ECONOMY/JOBS: “I am continuing to get rid of costly and unnecessary regulations. Much work left to do but effect will be great! Business & jobs will grow.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 07:12am […]
8/3/2017
DOW/ECONOMY: “Business is looking better than ever with business enthusiasm at record levels. Stock Market at an all-time high. That doesn’t just happen!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 07:08am […]
8/3/2017
MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump pressured the Mexican president to stop voicing opposition in public to his plan to have Mexico pay for a border wall, according to transcripts of phone calls published on Thursday [8-3-17] that gave an insight into Trump’s attempts to influence foreign leaders in his first days in office. […]
8/3/2017
BORDER/GOP/POLITICS/WALL: “Offering an alternative to President Donald Trump’s vision for a border wall, a top Senate Republican is introducing legislation Thursday [8-3-17] that urges the administration to use technology as well as physical barriers to better guard the southwest border. The bill from Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, […]
8/3/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Switch on the news in Russia, and the message is clear: Washington is in chaos. Dmitry Kiselev, the host of a weekly television show, summed up U.S. President Donald Trump’s return from last month’s Group of 20 meeting in Germany by saying Mr. Trump had ‘plunged back into his native American hell, […]
8/2/2017
ETHICS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, has been subpoenaed by New York federal prosecutors regarding its use of an investment-for-immigration program, according to people familiar with the matter. The subpoena concerns at least one Jersey City, N.J., development financed […]
8/2/2017
CIA/MIKE POMPEO/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The end came quickly for one of the costliest covert action programs in the history of the C.I.A. During a White House briefing early last month, the C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, recommended to President Trump that he shut down a four-year-old effort to arm and train Syrian rebels. The president swiftly […]
8/2/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/UN: “Joined by three Western allies, the United States on Wednesday [8-2-17] escalated pressure on Iran over its space launch last week, saying the act disregarded a United Nations Security Council resolution on the use of missiles and was ‘threatening and provocative.’ In a letter to the Security Council and Secretary General António Guterres, […]
8/2/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump embraced legislation on Wednesday [8-2-17] that would overhaul decades of immigration policy by replacing a system that favors family ties in deciding who can legally move to the United States with one based on skills and employability. At a White House announcement with two Republican senators, Mr. Trump put his […]
8/2/2017
POPE FRANCIS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of ‘hate’ with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican’s good graces. The authors, writing in a Vatican-vetted journal, singled out Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, […]
8/2/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RACISIM: “The Justice Department is seeking attorneys to investigate racial bias in college admissions as the agency prepares to review a 2015 complaint that claims Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants. An internal job posting calls for employees to work on ‘investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university […]
8/2/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House has engaged in a slow-motion purge of hard-line officials at the National Security Council in recent weeks, angering conservatives who complain that the foreign policy establishment is reasserting itself over a president who had promised a new course. The latest to go was Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who ran […]
8/2/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL: “The Justice Department on Wednesday [8-2-17] said it was searching for Civil Rights Division lawyers to investigate a single complaint involving Asian-American students in a college admissions affirmative-action case. In a statement, the department sought to play down its recruitment of Civil Rights Division lawyers for what it had billed in an internal […]
8/2/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I love the White House, one of the most beautiful buildings (homes) I have ever seen. But Fake News said I called it a dump – TOTALLY UNTRUE” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 2, 2017 08:29pm […]
8/2/2017
EX-IM BANK/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is giving former Rep. Scott Garrett a chance to save his nomination to lead the Export-Import Bank just weeks after the president privately questioned the appointment amid intense pushback from business groups. The New Jersey Republican’s confirmation has been in doubt for months amid concern about his record […]
8/2/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told Attorney General Jeff Sessions last weekend that his job was safe after Sessions endured several weeks of sharp public criticism from President Donald Trump, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday [8-2-17]. Kelly, who was named chief of staff by Trump […]
8/2/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump signed legislation on Wednesday [8-2-17] imposing sanctions on Russia and limiting his own authority to lift them, but asserted that the measure included ‘a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions’ and left open the possibility that he might choose not to enforce them as lawmakers intended. The legislation, which also […]
