BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration campaign platform thrilled hard-liners who long felt marginalized in the national debate. Now, they fear Mr. Trump will desert them. Their concerns grew this week after the president met with lawmakers and, as TV cameras rolled, voiced openness to a range of legislative options to legalize young undocumented […]
Category: A- Trump As President
1/11/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.’ This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 11, 2018 07:33am […]
1/11/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In new Quinnipiac Poll, 66% of people feel the economy is ‘Excellent or Good.’ That is the highest number ever recorded by this poll.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 11, 2018 06:43am […]
1/11/2018
HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration issued guidelines Thursday [1-11-18] to help states impose the first-ever work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries, one of the biggest changes in the program’s 50-year history. That approach contrasts with a move the administration made with less fanfare earlier in the week to extend waivers that allow food-stamp recipients in […]
1/10/2018
CANADA/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WTO: “Canada has filed a sweeping trade case against the United States at the World Trade Organization, lobbing a diplomatic grenade at the Trump administration’s ‘America First’ approach amid an increasingly embattled trade relationship between the longstanding North American allies. The trade case could exacerbate tensions between the two nations, which have […]
1/10/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump called the United States courts system ‘broken and unfair’ on Wednesday [1-10-18], the morning after a federal judge’s ruling that ordered the administration to restart a program that shields young, undocumented immigrants from deportation. Republicans and Democrats are in the middle of a legislative battle over the program created by […]
1/10/2018
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly a year into the Trump administration, mentions of climate change have been systematically removed, altered or played down on websites across the federal government, according to a report made public Wednesday [1-10-18]. The findings of the report, by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, an international coalition of researchers and […]
1/10/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election fits into a nearly two-decade pattern of meddling with governments around the world, and the United States’ response to its brazen attack is being hindered by President Trump, a new report prepared by Senate Democrats concludes. The report, which is to be released on […]
1/10/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Migrant shelters along the southern border are filling up again. Immigration lawyers in the region say their caseloads are spiking. Across the Southwest, border officers are stopping more than 1,000 people a day. Just months after border apprehensions hit a 17-year low, which administration officials proudly celebrated as a ‘Trump effect,’ the […]
1/10/2018
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Early last year, as an Obamacare repeal bill was flailing in the House, top Trump administration officials showed select House conservatives a secret road map of how they planned to gut the health care law using executive authority. The March 23 document, which had not been public until now, reveals that while […]
1/10/2018
INTERIOR/OIL/RYAN ZINKE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Several more governors are asking the Trump administration to pare back plans for one of the largest offshore-drilling expansions in history, adding to pressure that has already led officials to exempt Florida from the plan. The governors of North and South Carolina have requested their own meetings with Interior Secretary Ryan […]
1/10/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [1-10-18] declined to commit to a potential meeting with special counsel Robert Mueller, who told the president’s lawyers last month that he may want to interview Mr. Trump soon as part of his investigation into whether Trump associates colluded with Russia’s efforts to interfere in the […]
1/10/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my great honor to welcome Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway to the @WhiteHouse – a great friend and ally of the United States! Joint press conference: https://t.co/qWR1BhfQZI https://t.co/PJvwznjRCO” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 10, 2018 04:31pm […]
1/10/2018
CABINET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I want to thank my @Cabinet for working tirelessly on behalf of our country. 2017 was a year of monumental achievement and we look forward to the year ahead. Together, we are delivering results and MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://t.co/ptXa1hAPwW https://t.co/yv6RALkQf3” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 10, 2018 03:08pm […]
1/10/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House aides have been told to decide before the end of January whether they intend to leave the administration or stay through the November midterm elections, an official said, a deadline intended to help bring a sense of order to an anticipated staffing exodus. President Donald Trump is finding it […]
1/10/2018
CANADA/FOREIGN POLICY/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…As Nafta talks have grown contentious in areas such as national content in auto manufacturing, the Canadian side is working behind the scenes to press its agenda at back-channel meetings away from the negotiating table. Canada’s Liberal government, which has adopted a more pugnacious tone with the Trump administration on trade, […]
1/10/2018
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/PAKISTAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senior Pakistani officials warned that the U.S. suspension of security aid announced last week will push their country closer to China, Washington’s main rival for influence in Asia, as regional alliances realign… China has already invested heavily in a relationship that is redefining the balance of power in Asia, anchored by […]
