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    Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Review Census Citizenship Case

    The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to hear a case on including a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Last week, federal Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York ruled the Census Bureau could not ask about citizenship. The judge ruled the question would lead to undercounting illegal residents…
    Fred Lucas
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    Supreme Court Upholds Trump Transgender Military Policy—for Now

    The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a limited ruling Tuesday on the issue of transgender people serving in the military. The narrow issue the high court decided on in the broader case of Trump v. Karnoski was whether to uphold a lower court’s injunction preventing the military from implementing the Defense Department’s…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Says Covington Boys Coverage Shows How ‘Evil’ Fake News Can Be

    President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that the Covington Catholic High School boys who were portrayed as the villains in a now-debunked media narrative have become a symbol of fake news. “Nick Sandmann and the students of Covington have become symbols of fake news and how evil it can be,” Trump tweeted. “They have captivated the…
    Molly Prince
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    Trump’s State of the Union Options

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given President Donald Trump an opportunity to change the dynamic of the State of the Union address, an event that has become predictable and often boring. It has featured members of Congress popping up and down like whack-a-moles, interrupting the president with applause if they agree with him, or stone…
    Cal Thomas
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    Pelosi Shuns Trump Offer to Swap Amnesty for Wall

    President Donald Trump offered to expand amnesty for certain young illegal immigrants in exchange for money to pay for a border barrier as a compromise to end the partial government shutdown. “This is a commonsense compromise both parties should embrace,” Trump said Saturday in a nationally televised speech from the White House. Democratic leaders have…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Must Go to the Mat Over Liberal Judge’s Ruling on Census Question

    A Manhattan district court judge earlier this week blocked the Trump administration from adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, and in doing so has sought to weaken executive power while strengthening the administrative state. The Trump administration has one choice here: Overturn this judicial overreach through appeal. The decision was biased and…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    The Left’s Extremism Will Continue to Drive Support for Trump

    What are Donald Trump’s chances for re-election in 2020? If history is any guide, pretty good. In early 1994, Bill Clinton’s approval rating after two years in office hovered around a dismal 40 percent. The first midterm elections of the Clinton presidency were an utter disaster. A new generation of younger, more conservative Republicans led…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Cancels Pelosi Travel to Push More Shutdown Talks

    President Donald Trump took action to keep House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in Washington just minutes before she was set to leave for Europe and the Middle East on a military flight. “Dear Madame Speaker: Due to the shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been…
    Fred Lucas
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    Right Side of History: These Presidents Were Tougher on the Media Than Trump

    “The Right Side of History” is a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events of America’s past. On this week’s episode, hosts Jarrett Stepman and Fred Lucas discuss the long history of presidential wars with the press. President Donald Trump sometimes uses caustic language…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump EPA Rejects Egregious Cost-Benefit Analysis of Controversial Rule

    For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has been issuing some of the costliest regulations in U.S. history, especially when it comes to its air pollution regulations. The EPA has moved forward with these regulations, even when there have been little to no benefits to achieving the stated objectives of the rules. If this meant there…
    Daren Bakst
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    Trump Once Again Places Blame for Shutdown on Pelosi, Schumer

    President Donald Trump placed the blame for the partial government shutdown at the feet of “Nancy and Cryin’ Chuck” in a tweet Monday. “Nancy and Cryin’ Chuck can end the Shutdown in 15 minutes. At this point it has become their, and the Democrats, fault!” he wrote. The government shutdown hit Day 24 Monday, setting a U.S….
    Evie Fordham
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    Trump Has a Strong Legal Argument That He Can Declare National Emergency at Border

    President Donald Trump has asked Congress for $5.7 billion to build a wall along the southern border. He has said that, if necessary, he may declare a “national emergency” and act unilaterally, and that he has the authority to do so. As is the case any time a president attempts to circumvent Congress and act…
    John G. Malcolm
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    Schumer’s Green Energy Subsidies Cost Much More Than Trump’s Wall

    The government is shut down over border wall funding, but only a month ago Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asked President Donald Trump to support billions in green energy subsidies. Schumer, a New York Democrat, in early December asked Trump to support “permanent tax incentives for domestic production of clean electricity and storage, energy efficient homes and…
    Michael Bastasch
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    Trump Shares Photo of ‘Strong and Beautiful’ Wall Design

    President Donald Trump shared an image of a “very high, strong and beautiful” portion of wall on the U.S. border with Mexico via Twitter Friday. “The Fake News Media keeps saying we haven’t built any NEW WALL,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Below is a section just completed on the Border. Anti-climbing feature included. Very high, strong and…
    Evie Fordham
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    Trump Calls for Halt of Funds for California’s Wildfire Recovery

    President Donald Trump released a statement on Wednesday via Twitter signaling he would order the Federal Emergency Management Agency to withhold funding for California’s wildfire recovery. The president cites previous funding as a “waste of money” because of the state’s recurring forest fires, which he attributes to poor state-level land management. “We should not be…
    Joshua Q. Nelson
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    What 3 Conservative Lawmakers Want Trump to Do on Wall, National Emergency

    A conservative lawmaker says Congress should appropriate money for a barrier along the southern border so that President Donald Trump does not feel forced to declare a national emergency in order to secure funding for it. “I think we should do [a border wall] legislatively. I think we should actually appropriate the dollars for a…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    ‘A Total Waste of Time’: Trump Walks Out of Wall Talks After Pelosi Again Refuses Funding

    The day after his nationally televised address on the need for a border wall, President Donald Trump on Wednesday brought candy to a meeting at the White House with Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress to hash out a solution to the partial government shutdown. But the meeting, held in the Situation Room, ended with…
    Fred Lucas
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    Rep. Dan Crenshaw Rebukes Democrat for ‘Cowardly’ Insult to Trump Supporters

    Republican Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw excoriated Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia on Sunday for degrading the Americans who voted for and support President Donald Trump. While giving a keynote address to the Atlanta NAACP on Jan. 1, Johnson repeatedly compared Trump to Adolf Hitler and painted Trump supporters as “older, less educated, less prosperous”…
    Molly Prince
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    Trump Says He Prefers Shutdown Deal, but Could Build Wall Without Congress

    President Donald Trump said he could build a wall along the southern border without Congress, but prefers a negotiated deal—one that he’s willing to keep part of the government closed to get, even if it takes months. “I could do it if I wanted,” Trump said Friday of completing a barrier at the U.S.-Mexico border,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Democrat Leader Jerry Nadler Distances Himself From Rep. Tlaib’s Comments on Impeaching Trump

    Democratic Party higher-up Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York distanced himself Friday from a new congresswoman’s comments on impeaching President Donald Trump, including calling him a “motherf—-r.” Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib promised to go after Trump and “impeach the motherf—-r” during remarks at a MoveOn rally in Washington, D.C., Thursday. “I don’t like that language. More…
    Evie Fordham
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