8/2/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/STATE/TERRORISM: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [8-2-17] told Congress it didn’t need a revision of the law underpinning the global war on terrorism and ongoing armed conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, arguing the Pentagon already has the legal authority it needs under a war authorization passed shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. […]
8/2/2017
DOW/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is proud of the U.S. stock market. He made that clear in tweets on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday [8-2-17], as the Dow Jones Industrial Average surpassed 22,000 for the first time, he announced his support for legislation to cut legal immigration—and then quickly changed topics to crow […]
8/2/2017
FEDERAL RESERVE/LABOR: “Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said increasingly tight labor markets should keep the U.S. central bank on its path to gradually raise rates and start slowly shrinking its portfolio of bonds and other assets, despite a surprising pause in inflation pressures this spring. In an interview, Mr. Rosengren […]
8/2/2017
DEFENSE/JAMES MATTIS/MILITARY/UAE: “Defense Secretary James Mattis received permission from the US military after retiring from the Marine Corps to work as a military adviser to the United Arab Emirates, newly disclosed Pentagon records show. Mattis, a retired Marine general, was not paid for the advising work, according to the Pentagon, and the advising role was […]
8/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/VOTER FRAUD: “More than five dozen state and local election offices requested help from the Department of Homeland Security to protect their election systems from cyberattacks, according to DHS documents obtained by CNN. Before the 2016 US election, 33 states and 36 local governments requested an assessment of their election systems to help prevent […]
8/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I campaigned on creating a merit-based immigration system that protects U.S. workers & taxpayers. Watch: https://t.co/lv3ScSKnF6 #RAISEAct https://t.co/zCFK5OfYnB” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 2, 2017 01:29pm […]
8/2/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Longtime Donald Trump aide and White House Director of Scheduling and Advance George Gigicos is departing the White House. The decision for Gigicos to move on has been in the works for more than a month and is not a part of recent staff shake-ups, multiple sources told CNN. Gigicos said he will […]
8/2/2017
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Only hours after President Trump said Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto had called him to praise his migration policy, the Mexican government denied the two men had spoken recently by phone. Trump’s comment came Monday [7-31-17] as he was presenting his new chief of staff, John Kelly, who was moving to the […]
8/2/2017
MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In President Donald Trump’s telling, officials from Mexico City to Boy Scouts headquarters are lighting up his phone line with praise. In the leaders’ telling, though, the calls never happened. It’s an unusual pattern of pushback against the President of the United States, a frequent and expansive telephoner who sometimes hands out […]
8/2/2017
BUDGET/REX TILLERSON/RUSSIA/STATE: “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is resisting the pleas of State Department officials to spend nearly $80 million allocated by Congress for fighting terrorist propaganda and Russian disinformation. It is highly unusual for a Cabinet secretary to turn down money for his department. But more than five months into his tenure, Tillerson has […]
8/2/2017
CHINA/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Foxconn Technology Group is not saying whether it plans to invest $30 billion in the United States, as President Donald Trump claimed he was told by the company’s leader ‘off the record.’ Trump announced to a group of small business leaders at the White House on Tuesday that Foxconn CEO Terry Gou […]
8/2/2017
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETS: “It was my great honor to pay tribute to a VET who went above & beyond the call of duty to PROTECT our COMRADES, our COUNTRY, & OUR FREEDOM! https://t.co/YS6y1WR30G” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 2, 2017 09:09am […]
8/2/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [8-2-17] called the Russia sanctions legislation he signed into law ‘significantly flawed’ and urged Congress to not use the measure to hinder U.S. efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict with its European allies. ‘While I favor tough measures to punish and deter aggressive and destabilizing behavior by Iran, […]
8/2/2017
ECONOMY: “Small business owners are the DREAMERS & INNOVATORS who are powering us into the future! Read more and watch here: https://t.co/hZE3fUqKDf https://t.co/TJn5x6HrFG” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 2, 2017 08:38am […]
8/2/2017
DHS/ENERGY/RICK PERRY: “President Donald Trump may tap U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to replace former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who took over as the president’s chief of staff in the White House this week, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday [8-2-17]. Bloomberg, citing three people familiar with deliberations, said other people were also being considered […]
8/2/2017
GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump and two Republican senators on Wednesday will unveil a plan at the White House to overhaul the rules for legal immigrants, a proposal that would slash numbers overall and focus on skilled immigrants, the White House said. Trump will discuss his support for a bill developed by senators […]
8/2/2017
