When Johnathan Smith resigned from the U.S. Justice Department on Inauguration Day, he looked forward to spending time with his infant son, but that plan unraveled a week later when President Donald Trump unveiled his explosive foreign travel ban. Within two weeks, Smith had a new job as legal director of civil rights group Muslim
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New NAFTA Deal Still Being Worked Out By Trump Administration
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Sunday the Trump administration has yet to determine what the trade agreement replacing NAFTA will look like. “One size doesn’t fit all,” Ross said in an exclusive interview on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “The issues of automotive are not the same as the issues of agriculture; they’re not the same
Majority optimistic that Trump will make U.S. prosperous
A majority of Americans are optimistic that President Donald Trump can do a good job of making the country prosperous, but they are divided on whether he can improve energy policies, and most think he will do a poor job of protecting the environment. On all three issues, Americans are less optimistic about Trump than
GOP must come together on ObamaCare replacement
Sean Hannity, It’s time to break down the GOP’s “American Health Care Act” and determine whether it is really is going to work for the American people. And it is time to hold Washington accountable. Let’s go back to 2009, when President Obama told a room full of lawmakers “Elections have consequences.” He didn’t know
An angry doctor’s plea: Stop bickering and fix the ObamaCare mess
Dr. Kevin Campbell, One of the biggest issues of the 2016 election was the state of health care in the U.S. Republicans ran on a platform of repealing and replacing a failing ObamaCare system. Democrats touted ObamaCare as an overwhelming success. Neither party has really addressed the issues surrounding the law—patients are experiencing higher costs,
Text of ObamaCare replacement bill coming this week
Top Republican lawmakers plan to release the text of their bill to replace ObamaCare this week, a GOP aide told Fox News late Sunday. The aide said staffers met with Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Friday to resolve outstanding issues with the bill. Health care committees from both houses of Congress
Picture catches Clinton reading newspaper story about Pence emails
Hillary Clinton, whose 2016 White House bid was set back by an email controversy, was seen in a photograph taken Friday intently looking at a newspaper story about Vice President Pence’s email issues. Clinton while sitting in an airplane appears to be looking at a front-page story in USA Today about Pence’s controversy. The photographer
In Politics, Silence Can Be Golden
Bob Barr, In July 2009, Harvard Professor Henry Gates, Jr., an African American, was arrested by Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, who is white, following a heated interaction between the two men. The incident should have gone largely unnoticed as a local, isolated incident in which both men shared equal blame for allowing a trivial
Bryan Dean Wright: I’m a Democrat and it’s time for our party to apologize to America
Bryan Dean Wright, Now that President Trump has delivered his State of the Union-style address, my fellow Democrats are settling in for a long fight. Our new DNC Chairman Tom Perez is leading the charge, promising to be a “nightmare” for the president and his fellow Republicans. The reason is clear: Mr. Perez tastes political
How Donald Trump Became My Favorite Conservative Leader
Caleb Parke, As I look back on my first time attending CPAC in 2012 to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, I can’t help but think how much the landscape has changed. It wasn’t until the 2008 campaign that I really got involved in politics. After the GOP chose Sen. John McCain for their nominee,
A Glimpse into the Minds of Millennial Conservatives
Meleana Moore, Millennial conservatives are of much debate these days, namely on college campuses, as their liberal classmates view them with disdain. However, these young and determined conservatives won’t stand down. Many believe millennials to only be focused on social issues, but upon interviewing several millennials from different areas of the country at CPAC this past weekend,
Wilbur Ross confirmed as Commerce secretary
The Senate voted Monday to confirm billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as secretary of commerce in President Trump’s Cabinet. Ross was approved by a vote of 72-27, with 20 Democrats and Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, joining 51 Republicans to vote “aye.” Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., did not vote due to his ongoing recovery from back surgery.