TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A big tax break skewed toward Democratic-controlled blue states is the next major battleground as President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans attempt to rewrite the tax code. The tax policy outline Mr. Trump unveiled Wednesday proposes repealing the deduction for state and local taxes, which lets individuals subtract their home-state levies from […]
Category: A- Trump As President
4/27/2017
BORDER/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Congressional Democrats are saying they’ll oppose a measure to keep the government running another week if Republicans plan a health care vote between now and Saturday [4-29-17], Democratic aides told CNN. ‘If Republicans announce their intention to bring their harmful TrumpCare bill to the House Floor tomorrow or Saturday, I will oppose […]
4/27/2017
SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is again attacking the federal judiciary, this time denouncing a ruling that halted implementation of an executive order targeting ‘sanctuary’ cities. On Tuesday [4-25-17], a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a threat to take away funds from cities that do not cooperate with federal immigration […]
4/27/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The health care bill has been resurrected. Now, its fate rests in the hands of moderate House Republicans, whose ultimate decision to support or reject the newest version of the bill could not only affect the future of health care but could irrevocably reshape moderates’ bargaining power throughout Donald Trump’s presidency. […]
4/27/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats used to support border security — now they want illegals to pour through our borders.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2017 09:39am […]
4/27/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As families prepare for summer vacations in our National Parks – Democrats threaten to close them and shut down the government. Terrible!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2017 09:39am […]
4/27/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats jeopardizing the safety of our troops to bail out their donors from insurance companies. It is time to put #AmericaFirst??” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2017 09:38am […]
4/27/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I promise to rebuild our military and secure our border. Democrats want to shut down the government. Politics!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2017 09:37am […]
4/27/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I want to help our miners while the Democrats are blocking their healthcare.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2017 09:37am […]
4/27/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What’s more important? Rebuilding our military – or bailing out insurance companies? Ask the Democrats.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2017 09:37am […]
4/27/2017
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told the leaders of Canada and Mexico Wednesday he was not immediately planning to end the North American Free Trade Agreement, a pact which he railed against as a candidate and as recently as last week declared was harmful to US workers. In a description of Trump’s phone calls […]
4/27/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats want to shut government if we don’t bail out Puerto Rico and give billions to their insurance companies for OCare failure. NO!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2017 06:30am […]
4/27/2017
GUNS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s address to the National Rifle Association on Friday [4-28-17], the first by a sitting president since Ronald Reagan, represents a major victory for the organization and a symbol of its pull with the new administration. But the NRA’s political clout contrasts with its more modest success in U.S. courts, where […]
4/26/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even as Anthem, one of the nation’s largest insurers, reported an improved financial picture for the last year, the company warned on Wednesday [4-26-17] that it would consider leaving some federal health care marketplaces or raising its rates sharply if the government does not continue subsidies to help low-income people. Joseph R. […]
4/26/2017
INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/RYAN ZINKE: “President Donald Trump is set to order the review of tens of millions of acres of land and water set aside as national monuments by the past three presidents on Wednesday, a move that environmental groups warn will undermine a crucial conservation tool and open up sensitive areas to fossil […]
4/26/2017
TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Wednesday [4-26-17] proposed sharp reductions in both individual and corporate income tax rates, reducing the number of individual income tax brackets to three — 10 percent, 25 percent and 35 percent — and easing the tax burden on most Americans, including the rich. The Trump administration would double the […]
4/26/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A great great honor to welcome & recognize the National Teacher of the Year, as well as the Teacher of the Year from each State & territory!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 26, 2017 05:27pm […]
4/26/2017
NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP EXEC ORDER: “The Trump administration is considering an executive order on withdrawing the U.S. from NAFTA — and initial reaction on Capitol Hill to the planned move has been mostly negative. A draft order has been submitted for final stages of review and could be unveiled late this week or early next, […]
