Steven Greenhouse
@greenhousenyt.bsky.social
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Retired New York Times labor reporter, senior fellow Century Foundation, author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · 2d
Many Americans are shocked & dismayed that the Supreme Court has been so submissive toward Donald Trump—the most authoritarian-minded president in history

Some scholars say the court's conservative super-majority has been just plain chicken when it comes to Trump
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Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse
As a new term begins, the justices have continually failed to provide a check on presidential power – with disastrous consequences
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · 13d
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is so unpopular that he's pushing to rebrand it as The Working Families Tax Cut Bill

Don't Be Fooled. The bill should be called the Billionaires' Tax Cut Bill. With its Medicaid & other cuts, the bill hurts millions of working families www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump wants to rebrand his tax bill as the ‘Working Families Tax Cut’. Don’t be fooled | Steven Greenhouse
The budget measure will hurt poor people and boost rich people. It should really be called the Billionaires’ Tax Cut Act
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · 17d
Trump’s unprecedented assault on the Federal Reserve's independence iS DANGEROUS & BAD FOR OUR ECONOMY

Just as Trump failed to understand the huge problems his tariffs would create, he fails to understand the serious damage his attacks on the Fed could cause.
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Why Trump’s attacks on the Fed’s independence are so dangerous | Steven Greenhouse
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates this week. But the aggressive action Trump seeks could dramatically backfire
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · 25d
Donald Trump won the election by promising to reduce prices, especially grocery prices, on Day One.

It hasn't happened. The price of ground beef is up 13%, eggs are up 11%, and coffee prices have jumped 21%

TRUMP ISN'T DELIVERING ON HIS ECONOMIC PROMISES.
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Analysis | Trump faces same economic challenges that cost Harris her White House bid
President Donald Trump faces a similar economic environment to the one that cost Kamala Harris the White House.
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Sep 7
If you look closely, you can see the bone spurs that self-described "war hero" Donald Trump used to dodge the draft & avoid serving in Vietnam

Trump actually called himself a war hero for ordering U.S. pilots to risk their lives & bomb Iran. They're the war heroes, not the cowardly draft dodger
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Sep 1
TRUMP IS “BRAZENLY ANTI-WORKER”

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler: “Trump talks a good game of being for working people, but he’s doing the absolute opposite. He is stripping away regulations that protect workers. His attacks on unions are coming fast & furious."
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‘He’s brazenly anti-worker’: US marks the first Labor Day under Trump 2.0
Advocates say Trump has hurt workers in many ways, often by cutting their pay or making their jobs more dangerous
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Aug 30
It's delusional for anyone to think that RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are making America healthy again.

With Kennedy's war against science, truth & vaccines and Trump's war against Medicaid, their movement should be called MAKING AMERICA UNHEALTHY AGAIN

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Aug 25
Trump is DANGEROUSLY UNDERMINING the rule of law & our democracy with his unusual governing style—GOVERNMENT BY SHAKEDOWN

He is shaking down universities, law firms & US trading partners in ways that violate federal law & the Supreme Ct does nothing
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Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown | Steven Greenhouse
The president’s strategy is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Congress and the courts must put a stop to it
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Aug 22
Donald Trump has a distinctive & dangerous style of governing—Call it GOVERNING BY SHAKEDOWN

Trump has systematically sought to shake down leading universities, prominent law firms & America's trading partners—usually violating federal law in doing so.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown | Steven Greenhouse
The president’s strategy is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Congress and the courts must put a stop to it
www.theguardian.com
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Aug 11
Trump boasts that he's winning his trade war, but ordinary Americans are big losers in the war

Trump’s tariffs will cost the typical US household $2,400 in 2025. The Yale Budget Lab says apparel prices will soar 37% & shoe prices 39%.

AMERICANS LOSE BIG-TIME www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly | Steven Greenhouse
Trump’s trade war has pushed up inflation, slashed US job gains, slowed economic growth and caused the manufacturing sector to sputter
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Aug 8
BLAME THE SUPREME COURT for paving the way for Texas's shameful race-to-the-bottom on gerrymandering

In 2019, Chief Justice Roberts & the conservative majority issued a horrible ruling—no matter how egregious the gerrymandering, we'll let it stand

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The US supreme court paved the way for Texas’s gerrymandering mess | Steven Greenhouse
In a 2019 case, John Roberts said federal courts shouldn’t intervene in such matters. Trump’s team is taking advantage
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Jul 22
Very regrettably, the Supreme Court keeps ruling in favor of Donald Trump, the most authoritarian president in history & keeps issuing rulings that undermine our democracy.

