Even before he took office, President Donald Trump was already securing major policy wins. Trump’s election induced the Biden administration to withdraw two pending regulations that would have canceled over $250 billion in federal student loans, without congressional approval. Biden officials judged that they did not have enough time to finalize the loan cancellation plans […]
It may seem euphemistic to describe President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address as “uncompromising.” It will have struck many as merely crude and characteristically unpleasant. Hard-hitting, it certainly was. Trump portrayed the past four years as marked by “horrible betrayal,” “vicious weaponization,” and a “corrupt establishment.” But it is simplistic to think the moment at […]
It may seem euphemistic to describe President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address as “uncompromising.” It will have struck many as merely crude and characteristically unpleasant. Hard-hitting, it certainly was. Trump portrayed the past four years as marked by “horrible betrayal,” “vicious weaponization,” and a “corrupt establishment.” But it is simplistic to think the moment at […]
President Donald Trump has returned to the White House with a long national security to-do list. It starts with shoring up the U.S.-Mexico border while ridding the nation of criminal migrants who entered in significant numbers under former President Joe Biden. But Trump’s second term has no time to waste on more traditional matters of […]
President Donald Trump signed over 200 executive orders on Monday, his first day in office. “With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense,” Trump said in his second inaugural address. While some of the orders will fail, such as the one ending birthright citizenship, and some […]
PITTSBURGH — Despite a ceremony held in the center of wealth and power, Monday’s inauguration of President Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States was the people’s inauguration. Erin Koper, a one-time Democrat who gave a speech about crime at the Republican National Convention last summer, said it was a day filled […]