4/26/2017
CABINET/EDUCATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS/BETSY DEVOS: “In a move meant to follow through on promises he made to conservatives during the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that aims to rein in federal control of education in the United States. The order, which Trump signed while flanked by Education Secretary Betsy […]
4/26/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Freedom Caucus has officially endorsed a revised Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, delivering a fresh burst of momentum to the GOP’s efforts to revive its stalled health care effort. ‘While the revised version still does not fully repeal Obamacare, we are prepared to support it to keep our […]
4/26/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. military started moving parts of an anti-missile defense system to a deployment site in South Korea on Wednesday [4-26-17], triggering protests from villagers and criticism from China, amid tension over North Korea’s weapons development. The earlier-than-expected steps to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system […]
4/26/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu complained on Wednesday [4-26-17] that a U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier this month had posed a threat to Russian troops and was forcing Moscow to take extra measures to protect them. Speaking at a security conference in Moscow, Shoigu restated Russia’s view […]
4/26/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/MILITARY/NAVY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A US Navy guided-missile destroyer fired a warning flare toward an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel coming near it in the Persian Gulf, an American official said on Wednesday [4-26-17], marking the latest tense naval encounter between the two countries. The incident happened Monday as the vessel attempted to draw closer to […]
4/26/2017
MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. just lost a trade battle with Mexico. It’s the first loss of the Trump era. Mexico and the U.S. have fought for years over tuna. The U.S. insists that any Mexican tuna sold in the U.S. must be ‘dolphin safe,’ meaning dolphins weren’t killed by tuna fisherman, which was […]
4/26/2017
IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Tuesday [4-25-17] blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a threat to take away funds from sanctuary cities — the latest blow from the federal judiciary to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. In his ruling, Judge William H. Orrick sided with Santa Clara County, the city of San […]
4/26/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s aggressive rollback of the Obama administration’s climate policies is already changing the trajectory of the world’s efforts on global warming, with some analysts estimating it will mean billions more tons of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere during the next decade and a half. It could be one of […]
4/25/2017
SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has selected Randolph D. Alles, a retired Marine Corps general and acting deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, to lead the Secret Service, the White House announced on Tuesday. Mr. Alles, who retired from the Marine Corps as a two-star general in 2011, is the first Secret Service […]
4/25/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Remarks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Days of Remembrance. Full remarks: http://45.wh.gov/JNe7BJ” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 25, 2017 12:51pm […]
4/25/2017
CANADA/FOREIGN POLICY/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canada has made business for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other border states very difficult. We will not stand for this. Watch!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 25, 2017 07:30am […]
4/24/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: “U.S. President Donald Trump this week will sign new executive orders before he completes his first 100 days in office, including two on energy and the environment, which would make it easier for the United States to develop energy on and offshore, a White House official said on Sunday […]
4/24/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “President Trump issued a statement that studiously avoided the term ‘genocide’ as he marked the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide on Monday [4-24-17], following past presidents’ decisions that it’s more important to avoid offending Turkey than support aggrieved Armenian Americans. ‘Beginning in 1915, one and a half million Armenians were […]
4/24/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, I signed the Holocaust Remembrance Proclamation: https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10159027593260725 … #ICYMI- My statement last night at the @WorldJewishCong.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 24, 2017 03:32pm […]
4/24/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/POLITICS/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing for the entire Senate at the White House on North Korea as tensions continue to mount with the oppressive regime. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the briefing scheduled for Wednesday will be led by Secretary of State Tillerson, Secretary of […]
4/24/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing for the entire Senate at the White House on North Korea as tensions continue to mount with the oppressive regime. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the briefing scheduled for Wednesday will be led by Secretary of State Tillerson, Secretary of […]
