Do transgender individuals in the military weaken the military’s effectiveness? Early Wednesday morning, President Trump announced via Twitter a ban on all transgender individuals from serving in the military. He attributed this change in policy to “tremendous medical costs.” Fact-checking this premise, some asked the Pentagon to clarify how many …

On June 30th, there was a shooting at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in New York. The attack resulted in the death of one person – a doctor named Tracy Tam – and the wounding of six others, and, finally, in the death of the shooter himself through an act of …

via Wikimedia Here is HR 3180, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018. The bill essentially creates secret and classified “black budgets” for 16 agencies, and makes the very allocation of these funds also into a secret. It even forbids the President from discussing the budgets publicly. Last week, …

The Week of Monday, July 24, 2017 Last week, Congress tackle bills that ranged from more proposed action on health care, to bills that purport to better the lives of our veterans. The three bills that Daily Clout chose for you to watch are the Veterans Access to Childcare Act, …

The world is heating up dramatically — even as the Center for Public Integrity reports that “Fossil fuel giants spent millions on lobbying, inauguration during early 2017.” Last week also, an iceberg off the coast of Antarctica — snapped. This thing is huge — one of the largest icebergs ever …