DHS/HOUSE OF REPS/NOMINATIONS: “One of the top candidates to take over the Department of Homeland Security, Rep. Michael McCaul, has concerns about taking the position due, in part, to how President Donald Trump has treated other top administration officials, two sources familiar with discussions about the matter tell CNN. One source described McCaul, a Texas […]
8/2/2017
BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/LOBBYING: “Early this year, Charlotte School of Law looked ready to collapse. The government had cut off the private equity-backed, for-profit law school’s access to federal student loans, determining in a review that it had violated federal law and misled students, allegations the school denied. But for a school that more than nine in […]
8/2/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/KELLYANNE CONWAY: “Kellyanne Conway’s office has a different vibe than other corners of the West Wing. Unlike some of the drab work spaces belonging to her male counterparts, whose offices look as impersonal as the day they moved in, Conway’s office is decorated with colorfully framed, oversize family photos mounted on the […]
8/2/2017
MIKE PENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/NATO/RUSSIA: “Vice President Mike Pence accused Russia on Wednesday [8-2-17] of working to ‘destabilize’ the Western Balkans and divide the region from the West where he said its future lies. Pence spoke in Montenegro, which joined NATO this year in defiance of Russia, on the final leg of a tour designed to reassure […]
8/1/2017
DEFENSE/NOMINATIONS: “The Senate voted unanimously Tuesday [8-2-17] to confirm eight of President Donald Trump’s picks to help lead the Department of Defense, more than doubling the number of his administration’s political appointees at the Pentagon. The list of eight confirmations included Richard Spencer to be Secretary of the Navy and Ellen Lord to be the […]
8/1/2017
BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION: “Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced her intent to transform how Federal Student Aid (FSA) provides customer service to more than 42 million student loan borrowers… The anticipated FSA Next Generation Processing and Servicing Environment will provide for a single data processing platform to house all student loan information while at […]
8/1/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MIKE PENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump will ‘very soon’ sign a law limiting his ability to lift sanctions against Russia, even though he has ‘concerns’ about the measure, Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday [8-1-17]. The announcement during a visit to Tbilisi, Georgia, comes as no surprise, because the Trump administration had signaled […]
8/1/2017
ETHICS/INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/RYAN ZINKE: “The recalcitrant senator kept crossing up the inexperienced new president on big-ticket legislation even though they represented the same party. Frustrated and angry, the White House fought back, threatening retaliation both petty and portentous, eyeing federal jobs and programs in the state of the rebellious lawmaker to force obedience. While […]
8/1/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/SEAN SPICER: “Sean Spicer still plans to leave the White House in late August, a senior White House official said on Tuesday [8-1-17], ending speculation that he might stay on after the firing of former communications director Anthony Scaramucci. President Donald Trump’s decision to hire Scaramucci less than two weeks ago prompted Spicer to […]
8/1/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/REX TILLERSON/STATE: “The U.S. doesn’t seek regime change in North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday [8-1-17], a statement at odds with suggestions last month from Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo that the U.S. would like North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to go. Mr. Tillerson, speaking at a news […]
8/1/2017
HEALTHCARE/HHS/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PHARMA: “Major health insurers in some states are seeking increases as high as 30% or more for premiums on 2018 Affordable Care Act plans, according to new federal data that provide the broadest view so far of the turmoil across exchanges as companies try to anticipate Trump administration policies. Big insurers in Idaho, West Virginia, […]
8/1/2017
POLITICS/TAXES: “Senate Republicans made clear on Tuesday [8-1-17] that they want to chart their own course to focus on a tax overhaul and critical fiscal legislation, bypassing requests from President Donald Trump and White House officials to keep health care their top legislative priority. In his first press conference since a GOP health bill collapsed […]
8/1/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said morale at the Justice Department remains ‘pretty good,’ despite concerns by current and former prosecutors that President Donald Trump’s rebukes of the department’s leader are unsettling and have made it harder to do their jobs. Mr. Trump last week chastised Attorney General Jeff Sessions […]
8/1/2017
CHRIS WRAY/FBI/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Christopher Wray, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, won Senate confirmation Tuesday [8-2-17] with the support of most Democrats, putting the former Justice Department official and private lawyer in charge of an agency buffeted by political crosswinds that show few signs of diminishing. The bipartisan 92-to-5 […]
8/1/2017
COAST GUARD/DHS/LGBTQ/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The head of the Coast Guard is pledging he ‘will not break faith’ with transgender personnel, marking the strongest rebuttal yet by a leader of the armed forces to President Donald Trump’s declaration that he wants to ban all transgender troops. Commandant Paul Zukunft, in remarks to a Washington think tank […]