4/24/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Sunday he does not expect the Mexican government to outright pay for President Donald Trump’s border wall, but there are a number of ways to extract the billions of dollars needed to build it. Sessions made his comments in an appearance on ABC’s ‘This […]
4/24/2017
BORDER/BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Fights over money to pay for a border wall — as well as Obamacare subsidies and an infusion of resources for the military — are threatening to trip up congressional talks over a funding bill to head off a government shutdown Friday [4-28-17]. Bipartisan negotiators have spent weeks methodically working through hundreds […]
4/24/2017
CABINET/IMF/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/STEVE MNUCHIN/WORLD BANK: “Leaders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund may have this past weekend won the qualified backing of the Trump administration, but their work is hardly done. Both institutions will likely still have to prove to their largest and most powerful shareholder that they represent an efficient […]
4/24/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With tensions rising between the US and North Korea, the Pentagon on Sunday called for the isolated communist nation to avoid destabilizing the situation further. ‘We call on (North Korea) to refrain from provocative, destabilizing actions and rhetoric, and to make the strategic choice to fulfill its international obligations and […]
4/22/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Big TAX REFORM AND TAX REDUCTION will be announced next Wednesday.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 22, 2017 11:15am […]
4/21/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@POTUS @realDonaldTrump, @IvankaTrump, Jared Kushner, & Dina Powell in the Oval Office today w/ Aya & her brother Basel. #WelcomeHomeAya??” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 21, 2017 07:19pm […]
4/21/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday claimed that he won’t get the credit he deserves for the first 100 days of his administration, seeking to manage expectations around what he called the ‘ridiculous standard’ of the upcoming milestone date. ‘No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 […]
4/21/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China is very much the economic lifeline to North Korea so, while nothing is easy, if they want to solve the North Korean problem, they will” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 21, 2017 08:04am […]
4/21/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When President Donald Trump travels to Southeast Asia this fall, he will likely be going without the help of one key adviser: a chief of protocol. Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that the President will attend two summits in the Philippines and one in Vietnam this November, and before that, […]
4/21/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 21, 2017 05:50am […]
4/21/2017
ECONOMY/JOBS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s effort to force the federal government to ‘Buy American’ will be a challenge as foreign-owned companies already hauled in more money from federal contracts in the past three months than in any corresponding period in a decade. Much of the payout to foreign-owned firms in the first quarter of […]
4/20/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mr. Trump’s confrontational and improvisational approach to foreign affairs has lifted his mood, fortunes and poll numbers in recent days. There are signs it has also made an impact on the Chinese, prodding them to finally use their leverage with their errant neighbor, North Korea. But Mr. Trump’s mix of […]
4/20/2017
POPE FRANCIS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump wants to meet Pope Francis when he visits Europe next month. But the two world leaders have clashed in the past. ‘Obviously, we’d be honored to have an audience with His Holiness,’ White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at Wednesday’s [4-19-17] press briefing. In response, Archbishop Angelo […]
4/20/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/ITALY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A great honor to host PM Paolo Gentiloni of Italy at the White House this afternoon! #ICYMI- Joint Press Conference: http://45.wh.gov/32jE1S” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 20, 2017 04:35pm […]
4/20/2017
CABINET/TAXES/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/STEVE MNUCHIN: “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday [4-20-17] the Trump administration plans to release its tax reform proposal ‘very soon’ and promised that a sweeping overhaul of the tax code will get done. Speaking at a conference of international financial firms in Washington, Mr. Mnuchin said Treasury is ‘pretty close to […]
4/19/2017
POLITICS/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A march aimed at promoting scientific-based public policy in the Trump era is raising questions about the appropriateness of mixing science with politics. The ‘March for Science’ — whose beginnings reflect the viral birth of the Women’s March on Washington — occurs this Earth Day. It will be comprised of scientists and […]
4/20/2017
BUDGET/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The data tells us that in a single generation, funding from the United States and other donor nations has helped turn the tide against infectious diseases like polio and HIV/AIDS, while driving a child survival revolution that has saved 122 million children’s lives. The world has cut extreme poverty in half […]
