The Democrats just can’t seem to move on. Their first stage of grief – denial — seems to be lasting an eternity. On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton told one of her strongest supporters over at CNN, “If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president.”
The border wall — or the lack thereof — is the newest frustration with the Trump Administration. Will it get built? James Fite actually read the bill, and lays out the plan.
When President Trump revealed the broad strokes of his plan for tax reform on April 26th, he did not address the nation personally. Instead, he had two of his staff brief the press. Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin was joined by a man named Gary Cohn to present the outline of the president’s plan on taxes. Mr. Cohn is no friend of the working man, however. His presence at that podium is cause for concern for libertarians and conservatives alike.
Trump’s greatest failing so far has been his unwillingness to bend congressional Republicans to his will. For the sake of a second term, he will need to find a way to out-maneuver both parties in Congress. He will need to become even more anti-government.
Many people who were aghast at the idea of Hillary “Hack My Emails Please” Clinton in the Oval Office saw Donald Trump as the one who would preserve liberty. Trump himself claimed to value privacy, and took to Twitter to condemn the fact that his own affairs were spied on by the government before the election. But is he really in favor of the constitutional right to privacy, or is he furthering the surveillance state? And how have his actions as President in this first one hundred days lined up with his campaign promises on the privacy front?
The ongoing drama of Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (Ret) and his alleged past legal and ethical violations has exploded, generating more questions than answers for the Congress, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the White House.
Editor’s Note: This is part of Liberty Nation’s coverage of the 100-day mark of the Donald J. Trump administration.
President Trump has finally revealed the framework of his tax reform plan, courtesy of a press conference delivered Wednesday afternoon by Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn and Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin. They presented the tax proposal as the most significant piece of legislation since 1986.
Not content to abide by the law of the land, one Democrat is now actively trying to change it. Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) recently submitted a bill to Congress that essentially rewrites the 25th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.