1/10/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Trump administration’s effort to end an Obama-era program that protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. U.S. District Judge William Alsup temporarily blocked the ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program late Tuesday in a 49-page ruling. Mr. Alsup considered […]
1/9/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For 55 minutes, with cameras rolling, President Trump engaged in a vigorous discussion of immigration with congressional leaders of both parties in a setting usually reserved for bland talking points and meaningless photo opportunities. In effect, the president and his visitors threw away the blah-blah scripts and negotiated possible legislation in front […]
1/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday [1-9-18] in federal court against Fusion GPS, the firm behind a salacious and largely unsubstantiated dossier that purported to lay out how Russia had aided the Trump campaign. The dossier portrayed Mr. Cohen as a central figure in […]
1/9/2018
DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “The White House intends to destroy voter data collected by the election fraud commission President Donald Trump recently shut down, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday [1-9-18] night. White House Director of Information Technology Charles Herndon said in a declaration submitted to a federal court in Washington that […]
1/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In congressional testimony released Tuesday, a founder of a research firm behind a controversial dossier about Donald Trump provided a detailed account of how the investigation began and how that information ended up in the hands of federal law-enforcement agencies during the 2016 presidential campaign. The 35-page dossier, which contained salacious […]
1/9/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As I made very clear today, our country needs the security of the Wall on the Southern Border, which must be part of any DACA approval.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 9, 2018 07:16pm […]
1/9/2018
DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thanks to all of the Republican and Democratic lawmakers for today’s very productive meeting on immigration reform. There was strong agreement to negotiate a bill that deals with border security, chain migration, lottery and DACA. https://t.co/SdqAQ3aL3z https://t.co/8DYHZHspAy” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 9, 2018 05:51pm […]
1/9/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was my great honor to sign H.R. 267, the ‘Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act,’ which redesignates the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in the State of Georgia as the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park. https://t.co/Qe0b6HBFTY https://t.co/QTgaqTawPT” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 9, 2018 03:17pm […]
1/9/2018
POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On behalf of the American people, THANK YOU to our incredible law enforcement officers. As President of the United States – I will fight for you, and I will never, ever let you down. Now, more than ever, we must support the men and women in blue! #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay https://t.co/Qb4uxB4JRm” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/9/2018
ECONOMY/FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump plans to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this month, his press secretary announced on Tuesday [1-9-18]. Sarah Sanders said Trump was excited to attend the tony forum in the Swiss Alps, his fifth foreign trip as president… American administrations regularly send representatives to […]
1/9/2018
MENTAL HEALTH/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle is unveiling a bill called the ‘Stable Genius Act’ that would require all presidential candidates to undergo a medical exam and publicly disclose the results before the election. The Stabile Genius Act is an acronym for the Standardizing Testing and Accountability Before Large Elections Giving Electors […]
1/9/2018
INTERIOR/RYAN ZINKE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration told Florida’s governor it won’t consider new oil and gas drilling off the state’s coast, backtracking on plans to expand offshore drilling all around the U.S. and bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans in the state. The move is a crack in a five-year drilling plan the Interior […]
1/9/2018
AMBASSADOR/NOMINATIONS/RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The new US ambassador to the Netherlands, who was confronted last month by a Dutch reporter with comments he made in 2015 about Islamic ‘no-go zones,’ repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about the nature of Muslim communities in Europe and pushed a hardline view of Islam, a KFile review of his public appearances […]
1/9/2018
DEMS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The new tax law’s limit on the state and local tax deduction may pose a fiscal threat to high-tax states and their affluent taxpayers. But it’s also a political gift to Democratic officials in those states seeking to raise their national profiles by challenging President Donald Trump and circumventing the law. For […]
1/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Broadening their political counterattack in defense of the White House, President Donald Trump’s allies in Congress are placing new scrutiny on contacts between top Justice Department officials and reporters covering the Trump-Russia investigation. In recent weeks, GOP congressional investigators have publicly and privately questioned senior Justice Department and FBI leaders […]
1/8/2018
TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump delivered an economic victory lap during a speech to farmers on Monday [1-8-18] in which he vastly overstated the size of the tax cuts passed by Congress late last year and played up a rollback of regulations on American businesses. Declaring that the ‘American dream is roaring back to life,’ […]
