POLITICS/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/ERIC TRUMP: “Eric Trump said Democrats who support the probe into his father’s campaign and Russia are ‘not even people’ and he has ‘never seen hatred like this.’ He also shared harsh criticism of the Democratic Party as a whole. ‘They’re imploding,’ Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Tuesday [6-6-17] night, adding: ‘They have […]
6/7/2017
CHINA/DEFENSE/FOREIGN POLICY: “China pushed back against a Pentagon warning about the Chinese military’s growing ambitions outside Asia, calling the U.S. report ‘irresponsible’ and saying China’s defense policy was aimed at safeguarding its sovereignty. In a new report on the Chinese military published Tuesday [6-6-17], the U.S. Defense Department said China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army, […]
6/7/2017
ECONOMY/NOMINATIONS/TREASURY/TRUMP PEOPLE/DAVID MALPASS: “The Trump administration’s nominee to be Washington’s top financial diplomat, ex-Bear Stearns chief economist David Malpass, will advocate an America-first revision of the world’s economic architecture when senators review his nomination Wednesday [6-7-17]. Mr. Malpass, a former senior official in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, has long been critical of […]
6/7/2017
SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Getting ready to leave for Cincinnati, in the GREAT STATE of OHIO, to meet with ObamaCare victims and talk Healthcare & also Infrastructure!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2017 07:17am […]
6/7/2017
FBI/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2017 06:44am […]
6/7/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Voters have a clear message for President Donald Trump: Stop tweeting. A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows the vast majority of voters, 69 percent, say Trump uses Twitter too much. Fifty-nine percent say the president’s use of Twitter is a bad thing, and even a majority of voters say Trump’s tweets hurt […]
6/7/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Republican senators are likely to keep a key Obamacare provision intended for people with pre-existing conditions as they craft their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The move, however, could infuriate conservatives in their own ranks and set up a showdown with the House of Representatives, perhaps endangering the entire […]
6/7/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before he took office, Donald Trump promised to roll back the reach of the federal government, saying that he would end the ‘regulation industry’ on the first day of his presidency. The effect has been immediate and dramatic: According to data compiled by POLITICO, significant federal regulation since Trump’s inauguration has slowed […]
6/6/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump – under pressure to cut back on 140-character cannonades – shot back Tuesday [6-6-17] morning with two tweets defending his use of social media and slamming ‘fake’ news organizations for trying to deny him his political sword and shield. ‘The FAKE MSM is working so hard trying to get […]
6/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS: “Mexico agreed to demands from the United States to cut exports of refined sugar, striking a deal on Tuesday [6-6-17] in a contentious trade negotiation that was closely watched as a prologue to talks on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. The dispute stemmed from complaints by American sugar refiners that […]
6/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump thrust himself into a bitter Persian Gulf dispute on Tuesday, taking credit for Saudi Arabia’s move to isolate its smaller neighbor, Qatar, and rattling his national security staff by upending a critical American strategic relationship. In a series of tweets, Mr. Trump said his call for an end […]
6/6/2017
POLITICS/TAXES: “For six years, Gov. Sam Brownback carried out a signature philosophy of cutting taxes and shrinking government across Kansas, a state dominated by his fellow Republicans. But on Tuesday [6-6-17] night, the state’s Republican-held Legislature overrode Governor Brownback’s veto of a bill that would undo some of the tax cuts he pushed. The state […]
6/6/2017
VETS: “Senate passed the VA Accountability Act. The House should get this bill to my desk ASAP! We can’t tolerate substandard care for our vets.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2017 08:07pm […]
6/6/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR/ERIC TRUMP/UK: “President Donald Trump’s sons are defending their father’s attack against London’s mayor over his handling of the recent extremist attack. In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, Donald Trump Jr. said London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan ‘should do something to fix the problem rather than just sit there and […]
6/6/2017
CABINET/DHS/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/JOHN KELLY: “At least one top Trump Cabinet official is bucking administration policy when it comes to oversight requests from Congress. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told senators on Tuesday during congressional testimony that his department will respond to any inquiry from members of Congress, no matter who sends the request. A May 1 […]
6/6/2017
GOP: “Great meeting with @HouseGOP and @SenateGOP leaders, including @SpeakerRyan, @SenateMajLdr, @GOPLeader, @JohnCornyn… https://t.co/G03W8CEtCS” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2017 07:06pm […]
