CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s report on the investigation into Russia’s election interference will be made public by mid-April, Attorney General William P. Barr told lawmakers on Friday, adding that the White House would not see the document before he sent it to Congress…Prosecutors from the office of the special counsel, Robert […]
3/29/2019
CABINET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Linda McMahon, the former professional wrestling executive turned government official, is leaving her post as administrator of the Small Business Administration. McMahon is leaving President Donald Trump’s administration to join his outside political group, America First, two sources familiar with the move confirmed to CNN. The President deemed McMahon a ‘superstar’ […]
3/29/2019
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [3-29-19] repeated his threat to close down the border between the United States and Mexico, but this time he noted he would act next week if Mexico doesn’t step up…Trump, in Florida on Friday afternoon, said he could close the border to trade for a ‘long time’ […]
3/29/2019
ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump continued to rail against the Federal Reserve on Friday [3-29-19], criticizing the central bank for raising interests rates and suggesting U.S. growth had suffered as a result…Trump and the central bank clashed in September last year when Fed officials raised interest rates and determined at least two more […]
3/29/2019
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So funny that The New York Times & The Washington Post got a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage (100% NEGATIVE and FAKE!) of Collusion with Russia – And there was No Collusion! So, they were either duped or corrupt? In any event, their prizes should be taken away by the Committee!” […]
3/29/2019
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…The problem is, no matter what the Radical Left Democrats get, no matter what we give them, it will never be enough. Just watch, they will Harass & Complain & Resist (the theme of their movement). So maybe we should just take our victory and say NO, we’ve got a Country to […]
3/29/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert Mueller was a Hero to the Radical Left Democrats, until he ruled that there was No Collusion with Russia (so ridiculous to even say!). After more than two years since the ‘insurance policy’ statement was made by a dirty cop, I got the answers I wanted, the Truth…..” –Donald Trump, […]
3/29/2019
RALLY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At his first political rally since the end of the Russia collusion probe, President Donald Trump on Thursday accused backers of the investigation of trying to overturn the 2016 election and attempting ‘illegally’ to claim power. Declaring the country ‘hurt’ by the probe, Trump called his opponents ‘losers’ and celebrated the […]
3/29/2019
CABINET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Linda McMahon is stepping down as head of Small Business Administration to chair the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action, according to three people familiar with the move. Trump allies have spent weeks searching for someone to chair the super PAC, which officials view as a key plank in the president’s […]
3/29/2019
ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Had the Fed not mistakenly raised interest rates, especially since there is very little inflation, and had they not done the ridiculously timed quantitative tightening, the 3.0% GDP, & Stock Market, would have both been much higher & World Markets would be in a better place!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 29, […]
3/29/2019
ENVIRONMENT/FLORIDA/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said during a tour of Lake Okeechobee Friday [3-29-19] that the broad, shallow lake had a ‘lot of problems’ and that the dike-strengthening project around its shore “wasn’t properly funded for years’…White House officials said before the president’s arrival in central Florida that the visit would emphasize the federal […]
3/29/2019
NORTH KOREA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Friday [3-29-19] that he decided not to put additional sanctions on North Korea last week because he wanted to maintain a good relationship with leader Kim Jong Un and because the North Korean people were already ‘suffering greatly.’ ‘I didn’t think that additional sanctions at this […]
3/29/2019
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VENEZUELA: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday [3-29-19] he will probably talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping about the crisis in Venezuela. ‘We will probably be talking at some point,’ Trump told reporters after the White House warned Russia and other countries backing President Nicolas Maduro against […]
3/29/2019
ABORTION/HHS/PLANNED PARENTHOOD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The Trump administration announced Friday [3-29-19] that it’s awarding about $250 million in Title X federal family planning grants to states and providers across the country. The providers include an anti-abortion chain of clinics, as well as several states and provider groups that are threatening to drop out of the program […]
3/29/2019
BORDER/DHS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [3-29-19] threatened to close the U.S-Mexico border next week if Mexico does not stop undocumented immigrants from coming into the United States, later adding that he’s ‘not playing games’ with his warning. But a senior administration official undermined the president’s threat, saying the Department of Homeland Security […]
3/29/2019
