NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has identified its leading choices for the top federal prosecutors in Manhattan and Brooklyn, N.Y., including one who is a law partner of White House ally Rudy Giuliani and another who is a law partner of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, according to a document sent to New York’s […]
8/8/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump threatened on Tuesday [8-8-17] to unleash ‘fire and fury’ against North Korea if it endangers the United States as tensions with the isolated nuclear-armed state grow into perhaps the most serious foreign policy challenge yet in his young administration. ‘North Korea best not make any more threats to […]
8/8/2017
SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump insists he’s on a ‘working vacation,’ but that hasn’t stopped the Secret Service from spending $13,500 on golf cart rentals ahead of this go-round in Bedminster, N.J. A purchase order, pulled by progressive super PAC American Bridge and reviewed by USA TODAY, showed the agency signed the golf cart […]
8/8/2017
ENERGY/LEGAL: “South Carolina’s attorney general is suing the federal government for $100 million, saying it hasn’t removed plutonium from the state as promised, a new tack in a long-running battle over the fate of a Cold War-era nuclear-weapons site. Attorney General Alan Wilson, a Republican, said in a complaint filed Monday [8-7-17] in the U.S. […]
8/8/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After 200 days, rarely has any Administration achieved what we have achieved..not even close! Don’t believe the Fake News Suppression Polls!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 8, 2017 01:10pm […]
8/8/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “E-mails show that the AmazonWashingtonPost and the FailingNewYorkTimes were reluctant to cover the Clinton/Lynch secret meeting in plane.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 8, 2017 01:00pm […]
8/8/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/UN: “North Korea escalated its criticism of the United States, as well as its neighboring allies, on Tuesday [8-8-17] by warning that it will mobilize all its resources to take ‘physical action’ in retaliation against the latest round of United Nations sanctions. The statement, carried by the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency, […]
8/8/2017
DEMS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump White House is quietly courting a few dozen House Democrats on tax reform — eager to avoid the fate of the GOP’s straight party-line attempt to jam through a repeal of Obamacare. Even as congressional GOP leaders largely embrace a partisan path on taxes, White House officials have been wooing […]
8/8/2017
BUDGET/REBUILD OUR HIGHWAYS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s basically the opposite of a major government infrastructure program. Government spending on transportation and other public works is in decline as federal funding stagnates and state and local governments tighten their belts. Such spending equaled 1.4 percent of the nation’s economic output in the second quarter of 2017, the […]
8/8/2017
GOP/POLITICS: “Sen. Dean Heller, a Nevada Republican up for re-election in 2018 who has been whipsawed by the politics of Congress’s health care debate, has drawn a conservative primary opponent promising to be a more reliable ally for President Donald Trump. Danny Tarkanian, a Las Vegas businessman, announced his candidacy in a statement early Tuesday […]
8/4/2017
RELIGION/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Since a makeshift bomb tore through a Minnesota mosque early Saturday [8-5-17] morning, President Trump has used Twitter, his preferred platform for communicating with the American people, to rail about ‘fake news,’ attack a Democratic senator from Connecticut and insist that he’s working hard while vacationing in New Jersey. One topic Trump […]
8/8/2017
NORTH KOREA/UN: “After many years of failure,countries are coming together to finally address the dangers posed by North Korea. We must be tough & decisive!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 8, 2017 06:17am […]
8/8/2017
DRUGS/NATIONAL SECURITY: “I will be holding a major briefing on the Opioid crisis, a major problem for our country, today at 3:00 P.M. in Bedminster, N.J.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 8, 2017 06:11am […]
8/8/2017
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS: “Demand in America for Mexican farmhands, landscapers and other temporary workers is surging as the Trump administration moves to curb immigration and renegotiate its trade relationship with Mexico. That demand is prompting both countries to search for ways to ease labor shortages in key parts of the U.S. economy. In the first nine […]
8/8/2017
CRIME/DRUGS/HHS/TOM PRICE: “President Donald Trump has scheduled what he called a ‘major briefing’ for Tuesday [8-8-17] on the epidemic of opioid drug use in the United States, a health crisis that kills more than 100 Americans daily. In the midst of a two-week getaway at his golf club in New Jersey, Trump will meet with […]
8/7/2017
POPE FRANCIS/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s evangelical advisory board is asking Pope Francis for meetings with him and other high-level Vatican officials to discuss ‘efforts to divide evangelicals and Catholics.’ The request, which was first reported in Time, comes a few weeks after two of Francis’s closest allies published an extremely critical article about the […]