6/6/2017
NIH: “Francis Collins will stay on as director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House said Tuesday [6-6-17]. Dr. Collins, a noted geneticist who once headed the government’s Human Genome project and served previously as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, is 67 years old. He had previously been a professor […]
6/6/2017
BORDER/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump floated putting solar panels on his planned Mexican border wall in a meeting with legislative leaders Tuesday [6-6-17] afternoon, according to White House and Capitol Hill officials. It was unclear why Trump brought up the topic, but he presented the panels as a way to fund the wall, which […]
6/6/2017
BUDGET/LOBBYING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A proposal in President Donald Trump’s budget to eliminate a regulator and cut government spending is drawing criticism from an unexpected source: Washington’s business lobby. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is expected to outline the administration’s plans for reducing spending at the agency at a budget hearing Wednesday [6-7-17]. One proposal put forth […]
6/6/2017
MILITARY: “Today we remember the courage and bravery of our troops that stormed the beaches of Normandy 73 years ago. #DDay… https://t.co/zhR24dMzYB” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2017 12:47pm […]
6/6/2017
CABINET/EDUCATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/BETSY DEVOS: “What exactly would a federal school voucher program look like, and would it fund schools that discriminate against students based on their gender, religion, race or sexual orientation? That question was a major flash point — once again — on Tuesday as senators in an appropriations subcommittee questioned U.S. Secretary of Education […]
6/6/2017
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR/ERIC TRUMP: “President Trump’s adult sons denied that their visit from the FBI about an attempted cyberattack had any effect on James Comey’s firing the next day. FBI agents met with Eric and Donald Trump Jr. May 8 to discuss a botched hack on the Trump Organization, which the two sons run […]
6/6/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/SEAN SPICER: “On Sunday night, the White House sent out its daily schedule — as it does every day. Except, one thing was different: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, rather than her ostensible boss, Sean Spicer, would be giving the daily press briefing on Monday [6-5-17]. The White House sought to play the substitution as a […]
6/6/2017
EPA/JOBS/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “The Environmental Protection Agency head said that the ‘coal sector’ added 7,000 jobs in May and ‘almost 50,000 jobs’ since the fourth quarter of last year. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports an increase of just 400 coal mining jobs in May and 1,300 since December. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt made […]
6/6/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NIKKI HALEY/UN: “The United States is expected to threaten to quit the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, with Nikki Haley, the American Ambassador to the U.N., set to deliver an ultimatum. Haley, who will speak to council members in Geneva, is expected to say the U.S. will leave the council […]
6/6/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/STEVE BANNON: “So much for the eclipse of the Steve Bannon wing of the Trump administration. Barely weeks ago, after President Donald Trump described his firebrand political guru in a Wall Street Journal interview as just ‘a guy who works for me,’ speculation was rife that Bannon was on his way out of the […]
6/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/SAUDI ARABIA/TERRORISM: “So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off. They said they would take a hard line on funding… extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/6/2017
CHINA/CLIMATE CHANGE/POLITICS: “California said it would cooperate with China on clean technology, emissions trading and other ‘climate-positive’ efforts in a bid to fill a gap left after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord last week. The government of California and China’s Ministry of Science and Technology will work together to […]
6/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “President Donald Trump asked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson not to let the ongoing political saga back home stand in the way of improving ties with Moscow, the top US diplomat said Tuesday [6-6-17]. Tillerson wouldn’t comment on the ongoing US probes of Russian meddling in the 2016 election ‘because I […]
6/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2017 07:06am […]
6/6/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “The FAKE MSM is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media. They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2017 06:58am […]
6/6/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Big meeting today with Republican leadership concerning Tax Cuts and Healthcare. We are all pushing hard – must get it right!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2017 05:51am […]
6/5/2017
CHINA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “The real estate company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to President Trump, is seeking $250 million to pay off its partners and lenders in a Jersey City apartment tower financed by Chinese investors through a program criticized as offering United States visas for sale. The family […]
