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Don’t Use the Farm Bill to Make Up for Trade Mistakes

An already bloated farm sector wants even greater subsidies to compensate for foreign retaliation against the president’s tariffs  Read more

How Congressional Republicans Have Neutered the Trump Agenda

Not one major piece of legislation has been taken up that ideologically reflects Trumpism rather than Republican orthodoxy  Read more

GOP starts push for Senate rules change to speed up Trump nominees

Republicans on Wednesday will begin a push to change Senate rules in a way that would allow the faster confirmation of President Trump's nominees, after months of complaints that Democrats are dragging out the process  Read more

Sessions Declines to Recuse Himself From Probe Into Trump Lawyer

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen  Read more

Federal judge orders complete restart of DACA

A federal judge delivered another blow to President Trump’s attempt to roll back the Obama-era DACA program, ruling Tuesday that last year’s revocation was illegal and the entire program could have to be restarted  Read more

His Nomination in Peril, Jackson Fights for VA Post

His nomination in peril, Veterans Affairs nominee Ronny Jackson fought Tuesday to convince lawmakers of his leadership abilities as more details of accusations against him emerged  Read more

Supreme Court seems headed toward upholding Trump's third try at a travel ban

The Supreme Court's conservative justices sounded ready Wednesday to uphold President Trump's travel ban as a national security measure  Read more

Rand Paul Steals the Pompeo Show

Kentucky senator reversed his opposition to Trump’s secretary of state pick and helped move him out of committee  Read more

Macron blinks on Iran nuclear deal, wants to work with Trump on ‘new deal’

French President Emmanuel Macron told President Trump on Tuesday that he wanted to work on a “new deal” with Iran, opening a pathway to address Iran’s nuclear ambitions without ripping up the current agreement  Read more

America’s Unsustainable Empire

Before President Trump trashes the Iran nuclear deal, he might consider: if he could negotiate an identical deal with Kim Jong-un, it would astonish the world and win him the Nobel Peace Prize  Read more

Trump, Ryan, and the American Character

Nice-guy politics isn’t around anymore — it was gone long before Trump came on the scene  Read more

Trump hides good things from view

If Trump can’t find a way to tone his rhetoric down, neither he nor his ideas will get credit, no matter how excellent the results he achieves  Read more

Trump tells border officials to block migrant caravans from entering US

President Trump announced Monday he has directed the Department of Homeland Security to block large groups of migrants who have begun to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border and apply for asylum as refugees from Central America  Read more

Romney falls short in Utah GOP convention, forced into primary for Senate seat

Utah Senate hopeful Mitt Romney was narrowly defeated at Saturday’s state GOP convention and will be forced into a June primary, a setback in his political comeback bid  Read more

Trump aide urges Congress to pare back bipartisan spending deal

Congress needs to consider rolling back the spending deal that U.S. Republicans brokered with Democrats last month, because lawmakers voted to enact the $1.3 trillion legislation without reading it, an aide to President Donald Trump said on Sunday  Read more

Dems prove sore losers

Who said the Democratic Party is out of ideas? After failing to raise any significant money with the wall-to-wall hysterical coverage networks like CNN have afforded Dems, they are moving their efforts over to Court TV  Read more

Confirm Mike Pompeo to fill the void at State

Though Trump nominee's hawkish views are troubling, they are not sufficient reason to block his confirmation to be secretary of State  Read more

Democrats' lawsuit is a risky publicity stunt

The Democratic Party filed a RICO lawsuit against Trump campaign officials, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, the Russian Federation, and specific Russian officials  Read more