8/7/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS: “The French carmaker Renault signed a multimillion-dollar deal in Tehran on Monday [8-7-17], agreeing to raise vehicle production in Iran just days after President Trump signed into law new sanctions against the country. The roughly $780 million agreement to produce as many as 150,000 additional cars a year is the largest foreign […]
8/7/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/UN: “The Trump administration has hailed the latest United Nations sanctions against nuclear-armed North Korea as the most severe yet, and the North’s fury over the penalties suggested they carried some sting. In a staccato of outraged reactions on Monday to the sanctions imposed over the weekend, North Korea threatened retaliation against the […]
8/7/2017
CABINET/CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration. The draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has […]
8/7/2017
FAKE NEWS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Saturday [8-5-17] appears to have unwittingly retweeted a Twitter user who built a public profile using a network of fake identities and stolen photos to hawk pro-Trump merchandise… The Twitter account linked to the website ProTrump45, which sells pro-Trump T-shirts, hoodies, and hats, and hosts a pro-Trump […]
8/7/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Prosecutors notched a victory Monday [8-7-17] over academics and defense attorneys in the long-running debate about what qualifies as sound crime-scene evidence versus ‘junk science’ used to wrongly convict defendants. Guidelines for the use of forensic evidence in court, previously developed by a partnership between the Justice Department and a panel of scientists, […]
8/7/2017
INTERIOR/OBAMA/RYAN ZINKE: “Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has ordered his agencies to begin implementing a revised management plan to protect the greater sage grouse, a move that could undo some protections created under the Obama administration. Among other things, the recommendations compiled by an Interior task force at Mr. Zinke’s request call for potential loosening of […]
8/7/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “How much longer will the failing nytimes, with its big losses and massive unfunded liability (and non-existent sources), remain in business?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 7, 2017 03:39pm […]
8/7/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I think Senator Blumenthal should take a nice long vacation in Vietnam, where he lied about his service, so he can at least say he was there” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 7, 2017 03:48pm […]
8/7/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/NATIONAL SECURITY/UN: “The Fake News Media will not talk about the importance of the United Nations Security Council’s 15-0 vote in favor of sanctions on N. Korea!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 7, 2017 03:15pm […]
8/7/2017
ENERGY/INTERIOR/OIL: “The U.S. Department of the Interior said on Monday [8-7-17] it has rescinded an Obama-era rule that reformed how energy companies value sales of oil, gas and coal extracted from federal and tribal land to protect taxpayers because it caused ‘confusion and uncertainty’ for energy companies. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said the department’s newly […]
8/7/2017
HOLIDAY/MILITARY: “On #PurpleHeartDay?I thank all the brave men and women who have sacrificed in battle for this GREAT NATION! #USA?? https://t.co/QmfdLSLp6p” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 7, 2017 01:03pm […]
8/7/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/SANCTUARY CITIES: “Mayor Rahm Emanuel sued the Justice Department on Monday [8-7-17] over President Trump’s threat to cut off federal grants for so-called sanctuary cities like Chicago, calling it an attack against public safety and the city’s conscience. Hours later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions struck back, describing street violence in Chicago as horrific and […]
8/7/2017
AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “To understand the Trump administration’s struggle to agree on a strategy to reverse the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, it’s useful first to look back in time. In early 2013, Donald Trump tweeted: ‘We should leave Afghanistan immediately. No more wasted lives.’ Early the following year, when President Barack Obama was trying to […]
8/7/2017
CANADA/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS: “Canada on Monday [8-7-17] played down the prospect of a resolution with the U.S. over a trade spat on lumber imports before the start of talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement, denting enthusiasm raised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month for such an outcome. The inability to cut such […]
8/7/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/UN: “North Korea on Monday [8-7-17] threatened to use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if provoked militarily and said it would ‘under no circumstances’ negotiate on its nuclear and missile weapons programs. In a written statement handed to reporters on the sidelines of a regional security forum in Manila, North Korean Foreign […]
8/7/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Never in U.S.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal. He told stories about his Vietnam battles and… conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. Now he judges collusion?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/7/2017
POLITICS/RUSSIA: “Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 7, 2017 06:47am […]
8/7/2017
DONALDISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Working hard from New Jersey while White House goes through long planned renovation. Going to New York next week for more meetings.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 7, 2017 06:32am […]
8/7/2017
FAKE NEWS/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hard to believe that with 24/7 #Fake News on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTIMES & WAPO, the Trump base is getting stronger!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 7, 2017 06:18am […]
8/7/2017
FAKE NEWS/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump base is far bigger & stronger than ever before (despite some phony Fake News polling). Look at rallies in Penn, Iowa, Ohio… and West Virginia. The fact is the Fake News Russian collusion story, record Stock Market, border security, military strength, jobs… Supreme Court pick, economic enthusiasm, deregulation & […]
8/7/2017
2016 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The failing @nytimes, which has made every wrong prediction about me including my big election win (apologized), is totally inept!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 7, 2017 05:38am […]
8/7/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TAXES: “Republicans acknowledge that the aggressive timeline they have set up for overhauling the tax code this fall leaves them little room for error. There could be one problem with that: Obamacare isn’t going away. President Donald Trump has dropped hints that he might stop the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reduction payments, through which federal […]
8/7/2017
REX TILLERSON/RUSSIA/STATE: “U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russia’s foreign minister that the U.S. would respond to that country’s recent expulsion of American diplomats by Sept. 1 and that the nations must confront the distrust created by Moscow’s meddling in the U.S. presidential election. Mr. Tillerson, speaking with journalists Monday at an Asian regional […]
8/7/2017
KEYSTONE/OIL/PIPELINES: “Nebraska regulators will hear final arguments for and against TransCanada Corp’s (TRP.TO) proposed Keystone XL pipeline this week before deciding whether to approve its route later this year, the last big hurdle for the long-delayed project after President Donald Trump gave it federal approval. The proposed 1,179-mile (1,897-km) pipeline linking Canada’s Alberta oil sands […]
8/7/2017
SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Sunday the city will file a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s use of federal grant money as a way to force local authorities to cooperate with a crackdown on illegal immigration. The showdown over so-called sanctuary cities has been months in the making, as some […]
8/6/2017
JOBS: “The American map is dotted with towns drained of jobs after homegrown factories bolted to lower-wage countries. But for many spots throughout the country, the same strategy of moving operations overseas — when practiced by foreign companies — has buoyed local fortunes. In Chattanooga and the surrounding region, for example, more than two dozen […]
8/6/2017
ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is wading into one of the oldest and most contentious debates in the West by encouraging more coal mining on lands owned by the federal government. It is part of an aggressive push to both invigorate the struggling American coal industry and more broadly exploit commercial opportunities on public […]
8/6/2017
MIKE PENCE/POLITICS: “Vice President Mike Pence declared his loyalty to President Trump on Sunday [8-6-17] and denounced a New York Times article suggesting that he was positioning himself to run for president in 2020 if Mr. Trump does not seek a second term. ‘Today’s article in The New York Times is disgraceful and offensive to […]
8/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/SOUTH KOREA/UN: “Just completed call with President Moon of South Korea. Very happy and impressed with 15-0 United Nations vote on North Korea sanctions.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 6, 2017 08:22pm […]
8/6/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “The Fake News refuses to report the success of the first 6 months: S.C., surging economy & jobs,border & military security,ISIS & MS-13 etc.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 6, 2017 08:18pm […]
8/6/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/TAXES: “Congressional Republicans plan to use the next four weeks away from Washington making a public case for a sweeping rewrite of the tax code, an ambitious legislative undertaking they hope will heal divisions that opened when the party’s signature health-care bill collapsed. But at home in their districts, they face pressures that could make […]
8/6/2017
GOP/TAXES: “Charities stand to lose billions in donations if Republicans advance their tax overhaul, prompting the nonprofits to carefully attempt to persuade lawmakers to reshape their plan. As a result of a proposal to double the standard deduction and prevent people from deducting state and local taxes from federal taxable income, fewer taxpayers—5% instead of […]
8/6/2017
GOP/GUNS/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a recent gathering here hosted by the BamaCarry gun-rights group, Republican candidates vying to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ former U.S. Senate seat all invoked the same person: President Donald Trump… In the run-up to the Aug. 15 special-election primary, the GOP candidates are sparring over who would best advance […]
8/5/2017
