The data is in. The Trump Tariffs have been highly deleterious to the American economy. Our farmers have had to be rescued with $28 billion in taxpayer aid. Business investment has slowed down to a crawl despite the incentive of the 2017 tax cuts. U.S. manufacturing has also seen a slow down since the middle…
Peter Hasson Former Defense Secretary James Mattis took repeated shots at President Donald Trump during the annual Al Smith Memorial Foundation dinner Thursday night. Mattis called himself the “Meryl Streep of generals” and poked fun at Trump’s draft deferments at the annual dinner, where speakers generally make jokes about politicians and political issues. Mattis drew laughs by…
Shelby Talcott The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to condemn President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from Syria. The White House announced Oct. 6 that Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the U.S. would be clearing out of northern Syria. The news sparked bipartisan backlash because it allows Turkey to invade Syria and go after Kurdish…
Audrey Conklin Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that the country will only end its offensive in northern Syria if Kurdish fighters withdraw, Reuters reported. Vice President Mike Pence is set to visit Ankara Wednesday to “voice the United States’ commitment to reach an immediate ceasefire and the conditions for a negotiated settlement,” a Tuesday press…
Audrey Conklin Former National Security Adviser John Bolton reportedly expressed concerns with pressuring Ukraine for political information, according to three people who heard testimony Monday from a White House aide. Bolton expressed concerns with the alleged efforts of EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, those who…
The 70-year global progress toward freer trade is permanently reversed so long as the Republicans hold the White House. That’s the message of the non-deal trade deal just announced between the U.S. and China. It’s a deal that reduces no existing tariffs and offers only symbolic changes in other terms that were already on the…
The resurgent efforts to impeach President Trump have him again falling back on a regularly-used trope: “Presidential harassment.” Since November 2018, the President has tweeted this saw dozens of times, typically when he is challenged or criticized. Most of the drumbeat against Trump since he became President has been partisan. The nature of this particular…
Audrey Conklin President Donald Trump said he reached “phase one” of a tentative U.S.-China trade deal after meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He Friday. The announcement comes amid a 15-month-long trade war involving back-and-forth tariffs, blacklists and threats to and from both countries as the administration attempts to hold China accountable for its trade tactics. The president told reporters in the Oval…
Over the past week, Trump has made an anti-war, or at least ‘anti-endless war’ sentiment a central focus of his messaging. He’s talked about wasted American dollars and wasted American lives. He’s at least hinted at the possibility of troop withdrawals (as opposed to merely re-positioning troops within the countries they’re already deployed in). These…
Shelby Talcotton Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham got duped by a prank phone call from two Russians and told them the Kurds were a “threat to Turkey” in August. Graham apparently thought he was speaking to Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar in the two phone conversations, according to Politico. In reality, he was giving…