6/5/2017
TRUMP BUSINESS: “On the campaign trail, President Trump’s children rolled through dozens of small towns across the country, reveling in the adoration of the crowds. But they were less enamored of the budget-friendly hotels along the way, an assortment of run-of-the-mill offerings that were barely distinguishable from one another. That led to a business idea. […]
6/5/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEAKS/RUSSIA: “An intelligence contractor was charged with sending a classified report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election to the news media, the Justice Department announced Monday, the first criminal leak case under President Trump. The case showed the department’s willingness to crack down on leaks, as Mr. Trump has called for in complaining […]
6/5/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump rebelled on Monday against his own advisers who ‘watered down’ his original executive order barring visitors from select Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States and who insisted on calling it something other than a travel ban. Returning to one of the issues that animated the early days of […]
6/5/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN: “That’s right, we need a TRAVEL BAN for certain DANGEROUS countries, not some politically correct term that won’t help us protect our people!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2017 08:20pm […]
6/5/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/POLITICS/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trump’s campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America. But more than four months into his presidency, Mr. Trump has grown sour on Mr. Sessions, now his attorney general, blaming him for various troubles […]
6/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “As President Trump strains alliances and relationships around the world, some of the nation’s top career diplomats are breaking publicly with him, in what amounts to a quiet revolt by a cadre of public servants known for their professional discretion. On Monday [6-5-17], the chargé d’affaires at the American Embassy in […]
6/5/2017
CHINA/CLIMATE CHANGE/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “David Rank, the chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, has left the State Department over the Trump administration’s decision to quit the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, a senior U.S. official said on Monday. A State Department spokeswoman confirmed Rank’s departure, but said she was unable […]
6/5/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump will not invoke executive privilege to block former FBI Director James Comey’s scheduled testimony before Congress this week, the White House said on Monday [6-5-17]. ‘In order to facilitate a swift and thorough examination of the facts sought by the Senate Intelligence Committee, President Trump will not […]
6/5/2017
FAA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, I announced an Air Traffic Control Initiative to take American air travel into the future – finally! ➡️… https://t.co/NIIorkSRJN” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2017 04:25pm […]
6/5/2017
FAA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration wants to turn over control of the nation’s skies to private business. President Trump announced plans Monday to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system, arguing that it is the best way to modernize the system. ‘We live in a modern age, but our air traffic control system is […]
6/5/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “Senate Republicans return to the daunting task this week of crafting a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — but both in private and in public, senators and their aides are expressing little sign of progress or reason for confidence that they can make good on their campaign promise. Behind the […]
6/5/2017
TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday [6-5-17], a day after attacking his handling of the weekend’s terror attack in the city. Trump, writing on Twitter Monday, said: ‘Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his *no reason to […]
6/5/2017
TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “George Conway, the husband of White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway and one-time top contender of a key Justice Department job, took to Twitter Monday [6-5-17] to criticize President Donald Trump for his morning travel ban tweets. Trump tweeted several times on the proposed travel ban from six Muslim-majority countries, saying […]
6/5/2017
INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS/RUSSIA: “House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Monday [6-5-17] it would be ‘very incriminating’ if the White House tried to block former FBI Director James Comey’s from testifying before Congress later this week. ‘There’s a possibility of obstruction of justice, flirting with it, in any event, coming out of the White House,’ Pelosi, appearing on […]
6/5/2017
SEC/SUPREME COURT: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday [6-5-17] scaled back the Securities and Exchange Commission’s power to recover ill-gotten profits from defendants’ misconduct, handing Wall Street firms a victory and dealing another blow to the regulator’s enforcement powers. In a 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court found that the SEC’s recovery remedy known as ‘disgorgement’ […]
6/5/217
