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    Despite Stern Warning From Trump, Conservatives Continue to Oppose Obamacare Replacement

    House conservatives are holding their ground in opposing the GOP’s health care bill, even after leaders made additional changes to the plan in an attempt to find middle ground and President Donald Trump delivered a stern warning to the conference Tuesday morning. Republicans released their changes to their health care bill Monday night, which were…
    Melissa Quinn
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    Before Trump Called for Cuts in This Government Program, Obama Did

    The president’s budget called for slashing funding for a block grant program primarily because it was difficult to determine whether it was getting the desired results. That was President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2012. It justified the 7.5 percent reduction in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant program…
    Fred Lucas
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    Transportation Reforms Take to the Fast Lane in Trump Budget

    Following on his pledge to eliminate wasteful and inappropriate federal programs, President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint delivers when it comes to the Department of Transportation. Trump’s budget blueprint shears the Department of Transportation’s discretionary budget by $2.4 billion—some 13 percent—by slashing some of its most egregious programs. Although most of the department’s funding is classified as…
    Michael Sargent
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    Trump Budget Plan Curbs Federal Intervention in Higher Education

    The Trump administration’s proposed budget blueprint for 2018 significantly cuts waste in federal higher education spending. For decades, the federal government has increased spending on higher education programs with not much to show for it—other than higher tuition prices. Today, American students and taxpayers are in bad shape when it comes to college costs. The…
    Mary Clare Amselem
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    Trump to Dismantle Obama Climate Legacy, Lawmaker Says

    President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order dismantling the previous administration’s climate legacy, according to Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. Inhofe told The Daily Signal that Trump will eradicate the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan next week. “What you’re going to see next week is he’s going to take this power plan…
    Morgan Walker
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    Sharyl Attkisson on Trump Surveillance Claims: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Outside Realm of Possibility’

    Veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson said Thursday it’s possible President Donald Trump is right about government surveillance. “I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility, especially considering The New York Times and USA Today reported that there was wiretapping going on of some of his top people,” Attkisson told “Fox & Friends.” Attkisson, who…
    James Rogers
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    Why Trump’s Visit to Andrew Jackson’s Grave Matters

    On Wednesday, Andrew Jackson’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump is scheduled to lay a wreath on the seventh president’s grave. He will be the first president since Ronald Reagan to visit Jackson’s home in Nashville, Tennessee. While a seemingly small gesture to a president who had been quickly fading in the minds of Americans, Trump’s visit…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Conservatives Concerned About Trump and GOP Senate’s Slow Pace on Nominees

    During his Cabinet meeting Monday, President Donald Trump opened by saying, “We have four empty seats, which is a terrible thing.” Trump said it’s “because the Senate Democrats are continuing to obstruct the confirmation of our nominees,” the administration is lacking secretaries of labor and agriculture, a director of national intelligence, and a U.S. trade representative….
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Finds an Unlikely Defender on Wiretapping: Dennis Kucinich

    President Donald Trump received some unlikely support this week when Dennis Kucinich, a former congressman and two-time Democrat presidential candidate, said that he had been subject to wiretapping under the Obama administration. “I can vouch for the fact that extracurricular surveillance does occur, regardless of whether it is officially approved,” Kucinich wrote in an op-ed…
    James Rogers
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    Trump Meets With Obamacare ‘Victims’

    On Monday, President Donald Trump met with Americans described by the White House as “victims” of Obamacare to hear their stories. In what the administration called a “listening session,” Trump referred to the Affordable Care Act as the “very, very failed and failing Obamacare law” as he heard from citizens in the Roosevelt Room who…
    Caleb Ecarma
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    How Trump Is Performing on His Promises Halfway to First 100 Days

    President Donald Trump this week threw his support behind a House Republican plan aimed at repealing and replacing Obamacare. While it’s not yet to the liking of everyone in his party, a health care proposal was a key pledge candidate Trump said would be part of his first 100 days in office. “The president is…
    Fred Lucas
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    Conservatives Find Willing Negotiating Partner in Trump, Not in Speaker Paul Ryan, on Obamacare Repeal

    Conservatives in the House and Senate may have come out swinging against Republican leadership’s plan to replace Obamacare, but the skeptical lawmakers stress that they’re ready to negotiate. So far, conservatives seem to have found a willing negotiating partner in President Donald Trump, though the president and his administration have endorsed the House GOP’s Obamacare…
    Melissa Quinn
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    Son, Brother of American Hostages in Iran Pleads for Trump’s Help

    From a distance, Baquer Namazi taught—and showed—his sons how to see the best in people, and to help the needy. A former Iranian governor, Baquer fled Iran after the 1979 revolution and emigrated to the U.S. in 1983. In the U.S., Baquer started a long career with UNICEF, serving posts in Egypt, Somalia, and Kenya….
    Josh Siegel
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    Permanent Federal Bureaucracy Leads Opposition to Trump Agenda

    Leaks from the White House seem to indicate a bureaucratic push against President Donald Trump and his administration, some government watchdogs have said. “How do you conduct business when you think you’re being spied on, with good reason,” @NLPC says. “There is a level of paranoia in the White House, but even paranoids can have…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Administration Taking the Fight to al-Qaeda in Yemen

    The Trump administration has escalated the long-standing U.S. counterterrorism campaign in Yemen, a failed state that has slipped into anarchy amidst a multi-sided war. In recent days, the Pentagon has launched over 40 airstrikes against leaders and bases of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, regarded by U.S. intelligence officials as the most dangerous of al-Qaeda’s…
    James Phillips
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    GOP Senators Urge Trump to Veto Bills With Earmarks

    In light of a recent attempt by Congress to bring back earmarks, a group of Republican senators sent a letter Tuesday to President Donald Trump urging him to help fight against congressional special-interest spending. Republican Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain of Arizona, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas,…
    Caleb Ecarma
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    Trump Surveillance Allegation Could Trace to Reported Court Order

    There isn’t yet a paper trail, but there is a potential press trail to follow on President Donald Trump’s claim of surveillance by the Obama administration. Still, there’s a question about whether this action was illegal and whether the former president directed it—as Trump asserted in a series of tweets Saturday. “President Trump is onto…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Signs Revised Travel Ban Targeting ‘Foreign Terrorist Entry’

    President Donald Trump on Monday signed a revised version of his executive order to impose temporary travel restrictions on residents of six countries the Obama administration and Congress had designated as posing risks of terrorism. The new order addresses many of the concerns that followed Trump’s announcement of the original directive five weeks ago. Federal…
    Josh Siegel
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    Anti-Trump Former Journalist Charged With Threatening Jewish Community Centers

    A man arrested and charged with issuing threats against Jewish establishments has been identified as an anti-Trump journalist previously fired for falsifying news stories. ABC News reported that 31-year-old Juan Thompson, a St. Louis resident, is charged with making a minimum of eight threats across the country targeting Jewish community centers, schools, a Jewish civil rights organization, and…
    Caleb Ecarma
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    Trump Is Right to Support Venezuela’s Opposition

    Lilian Tintori understands the Venezuelan regime for what it is: corrupt, criminal, and evil. Her husband, Leopoldo López, was stripped of his political rights when President Hugo Chávez saw the potential and dangerous competition that he posed. Eventually this led to Leopoldo’s investigation and his current imprisonment, which has been ongoing for three years now….
    Jackson Ventrella
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