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….the Border, or large sections of the Border, next week. This would be so easy for Mexico to do, but they just take our money and ‘talk.’ Besides, we lose so much money with them, especially when you add in drug trafficking etc.), that the Border closing would be a good thing!” […]
3/29/2019
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….through their country and our Southern Border. Mexico has for many years made a fortune off of the U.S., far greater than Border Costs. If Mexico doesn’t immediately stop ALL illegal immigration coming into the United States throug our Southern Border, I will be CLOSING…..” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 29, 2019 10:37 […]
3/29/2019
ABORTION/BUDGET/PLANNED PARENTHOOD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s sweeping changes to federal family planning policy may not hit anywhere harder than Utah, which has $2 million at stake and would be hard pressed to Planned Parenthood if the organization makes good on a threat to pull out of the state rather than operate under the new […]
3/29/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The DEMOCRATS have given us the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the World. Mexico has the strongest, & they make more than $100 Billion a year on the U.S. Therefore, CONGRESS MUST CHANGE OUR WEAK IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW, & Mexico must stop illegals from entering the U.S…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 29, […]
3/29/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This has been an incredible couple of weeks for AMERICA! https://t.co/bqdB7DFx8P” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 29, 2019 10:09 am […]
3/29/2019
BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a two-day thrashing over her department’s proposal to eliminate funding for the Special Olympics, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sat before senators on Thursday ready to defend it again…But when President Trump triumphantly declared Thursday [3-28-19] evening that he had ‘overridden my people’ and saved the Special Olympics, Ms. DeVos seemed […]
2/29/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETS/VIETNAM: “On this Vietnam War Veterans Day, we celebrate the brave Vietnam Veterans and all of America’s Veterans. Thank you for your service to our great Nation!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 29, 2019 7:48 am […]
3/29/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Adam Schiff was poised to take over the House Intelligence Committee late last year, he spoke about his desire to restore comity to the panel after two years of infighting over the Russian investigation. Three months into the new Democratic Congress, the committee’s partisan warfare is more intense […]
3/29/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/VIRGINIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is muscling into a blue state where Democrats are reeling: Virginia. With a tenuous grip on states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the president is looking for opportunities to expand his electoral playing field. He’s set his sights on Virginia, a state Democrats have dominated in the past decade, […]
3/29/2019
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/SUPREME COURT/TEXAS: “Healthcare is going well. Healthcare is going well. We are going to have a plan that’s so much better than Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster. We’re going to have a plan that is so much better than Obamacare. So the healthcare is going very well. And we’re going to take care of […]
3/28/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump feels vindicated. And now he’s out for blood. Wearing the same red tie he wore on Inauguration Day, Trump took the stage in Michigan on Thursday [3-28-19] for the first time since being cleared of Russian conspiracy charges and proceeded to tear through a vengeance-laced speech that […]
3/28/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Working hard, thank you! #MAGA https://t.co/00hoL0to0u” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 10:23 pm […]
3/28/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://t.co/Y6UPREMY7u https://t.co/6r7wdYDf66” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 9:41 pm […]
3/28/2019
RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Massive overflow crowds in Grand Rapids, Michigan tonight. Thank you for joining us tonight! #MAGA https://t.co/KQ5hTZAXsk” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 9:30 pm […]
3/28/2019
LEGAL/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has lost another Obamacare legal battle — its second this week — just as the president has revived his drive to destroy and replace the 2010 health law. A federal judge ruled late Thursday [2—28-19] in Washington that the administration’s efforts to expand the availability of health plans that […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/RALLY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, fresh off what he claims was ‘total vindication’ in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, told supporters here Thursday [3-28-19] he had vanquished a corrupt cabal of Democrats, the news media and the Washington elite, who tried to nullify his historic election victory by painting him as an agent of […]
3/28/2019
BORDER/CENTRAL AMERICA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump criticized Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras on Thursday [3-28-19] for accepting monetary aid from the United States but doing nothing in return, a day after his homeland security secretary struck what she described as a historic agreement with three of those same countries to help strengthen security on […]
3/28/2019
