During a roundtable event at 180 Church in Detroit, Michigan, former President Donald Trump reiterated his promise that his administration would not tax tips. Speaking to a restaurant owner during the event on Saturday, Trump assured that if re-elected, his administration would exempt tips from taxation for service industry workers like waiters, waitresses, and car
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Sergio Gor, the long-time Communications Director for the Senate office of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), announced on Wednesday that he is joining the Trump presidential campaign as the new Chief of Staff to the campaign’s Finance Committee. “Thrilled to be joining Team Trump as Chief of Staff to Trump Victory Finance Committee,” he wrote on
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Libertarian Party Chairman Nicholas Sarwark bragged about the prospect of a potential presidential bid by Rep. Justin Amash (L-MI) handing Biden a win in Michigan in November in an interview with Detroit News on Wednesday. “Based on how [Gov. Gary] Johnson did in New Mexico, if the last Michigan contest was decided by 10,000 votes,
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has suggested that President Trump remains largely alone in the Republican Party in his push to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, in an interview with Breitbart News which was published on Tuesday. “I think the president is sincere when he says he wants to end these long wars,” Paul stated. “He
MorePresident Donald Trump tore into the Democrats’ proposal for a Green New Deal during his “totally off script” speech at CPAC on Saturday. “The ‘new green deal’ or whatever the hell they call it. The new green deal, right? I encourage it, I think it’s really something they should promote,” Trump proclaimed to the packed
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Vice President Mike Pence chose to use his Friday speech at CPAC in order to summarize Trump’s record of success as President of the United States. “Under President Donald Trump, working Americans are winning again. The forgotten men and women of America are forgotten no more,” Pence declared. Pence then went on to list Trump’s
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demonstrated his loyalty to the President by publicly backing Trump’s Syria withdrawal, despite reportedly privately disagreeing with it beforehand. “The U.S. efforts under President Trump in Syria have had extraordinary success. We’ve taken away more than 90 percent of the ISIS caliphate. … We will continue to keep the homeland
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was decried for attempting to mend fences with Senate leadership shortly after winning his seat as a tea party firebrand. He became colleagues with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in a move that infuriated many conservative activists as well as his father’s radical libertarian supporters. But it seems like Sen. Paul’s
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Sen. Rand Paul’s wife, Kelley, is currently waging a press campaign to stop the extremism of the Democratic Party that threatens the foundation of our Republic. She attempted to plead with Sen. Cory Booker (R-NJ), the angry thuggish Senator from Newark who urged his minions to harass and terrorize his political opposition, to call the
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Neoconservative Senator John McCain (R-AZ), a nemesis of President Donald Trump, received boos at Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership Summit when his name was mentioned by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as an individual who derailed Trump’s Obamacare repeal efforts. “The reason we didn’t repeal is because we have six or seven Republican senators who
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Today’s big announcement from the Trump administration was a shake-up in the state department. Former CIA director Mike Pompeo replaced Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, but a smaller change in the state department may have broader ramifications for the refugee resettlement program. Andrew Veprek was recently appointed to be Deputy Asst. Secretary of State
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President Trump announced on Twitter Tuesday that he dumped his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. “Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the
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Raucous cheers of “USA, USA, USA,” flowed through the crowds at President Donald Trump’s Saturday-night rally to support Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The speech was quintessentially populist, or rather, “Trumpian,” free flowing, direct, braggadocious, and sometimes quite humorous. Trump then took time to critique a recent piece by Peggy Noonan
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President Trump deserves applause for boosting the prospects for this county’s forgotten manufacturing workers, notably in steel and aluminum. Democrats lately have neglected these Americans. Hillary Clinton barely campaigned among them in Michigan in fall 2016, and she thoroughly ignored them in Wisconsin. Alas, Trump is doing this all wrong. He likely will hurt the very
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The purpose of this article is to objectively examine trade policy and its impact on the economy. While there will be discussion of government policy, our review is not negatively nor positively inclined towards any particular administration. During the presidential campaign trail, then Candidate Trump stated that he’d renegotiate trade deals to stop other countries
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President Trump warned Canada and Mexico that tariffs on metal such as steel and aluminum will only “come off” if the nations reach a deal on a new trade agreement with the United States. “We have large trade deficits with Mexico and Canada. NAFTA, which is under renegotiation right now, has been a bad deal for
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President Donald Trump has indicated that he will pursue gun control measures following the massacre in Parkland, FL, but one of his top supporters in Congress has a much different idea for reform. He has filed the “SAFER Voter Act” to empower more law-abiding citizens to be able to carry firearms. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)