4/20/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A highly unusual and racially charged episode from the 2016 campaign suddenly resurfaced this week when a federal judge whom President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized last year was assigned to hear the case of a man who claims he was unfairly deported. Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in the US […]
4/20/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will direct his administration Thursday [4-20-17] to investigate whether imports of foreign steel are harming US national security, according to a White House official. Trump plans to sign a memo ordering the probe during a noon ceremony surrounded by representatives of the US steel industry. The memo […]
4/20/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The ‘America First’ president who vowed to extricate America from onerous overseas commitments appears to be warming up to the view that when it comes to global agreements, a deal’s a deal. From NAFTA to the Iran nuclear agreement to the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric is […]
4/20/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President-elect Donald Trump was very clear: ‘I will appoint a team to give me a plan within 90 days of taking office,’ he said in January, after getting a U.S. intelligence assessment of Russian interference in last year’s elections and promising to address cybersecurity. Thursday [4-20-17], Trump hits his 90-day mark. […]
4/19/2017
SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s repeated weekend jaunts away from Washington have caused nonstop headaches for his South Florida neighbors this winter. But once his exclusive seaside retreat at Mar-a-Lago closes for the season, Trump is expected to shift his weekend plans north, to his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey […]
4/20/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During his campaign, Donald Trump promised to pay the legal bills of supporters who beat up protestors at his rallies, but a POLITICO analysis found that Trump’s campaign hasn’t always paid its own legal bills in a timely or transparent fashion. The analysis of court and campaign filings found that Trump’s campaign […]
4/20/2017
SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday [4-19-17] it plans to restrict public access to the sidewalk along the southern fence of the White House, weeks after a man scaled the barrier and walked around the grounds. The changes are a part of an ‘ongoing comprehensive review’ of security measures at the […]
4/19/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETS: “President Donald Trump signed an extension of a Department of Veterans Affairs law on Wednesday to continue a program that helps veterans seek health care outside the VA system. The original legislation, commonly known as the Veterans Choice Act, was slated to expire in August. The measure signed Wednesday by Mr. Trump […]
04/18/2017
CHINA/CONFLICT OF INTERESTS/ETHICS/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee blasted the family of President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-18-17], saying that the approval in China of patents for Ivanka Trump set a new bar for ethical conflicts. ‘Just when you think you’ve seen it all, Trump offers something else that’s […]
4/19/2017
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A great honor to host the @SuperBowl Champion New England @Patriots at the White House today. Congratulations! https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/19/remarks-president-trump-welcoming-super-bowl-li-champions-new-england …” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 19, 2017 08:34pm […]
4/18/2017
BORDER/BUDGET/DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democrats in the Senate are raising concerns about the potential cost of President Donald Trump’s border wall — releasing documents Tuesday [4-18-17] from the Department of Homeland Security that explain what the administration is planning. The first $1 billion of wall money requested by the administration would cover 48 miles of new […]
4/19/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today I signed the Veterans (OUR HEROES) Choice Program Extension & Improvement Act @ the @WhiteHouse. #S544 Watch➡️http://45.wh.gov/7x5n53” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 19, 2017 03:26pm […]
4/19/2017
CAMPAIGN/CONFLICT OF INTERESTS/ETHICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s record $106.7 million inauguration fundraising haul drew heavily from U.S. companies with policy issues in front of the new Republican administration, according to documents released Wednesday [4-19-17]… Other Trump inauguration corporate donors — named in an exhaustive 510-page Federal Election Commission report — are among those who […]
4/19/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/OIL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM -0.53%) has applied to the Treasury Department for a waiver from U.S. sanctions on Russia in a bid to resume its joint venture with state oil giant PAO Rosneft, according to people familiar with the matter. Exxon has been seeking U.S. permission to drill with Rosneft in […]
4/19/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Iran is sticking to the terms of its nuclear deal made with the Obama administration, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has concluded, but he questions whether sanctions should keep being lifted, given Iran’s continued support for terrorism. The Secretary of State said the Trump administration was reviewing the lifting of […]
