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Republican lawmakers heartily rejected President Donald Trump‘s most recent plan for ending the ongoing government shutdown: getting rid of the filibuster rule. The shutdown is rapidly approaching the longest in American history, and Trump put forward his filibuster proposal Thursday night, ahead of Saturday’s looming deadline to pass a funding bill or risk more than [.].
President Trump and President Xi agreed to temporarily halt aggressive and retaliatory controls on trade and exports.
Nine months into the second Donald Trump presidency, a majority of Americans strongly oppose his hard-line crime-crackdown policies, including sending military forces into U. S. cities. Americans also, for the second year in a row, see crime as less serious.“Americans as a whole lean toward moderation in the use of law enforcement to combat crime,” and “now view national crime conditions more favorably than at any point in recent years,” according to two Gallup studies published Thursday. President Trump ran on reducing crime during the 2024 campaign, and, despite tremendous opposition from the left, and rather than funding initiatives to address the causes of crime, he has deployed the National Guard to several Democratic-led cities, while battling in court for the right to do so. The President repeatedly, and increasingly, cites the Insurrection Act, claiming he has the right to invoke it and saying that the courts would do nothing to stop him. READ MORE: ‘How Authoritarians Rule’: National Security Experts Blast Trump’s New Nuclear ‘Fear Show’“The clearest indication of Americans’ approach to crime fighting comes from a question asking whether more government money and effort should go toward addressing some of the societal problems that may lead to crime or toward strengthening law enforcement,” Gallup reported. “Currently, 67% favor focusing on ‘addressing social and economic problems such as drug addiction, homelessness and mental health,’ while 29% believe more resources should be devoted to ‘strengthening law enforcement.’”Gallup also reported that “Americans’ resistance to vigorous law enforcement is also evident in their opposition to deploying troops from either the National Guard or the U. S. military to control crime in U. S. cities.”Trump, in recent days, has threatened to send into U. S. cities not only the National Guard, but other branches of the Armed Forces.“I could send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, I could, say, send anybody I wanted,” Trump said on Wednesday. READ MORE: GOP Leader Erupts Over Democrat’s Effort to Fund SNAP Then Blocks BillOn Tuesday, Trump told reporters: “You know, people don’t care if we send in our military, if we send in our National Guard, if we send in Space Command, they don’t care who the hell it is.”“Really, we could do as we want to do,” he insisted. But according to Gallup, most Americans say the issue does matter to them. Reporting that “most U. S. adults oppose militarized responses to urban crime,” Gallup found that 60% of Americans “are against sending military troops to cities to control crime,” and “56% oppose sending National Guard troops to U. S. cities.”Gallup found a “broader public inclination toward moderate, preventive approaches to crime reduction over stringent sentencing and enforcement at a time when Americans are less concerned about the U. S. crime problem than they’ve been in recent years.”And Gallup is not alone in its reporting. Earlier this month, CNN reported that a CBS News-YouGov poll showed Americans “opposed Trump’s decision to deploy the Guard to US cities, 58%-42%. A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed they disapproved of Trump’s use of the Guard and federal law enforcement to reduce crime, 55%-42%. And NPR-Ipsos polling in recent weeks showed fewer than 4 in 10 Americans supported Trump’s decisions to deploy the Guard to Washington, DC, and Memphis, Tennessee.”READ MORE: Public Turns on GOP as Shutdown Fallout Deepens: Report.
President Trump said that Mr. Toyota would spend $10 billion creating car plants in six or seven US states.
A federal judge disqualified President Trump’s pick for chief federal prosecutor in Los Angeles from several cases after finding he is serving in the temporary post unlawfully. U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright. ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, should have left the position by the end of July, when…
“I’m looking forward to who presents themselves in 2028 and who meets that moment. And that’s the question for the American people.”.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is speaking out against a proposal from President Donald Trump to increase imports of beef from Argentina to help lower prices for consumers.
I’m sure it got no press but go to YouTube and check out the video President Trump posted on No Kings Day of himself wearing a crown, flying a fighter jet and dropping feces on protesters. Before Trump supporters laugh at these kinds of videos, maybe they could please try and imagine how they would feel [.].
As President Donald Trump continues to wield near-unchallenged influence over House Republicans, he’s reportedly joked behind the scenes about effectively holding the position of president and House speaker, two insiders revealed to The New York Times in its report Saturday.“I’m the speaker and the president,” Trump said jokingly, according to two insiders who spoke with the Times on the condition of anonymity. As of Saturday, the House has been in recess for 25 days, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refusing to reconvene the chamber until the Senate adopts a spending bill to fund the government and end the shutdown. The dispute centers on health care subsidies set to expire this year: Republicans have refused to extend them, while Democrats have resisted supporting any spending bill that omits an extension. Trump has voiced opposition to extending the subsidies to resolve the government shutdown, a position that Johnson has supported in refusing to budge on the issue, and despite growing divisions among Republican lawmakers on the issue. And it’s Johnson’s dedication to supporting Trump’s wishes, argued Times reporter Annie Karni in an analysis published Saturday, that could ultimately weaken the position of House speaker in years to come.“[Johnson’s] approach [is one] born of political expedience that could have far-reaching consequences for an institution that has already ceded much of its power to President Trump,” Karni wrote. “And Mr. Johnson, who without the president’s backing wields little influence over his own members, has chosen to make himself subservient to Mr. Trump, a break with many speakers of the past who sought in their own ways to act more as a governing partner with the president than as his underling. Mr. Johnson has done little in recent weeks to contest the point.”.
Trump’s Agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, told FOX Business that the administration plans to lower the price of beef by making Americans eat more beef. US farmers have been increasingly critical of the Trump administration over many issues, including the rising costs of beef due to his tariffs. They are furious with their plans to import beef from Argentina. Brooke Rollins’ solution is to tell Americans to eat more beef to lower prices. ROLLINS: We’re implementing new programs to allow younger ranchers to get into the business with cheaper loans, better protection, et cetera. We are with Newton-Maha, with Bobby Kennedy, and putting protein, specifically beef, back at the center of the American diet from the government’s perspective. And when you think about what we spend every day on nutrition programs from the USDA, it’s 400 million a day, pivoting some of that to specifically locally grown and produced and healthy, the best beef in the world. There was a time when Michelle Obama tried to make school lunches healthier for children, and Republicans had a meltdown over it. Telling your voters to ‘stuff their faces with more hamburgers if they want lower prices’ is not a winning message.