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Thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Republicans are on a roll. So, why is President Donald Trump praising a gas-tax hike to finance his infrastructure plan? Despite House Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi’s complaints that the GOP tax-rate reductions are “Armageddon, “crumbs,” and — as of Tuesday — “unpatriotic,” Americans are growing fond of tax reform. Tax-relief promises
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In what has become a grim routine, some sickeningly look to capitalize on the mass outpouring of anger and grief following mass shootings to push a political agenda – namely, the implementation of so-called “common-sense” gun control. Debates on the issue, much like the recent town-hall discussion hosted by CNN, regularly devolve into kangaroo courts
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Rep. Devin Nunes took the stage today at the Conservative Political Action Conference to discuss the new memo released by Rep. Adam Schiff this afternoon. The new memo is intended to attack Nunes’ work in exposing surveillance of President Donald Trump with phony intelligence. Nunes claimed that he wanted the Schiff memo to be released
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White House budget director Mick Mulvaney spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday. He described the economic deregulation being enacted the Trump administration and the sea change taking place in Washington D.C. “The optimism among American business has never been higher,” Mulvaney said. He claimed that the amount of economic progress made by
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Nigel Farage joined the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday afternoon to address the event in a speech. This was his third CPAC, and he praised the event organizers for having him yet again. Farage frequently stressed during his speech that the good things in life take time and are worth fighting for. It took
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Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser believes that President Trump’s tax overhaul could bring positive changes to the country, particularly for the job sector. Kaeser asserts that more jobs will be created from the tax cuts due to companies having more money to spend on innovation and expansion. “That’s why I’ve been congratulating the American president for
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President Trump slammed TV legend Oprah Winfrey on Sunday evening as “insecure,” saying he hopes for the chance to “defeat” the billionaire businesswoman at the ballot box. “Just watched a very insecure Oprah Winfrey, who at one point I knew very well, interview a panel of people on 60 Minutes,” President Trump tweeted late Sunday. “The
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President Donald Trump is fighting back against a disloyal top aide once again— this time national security adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster. McMaster told an international audience that the proof of Russian meddling in the 2016 American election is beyond dispute. Trump tweeted late Saturday that McMaster ignored many details. “General McMaster forgot to say that the
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President Trump will make security within the nation’s schools a “top administration priority,” Vice President Pence stated Saturday in a speech in Dallas. The vice president didn’t go into specifics at the event held by the America First Policies group, which supports Trump’s agenda. But he stated the president — who has said psychological issues are
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There’s plenty to hate about last week’s GOP surrender on the federal budget. According to Citizens Against Government Waste, this nearly $300 billion extravaganza is “a 14 percent annual spending increase over current levels.” This exceeds 2017’s 2.1 percent inflation rate nearly seven-fold. Even worse, this spend-o-rama avoids structural reforms to limit, or even reverse, the
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Fabricio Alvarado, a socially conservative nationalist, has won the first round of the Costa Rican presidential election with 25% of the vote, according to provisional results. He narrowly beat progressive candidate Carlos Alvarado, who won 22% of the vote. Carlos Alvarado and Fabricio Alvarado are now set to go on to the second round, which
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President Trump’s long-awaited infrastructure plan requires selling off federal government interests in the two main Washington, DC, area airports. Ronald Reagan Washington National and Dulles International airports have been targeted for potential divestiture under the plan released Monday. “The Federal Government owns and operates certain infrastructure that would be more appropriately owned by State, local,
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Donald Trump Jr.’s spouse was rushed to a Manhattan hospital Monday when she opened an envelope addressed to her husband that had a mysterious white powder inside — which turned out to be cornstarch, law enforcement sources informed The New York Post. Vanessa Trump opened the envelope — postmarked from Boston — at 10 a.m.
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White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Sunday mentioned the Trump administration will roll out a budget on Monday that will include funds to construct the president’s long-promised wall alongside the Mexican border. He mentioned the plan would come with $3 billion for the barrier and a contingency for $25 billion over two years if
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Trump’s latest real estate venture – space. The Trump administration is proposing ending federal financing of the International Space Station to permit private business to take over funding the orbiting laboratory, according to the Washington Post. After a transition period, the federal government would cease direct financing after 2024, the newspaper stated, citing NASA documents.