1/8/2018
BORDER/DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES/WALL: “The Trump administration would cut or delay funding for border surveillance, radar technology, patrol boats and customs agents in its upcoming spending plan to curb illegal immigration — all proven security measures that officials and experts have said are more effective than building a wall along the Mexican border. President […]
1/8/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade must leave the country, two government officials familiar with the decision said on Monday [1-8-18]. It is the Trump administration’s latest reversal of years of immigration policies and one of the […]
1/9/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “They clean federal office buildings in Washington and nurse the elderly in Boston. They are rebuilding hurricane-wrecked Houston. The Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium, plumbing and heating systems at Fannie Mae’s new headquarters, the porterhouse at Peter Luger Steak House and even the Disney World experience have all depended, in small part or […]
1/8/2018
BUSINESS/JOBS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In Indiana, Missouri and Pennsylvania, President Trump used the same promise to sell the tax bill: It would bring jobs streaming back to struggling cities and towns. The bill that Mr. Trump signed, however, could actually make it attractive for companies to put more assembly lines on foreign soil. Under the new […]
1/8/2018
AGRICULTURE/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told a gathering of farmers Monday [1-8-18] that he is seeking a better trade deal with Canada and Mexico that will benefit both the agricultural industry and manufacturing, but he didn’t reiterate previous warnings on withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement… Mr. Trump has said he […]
1/8/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump signed a measure Monday [1-8-18] creating a new national historic park for Martin Luther King Jr. during a trip to the college football national championship game in Atlanta. The President performed the signing on Air Force One with Alveda King, the niece of the late iconic civil rights leader, […]
1/8/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The #MeToo movement has created an atmosphere of zero tolerance for any claims of sexual harassment involving prominent men in entertainment, the media, business and Congress — but so far it seems that rule doesn’t apply in the Trump administration. Latest case in point: The White House is considering finding a […]
1/8/2018
MENTAL HEALTH/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If President Donald Trump were any other 71-year-old — covered by Medicare and having his annual wellness visit — he’d be checked on his cognitive functions and possible safety risks. But when the president goes for his physical exam Friday [1-12-18], the White House said his mental fitness won’t be tested. […]
1/8/2018
AGRICULTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are fighting for our farmers, for our country, and for our GREAT AMERICAN FLAG. We want our flag respected – and we want our NATIONAL ANTHEM respected also! https://t.co/16eOLXg6Fi” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 8, 2018 06:19pm […]
1/8/2018
AGRICULTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In every decision we make, we are honoring America’s PROUD FARMING LEGACY. Years of crushing taxes, crippling regs, & corrupt politics left our communities hurting, our economy stagnant, & millions of hardworking Americans COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN. But they are not forgotten ANYMORE! https://t.co/MdYS7xnukQ” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 8, 2018 05:59pm […]
1/8/2018
AGRICULTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have been working every day to DELIVER for America’s Farmers just as they work every day to deliver FOR US. #AFBF18 https://t.co/QDH7fvFkZ7” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 8, 2018 05:58pm […]
1/8/2018
AGRICULTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can’t wait to be back in the amazing state of Tennessee to address the 99th American @FarmBureau Federation’s Annual Convention in Nashville! #AFBF18 On my way now – join me LIVE at 4:00pmE: https://t.co/QaljAqekdD. https://t.co/Wm7Io0hYT8” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 8, 2018 02:06pm […]
1/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Anticipating that special counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview President Donald Trump, the president’s legal team is discussing a range of potential options for the format, including written responses to questions in lieu of a formal sit-down, according to three people familiar with the matter. Lawyers for Trump have […]
1/8/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House’s demand that Macmillan cease publication of a controversial new book about President Donald Trump and his administration is ‘flagrantly unconstitutional’ and runs afoul of the First Amendment, said John Sargent, chief executive of the publisher… …Mr. Sargent described President Trump’s actions as ‘a clear effort by the President of […]
1/8/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “TRUMP’S SCHEDULE TODAY [1-8-18] 11 a.m.: President Donald Trump will receive his daily intelligence briefing in the Oval Office. 1 p.m.: Trump will depart the White house en route to Nashville, Tennessee. 4:10 p.m.: Trump will deliver remarks at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Annual Convention in Nashville. 5:10 p.m.: Trump will […]
1/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Monday [1-8-18] that the decision to give White House access to the author of a bombshell book about the Trump administration was a mistake. Michael Caputo told CNN’s ‘New Day’ that Michael Wolff’s book, ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White […]
1/8/2018