NORTH KOREA/UN: “The United Nations Security Council on Saturday [8-5-17] unanimously adopted a resolution to impose the most punishing sanctions yet against North Korea over its repeated defiance of a ban on testing missiles and nuclear bombs. The resolution, intended to press North Korea to renounce its nuclear militarization, could reduce the isolated country’s already […]
8/5/2017
NORTH KOREA/REX TILLERSON/STATE: “Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson will for the first time on Sunday [8-6-17] be in the same room with his North Korean counterpart, and much of the world will be watching for whether the two even acknowledge each other. Joining them in Manila will be representatives of other countries with a […]
8/5/2017
NORTH KOREA/UN: “United Nations Resolution is the single largest economic sanctions package ever on North Korea. Over one billion dollars in cost to N.K.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 5, 2017 06:14pm […]
8/5/2017
MISC: “Thank you Nicole! https://t.co/KlWN05uFOx” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 5, 2017 06:01pm […]
8/5/2017
LEAKS/NATIONAL SECURITY: “After many years of LEAKS going on in Washington, it is great to see the A.G. taking action! For National Security, the tougher the better!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 5, 2017 05:58pm […]
8/5/2017
NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA/UN: “The United Nations Security Council just voted 15-0 to sanction North Korea. China and Russia voted with us. Very big financial impact!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 5, 2017 05:44pm […]
8/5/2017
TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘Under Trump, gains against #ISIS have dramatically accelerated’ https://t.co/jNtOTh0moL” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 5, 2017 05:12pm […]
8/5/2017
DONALDISM: “Prosperity is coming back to our shores because we are putting America WORKERS and FAMILIES first. #AmericaFirst?? https://t.co/4kTc6Om308″ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 5, 2017 11:00am […]
8/4/2017
HHS/NOMINATIONS: “Dr. Jerome Adams was confirmed as the US surgeon general this week, pledging to take on the country’s opioid epidemic. Adams, who was nominated for the role by President Donald Trump, is the 20th surgeon general to hold the position. ‘To be confirmed as the 20th US Surgeon General is truly an indescribable honor,’ […]
8/4/2017
MIKE PENCE/TAXES: “In a sign of an expanding alliance between the Trump administration and one of the most well-financed forces in conservative politics, Vice President Mike Pence has agreed to speak to a gathering of the billionaire Koch brothers’ advocacy network this month. Mr. Pence will deliver the keynote address on Aug. 19 in Richmond, […]
8/4/2017
INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/ROBERT MUELLER: “Investigators working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently asked the White House for documents related to the former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, and have questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid by the Turkish government during the final months of the presidential campaign, according to people […]
8/4/2017
MCMASTER/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump defended Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, his embattled national security adviser, on Friday [8-4-17] in the face of a full-bore campaign by the nationalist wing of his political coalition accusing him of undermining the president’s agenda and calling for his dismissal. General McMaster has angered the political right by […]
8/4/2017
LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans and Democrats denounced government leaking this week after transcripts of President Donald Trump’s calls with foreign leaders was exposed by the Washington Post. The rejection of leaks comes as Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected Friday [8-4-17] to a Justice Department investigation into leaks coming out of the government. Trump has […]
8/4/2017
DEMS/GOP: “West Virginia was incredible last night. Crowds and enthusiasm were beyond, GDP at 3%, wow!Dem Governor became a Republican last night.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 4, 2017 05:35am […]
8/4/2017
DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great work being done by @FEMA @DHSgov w/state & local leaders to prepare for hurricane season. Preparedness is an investment in our future! https://t.co/e4rbchY3zM” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 4, 2017 04:38pm […]
8/4/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSION/LEAKS/MEDIA: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a harsh rebuke of leaks and the media that report them on Friday [8-4-17]— echoing criticism levied regularly by President Trump over the past year — and signaled that the Justice Department could be changing how it deals with reporters in such cases. Sessions announced at a […]
8/4/2017
NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Senate on Thursday [8-3-17] cleared the way for dozens of Trump administration nominees across the government to take office, allowing the administration to round out its top staff and regulatory commissions and advance its agenda on a broad range of issues. Top officials at the State, Justice, Commerce, Treasury, Health and Human […]
8/4/2017
COAST GUARD: “No matter the mission, the brave men & women of our @USCG proudly answer the call to serve 24/7/365. THANK YOU and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! #CG227?? https://t.co/GY555t0vzN” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 4, 2017 10:48am […]
8/4/2017