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Two recently declassified documents offer chilling details on how deeply Department of Justice and FBI leaders intervened in the 2016 election, to advance Hillary Clinton and stymie Donald J. Trump. GOP senators Charles Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina penned a,January 4 criminal referral against former British spy Christopher Steele. A January 18 memo by House
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President Trump wants to celebrate the troops with an enormous, beautiful military parade through Washington D.C. The Pentagon and White House officials are in discussions to carry out a grand event this year that includes soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the streets of the nation’s capital to spotlight America’s armed forces, the Washington Post reported
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President Trump continued lashing out at critics of a controversial memo that aimed to shoot holes in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, mocking the highest Democrat on a House committee as “Little Adam Schiff” and calling him certainly one of Washington’s “biggest liars and leakers.” “Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher
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House Republicans charge that the FBI used info from a file on Russia’s supposed links to President Trump to obtain a warrant to spy on a former Trump aide without disclosing that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid for it. “The ‘dossier’ compiled by Christopher Steele on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary
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President Trump on Friday will “probably” give Congress the OK to release a memo that accuses the feds of illegally spying on one of his ex-advisers, a senior administration official stated Thursday. The official stated the choice was made after the president and White House officials examined the memo over the previous few days
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In a stellar State of the Union, President Trump was firmly in control Tuesday evening as he addressed leaders in all three branches of government. Trump offered specific ideas on immigration, national security, and — for terminally ill patients — an urgent “Right to Try” experimental, possibly life-saving drugs. He also invited Democrats to collaborate
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President Trump illicited boos from Democrats when discussing his proposal to limit immigration during Tuesday evening’s State of the Union. “The fourth and final pillar protects the nuclear family by ending chain migration — under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives,” Trump claimed. “Under our
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U.S. President Donald Trump says he would take a “tougher” angle towards Brexit negotiations than the strategy now being utilized by British Prime Minister Theresa May. Britain is getting ready to depart European Union in March 2019. The complicated negotiations have moved slowly and May’s Cabinet appears divided over how best to separate Britain from
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President Trump is making a behind-the-scenes push to release a classified House Intelligence Committee memo – regardless of Justice Department warnings that doing so could be “extraordinarily reckless.” Trump’s interest in making the memo public was conveyed Wednesday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, in response to a report within the
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President Trump reportedly ordered that special counsel Robert Mueller be fired in June however backed off from the controversial move when the White House chief counsel threatened to resign, it was revealed on Thursday. The episode has come to the attention of Mueller as he interviews numerous White House officials through the probe into
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In addition to being a leftist icon, President Lyndon B. Johnson was an extraordinary vulgarian and a rabid racist. Prior to the passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act, he is said to have told fellow Democratic power players that the bill would initiate a liberal golden age in which “those niggers” would be
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Steve Bannon dressed down President Trump’s daughter Ivanka within the early days of the administration, reminding her that she was simply one other staffer within the White House. “My daughter loves me as a dad,” Bannon informed Ivanka, based on Howard Kurtz’s ebook, “Media Madness: Donald Trump, The Press and the War Over the Truth.” “You love
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The White House traded salvos with Senate Democrats Saturday as each side dug into opposing positions as the first day of the federal government shutdown dragged on. “[Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer is going to have to up his game and become more honest with the president of the United States,” Office of Management
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President Trump trolled the 200 women’s marches held around the world Saturday by saying protesters should support his agenda. “Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March,” he tweeted at 1:51 p.m. “Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken
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The Senate didn’t approve a temporary spending bill in a tense standoff late Friday evening — forcing an embarrassing government shutdown on the eve of the first anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration. Last-minute negotiations failed because the stopgap funding measure fell well short of the 60 Senate votes needed to maintain the federal government in operation.
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The federal government shutdown is a present from Democrats, President Trump joked amid a string of early Saturday tweets, pinning blame for the stalemate on Democrats and pushing for more Republicans to be elected. “Democrats are far more concerned with Illegal Immigrants than they are with our great Military or Safety at our dangerous Southern Border. They
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Senate Democrats stated Thursday that they had sufficient votes to stiffle a GOP short-term budget deal — increasing the probability of a government shutdown as Friday’s midnight deadline loomed. A senior Senate Democratic aide informed the Washington Post it was “almost certain” spending extension doesn’t have the votes to pass the upper chamber. The Democrats need the bill to
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While the Democratic Party hopes to capitalize on its victory in the Alabama special election to win back control of the Senate, the sheer number of seats they must defend, especially in states won by President Trump in 2016, makes the prospect of wresting back control of the Senate a significant challenge at best. Heading
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