AMBASSADOR/CABINET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump accused Democrats in the Senate of slowing the confirmation process for his appointees, including foreign ambassadors, even though Senate rules allow Republicans, the chamber’s majority party, to move appointees along without Democratic votes. ‘Dems are taking forever to approve my people, including Ambassadors. They are nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS! Want […]
6/5/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s tweets look nothing like the statements customarily made by commanders in chief. But they are the most direct window into the President’s thinking. So a new Twitter account is automatically transforming his social media outbursts into official-looking press releases from the White House. The bot checks Trump’s account every […]
6/5/2017
TERRORISM/UK: “Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his “no reason to be alarmed” statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2017 08:49am […]
6/5/2017
DEMS/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@foxandfriends Dems are taking forever to approve my people, including Ambassadors. They are nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS! Want approvals.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2017 08:35am […]
6/5/2017
NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump drew backlash last month after he did not explicitly endorse Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s founding document during his summit with NATO allies in Brussels. And it appears his own national security team was blindsided by it. The article, known as the collective-defense clause, stipulates that […]
6/5/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN: “In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S. in order to help keep our country safe. The courts are slow and political!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2017 05:44am […]
6/5/2017
DOJ/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN: “The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court – & seek much tougher version!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2017 05:37am […]
6/5/2017
DOJ/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN: “The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2017 05:29am […]
6/5/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN: “People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2017 05:25am […]
6/5/2017
CABINET/HUD/TRUMP PEOPLE/BEN CARSON: “Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is standing by his controversial comment that poverty is a ‘state of mind,’ but he says that ‘how a person thinks’ is only one component that contributes to being poor. ‘What I said is that it is a factor. A part of poverty can be […]
6/4/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “Hundreds of miles from the health care debate that will begin again this week in Congress, lobstermen here are out in force, bees are furiously pollinating the state’s famous blueberries and part-time workers are preparing for another summer tourist season. As a result of their short-term spike in income, many of Maine’s working class […]
6/4/2017
BUDGET/MILITARY/NUCLEAR: “When President Barack Obama’s term ended in January, he left a momentous decision to the Trump administration: whether to continue a 30-year, $1 trillion program to remake America’s atomic weapons, as well as its bombers, submarines and land-based missiles. Mr. Trump has pledged to overhaul the arsenal, which he has called obsolete. But his […]
6/4/2017
TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On one level, President Trump reacted to Saturday [6-3-17] night’s terrorist attack in London much as his predecessors might have. He expressed solidarity and telephoned Britain’s prime minister to offer condolences. ‘WE ARE WITH YOU,’ he wrote to Britons. But even as the investigation into the attack was getting underway, Mr. Trump […]
6/4/2017
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “It has offices in a sleek Manhattan skyscraper. Its bonds are accessible to millions of American investors. And it holds ties to some of New York’s biggest banks. Despite this presence on Wall Street, detailed in previously unreported financial records, Vnesheconombank, or VEB, is no normal bank. It is wholly owned by the Russian […]
6/4/2017
TERRORISM/UK: “Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they used knives and a truck!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 4, 2017 06:43am […]
6/4/2017
TERRORISM/UK: “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’ “ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 4, 2017 06:31am […]
6/4/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TERRORISM: “We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don’t get smart it will only get worse” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 4, 2017 06:19am […]
6/4/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE: “Former Vice President Al Gore expressed disappointment Sunday [6-4-17] over his failure to persuade President Donald Trump to keep the US in the Paris climate agreement. Gore said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ that Trump’s decision was a threat to humanity and bad for the US position in global politics. ‘I think […]
6/3/2017
TERRORISM/UK: “Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there – WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 3, 2017 06:24pm […]
6/3/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN: “We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 3, 2017 06:17pm […]