8/1/2017
BORDER/DHS/WALL: “The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday [8-1-17] said that it would use its authority to exempt the agency from having to comply with environmental and other laws in its efforts to build border walls and access roads in the San Diego area. The waiver would apply to the construction of several wall prototypes […]
8/1/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/NATO/RUSSIA: “NATO jets intercepted three Russian military aircraft near Estonian airspace Tuesday [8-1-17], an alliance spokesman told CNN… He added that Finnish jets also scrambled to intercept the Russian aircraft which he identified as two MiG-31 fighter jets and an AN-26 transport plane. NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission involves allied aircraft securing the airspace […]
8/1/2017
DEFENSE/MILITARY/STATE/UKRAINE: “The Pentagon and State Department have proposed to the White House a plan to supply Ukraine with anti-tank missiles and other arms, according to Defense Department officials. The proposed transfer — which also would include antiaircraft arms that would be defined as defensive weaponry — comes as fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed separatists […]
8/1/2017
CYBERWAR/LEAKS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A self-described ’email prankster’ in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where he convinced the White House official tasked with cyber security that he was Jared Kushner and received that official’s private email address unsolicited. ‘Tom, we are arranging a bit […]
8/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “White House senior adviser Jared Kushner offered an explanation to congressional interns earlier this week as to why it was not possible for the Trump campaign to collude with Russia during the election: It was too disorganized for such a conspiracy. Speaking at an off-the-record hourlong meeting at the Capitol Visitor […]
8/1/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times. The document, an internal announcement to the civil rights division, […]
8/1/2017
CRIME/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The nation’s top narcotics officer repudiated President Donald Trump’s remarks about police use of force, issuing a memo saying Drug Enforcement Administration agents must ‘always act honorably’ by maintaining ‘the very highest standards’ in the treatment of criminal suspects. Chuck Rosenberg, who as acting DEA chief works for the president, told agency […]
8/1/2017
DRUGS/VA/VETS: “Veterans using a Department of Veterans Affairs program to seek care from doctors in the private sector instead of the VA face a greater danger of becoming entangled in the country’s opioid epidemic, the VA said Tuesday [8-1-17]. Findings from the VA’s Office of Inspector General show that programs allowing veterans to get care […]
8/1/2017
CHINA/TRADE DEALS: “The Trump administration is planning trade measures to force Beijing to crack down on intellectual-property theft and ease requirements that American companies share advanced technologies to gain entry to the Chinese market. The administration is considering invoking a little-used provision of U.S. trade law to investigate whether China’s intellectual-property policies constitute ‘unfair trade […]
8/1/2017
REX TILLERSON/STATE: “U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia Aug. 5 to Aug. 9, the State Department said on Tuesday [8-1-17]. Tillerson will participate in meetings of diplomats of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila, and discuss ‘denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, maritime security, and counterterrorism,’ […]
8/1/2017
SUPREME COURT: “North Carolina does not have to hold special elections ahead of its 2018 spring legislative session, a panel of three federal judges ruled in a gerrymandering case. But the judges on Monday [7-31-17] set a September 1 deadline for state lawmakers to ‘adopt and enact remedial districting plans’ after they had ruled last […]
8/1/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media (110 million people). Only way for me to get the truth out!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, 2017 08:55am […]
8/1/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday [8-1-17] that a report that President Donald Trump personally dictated his son’s misleading statement regarding a meeting last summer with a Russian attorney ‘bothers me a lot,’ as do the president’s regular requests that the Senate do away with the legislative filibuster, a non-starter, according […]
8/1/2017
ECONOMY/JOBS: ” ‘Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now.’ Thank you Stuart Varney @foxandfriends Jobs are starting to roar,watch!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, 2017 08:03am […]
8/1/2017
ECONOMY/MEDIA: “Stock Market could hit all-time high (again) 22,000 today. Was 18,000 only 6 months ago on Election Day. Mainstream media seldom mentions!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, 2017 07:49am […]
8/1/2017
FAKE NEWS/LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A new lawsuit filed in New York claims that President Donald Trump got an advance look on a Fox News story purportedly showing the Russians weren’t behind hacked DNC emails published by WikiLeaks. According to the complaint, Trump pushed Fox News to publish the story ‘immediately.’ The problem was that the […]
8/1/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, is calling on President Donald Trump to suspend the approval of all Chinese deals facing national security reviews in the U.S. until China acts more aggressively to press North Korea to curtail its nuclear and missile programs. Though Mr. Schumer and other top […]
8/1/2017