04/18/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump visited the Tennessee estate of Andrew Jackson last month to symbolically claim the mantle of the first genuinely populist president since the 1830s. Just like Jackson, Mr. Trump defeated a political dynasty to take power and was now determined to challenge what the new president called ‘the arrogant elite.’ But […]
04/18/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A legal watchdog group is expanding a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year against President Trump, accusing him of violating the Constitution by continuing to own and profit from his far-flung business empire. The amended complaint, to be filed on Tuesday [4-18-17] in a federal court in the Southern District of […]
4/18/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A 23-year-old man has sued the Trump administration over his deportation to Mexico in February, saying he has permission to live and work in the United States under an Obama-era immigration program that protects young people who were brought into the country illegally as children. If his claim is correct, it is […]
4/18/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: “President Trump has set the wheels in motion for H-1B visa reform. On Tuesday [4-18-17], Trump signed an executive order that directed federal agencies to implement a “Buy American, Hire American” strategy. The order included a section geared at immigration reform. The order tasked four department heads (including the Secretary […]
04/18/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In the decade leading up to Donald Trump’s election as president, his company added 15 golf courses and 13 hotels. Keeping up such a rate of expansion won’t be easy, according to Eric Trump, the president’s son, who with brother Donald Trump Jr. took over running the Trump Organization after the […]
04/17/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Just as a grim-faced Vice President Mike Pence was alighting from his Blackhawk helicopter a mile from the Korean Demilitarized Zone on Sunday, his boss, President Donald Trump — fresh from Florida — was at home, tweeting. Ensconced with his family inside the White House after three nights at Mar-a-Lago, […]
04/17/2017
TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “President Trump’s promise to enact a sweeping overhaul of the tax code is in serious jeopardy nearly 100 days into his tenure, and his refusal to release his own tax returns is emerging as a central hurdle to another faltering campaign promise. As procrastinators rushed to file their tax returns by […]
04/17/2017
ECONOMY/IMMIGRATION/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will sign an executive order in Wisconsin on Tuesday [4-18-17] directing a government-wide review aimed at putting new teeth back into decades-old ‘Buy American’ and ‘Hire American’ directives. The 220-day review process, which could lead to additional executive orders and possibly legislation, will focus on preventing foreign workers with […]
4/17/2017
KEYSTONE/OIL/PIPELINES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The fight seemed over. Plans to bury an oil pipeline in the Nebraska dirt, through hilly grazing land near the Elkhorn River and flat expanses of corn farther south, had been halted. Farmers and ranchers who spent years opposing the project moved on with their lives. But suddenly the pipeline from Canada […]
4/17/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “TRUMP APPROVAL HITS 50% https://t.co/vjZkGTyQb9” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 05:38pm […]
04/17/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The President’s tax returns and White House visitor logs — both public information under the previous administration — will remain private under President Donald Trump. White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday dealt another blow to transparency advocates, announcing that Trump’s 2016 tax returns are under audit and therefore would not […]
04/17/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers. A pro-Paris bloc within the administration has recruited energy companies […]
04/17/2017
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Donald Trump called in to Alex Jones’s radio show, during the Republican presidential primary, he told the host known as a leading 9/11 ‘truther’ that his reputation is ‘amazing.’ When Trump accused the media of covering up terrorist attacks, in February, the president appeared to be echoing a conspiracy theory promoted […]
04/17/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump has a history of labeling any number of topics, reports, and media outlets as ‘fake news,’ and, on Monday morning, he continued with that line of attack. He tweeted, ‘The Fake Media (not Real Media) has gotten even worse since the election. Every story is badly slanted. We have […]
04/17/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has weighed in ahead of Tuesday’s [4-18-17] surprisingly close special election in Georgia, a race seen by many as an early referendum on his presidential performance thus far. ‘The super Liberal Democrat in the Georgia Congressioal (sic) race tomorrow wants to protect criminals, allow illegal immigration and raise taxes!’ […]
04/17/2017
AIR FORCE/FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “The US Air Force’s newest stealth fighters arrived in the UK over the weekend as part of the Pentagon’s effort to reassure European allies in the face of Russian aggression on the continent. The F-35A jets from Hill Air Force Base in Utah landed at RAF Lakenheath on Saturday for […]
4/17/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @DRUDGE_REPORT: TRUMP APPROVAL HITS 50% https://t.co/TruX3WzR3U” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 08:35am […]