6/3/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “#WeeklyAddress?? https://t.co/DNzRZiKxhd” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 3, 2017 02:35pm […]
6/3/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “Despite announcing plans to pull out of the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump’s language and that of his EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, seem at odds with the actions he proposes taking. ‘We will be environmentally friendly,’ the President reassured. The next day, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator stood […]
6/2/2107
CIA/INTELLIGENCE: “The Trump administration has begun returning copies of a voluminous 2014 Senate report about the Central Intelligence Agency’s detention and interrogation program to Congress, complying with the demand of a top Republican senator who has criticized the report for being shoddy and excessively critical of the C.I.A. The Trump administration’s move, described by multiple […]
6/2/2017
CIA/FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN: “Now the official, Michael D’Andrea, has a new job. He is running the C.I.A.’s Iran operations, according to current and former intelligence officials, an appointment that is the first major sign that the Trump administration is invoking the hard line the president took against Iran during his campaign. Mr. D’Andrea’s new role is […]
6/2/2017
CABINET/EDUCATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/BETSY DEVOS: “Since her confirmation as the education secretary, Betsy DeVos has been the Trump cabinet member liberals love to hate, denouncing her as an out-of-touch, evangelical billionaire without the desire or capacity to protect vulnerable poor, black, immigrant, gay or transgender students. But while Ms. DeVos has been reluctant to express sympathy for […]
6/2/2107
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/UN: “China, North Korea’s only significant diplomatic ally, is opposed to Pyongyang’s missile launches and will support any new United Nations sanctions against the country, China’s Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday [6-2-17]. ‘We are firmly committed to the denuclearisaton of the peninsular and opposed to nuclear tests and missile launches by North […]
6/2/2017
DOJ/TRUMP PEOPLE: “George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, said he is pulling himself out of consideration for a Justice Department job. CNN had been told previously President Donald Trump was expected to nominate Conway to run the Justice Department’s civil division, which handles legal challenges to major administration initiatives. ‘I am […]
6/2/2017
CABINET/CLIMATE CHANGE/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “The State Department is declining to say why Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not attend President Donald Trump’s announcement that he was pulling the US out of the Paris climate agreement. A senior State Department official told CNN Thursday Tillerson wasn’t planning on attending because he had other business at […]
6/2/2017
DONALDISM: “#MakeAmericaGreatAgain?? https://t.co/eJxeVZ3A1r” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, 2017 01:30pm […]
6/2/2017
LGBTQ/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has yet to issue a proclamation for Pride Month, breaking a recent tradition that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender advocacy groups call ‘deeply disappointing’ but not entirely surprising. June is historically recognized as LGBT Pride Month. Former President Barack Obama issued a federal proclamation every year dating back to […]
6/2/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump invoked the people of Pittsburgh to defend his climate change decision Thursday [6-1-17], and the city’s mayor bristled in response. Explaining his choice to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, Trump said: ‘I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.’ Pittsburgh’s Democratic Mayor […]
6/2/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s administration filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday [6-1-17] night seeking to reverse rulings by lower courts in Hawaii and Maryland that blocked a temporary ban on travel to the United States from six majority-Muslim countries. The Trump administration says the Constitution gives the president […]
6/2/2017
SECRET SERVICE: “The Secret Service is relaxing its drug policy for potential hires, as its new director, Randolph Alles, laid out a plan to swell the agency’s ranks by more than 3,000 in the coming years. Speaking Thursday to reporters in his first press briefing since his appointment, Alles, 38 days into his new job, […]
6/2/2017
JOBS: “The nation’s 1,800 government-run prisons are struggling with an acute staffing shortage that state officials say is fueling violence against corrections officers and worsening conditions for inmates. Over two weeks in April, five guards were assaulted and one killed by inmates at two rural prisons in North Carolina, where roughly one out of six […]
6/2/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/POLITICS: “A day after President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord, states and cities around the country are vowing to adhere to their own aggressive climate policies, independent of the federal government. Twenty states and Washington have adopted their own greenhouse gas emission targets, according to the Center for […]
6/2/2017