DEMS/GOP/POLITICS/TAXES: “Senate Democrats outlined their conditions for working with the Trump administration and congressional Republicans on tax policy, and their principles didn’t seem to leave much room for common ground. In a letter dated Tuesday [8-1-17], Democrats argued against tax cuts for the top 1% of households, declared it crucial that Republicans not use the […]
8/1/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/UAE: “Yousef Al Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the U.S., is a high-profile power player in Washington, trying to shape American policy toward the Middle East and lobbying over a regional dispute with Qatar. He’s also being drawn deeper into a major global corruption scandal. Newly released stolen emails show a long-running […]
7/31/2017
ENERGY/NUCLEAR ENERGY: “In a major blow to the future of nuclear power in the United States, two South Carolina utilities said on Monday [7-31-17] that they would abandon two unfinished nuclear reactors in the state, putting an end to a project that was once expected to showcase advanced nuclear technology but has since been plagued […]
7/31/2017
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “John F. Kelly, President Trump’s new chief of staff, firmly asserted his authority on his first day in the White House on Monday [7-31-17], telling aides he will impose military discipline on a free-for-all West Wing, and he underscored his intent by firing Anthony Scaramucci, the bombastic communications director, 10 […]
7/31/2017
DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s commission on the opioid crisis asked him Monday [7-31-17] to declare a national emergency to deal with the epidemic. The members of the bipartisan panel called the request their ‘first and most urgent recommendation.’ Mr. Trump created the commission in March, appointing Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey to lead […]
7/31/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans have no plans to revive their party-line attempts to repeal Obamacare this summer, despite President Donald Trump’s increasing frustration over the chamber’s failed attempts last week to gut the law. ‘Until somebody shows us a way to get that elusive 50th vote, I think it’s over,’ said Sen. John Thune […]
7/31/2017
POLITICS/TAXES: “Trump administration officials pressed an accelerated timeline Monday [7-31-17] for advancing a major tax bill this fall along with ambitious goals for the bill’s contents. Background work on the legislation will happen during August in preparation for committee action in September, a House floor vote in October and a Senate vote in November, Marc […]
7/31/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A great day at the White House!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2017 05:19pm […]
7/31/2017
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Anthony Scaramucci’s swift exit as U.S. President Donald Trump’s communications director on Monday [7-31-17] has no bearing on the pending sale of the firm he founded, SkyBridge Capital, parties involved in the deal said. ‘The transaction remains on track and is expected to close by the end of the summer,’ said Robert […]
7/31/2017
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Anthony Scaramucci was removed from his position as White House communications director, just 10 days after his appointment to the post. Mr. Scaramucci, who is nicknamed ‘The Mooch,’ was removed at the urging of former Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, who was sworn in as White House chief of staff […]
7/31/2017
FCC/NET NEUTRALITY: “A U.S. congressional committee on Monday [7-31-17]asked for input from Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Facebook Inc (FB.O), Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and other major companies on a proposed rewrite of rules governing consumer internet access, according to an email reviewed by Reuters. Last week, the House of Representatives Energy and […]
7/31/2017
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump felt Anthony Scaramucci, whom he fired as his communications chief on Monday [7-31-17], made inappropriate comments to The New Yorker magazine, the White House said. ‘The president certainly felt that Anthony’s comments were inappropriate for a person in that position and he didn’t want to burden General Kelly,’ […]
7/31/2017
MILITARY/RUSSIA/STATE/UKRAINE: “The U.S. Pentagon and State Department have devised plans to supply Ukraine with antitank missiles and other weaponry and are seeking White House approval, U.S. officials said, as Kiev battles Russia-backed separatists and ties between Moscow and Washington fray. American military officials and diplomats say the arms, which they characterized as defensive, are meant […]
7/31/2017
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff. Mr. Scaramucci’s abrupt removal came just 10 days […]
7/31/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MIKE PENCE/RUSSIA: “Vice President Pence, on his first full day in Eastern Europe, twice offered a clear and direct message to Russia, warning the Kremlin that the United States will not tolerate Russian force or intimidation toward its neighbors and reassuring the Baltic States that the United States supports them in the face of […]
7/31/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump said that there is no chaos in his administration as his new chief of staff reports to the White House for his first day on the job, but he continued to threaten Congress that he would cut lawmakers’ health insurance plans in a series of tweets on Monday morning. […]
7/31/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When folks here in Washington end a summer filled with White House hijinks and an epic but inconclusive health-care debate, they will look up and discover something unsettling: The world has become a more dangerous place while everybody has been distracted. That’s most obviously true in North Korea, where its […]