SEAN SPICER: “Sean Spicer, who resigned as White House press secretary on July 21, is not formally leaving the White House until the end of August. But, with television networks allegedly clamoring for his services, he is now being represented by high-powered attorney Bob Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Barnett is a partner at […]
8/4/2017
ETHICS/INTERIOR/RYAN ZINKE: “The Interior Department’s inspector general said it would investigate a reported threat by the agency’s head, Ryan Zinke, against Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski’s state of Alaska last week over her opposition to her party’s efforts to repeal Obamacare. Zinke called Murkowski and Alaska’s other U.S. senator, Republican Dan Sullivan, on July 26, the […]
8/4/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/UN: “The United States is aiming for a United Nations Security Council vote on Saturday to impose stronger sanctions on North Korea over its two intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests in July, diplomats said on Friday [8-4-17]. The United States is set to circulate a copy of the draft resolution to all 15 […]
8/4/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Friday [8-4-17] that the Justice Department was now pursuing three times as many leak investigations as the previous administration, a significant devotion of law enforcement resources to hunt down the sources of unauthorized disclosures of information that have plagued the Trump administration. Mr. Sessions […]
8/4/2017
JOBS: “Excellent Jobs Numbers just released – and I have only just begun. Many job stifling regulations continue to fall. Movement back to USA!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 4, 2017 07:45am […]
8/4/2017
TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Consumer confidence is at a 16 year high….and for good reason. Much more regulation ‘busting’ to come. Working hard on tax cuts & reform!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 4, 2017 05:26am […]
8/4/2017
ECONOMY/JOBS: “Toyota & Mazda to build a new $1.6B plant here in the U.S.A. and create 4K new American jobs. A great investment in American manufacturing!…and don’t forget that Foxconn will be spending up to 10 billion dollars on a top of the line plant/plants in Wisconsin.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 4, 2017 05:02am and […]
8/3/2017
DONALDISM/SUPPORTERS: “Thank you West Virginia! All across the country, Americans of every kind are coming together w/one simple goal: to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://t.co/thRh7htVbH” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 11:19pm […]
8/3/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New Hampshire politicians criticized President Trump after a transcript of a phone call with the president of Mexico published on Thursday [8-3-17] showed he called the state ‘a drug-infested den.’ The remark came during his comments on the drug trade, criminal gangs and how he said they affected the state, according to […]
8/3/217
SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Secret Service has been forced to relocate its Trump Tower command center to a trailer outside the Midtown skyscraper after a lease agreement between the General Services Administration and the Trump Organization fell apart last month, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said on Thursday [8-3-17]. The Secret Service has […]
8/3/2017
LGBTQ/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump chose Twitter last week to announce that he planned to ban transgender service members from the military, he said his decision would safeguard the readiness of the armed forces and was made on the advice of his generals. Now, a week after Mr. Trump’s Twitter statements, military policy experts […]
8/3/2017
LGBTQ/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the week since President Trump declared that transgender Americans would no longer be allowed in the military, some municipal officials have responded with an invitation: join our police force instead. Several cities — including Houston; Austin, Tex.; Aurora, Colo.; and Cincinnati — have encouraged transgender people to apply to their police […]
8/3/2017
JOHN KELLY: “In his six months as Homeland Security secretary, John F. Kelly often described the White House as one of the most dysfunctional organizations he had ever seen, complained to colleagues and allies about its meddling, incompetence and recklessness, and was once so angry he briefly considered quitting. Now as President Trump’s chief of […]
8/3/2017
GOP/POLITICS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump chafed on Thursday [8-3-17] over the new dive in U.S. relations with Russia, widening a rift with his own Republican Party as he blamed Congress for causing the tensions with a new package of sanctions. Far removed from his election campaign promises to improve relations with Vladimir Putin and […]
8/3/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Trump embraces a proposal to sharply cut immigration to the United States, supporters of the plan point to the example of Australia and its ‘merit-based’ system for approving new immigrants. The plan Mr. Trump supports seeks to reduce immigration by curbing the ability of American citizens and legal residents to […]
8/3/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said late Wednesday [8-2-17] that it would not delay an Obama-era regulation on smog-forming pollutants from smokestacks and tailpipes, a move that environmental groups hailed as a victory. The Environmental Protection Agency decision came a day after 16 state attorneys general, all Democrats, filed a lawsuit challenging […]
8/3/2017