HHS/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Donald Trump’s nominee for HHS secretary was a top executive at Eli Lilly, the patent on its blockbuster Cialis was soon to expire. So Lilly tested it on kids. The drugmaker believed the erectile dysfunction drug might help a rare and deadly muscle-wasting disease that afflicts boys. The drug didn’t work […]
1/7/2018
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘His is turning out to be an enormously consequential presidency. So much so that, despite my own frustration over his missteps, there has never been a day when I wished Hillary Clinton were president. Not one. Indeed, as Trump’s accomplishments accumulate, the mere thought of…Clinton in the WH, doubling […]
1/7/2018
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘His is turning out to be an enormously consensual presidency. So much so that…there has never been a day that I wished Hillary Clinton were President. Not one. Indeed, as Trump’s accomplishments accumulate, the mere thought of Clinton in the W.H., doubling down on Obama’s…failed policies, washes away any […]
1/7/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has until Monday [1-8-18] to decide whether some 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants allowed to live and work in the U.S. since 2001 may stay in the country under protections that were meant to be temporary. Many are already looking for ways to circumvent a potential end to those protections and […]
1/7/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. admitted about 5,000 refugees in the first three months of fiscal year 2018, far below similar periods in recent years, as the Trump administration implemented tougher screening and all but halted admissions from parts of the world that generate large numbers of refugees. Unless the pace of admissions picks up, […]
1/7/2018
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the ‘fake news awards’ he teased recently will be postponed, saying interest had exceeded his expectations. ‘The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than […]
1/7/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The 2015 Iran nuclear agreement faces a potentially fateful week, with a series of deadlines awaiting President Donald Trump as Tehran reacts to recent antigovernment protests. Mr. Trump is expected to again notify Congress he doesn’t believe the Iran deal is in the best interest of the U.S., restating a […]
1/7/2018
CIA/MENTAL HEALTH/MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “CIA Director Mike Pompeo defended President Donald Trump’s mental abilities in the wake of a book claiming Trump does not read or properly process information presented to him. ‘Those statements are just absurd,’ Pompeo said on ‘Fox News Sunday.’ When he delivers information to Trump almost daily, the President engages […]
1/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD ON DONALD/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump again insisted on Saturday [1-7-18] that he was not under investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian influence on the 2016 election, adding that ‘there’s been no collusion, there’s been no crime.’ ‘Everything I’ve done is 100 percent proper,’ Mr. Trump said […]
1/6/2018
DONALD ON DONALD/MENTAL HEALTH/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, whose sometimes erratic behavior in office has generated an unprecedented debate about his mental health, declared on Saturday [1-6-18] that he was perfectly sane and accused his critics of raising questions to score political points. In a series of Twitter posts that were extraordinary even by the […]
1/6/2018
DEMS/DONALD ON DONALD/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence…Actually, throughout my life, my […]
1/5/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even as President Trump threatened to block the publication of a book detailing his slapdash approach to the presidency, his White House is scheduled to receive a cinematic, if belated, lesson on the failed precedent of prior restraint on the American press. This particular lesson stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. Setting […]
1/5/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For more than a year, Twitter has faced censure for allowing President Trump to use its service to say whatever he wants. And for more than a year, the company has not addressed the criticism definitively. On Friday [1-5-18], the company tackled the matter head on. Without ever mentioning Mr. Trump by […]
1/5/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [1-5-18] said he would resubmit more than 20 judicial nominees to the Senate for confirmation, including his picks for federal judge positions in Alabama, Colorado, Louisiana—states the White House says ‘are suffering from judicial emergencies.’ The judge picks were among nearly 100 nominees that Congress returned […]
1/5/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/SOUTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration and South Korean officials will meet on Friday [1-5-18] to begin formally renegotiating a free-trade pact that has served as a source of conflict between the two allies. The meeting comes at a moment of heightened tension in the Korean Peninsula and unease in the broader […]
1/5/2018
SEAN SPICER/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday [1-4-18] he is troubled that former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has not denied the statements attributed to him in a recent book about the early days of President Donald Trump’s tenure. ‘While he may continue to say he’s a […]
1/5/2018
BORDER/DHS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Trump administration is asking Congress for nearly $18 billion to construct more than 700 miles of new and replacement barriers along the southwest border, offering its most detailed description yet of the president’s vision for a border wall with Mexico. The request, if granted, would be a major expansion from the […]
1/5/2018
ISRAEL/LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “In the days before a late-2016 vote on a United Nations resolution that criticized Israel, then-President-elect Donald Trump and top aides made a last-ditch push to target a majority of the U.N. Security Council to scuttle the text, people familiar with the situation said. The lobbying effort, which ultimately failed, […]
