The United States celebrates National Beer Day on Monday. While you may think this is just another arbitrarily made-up holiday, April 7 commemorates one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s earliest and most successful New Deal policies combating the Great Depression of the 1930s. Roosevelt promised “bold, persistent experimentation” and he followed through on that pledge. […]
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend criticized Democrats who protested at President Trump’s joint address to Congress by holding up signs, arguing the visuals “are not landing.” Democratic lawmakers held up signs during Trump’s address that read various statements including, “False,” “Save Medicaid,” and “Musk Steals.” In a post on X, Sanders Townsend likened the circular...
Most people watching President Trump’s first joint address to Congress approved of his speech according to snap polls. Seventy-six percent of people approved of the president's remarks, while 23 percent disapproved as reported Wednesday in CBS News and YouGov survey results. Forty-four percent of speech watchers viewed Trump’s remarks as somewhat positive, according to CNN’s...
Greenland Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede again pushed back on President Trump's proposal that the U.S. acquire the Arctic island, claiming in a post early Wednesday that "Greenland is ours." Egede denounced Trump's claims during his joint address to Congress that the U.S. would take over the territory owned by Denmark "one way to another,"...
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) opened up about the moment he was escorted out of the House chamber Tuesday evening, saying he protested at President Trump’s joint address to Congress because “he needs to save Medicaid.” Speaking with reporters in the Capitol after being removed from Trump's speech, Green said he was protesting the president’s sweeping...
America’s real power is the ideas that it exports, the culture it projects and the future it continues to invent. As long as America keeps leading in these areas, its influence isn’t going anywhere.
In today’s issue: President Trump used a sweeping 100-minute address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday to rally Americans behind his tariff-and-tax-cuts plan for the economy while blaming former President Biden for inflated egg prices, a surge of illegal migrants and escalating deficits. Forty-three days into his second term, Trump delivered his own report...
President Trump’s freeze on U.S. aid going to Ukraine threatens to create severe problems for Kyiv in its war against Russia, leaving the country more vulnerable to aerial attacks on population centers and key infrastructure. Experts predict the pause could be felt within a matter of weeks, depending on its scope. “In terms of...
President Trump’s plan for a strategic crypto reserve has stirred mixed feelings within the cryptocurrency industry. The digital assets space has largely welcomed Trump’s mission to boost the industry, which faced heavy regulatory scrutiny under the Biden administration. But his recent announcement to form a cryptocurrency reserve with assets other than bitcoin — the most...
Firings, buyouts and restructuring across the federal government are hitting the Department of Justice (DOJ), even as it seeks to defend the Trump administration’s actions amid a flurry of lawsuits. DOJ lawyer Josh Gardner said during a hearing last week that DOJ’s Federal Programs Branch has been “cut in half” since November, even as it...
President Trump on Tuesday evening revealed that the U.S. had apprehended a “top terrorist” involved in the 2021 bombing at Kabul airport‘s Abbey Gate in Afghanistan that killed 13 American service members and at least 170 Afghan civilians. “Tonight, I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that...
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D) slammed the start of President Trump’s second term in office in the Democratic response to his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. In a roughly 10-minute speech, Slotkin laid out her view that most Americans share three main beliefs: the middle class is the “engine” of the...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) should be censured for his “shameful” protest during President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. The comments from Johnson came minutes after Trump wrapped up his speech, during which Green was removed from the House chamber after his disruptive display. “Absolutely shameful....
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