President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that is intended to provide more options for people shopping for health insurance. The president invoked his power of the pen after repeated Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, have failed. “The competition will be staggering,” Trump said. “Insurance companies will be […]
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President Trump Finally Visits Puerto Rico
President Donald Trump has arrived in Puerto Rico where he will tour the island, two weeks after Hurricane Maria carved a path of destruction across the island. The president said he will meet with Federal Emergency Management Agency and military officials, first responders and the people of Puerto Rico. Additionally, he said the governor of […]
North Korea Attacks US Air Craft Carrier In Propaganda Video
Doctored pictures and video showing US aircraft bombarded by a Pukguksong missile have been released by North Korea. The images were from a state-owned propaganda site, DPRK Today and released hours after US Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers, despatched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam flew close to North Korea’s east coast. The bombers […]
Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions On Travel Ban
The Supreme Court agreed late Tuesday to lift restrictions on President Trump’s travel ban until further notice, allowing the administration to continue barring most refugees under the ban. The court granted the government’s request to block a federal appeals court ruling that said the administration cannot ban refugees who have formal assurances from resettlement agencies or are in the U.S. Refugee […]
Mattis Publicly Contradicts President Trump On North Korea
Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday contradicted President Trump’s latest comment about abandoning diplomacy with North Korea, during a meeting with his South Korean counterpart. When asked about it, Mattis rejected the idea that the U.S. was ready to take talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un off the table after the North’s ballistic missile […]
Trump Is In Texas To View Damage And Destruction Of Hurricane Harvey
Thanking local government officials and emergency response leaders in Texas Tuesday for their actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, President Donald Trump stopped short of offering his “congratulations” for a job well done, saying that there is still work left to do. “We won’t say congratulations. We don’t want to do that. We don’t […]
Democrats Launch Investigation Into Gov’t Spending At Trump Businesses
How is Washington spending tax dollars that might benefit President Trump? Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee want to count the ways. The committee’s 18 minority members sent letters on Tuesday to the 15 cabinet departments and nine independent executive branch agencies, requesting documents on their spending at “businesses owned by or […]
Trump Endorses Legislation To Cut Legal Immigration In Half
WASHINGTON — President Trump backed a sweeping plan Wednesday to halve legal immigration to the United States, flanked by the two Republican senators who crafted the bill. “As a candidate I campaigned on creating a merit-based immigration system,” Trump said. He added that the legislation, called the RAISE Act, would be the “most significant reform […]
Boy Scouts Officially Apologize For President Trump’s Speech To Members
The head of the Boy Scouts of America apologized Thursday to the organization’s members, telling them that the group did not intend to showcase the “political rhetoric” in President Trump’s speech to the National Jamboree earlier this week. “I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by […]
Vote Fraud Commission Releases Names And Email Addresses Of Dissenters
The presidential commission investigating alleged election fraud has released 112 pages of unredacted emails of public comment, raising further privacy concerns amid a legal challenge to the panel’s request for sensitive voter data. In many cases, the emails, which are largely critical and often mocking of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity led by […]
Trump Falsely Claims Higher Approval Ratings Than Obama
President Donald Trump unleashed a series of tweets Sunday morning, touting a poll that showed him with a 50% approval rating, which he said was higher than his predecessor. The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating.That’s higher than O’s #’s! But […]
Trump Will Not Use Executive Privilege To Block Comey’s Testimony
President Trump does not plan to invoke executive privilege to try to block former FBI Director James Comey from testifying before Congress next week, The New York Times reports, citing two senior administration officials. Trump could still move to block Comey’s testimony, the Times reported, noting the president’s history of changing his mind on decisions […]