1/4/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Thursday [1-4-18] will free federal prosecutors to more aggressively enforce marijuana laws, effectively threatening to undermine the legalization movement that has spread to six states, most recently California. The Justice Department is expected to rescind an Obama-era policy of discouraging federal prosecutors from bringing charges of marijuana-related […]
1/4/2018
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House continued Thursday [1-4-18] to downplay the role of former Trump campaign executive and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon following the publication of portions of a book quoting him saying unflattering things about President Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said […]
1/4/2018
HUD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Undermining another Obama-era initiative, the Trump administration plans to delay enforcement of a federal housing rule that requires communities to address patterns of racial residential segregation. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, in a notice to be published Friday [1-5-18] in the Federal Register, says it will suspend until 2020 the […]
1/4/2018
GOP/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Enthusiasm for Stephen K. Bannon’s plans for a fiery Republican revolution had already been fading among some of the donors and candidates he was relying on to upend the party’s establishment. But Mr. Bannon’s provocative remarks about President Trump and his family, reported in a new book now scheduled to be […]
1/4/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump gave firm instructions in March to the White House’s top lawyer: stop the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, from recusing himself in the Justice Department’s investigation into whether Mr. Trump’s associates had helped a Russian campaign to disrupt the 2016 election. Public pressure was building for Mr. Sessions, […]
1/4/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The gulf over legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation appeared wide Thursday [1-4-18] as President Donald Trump insisted that any deal include funding for his promised border wall and new limits on legal immigration to the U.S. Mr. Trump said the package to protect so-called Dreamers has to include new […]
1/4/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge has denied a bid by the private investigation firm Fusion GPS to prevent the House Intelligence Committee from obtaining the firm’s bank records, as part of a congressional probe into the funding and creation of a so-called dossier containing a variety of accurate, inaccurate and salacious claims […]
1/4/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/NIKKI HALEY/PAKISTAN/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said it would freeze all security assistance to Pakistan until the country takes a tougher stance against terror networks on its territory, a move that reflects new tensions and could lead to problems in supplying U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan. ‘Pakistan has played a double game for […]
1/4/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/ISRAEL/PALESTINE/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Israel and the U.S. are amplifying criticism of Iran’s role in Middle East conflicts, part of a coordinated effort to curb Tehran’s influence in the region as antigovernment protests put pressure on the country’s leaders. Since protests began last week in Iran, Israel has accused Tehran of setting up a terrorist […]
1/4/2018
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s growing feud with Steve Bannon is threatening the former White House strategist’s leadership of the conservative Breitbart News website and upending Mr. Bannon’s plans to wage ‘war’ on party incumbents he deemed insufficiently loyal to the White House agenda. Mr. Bannon’s longtime benefactors, billionaires Robert Mercer and his […]
1/4/2018
BUSINESS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Publisher Henry Holt & Co. said it is moving up its release of a new book about President Donald Trump’s administration to Friday [1-5-18], amid a backlash from the White House and surging interest in the title. The book, ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’ by Michael Wolff, was originally […]
1/4/2018
INTERIOR/RYAN ZINKE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration wants to open up nearly all the country’s offshore areas for oil drilling, leasing areas off places like Florida and California for the first time in decades, and reversing an Obama-era policy. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced Thursday [1-4-18] that his department is planning the largest […]
1/4/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A lawyer for President Donald Trump on Thursday [1-4-18] demanded the author and publisher of a new book featuring scathing criticism of the White House halt its publication and apologize to the president. In a letter to author Michael Wolff and publisher Henry Holt and Co., Charles Harder said the book contained […]
1/4/2018
BUSINESS/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is proposing changes that would let millions of small businesses and the self-employed buy health-insurance plans that don’t comply with all Affordable Care Act requirements, part of an aggressive move to undo the health law through regulatory action. The proposal would allow businesses that share geography or an […]
1/4/2018
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump publicly repudiated Steve Bannon, his former senior strategist and onetime campaign chief, after a new book surfaced in which Mr. Bannon made scathing and highly personal criticisms of some of the president’s top advisers, including several family members… In the book, a copy of which was viewed by […]
1/4/2018
