President Trump’s approval rating has neared 50 percent heading into the 2020 election year, according to a Hill-HarrisX poll released on Monday. Forty-nine percent of Americans surveyed said they approve of the president’s job performance, up from 46 percent from the previous Dec. 8-9 poll. Fifty-one percent said they disapprove, a drop from 54 percent […]
Category: Executive
Trump Officially Averts Shutdown With Spending Bill
President Trump on Friday signed two spending packages totaling $1.4 trillion, averting a government shutdown at midnight. The bills included all 12 annual appropriations bills for the 2020 fiscal year that started Oct. 1. They also included a slew of tax cuts, extending expiring and expired tax breaks and eliminating other taxes that amount to […]
Trump Accepts Pelosi’s State Of The Union Invitation
Amid the impeachment battle on Capitol Hill and a potential Senate trial beginning in January, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi extended an invitation Friday to President Donald Trump to deliver the State of the Union address on Feb. 4. A short time later, the White House issued a short statement saying the president “has accepted the […]
Trump Sends Pelosi Scathing Letter Telling Her To End Impeachment
On the eve of an expected historic vote in the House of Representatives to impeach him, President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent an extraordinary personal six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi railing against what he calls an “illegal, partisan attempted coup.” “I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to […]
White House Refuses To Participate In Impeachment Hearing
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Monday the White House’s refusal to participate in Wednesday’s impeachment hearing is a sign that President Trump has something “to hide.” “The American people deserve transparency,” Nadler said in a statement. “If the President thinks the call was ‘perfect’ and there is nothing to hide then he […]
President Trump Changes Story On Rudy Despite Released Transcripts
President Donald Trump said that he did not direct his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to travel to Ukraine on his behalf, despite telling Ukraine’s president earlier this year that he should talk to Giuliani. Asked in a radio interview that aired Tuesday whether he directed Giuliani “to go to Ukraine to do anything or put […]
China Warns Trump After He Signs Pro-Hong Kong Bill
China on Thursday warned it would retaliate against the U.S. after President Trump signed legislation offering support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The Chinese Foreign Ministry threatened to take “firm counter measures” in response to the move and said the U.S. should consider the consequences of China’s retaliation if it continued to “act arbitrarily.” […]
Trump Continues To Keep Key Witnesses From Testifying
Witnesses pointed their fingers at a number of figures close to President Trump who could help untangle the web around the administration’s dealings with Ukraine during the public impeachment hearings. But Democrats won’t be hearing from them. The White House has prevented the president’s chief of staff, his former national security adviser, budget officials and […]
Trump Signs Short Term Spending Bill To Avert Shutdown
President Trump on Thursday signed a funding stopgap measure just hours ahead of a shutdown deadline, extending funding levels from the last fiscal year until Dec. 20. The measure, which passed in the Senate earlier Thursday and in the House on Tuesday, bought Congressional negotiators an additional four weeks to hammer out a deal on […]
Trump Dismisses Explosive Testimony
President Trump on Wednesday said that he didn’t know U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland “very well” and that Sondland’s ongoing testimony Wednesday means that the House impeachment inquiry should be “over.” Reading from a packet of notes, Trump reenacted a conversation he had with Sondland that was described in testimony, with the […]
Trump Says He Will “Strongly Consider” Pelosi’s Written Deposition Offer
President Trump on Monday said he will “strongly consider” giving written or in-person testimony in the House impeachment inquiry, despite his repeated refusal to cooperate with the investigation thus far. Trump responded to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) suggestion on “Face the Nation” a day earlier in which she said the president could “come right before […]
Trump Defends Tweets Attacking Impeachment Witness
President Trump on Friday defended his tweet earlier in the day attacking former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in the middle of her public testimony in the House impeachment hearing, insisting he has the right to speak out. “I have the right to speak. I have freedom of speech just like other people do,” […]