BETSY DEVOS/BUDGET/EDUCATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump said on Thursday [3-28-19] that the federal government would continue to fund the Special Olympics, reversing his administration’s decision to cut the allocated money, which his education secretary, Betsy DeVos, had been defending on Capitol Hill only hours earlier…His statement was an abrupt pivot from the stance offered […]
3/28/2019
COMMERCE/ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is getting exactly what he wants on the economy, but it may not last. The Federal Reserve has abruptly stopped its march toward higher interest rates, as Mr. Trump demanded. The tax cuts he signed in late 2017 are in full swing. His attempt to rewrite the global rules […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee’s first hearing since Robert S. Mueller III completed his report had barely begun when the panel’s Republicans moved en masse to demand the resignation of the committee’s chairman. It went downhill from there. The acrimony on display Thursday [3-28-19] as the intelligence committee tried to […]
3/28/2019
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The still-secret report on Russian interference in the 2016 election submitted last week by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, was more than 300 pages long, the Justice Department acknowledged on Thursday [3-28-19]. Mr. Barr wrote to Congress on Sunday offering what he called the ‘principal conclusions’ […]
3/28/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NOMINATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jessie K. Liu has withdrawn herself from consideration for the No. 3 spot at the Justice Department, the department said on Thursday [3-28-19]. Earlier this month, President Trump planned to nominate Ms. Liu, who currently is the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, as associate attorney general, who […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump tore into his Democratic House investigators on Thursday [3-28-19] night, perpetuating a verbal assault he launched after Robert Mueller’s Russia probe concluded without finding a criminal conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. — Trump’s first since the special counsel […]
3/28/2019
RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Beautiful #MAGARally tonight in Grand Rapids, Michigan – thank you, I love you! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!! https://t.co/3xlMOaaTR5” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 8:16 pm […]
3/28/2019
GOP/NATURAL DISASTERS/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [3-29-19] proclaimed that no other ‘living human being’ has cared for Puerto Rico better than he has…Trump’s comments come two days after news reports that he privately told Republicans that Puerto Rico, which was struck by two hurricanes in 2017, was receiving too much federal […]
3/28/2019
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Obamacare has been an absolute disaster… Hopefully, we’ll win at the appellate division and go to the Supreme Court to terminate Obamacare. The cost of Obamacare to people is far too much. The deductibility is ridiculous. It averages more than $7,000, meaning it’s unusable. So, Obamacare has been disaster. We […]
3/28/2019
RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On my way to Grand Rapids, Michigan right now. See you all very soon! #MAGA https://t.co/JjGAijXlRT” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 4:06 pm […]
3/28/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have a National Emergency at our Southern Border. The Dems refuse to do what they know is necessary – amend our immigration laws. Would immediately solve the problem! Mexico, with the strongest immigration laws in the World, refuses to help with illegal immigration & drugs!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 […]
3/28/2019
GOP/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Republican Party will become the Party of Great HealthCare! ObamaCare is a disaster, far too expensive and deductibility ridiculously high – virtually unusable! Moving forward in Courts and Legislatively!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 2:41 pm […]
3/28/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/3AFCELjprL” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 11:11 am […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/MILITARY/TRANSGENDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House on Thursday [3-28-19] rebuffed a move by the Trump administration to restrict transgender individuals from serving in the military. Voting 238-185, the House approved a nonbinding resolution opposing transgender troop limits just weeks before the Pentagon’s new policy is set to take effect. The measure is the majority Democrats’ first […]
3/28/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/b1bp3CGqwC” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 10:11 am […]
3/28/2019
RALLY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump touted the end of Robert Mueller’s investigation during his about 90-minute long speech, his first appearance before supporters since its completion during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Thursday [3-28-19] night. The raucous rally follows a chaotic week in Washington, precipitated by Attorney General Bill Barr’s letter to […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The 2020 presidential campaign is more likely to turn on rising health care costs, the dysfunction in the immigration system and the state of the economy than the poisoned legacy of the 2016 election. But the triumphalism of President Donald Trump and the building power struggle in Washington after Robert […]
3/28/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In an unexpected move on Monday [3-25-19] night, the Justice Department notified the Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals that it is supporting a complete invalidation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). It now believes not only that three provisions of that statute are unconstitutional, but that, as a result, the […]