ENERGY/INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is expected to announce Thursday [1-4-18] that it will propose opening up nearly all federal waters for oil and gas drilling, giving the energy industry access to fields in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and the eastern Gulf of Mexico that have been off limits for decades, according to […]
1/4/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Key Republican senators will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday [1-4-18] as negotiations continue to reach a compromise on border security issues and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Trump is set to host the more conservative members of his party negotiating with Democrats in […]
1/4/2018
MILITARY/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed not to hold springtime military exercises during the Olympics, the South Korean president’s office said Thursday [1-4-18], a move that could cool tensions with North Korea. The agreement came during a 30-minute phone call between the two presidents, Seoul’s presidential Blue […]
1/4/2018
NSA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House plans to ban the use of personal cellphones in the West Wing by both staff and guests, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on Thursday [1-4-18], citing security concerns… The ban will go into effect in the coming days, and it is likely to have the secondary effect of […]
1/4/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “Hours after shuttering his controversial voter fraud commission, President Donald Trump called Thursday [1-4-18] morning for voter identification laws and pushed once again his baseless assertion that ‘many people are voting illegally.’… Laws requiring voters to present identification at their polling places in order to cast ballots have proven controversial, with […]
1/4/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With all of the failed ‘experts’ weighing in, does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between North and South Korea right now if I wasn’t firm, strong and willing to commit our total ‘might’ against the North. Fools, but talks are a good thing!” […]
1/4/2018
FAKE NEWS/FRANCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “French President Emmanuel Macron says he will push a new law aimed at clamping down on fake news, saying he hopes to have it in place by the end of the year. Speaking at a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday [1-3-18], Macron said such a law […]
1/4/2018
GOP/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Emboldened by his victory in the passage of the biggest U.S. tax overhaul in decades, President Donald Trump now wants to rein in social welfare programs even though some Republicans are wary of tackling the volatile issue in a congressional election year. A White House-led drive to downsize government aid programs such […]
1/4/2018
IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is ramping up calls on the U.S. Congress to stop legal immigrants from sponsoring extended family members who want to move to the United States, saying so-called ‘chain migration’ poses a threat to national security. Even without legislative action, however, the number of immigrants approved for family-based visas […]
1/3/2018
DEMS/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats counted their New Year’s blessings on Wednesday [1-3-18] as two new senators — Doug Jones of Alabama and Tina Smith of Minnesota — joined their caucus, reshaping the balance of power in the Senate after a history-laden swearing-in ceremony attended by three current and former vice presidents. The arrival of […]
1/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “President Donald Trump dissolved the commission he created just eight months ago to investigate his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the 2016 election, bringing an end to a panel that had faced resistance from state election officials. Mr. Trump formed the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in […]
1/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, sued the special counsel on Wednesday [1-3-17] and asked a federal court to narrow his authority, escalating Republican efforts to discredit an investigation that has stretched longer than the White House expected. The unusual move comes as Mr. Trump tries to portray the […]
1/3/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “Melania and I are deeply saddened by the death of Thomas S. Monson, a beloved President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints… https://t.co/ETD3fWtfU3” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 3, 2018 08:06pm […]
1/3/2018
DEBT/EDUCATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is considering making it harder for former college students who accuse schools of fraudulent behavior to have their student loans forgiven. The draft plan, which the Education Department has circulated among members of an assessment panel, would replace an Obama administration policy designed to reimburse students who say their […]
1/3/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional leaders emerged Wednesday [1-3-18] from a meeting with White House officials without a budget deal, as Democrats intensified their push to reach an immigration agreement as part of the negotiations. Lawmakers returning to Washington from their holiday break have less than three weeks before the government’s current funding expires at 12:01 […]
1/3/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/JOE BIDEN/NORTH KOREA/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday [1-3-18] criticized President Donald Trump’s tweets on North Korea, telling CNN that this is ‘really poor judgment’ and warned the President that his ‘words matter.’… Biden said he is disappointed that Trump has not become more presidential over the year, and that […]
1/3/2018
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented […]
1/3/2018
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump excoriated his former chief strategist Steve Bannon in a statement Wednesday, claiming that Bannon ‘lost his mind’ after being pushed out from the White House. The White House released the strongly worded 266-word statement from the President slamming Bannon after after excerpts from a new book quoted Bannon […]