7/31/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Outspoken conservative commentator Tomi Lahren admitted she still benefits from a feature of Obamacare while arguing against it during a debate with Chelsea Handler on Saturday. Lahren and Handler faced off at Politicon, a non-partisan event, which features debates, panels, film, and comedy. As expected, Lahren and Handler’s conversation turned towards the Affordable Care […]
7/31/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “As the president’s commission on voter integrity formally begins work, it is clear that members don’t see eye to eye on the key question facing the panel: Is there widespread fraud at the ballot box? Some of President Donald Trump’s appointees say yes, including its vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State […]
7/31/2017
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure, S.C.: No WH chaos!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2017 07:28am […]
7/31/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “If ObamaCare is hurting people, & it is, why shouldn’t it hurt the insurance companies & why should Congress not be paying what public pays?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2017 07:16am […]
7/31/2017
GOP/POLITICS: “Mitch McConnell is unleashing the full force of his political machine in an all-out push to stop two far-right conservatives who threaten to make his life miserable in the Senate. The Republican leader is aiming to thwart Rep. Mo Brooks and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in a special election in […]
7/30/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/MIKE PENCE/NORTH KOREA: “Trump administration officials urged China and other nations to band together to confront North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic-missile ambitions, with Vice President Mike Pence declaring ‘all options are on the table’ to rein in Pyongyang. ‘The continued provocations by the rogue regime in North Korea are unacceptable and the […]
7/30/2017
GOP/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s tumultuous past week has widened rifts in his party, between those who vocally support the president’s combative style and others who bridle at it, according to interviews with GOP officials and supporters across the country. Mr. Trump has long been a polarizing force among members of his party, but […]
7/30/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that the U.S. would have to cut 755 diplomats and staff in the country by September in retaliation for impending U.S. sanctions on Moscow. In an interview with Russian state television, Mr. Putin said the U.S. presence in Russia would be reduced by more than […]
7/30/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER: “By one measurement, last week was a good one for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law had been double-teaming for weeks to persuade him to oust chief of staff Reince Priebus, pushing for a new chief who could ‘professionalize the West Wing,’ according to multiple White House […]
7/30/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Don’t give up Republican Senators, the World is watching: Repeal & Replace…and go to 51 votes (nuke option), get Cross State Lines & more.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30, 2017 06:37am […]
7/30/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Susan Collins, one of three Republican senators who blocked the GOP’s health-care bill last week, on Sunday said President Donald Trump’s threatened cuts in payments to insurers would be ‘detrimental’ to America’s poor. The secretary of health and human services, meanwhile, was noncommittal about the payments and also declined to say […]
7/30/2017
NATIONAL DEBT/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY: “Republicans are leaving town for an August recess after a failed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. When they return in September, they’ll have just 12 working days to avert another big problem. In a letter to lawmakers Friday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the federal borrowing limit, or debt […]
7/30/2017
AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY: “President Donald Trump’s reservations about sending more troops to Afghanistan have triggered a new exploration of an option long considered unlikely: withdrawal. Unable to agree on a plan to send up to 3,900 more American forces to help turn back Taliban advances in Afghanistan, the White House is taking a new look at what […]
7/30/2017
HEALTHCARE/HHS/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TOM PRICE: “U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said on Sunday that it was his department’s job to follow the law on the Affordable Care Act, former President Obama’s signature domestic initiative known as Obamacare. Price, on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ was asked whether he would implement the Affordable Care Act as it […]
7/29/2017
LEBANON/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “Notice Regarding the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Lebanon On August 1, 2007, in Executive Order 13441, the President declared a national emergency with respect to Lebanon pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security […]
7/29/2017
LEBANON/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “Letter from the President to the Congress of the United States TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days of the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the […]
7/29/2017
CHINA/NORTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet… they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!” -Donald […]
7/29/2017
2016 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I love reading about all of the ‘geniuses’ who were so instrumental in my election success. Problem is, most don’t exist. #Fake News! MAGA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2017 06:15pm […]