04/17/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With North Korean soldiers standing less than 100 feet behind him at the Korean Demilitarized Zone [DMZ], Vice President Mike Pence told CNN that Pyongyang should understand that the Trump administration’s approach toward the regime will be different than that of past US presidents. ‘We’re going to abandon the failed […]
4/17/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘The first 90 days of my presidency has exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy!’ So true. @foxandfriends” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 07:07am […]
04/16/2017
BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s revived enthusiasm for tackling health-care legislation before tax policy has highlighted the complicated interplay between Republicans’ health-care overhaul and their planned tax bill. Mr. Trump signaled last week that one of the reasons he has reprioritized health care is that he was relying on savings from the health bill […]
04/16/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump defended reserving his position on labeling China a currency manipulator in a tweet early Easter Sunday [4-16-17]. ‘Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem?’ asked Trump. Supporters and detractors of the president have criticized his recent […]
4/16/2017
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our military is building and is rapidly becoming stronger than ever before. Frankly, we have no choice!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2017 08:41am […]
4/16/2017
PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2017 08:13am […]
04/14/2017
CAMPAIGN/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As some on the right howled about a series of reversals by President Trump on a number of his campaign promises — conned, betrayed, sold out, they said — Rush Limbaugh asked his listeners on Thursday [4-13-17] whether any of that flip-flopping really mattered. ‘See what Jeff Sessions is doing?’ Mr. Limbaugh […]
4/14/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Weekly Address- https://t.co/tpZ7eqJLUH https://t.co/B2NQzj53ft” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 14, 2017 03:41pm […]
04/14/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/OBAMA/SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump Administration will not disclose logs of those who visit the White House complex, breaking with his predecessor, the White House announced Friday [4-14-17]. The decision, after nearly three months of speculation about the fate of the records, marks a dramatic from the Obama Administration’s voluntary disclosure of more […]
04/14/2017
MILITARY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is getting a taste for pulling the trigger. In just the last week, the rookie commander in chief has presided over the use of some of the most powerful weaponry in the US arsenal, sending a signal that he is one President who relishes ordering the use of deadly […]
04/14/2017
ABORTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump privately signed a bill on Thursday [4-13-17] that allows states to withhold federal money from organizations that provide abortion services, including Planned Parenthood, a group frequently targeted by Republicans. The bill, which the usually camera-friendly President signed without any media present, reverses an Obama-era regulation that prohibited states from […]
04/14/2017
FEDERAL RESERVE/JANET YELLEN/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So Donald J. Trump tells The Wall Street Journal that he is no longer so sure he wants to replace Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen when her term is up in February. Why would he want to nominate her to for another four-year term? And would she accept? While understanding […]
04/12/2017
AFGHANISTAN/FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The dropping of a ‘mother of all bombs’ Thursday [4-13-17] by the United States on an ISIS cave and bunker complex in Achin district in eastern Afghanistan should be understood as part of an effort to reverse a war that is not going well for the Afghan government and, by extension, […]
04/13/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is taking steps to vastly increase its capacity to detain and deport undocumented immigrants, according to a draft internal memo prepared by the Department of Homeland Security on implementing President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Measures include detaining virtually all undocumented immigrants apprehended, with guidance to officials to only release […]
04/13/2017
POLITICS/PROTESTS/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Rep. Mike Coffman faced angry constituents at a town hall Wednesday [4-12-17] night, in an early sign of the political price he and his colleagues might pay for supporting President Donald Trump’s policies, including the repeal of Obamacare. A moderate hailing from a swing district, Coffman fielded more than 40 questions […]
04/13/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An airstrike by the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State killed 18 Syrian fighters allied with the United States, the military said on Thursday [4-13-17]. The strike, on Tuesday in Tabqah, Syria, was the third time in a month that American-led airstrikes may have killed civilians or allies, and it comes […]
4/13/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was a great honor to welcome Atlanta’s heroic first responders to the White House this afternoon! https://t.co/ZtC14AJ0xs” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 13, 2017 02:21pm […]