment to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-manufacturing-idUSKBN2482F2

Democrats to unveil bold new climate plan to phase out emissions by 2050

House Democrats will unveil an aggressive climate crisis “action plan” on Tuesday to nearly eliminate US emissions by 2050, according to summary documents reviewed by the Guardian. The net-zero emissions goal is what United Nations leaders and the scientific community say the world must achieve to avoid the worst of rising temperatures, and it’s what the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, says he would pursue if he were to win the White House in November. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/29/democrats-climate-crisis-carbon-emissions

Nursing Homes Fought Federal Emergency Plan Requirements for Years. Now, They’re Coronavirus Hot Spots. — ProPublica

The long-term care industry resisted a federal mandate to plan for disasters including pandemics. About 43% of nursing homes have been caught violating the requirement, including facilities that have now had deadly COVID-19 outbreaks.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nursing-homes-fought-federal-emergency-plan-requirements-for-years-now-theyre-coronavirus-hot-spots

Everything Bush said to do to prepare for a pandemic but Trump ignored - Business Insider

In 2005, while on vacation at his ranch outside Crawford, Texas, President George W. Bush read John M. Barry's "The Great Influenza." The book examines how the US was impacted by the 1918 flu pandemic, the deadliest viral outbreak since the Black Death. At the time, the country was focused on other crises — notably the war in Iraq and global terrorism — but Bush was adamant about preparing for a massive national health crisis.
https://www.businessinsider.com/george-bush-said-prepare-for-a-pandemic-that-trump-ignored-2020-5

McConnell admits on Fox News he LIED about Obama leaving Trump a pandemic playbook

Mitch McConnell just admitted he lied ON FOX NEWS about Obama leaving Trump a pandemic response playbook.
https://youtu.be/gqRS0SRA4IE

‘I clearly made a mistake’: Mitch McConnell admits to Fox News that he misled Trump supporters – Raw Story

On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) falsely claimed that the Obama administration did not leave the Trump administration “any kind of game plan” for a pandemic. The Republican Senate leader, who is facing reelection in Kentucky in 2020, made his comments on Monday’s “Team Trump Livestream.” McConnell was fact-checked for his false claim by former Obama administration Ebola czar Ron Klain.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/i-clearly-made-a-mistake-mitch-mcconnell-admits-to-fox-news-that-he-mislead-trump-supporters/

Joe Biden Says Trump Hasn't Provided an Answer on How to Safely Reopen America, Unveils His Own Plan

In an opinion article published by The New York Times Sunday, Biden, who served as vice president under former President Barack Obama and is now the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Trump in November, argued that the president's response to the pandemic had "led to catastrophic results." He also presented his thoughts on the best path forward to deal with the fallout moving forward.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-says-trump-hasnt-provided-answer-how-safely-reopen-america-unveils-his-own-plan-1497473

Coronavirus pandemic: Trump ignores response plan Bush created in 2005

George W. Bush’s pandemic response plan is a blueprint for Donald Trump during this deadly coronavirus crisis. A responsible leader would be using it. .....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/06/coronavirus-donald-trump-ignores-2005-bush-pandemic-plan-column/2950848001/