3/28/2019
CELEBS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [3-28-19] that the Justice Department would examine Chicago prosecutors’ decision to drop disorderly conduct charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of orchestrating a fake racially motivated attack against himself. After charging Smollett in February, Cook County, Ill., prosecutors made the surprise announcement on Tuesday […]
3/28/2019
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “United States President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in, are set to meet for a summit next month amid uncertainty over the future of nuclear negotiations with North Korea. Moon and Trump are scheduled to hold talks April 11 in Washington to ‘discuss the latest developments regarding […]
3/28/2019
OIL/OPEC/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Very important that OPEC increase the flow of Oil. World Markets are fragile, price of Oil getting too high. Thank you!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 7:30 am […]
3/28/2019
MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, ratings for ‘Morning Joe,’ which were really bad in the first place, just ‘tanked’ with the release of the Mueller Report. Likewise, other shows on MSNBC and CNN have gone down by as much as 50%. Just shows, Fake News never wins!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 6:04 am […]
3/28/2019
CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from Congress!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 5:43 am […]
3/28/2019
CELEBS/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “FBI & DOJ to review the outrageous Jussie Smollett case in Chicago. It is an embarrassment to our Nation!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 5:34 am […]
3/28/2019
CENTRAL AMERICA/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico is doing NOTHING to help stop the flow of illegal immigrants to our Country. They are all talk and no action. Likewise, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have taken our money for years, and do Nothing. The Dems don’t care, such BAD laws. May close the Southern Border!” –Donald Trump, […]
3/28/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Media is going Crazy! They are suffering a major ‘breakdown,’ have ZERO credibility or respect, & must be thinking about going legit. I have learned to live with Fake News, which has never been more corrupt than it is right now. Someday, I will tell you the secret!” –Donald […]
3/28/2019
RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Will be heading to Grand Rapids, Michigan, tonight for a Big Rally. Will be talking about the many exciting things that are happening to our Country, but also the car companies, & others, that are pouring back into Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North & South Carolina & all over!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March […]
3/28/2019
GOP/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Here we go again. President Donald Trump is calling on Republicans to be the party of health care. But that’s not going to be so easy to do since it requires them to have a plan…While the party hasn’t coalesced behind a health care plan, there are policies that Republicans have long […]
3/28/2019
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The publicist whose 2016 email to Donald Trump Jr. led to a now-infamous Trump Tower meeting said Thursday [3-28-19] night he’s not surprised the special counsel investigation did not establish that President Donald Trump Trump or his campaign associates conspired with Russia to win the presidential election…Goldstone, a British publicist, […]
3/28/2019
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Executive Order on Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay […]
3/28/2019
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/SUPREME COURT/TEXAS: “We’re working on a plan now. There’s no very great rush from the standpoint. We’re waiting for decisions in the court. But we’ve already won the case against — for the termination of Obamacare — against Obamacare. Now we’ll go to the appellate division. We’ll see what happens there. I think we’ll […]
3/28/2019
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/SUPREME COURT: “Hopefully, we’ll win at the appellate division and go to the Supreme Court to terminate Obamacare. The cost of Obamacare to people is far too much. The deductibility is ridiculous. It averages more than $7,000, meaning it’s unusable. So, Obamacare has been disaster. We will take care of preexisting conditions better than […]
3/27/2019
HILLARY CLINTON/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, in his first interview since the end of Robert Mueller’s investigation, reiterated on Wednesday [3–27-19] that the special counsel’s inquiry was unnecessary and that the focus of public suspicion should have been on the other side. Speaking to Sean Hannity on Fox News, Trump attacked Mueller’s team […]
3/27/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/Tjz6ZjVV79” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 27, 2019 9:40 pm […]
3/27/2019
GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House has no ‘fresh’ plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, despite the administration backing a district court ruling striking down the full law earlier this week, a senior White House official told CNN Wednesday [3-27-19]. However, the administration plans to submit a health care replacement to Congress […]
3/27/2019
