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The Rundown

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Talk is cheap: On April 26, the administration is supposed to announce a tax reform plan, which could be the big win Trump so desperately needs to up his historically low approval ratings. We'll see what happens once congress puts in their two cents.

Really UN, really? What are you smoking? In a secret ballot election, the United Nations appointed Saudi Arabia to its Commission on Women. This is a country where women are assigned male guardians and is arguably one of the most oppressive governments in the world for women's rights. Oh, and the Saudi representatives are all men, naturally.

Remember Goldman Sachs? Former-President Obama is facing criticism for receiving $400,000 to speak at the Cantor Fitzgerald healthcare conference in front of Wall Street elite. It's not the best look considering the wave of populism that Trump rode to the White House. If we learned anything from the 2016 campaign trail, it's that people are skeptical about relationships between extremely wealthy private donors and public figures with government ties.

Standing up: On April 24, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeals court decision about a police officer who shot an unarmed Latino man and paralyzed him. Judge Sonia Sotomayor was not having it though, and wrote a truly scathing dissent about the court turning a blind eye to the problem of racially motivated police brutality.

Rejected: A federal judge put Trump in his place after the anti-immigrant directive he issued against sanctuary cities, locations that protect immigrants from police, by threatening to cut statewide federal funding. San-Francisco-based judge, William Orrick issued the injunction and effectively delivered yet another a legal backhand to the Trump administration.