JOHN KELLY/MCMASTER: “National security adviser H.R. McMaster, who has waged a pitched battle with other senior staff for control over policy and personnel on the National Security Council, is taking advantage of the shield offered by the arrival of his old military colleague John Kelly as White House chief of staff. Kelly told McMaster this […]
8/3/2017
FCC: “Federal regulators took steps Thursday [8-3-17] to close the digital divide in rural America, moving to reshape two subsidy programs that they say haven’t been as effective as needed. Expanding access to broadband in hard-to-serve areas across the U.S. has proved a challenge for years, not only because of costs, but also because of […]
8/3/2017
ENERGY/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson as members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, restoring a quorum to the agency. ‘After six months, we have finally restored a working quorum to FERC,’ Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in […]
8/3/2017
DONALDISM/SUPPORTERS: “Just arrived in West Virginia for a MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN rally in Huntington at 7:00pmE. Massive crowd expected – tune in! #MAGA??” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 05:52pm […]
8/3/2017
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in Washington to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, a sign that his inquiry is growing in intensity and entering a new phase, according to people familiar with the matter. The grand jury, which began its work in recent weeks, signals that Mr. […]
8/3/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In mid-August 2011, then-non-politician Donald Trump levied a critique of President Barack Obama. ‘@BarackObama played golf yesterday. Now he heads to a 10 day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Nice work ethic.’ This was one of dozens of tweets criticizing Obama for playing golf… It was one of a handful that also dinged […]
8/3/2017
HEALTHCARE/VA/VETS: “Our GREAT VETERANS can now connect w/ their VA healthcare team from anywhere, using #VAVideoConnect – available at: https://t.co/WFFHLWn8nF. https://t.co/Dmq4htSps9” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 02:07pm […]
8/3/2017
DEMS/GOP/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “West Virginia Governor Jim Justice, standing next to President Donald Trump at a rally on Thursday [8-3-17] night, announced that he was changing political parties, ditching the Democrats and joining Trump’s Republicans. ‘I can’t help you anymore being a Democrat governor,’ Justice told the crowd. ‘So tomorrow I will be changing my […]
8/3/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Corey Lewandowski, a close political adviser to President Donald Trump who is facing scrutiny over his business interests, denied after a speech in Cleveland on Thursday [8-3-17] that he is actively working with an Ohio-based payday lending company. But the denial only came when Lewandowski was pressed by reporters — not by audience […]
8/3/2017
VA/VETS: “Today, I announced another historic breakthrough for the VA. We are working tirelessly to keep our promises to our GREAT VETERANS! #USA https://t.co/LexSINeM1J” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 01:03pm […]
8/3/2017
GOP/NATIONAL DEBT/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY: “Republican congressional leaders are quietly preparing to pass a ‘clean’ debt ceiling increase, according to multiple senior GOP sources — setting the stage for a high-risk showdown with rank-and-file Republicans this fall. Trump administration officials, led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, are imploring Congress to raise the $19.8 trillion debt limit with […]
8/3/2017
CFTC/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday [8-3-17] to confirm two Republicans and one Democrat to serve on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the top U.S derivatives regulator. In a voice vote, the Senate approved the nominations of Republican Chris Giancarlo to serve as CFTC chairman, as well as Republican Brian Quintenz and […]
8/3/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “See you tonight Huntington, West Virginia! #MakeAmericaGreatAgain?? Tickets: https://t.co/ERU0xUWdCr https://t.co/obtDsdV94t” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 11:04am […]
8/3/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/JEFF SESSIONS/SANCTUARY CITIES: “Attty. Gen. Jeff Sessions moved Thursday [8-3-17] to again punish so-called sanctuary cities, threatening to deny federal crime-fighting resources to four cities beset by violence if they don’t step up efforts to help detain and deport people living in the country illegally, including two agencies in California, a state that has […]
8/3/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is getting ready for a mega vacation. Friday [8-4-17], Trump is heading out to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for 17 days, AP reported. In the past, Trump has been vocal about his disapproval for taking vacations: ‘What’s the point? If you’re not enjoying your work, […]
8/3/20217
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/WTO: “China urged the Trump administration to back off plans for tough trade actions, calling on the U.S. to remain cooperative and warning that conflict would hurt both sides. Beijing hopes to avoid a trade war with the U.S., but is preparing to target American businesses if Washington moves forward with trade sanctions, […]
8/3/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/RUSSIA: “Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can’t even give us HCare!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 07:18am […]