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It’s the Republicans Who Can’t Pass Healthcare and Tax Reform
Trump wrote on Twitter that the Senate should change its long-standing rules and ‘switch to 51’ votes to pass health-care changes and to vote on a tax bill instead of working to get 60 votes to end a potential filibuster. But the Senate is already trying to pass health-care and tax changes with just 51 […]
Continue readingTrips to Mar-a-Lago line Trump’s pockets | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
In 2015, Trump said he would “rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done.” Now, he is golfing and visiting a Trump-branded property every few Continue reading on the Arizona Daily Sun website: Trips to Mar-a-Lago line Trump’s pockets | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
Continue readingParis Agreement
Withdrawing from the Paris agreement would be a global embarrassment and a gross abdication of American leadership. Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress support the agreement, as well as some of President Trump’s cabinet members. Thanks in large part to the Obama administration’s leadership, more than 195 nations signed on to the Paris climate […]
Continue readingThe Latest on Trump/Russia
News broke last Friday that the President’s son-in-law and close advisor, Jared Kushner, is under scrutiny by the FBI for attempting to set up a back channel to Russia. That news received so much attention that some may have missed that Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has also become a focus of Congressional investigations. Important […]
Continue readingSenators Demand Answers on Emoluments Compliance
Eight U.S. Senators — all Democrats — have signed a letter demanding that the President and the Trump Organization answer questions pertaining to profits they are deriving from Donald Trump’s occupancy of the Presidency. The Constitution, in two places, prohibits such profiteering while the President is in office: Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the […]
Continue readingCall, Email, Fax: Trump Must Go
Trump is a danger to the country. He has shown that he has no understanding of important aspects of his job and he is reckless with classified information. Even conservative columnists are calling him a “child” whose brain works like “six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar,” and who should be removed by the exercise […]
Continue readingMontini: Revealing – in 2 words – how Trump’s voter fraud commission IS a fraud
EJ Montini: This isn’t about preventing non-citizens from voting. It’s about preventing citizens from voting Source: Montini: Revealing – in 2 words – how Trump’s voter fraud commission IS a fraud
Continue readingTrump’s Tax Plan DOA
Arthur Laffer in 1974 sketched a curve meant to illustrate his theory that cutting taxes would spur enough economic growth to pay for the tax cut. More than 40 years after those scribblings, Trump announced a “yuge” tax plan that revives the so-called Laffer curve. Mr. Trump’s advisers argue that deep cuts in corporate taxes […]
Continue readingStay Woke
Be Informed: This six-minute video is worth watching. What it doesn’t make clear is Russia’s interest in propping up Assad, namely that Russia’s only naval base in the Mediterranean is on Syrian territory and Syria and Iran are Russia’s only allies in the oil-rich Middle East. We have no idea what the motivation for this […]
Continue readingMeals on Wheels a Lifesaver
March 18, 2017 – Arizona Daily Sun I feel pretty strongly about lots of things in the Trump Budget. But the one that really hit hard, the one that shocked me and then made me cry and continues to make my blood boil was Meals on Wheels. My mother lived alone in a small Iowa […]
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