CUBA/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump likely will fulfill a campaign promise this month by curbing some of the ties with Cuba that former president Barack Obama adopted when he made his historic overture to the communist island. Trump threatened during campaign stops in the Cuban-American enclave of Miami to cut ties with Cuba. After […]
6/1/2017
STATE/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of State Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 7(a) of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-45) (the “Act”), I hereby determine that it is necessary, in order to protect the […]
5/31/2017
OIL/POLITICS: “The Trump administration ordered a review of oil reserves and production on Alaska’s vast public lands, an early step in potentially opening more areas of the state to drilling—including the now-protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed the order Wednesday [5-31-17] in Anchorage, Alaska. The move is likely to add to […]
6/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA: “Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday [6-1-17] that ‘patriotically minded’ private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year to help the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump. While Mr. Putin continued to deny any state role, his comments to reporters in […]
6/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/UK: “Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party, ridiculed on Thursday [6-1-17] a published report that suggests United States investigators think he may be able to shed light on any possible collusion between Russia and Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign. Mr. Farage was responding to an article in The Guardian newspaper […]
6/1/2107
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/WOMEN: “The Trump administration has drafted a sweeping revision of the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate that could deny birth control benefits to hundreds of thousands of women. The new rule, which could go into effect as soon as it is published in the Federal Register, greatly expands the number of employers and insurers […]
6/1/2017
DEVIN NUNES/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was strongly criticized on Thursday [6-1-17] by the panel’s ranking Democrat for refusing to give up his subpoena power over the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election less than two months after announcing he would step away from the inquiry. The chairman, Representative […]
6/1/2017
CLIMATE CONTROL/ENERGY/FOREIGN POLICY/POLITICS: “Leaders from around the world maintained a defiant front on Thursday [6-1-17] after President Trump announced that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. President Emmanuel Macron of France, speaking in French before switching to English, said he believed Mr. Trump was making a mistake. He then extended an […]
6/1/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/POLITICS: “President Trump announced on Thursday [6-1-17] that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, weakening efforts to combat global warming and embracing isolationist voices in his White House who argued that the agreement was a pernicious threat to the economy and American sovereignty. In a speech from the Rose Garden, […]
6/1/2017
DONALDISM: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 1, 2017 08:00pm […]
6/1/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/ISRAEL: “President Trump signed an order keeping the American Embassy in Tel Aviv rather than move it to Jerusalem as he promised during last year’s campaign, aides said Thursday, disappointing many Israel supporters in hopes of preserving his chances of negotiating a peace settlement. Aides said the decision was just a delay and that […]
6/1/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “Senate Republicans set on reworking the Affordable Care Act are considering taxing employer-sponsored health insurance plans, a move that would meet stiff resistance from companies and potentially raise taxes on millions of people who get coverage on the job. The move could raise billions in revenue that could be used to help stabilize the […]
6/1/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “We’re already feeling impacts of climate change. Exiting #ParisAgreement imperils US security and our ability to own the clean energy future” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 1, 2017 4:21 pm […]
6/1/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My job as President is to do everything within my power to give America a level playing field. #AmericaFirst?? ➡️… https://t.co/hL7OwbWzyi” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 1, 2017 05:50pm […]
6/1/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE: “As President, I can put no other consideration before the wellbeing of American citizens. The Paris Climate Accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers — who I love — and taxpayers to absorb […]
6/1/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “When President Donald Trump pulled out of a 12-country free-trade accord in January, it upended the plans of banker-turned-entrepreneur Rose Tran in Vietnam. Ms. Tran had raised $50 million to set up a suit factory in Ho Chi Minh City, betting on the increased access to markets like the U.S. that […]
6/1/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Join me live at the @WhiteHouse. ➡️https://t.co/9VOb99W42r https://t.co/sjb5VHLHYH” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 1, 2017 02:03pm […]