HHS/LEGAL/MEDICAID/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal district court judge handed the Trump administration another defeat in its attempt to allow states to impose work requirements in Medicaid, which has caused 18,000 people to lose coverage so far. In two closely watched cases, US District Court Judge James Boasberg Wednesday [3-27-19] voided the administration’s approvals of requests […]
3/27/2019
HUMAN RIGHTS/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A former State Department official turned congressman questioned Mike Pompeo on Kim Jong Un’s culpability for human rights violations, pressing the Secretary of State to answer how such a person could be likeable. Rep. Tom Malinowski, a former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, asked […]
3/27/2019
ELECTION/GOP/HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says the GOP is now the ‘party of health care.’ But Republicans have no real plan to deliver on that. Trump’s unexpected demand that Republicans take another crack at replacing Obamacare came on the heels of his Justice Department backing a lawsuit intended to gut the entire law. […]
3/27/2019
BETSY DEVOS/BUDGET/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former California First Lady Maria Shriver, whose mother founded the Special Olympics, is vowing to fight Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ latest attempt to end federal funding for the program for athletes with developmental disabilities. Shriver told POLITICO in a statement that she is ‘deeply disappointed’ in the proposal to slash nearly $18 million […]
3/27/2019
ECONOMY/GOP/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans are trying to head off their next potentially explosive conflict with President Donald Trump. In a series of private meetings and conversations with Trump over the past few months, Senate Republicans have pleaded with him not to impose a new round of tariffs on foreign automakers — fearing they could […]
3/27/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/lGxIGgf43F” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 27, 2019 6:17 pm […]
3/27/2019
TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House formally weighed in on the housing finance reform debate on Wednesday [3-27-19] with President Donald Trump directing Treasury to come up with a plan to end the government’s decade-long control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two companies at the heart of the nation’s mortgage-finance industry. Trump issued […]
3/27/2019
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “The only difference between now and the other administration is that we’re administering Obamacare very well. So we’ve made it better. But it’s still horrible, no good. It’s something that we can’t live with in this country because it’s far too expensive for the people, not only for the country, but I’m […]
3/27/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @seanhannity: #HANNITY EXCLUSIVE TONIGHT: One-on-one with @realdonaldtrump — the President’s first interview since Mueller found no coll…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 27, 2019 4:30 pm […]
3/27/2019
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are here today to award America’s highest military honor to a fallen hero who made the supreme sacrifice for our nation – Staff Sergeant Travis Atkins…https://t.co/q3J8BhRnhA“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 27, 2019 3:48 pm […]
3/27/2019
DEMS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A request by a leading Democrat for records of Donald Trump’s financial dealings before he became president set off a partisan squabble in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday [3-27-19]. In a letter to the chairman and chief executive officer of Mazars USA LLP, an audit and accounting firm, Elijah Cummings, chairman of […]
3/27/2019
ETHICS/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Seven former senior Trump aides, including the White House’s top ethics official, may have violated federal law by failing to disclose their future employment on financial reports, according to records obtained by POLITICO. One of those aides, John McEntee, President Donald Trump’s former personal aide who left in March 2018, reportedly […]
3/27/2019
TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just met with @SundarPichai, President of @Google, who is obviously doing quite well. He stated strongly that he is totally committed to the U.S. Military, not the Chinese Military….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 27, 2019 2:38 pm […]
3/27/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Also discussed political fairness and various things that @Google can do for our Country. Meeting ended very well!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 27, 2019 2:38 pm […]
3/27/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/kTXRgcuk5x” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 27, 2019 2:00 pm […]
3/27/2019
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@GreggJarrett: ‘Trump-Russia ‘collusion’ was always a hoax — and dirtiest political trick in modern US history’ https://t.co/H59Q1UL64g” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 27, 2019 1:47 pm […]
3/27/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will not invoke executive privilege to withhold information from special counsel Robert Mueller’s confidential report and supports the public release of the investigation’s findings, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday [3-27-19]. Multiple sources told CNN earlier this month that White House lawyers expected to […]
3/27/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump pledged on Wednesday [3-27-19] to deliver a better healthcare system than Obamacare if the Supreme Court tosses out his predecessor’s signature domestic achievement, a potentially hazardous claim as he seeks re-election. Trump defended his administration’s decision to step up its assault on the healthcare law passed […]