The court forgets, We're supposed to have a government of laws, not of strongmen.
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The supreme court is giving a lawless president the green light | Steven Greenhouse
The Department of Education case is the latest example of an unexplained decision bowing to Trump
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Jul 21
MORE ON EPSTEIN & TRUMP—Epstein aide went to FBI because she was upset that Epstein was pursuing girls & young women while building friendships with prominent people, including Trump & Bill Clinton

She said Trump once thought Epstein was giving her to Trump for sex
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Jul 2
Ever since Trump returned to power, he has conducted an unprecedented assault against the rule of law. Thankfully, federal district court judges have bravely stood up to him & his illegal actions

Sadly SCOTUS has been very pro-Trump & has tied these judges' hands
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The supreme court is cracking down on judges – and letting Trump run wild | Steven Greenhouse
The justices’ decision limiting judicial injunctions gives a red light to the most effective check on the president’s power grab
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Jun 26
As the Democratic party fights to rebuild from a devastating election defeat, the presidents of two of the nation’s largest labor unions—Randi Weingarten & Lee Saunders—have abruptly quit the DNC, exposing serious tensions over the party’s direction
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Union leaders’ exit from DNC exposes ‘mind-boggling’ tensions inside Democratic party
Lee Saunders and Randi Weingarten say party not standing up for working people amid ‘existential battle’ under Trump
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Jun 17
Disgraceful and inexcusable. Trump's authoritarian, ice-hearted thugs arrest New York City's highly respected comptroller, Brad Lander. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New York City comptroller Brad Lander arrested at immigration court hearing
Mayoral candidate was detained by Ice as he escorted an immigrant out of court, says his wife
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Jun 4
Trump is having TANTRUMS because so many judges have ruled against him

He should realize there's a simple way to get judges to stop overruling him: STOP taking all these ILLEGAL, VINDICTIVE actions & stop issuing all these destructive, lawless executive orders

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Trump keeps being overruled by judges. And his temper tantrums won’t stop that | Steven Greenhouse
A word of advice to Trump: dozens of judges keep ruling against you because you’ve flouted the law more than any previous president
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · May 30
"If there's justice in the world, @elonmusk will never be able to repair his reputation—at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered." Experts estimate DOGE's cuts have resulted in >300,000 deaths & huge misery & hunger
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · May 29
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Janice Fine @janicefinewjl.bsky.social · May 29
1/ Want to help US workers? Enforce labor law, not deportation orders. Undocumented immigrants are not the problem. The problem is the govt’s inadequate response to structural shifts in the economy that undermine worker power. NEW REPORT: smlr.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · May 28
The Supreme Court has been far too pro-Trump. Will the want be remembered as cowardly enablers who helped the most authoritarian, lawless president consolidate power? Or do they want to be remembered for standing up to a bully to protect our laws & our democracy?
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Will Donald Trump defy the US supreme court? | Steven Greenhouse
With the court slated to issue a flood of rulings by early July, the justices have an important choice: to bend to Trump or to grow a real backbone
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · May 6
Trump lied outrageously when he said Joe Biden caused the economic downturn in the first quarter

Economists say there was one overriding reason the economy tanked in the first quarter: uncertainty & alarm about Trump's tariffs. But Trump will never admit that www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
Trump says Biden caused the economic downturn. That’s malarkey | Steven Greenhouse
The US president is blaming ‘Biden’s economy’. In fact, there is one key cause of the poor showing – and it’s not his predecessor
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · May 6
Candidate Trump wooed labor unions & union members, but Trump 2.0 has repeatedly attacked America's unions

Unions have grown increasingly angry & disgusted with Trump

"We've been facing a barrage of attacks from the Trump administration," said AFLCIO President Liz Shuler
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America’s Labor Unions Are Souring on Trump
And they're already planting seeds to help ensure the Democrats win back control of the House of Representatives.
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · May 5
While Trump delusionally says “We’re celebrating the most successful first 100 days in history,” last week’s economic news refutes Trump's BS. The economy actually shrank in the 1st quarter. Trump dishonestly blames Biden although his tariffs caused the downturn
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Trump says Biden caused the economic downturn. That’s malarkey | Steven Greenhouse
The US president is blaming ‘Biden’s economy’. In fact, there is one key cause of the poor showing – and it’s not his predecessor
www.theguardian.com
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Apr 29
In Donald Trump's first 100 days back in office, he has made a strong case that his 2nd term will be by far the worst presidential term in history

In 100 days, his new term has shown itself to be the most lawless & authoritarian in US history
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Trump’s second term will be the worst presidential term ever | Steven Greenhouse
Tragically, the president’s second term is already more lawless and more authoritarian than any in US history
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · Apr 27
Don't miss this terrific discussion of our nation's Trump-created, anti-democratic CONSTITUTIONAL CRISES--with the brilliant Laurence Tribe, Pamela Karlan, & Sherrilyn Ifill. Moderated by Fintan O'Toole. This discussion was sponsored by @nybooks
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Constitutional Crises | Sherrilyn Ifill, Pamela Karlan, Laurence H. Tribe
In the first of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Sherrilyn
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