3/27/2019
CONGRESS/POLLS/TRUMP TAXES: “There’s no groundswell among voters for Congress to force President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. Half of those surveyed said it should be a priority for Congress, while 40 percent said it wasn’t very important or shouldn’t be done at all. The rest said […]
3/27/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now that the peril of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is behind him, President Donald Trump is resuming an old battle: repealing Obamacare. Reversing an earlier position, Trump’s Justice Department notified a federal appeals court in New Orleans late Monday [3-25-19] it would ask judges to toss out the entire […]
3/27/2019
BORDER/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETO: “The House failed Tuesday [3-26-19] to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a congressional resolution aimed at halting his emergency declaration for the southern border. The battle continues in the courts where opponents of the wall, including the American Civil Liberties Union and 20 states, are challenging Trump’s authority to declare a national […]
3/27/2019
KELLYANNE CONWAY/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “George Conway, a conservative lawyer and the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, argued in a new op-ed that President Donald Trump is unfit for office, regardless of the Mueller report’s findings. ‘If the charge were unfitness for office, the verdict would already be in: guilty beyond a reasonable […]
3/27/2019
COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the months since June 2018, when the Supreme Court upheld the third version of President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, the matter has largely slipped from the headlines as the president’s political adversaries have turned their attention to other issues. But the ban—which, even in its revised form almost completely […]
3/27/2019
CHINA/MILITARY/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amid growing concern about the risks of Google and other U.S. companies doing business in China, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the CEO of Google has “strongly stated” that he is ‘totally committed’ to the American, not Chinese, military. Earlier this month, Trump accused Google in a tweet of ‘helping China […]
3/27/2019
MILITARY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VENEZUELA: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [3-27-19] that Russian soldiers needed to leave Venezuela, days after a Russian military contingent arrived just outside of Caracas, saying ‘all options’ were open to make that happen. ‘Russia has to get out,’ Trump told reporters during a meeting with the wife of Venezuelan opposition […]
3/27/2019
ELECTION/GOP/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Buoyed by word that the special counsel didn’t find collusion with Russia, President Donald Trump is voicing new interest in policymaking, including a fresh effort to repeal and replace ‘Obamacare.’ But Trump has few detailed policy proposals to back up his words, suggesting he’s as focused on highlighting issues that appeal to […]
3/27/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He eats almost every meal in the White House or at properties he owns. His presidential travel has been limited largely to red-state campaign rallies with adoring crowds, brief appearances surveying natural disasters, official travel overseas and a handful of forays to factories. His most consistent interactions with Americans are the steady […]
3/27/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It’s an emerging rallying cry on the left: Expand the Supreme Court and eliminate the Senate filibuster. Still seething over Republican obstruction during the Obama administration that peaked in 2016 with the blockade against the Supreme Court nominee Merrick B. Garland, liberal groups are encouraging Democrats running for president and the Senate […]
3/27/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the days since Attorney General William P. Barr wrote to Congress describing the still secret report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, a mystery he introduced remains pressing: Why did Mr. Mueller take no position on whether President Trump obstructed justice? Mr. Barr spoke briefly by phone on Wednesday […]
3/27/2019
CONGRESS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s surprise decision to press for a court-ordered demolition of the Affordable Care Act came after a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Monday, where the president’s acting chief of staff and others convinced him that he could do through the courts what he could not do […]
3/27/2019
AFRICA/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers, human rights activists and civil rights lawyers to extend deportation protections for thousands of Liberians who may become undocumented immigrants within a week. President Donald Trump announced in March 2018 that hundreds of Liberians who had been legally living and working in the […]
3/26/2019
CONGRESS/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday [3-26-19], just 36 hours removed from one of the best moments of his presidency: Attorney General Bill Barr announcing — via a letter to Congress — that special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish any conspiracy or coordination between the President’s 2016 […]
3/26/2019
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Media has lost tremendous credibility with its corrupt coverage of the illegal Democrat Witch Hunt of your all time favorite duly elected President, me! T.V. ratings of CNN & MSNBC tanked last night after seeing the Mueller Report statement. @FoxNews up BIG!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 26, 2019 […]