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An overwhelming majority of academic economists say in a new survey that the Republican tax proposals would cause America's debt to grow by one critical measure. Thirty-seven of 38 experts surveyed by the University of Chicago's Initiative on Global Markets agreed that the GOP tax bills in Congress would cause U.S. debt to increase "substantially" faster than the economy.
Tyson Foods Inc. plans to build a new chicken production complex in Tennessee, a $300 million project that is expected to create more than 1,500 jobs when the facility begins operations in late 2019, the company said Monday. The new plant in Humboldt will produce pre-packaged trays of fresh chicken for retail grocery stores nationwide, the Springdale, Arkansas-based company said in a statement and a news conference.
Little more than a week ago I posted on the effort by Tennessee Senator Bob Corker to troll Donald Trump by holding a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Trump's authority to order a nuclear strike. Never mind that there is no nuclear war looming.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he's been having "very good discussions" with Republican senators who oppose or have concerns about tax-cut legislation expected to be voted on after Thanksgiving. Mnuchin tells "Fox News Sunday" that he wants to make sure the lawmakers' views are incorporated before the Senate vote.
Uncertainty gripped the Senate on Wednesday over efforts to pass a sweeping $1.5 trillion tax cut after a Wisconsin Republican became the first senator in his party to declare that he could not vote for the tax bill as written, and other senators expressed serious misgivings over the cost and effect on the middle class. The House is set Thursday to pass its own version of the tax bill, which would cut taxes by more than $1.4 trillion over 10 years and broadly rewrite the business tax code.
Some will remember that Ronald Reagan used to describe the GOP as a "big tent," meaning it had room for a large spectrum of approaches to government, from nearly liberal to arch conservative. Well, his alleged "big tent" certainly is "past tents."
The same logic that kept a nuclear war from breaking out between the United States and former Soviet Union is the best strategy to now pursue with North Korea, several scholars said Tuesday at Stanford. The panel, convened at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation , included political scientist Scott D. Sagan of CISAC; political scientist Mira Rapp-Hooper of Yale University; and political scientist Vipin Narang of MIT.
In this June 25, 2014, file photo, an inert Minuteman 3 missile is seen in a training launch tube at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. Here's a question rarely raised before Donald Trump ran for the White House: If the president ordered a pre-emptive nuclear strike, could anyone stop him? The answer is no. Not the Congress.
Alabama Republican Roy Moore sought Saturday to publicly shore up his continuing Senate bid despite a report that he had had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl and romantically pursued three other teenagers decades ago. Moore, speaking to the Mid-Alabama Republican Club in suburban Birmingham, again denied allegations of sexual misconduct as "completely false and untrue," saying they were an intentional attempt to derail his candidacy.
He's been dismissed as a "low-level volunteer" and just a "coffee boy," but former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos represented the Trump campaign at various meetings with foreign officials up until Inauguration Day. In October, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI "about the timing, extent and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials," according to court filings.
Sen. Jeff Flake criticized President Donald Trump for encouraging the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate his political opponents, telling CNN's "New Day" on Monday it isn't "normal" presidential behavior. "A lot of people are concerned about where we're going ... the vitriol that we now see daily, the kind of behavior that the President has exhibited, saying over the weekend, or on Friday, saying the FBI should go after the President's political adversaries," said the Arizona Republican, who has emerged as a fervent Trump critic.
Orrin Hatch of Utah, the Senate's senior Republican, assured reporters that special counsel Robert Mueller is “not gonna be fired by the president.” Asked why, Hatch replied, “Because I know him. He knows that'd be a stupid move, as far I'm concerned.” “Stupid move” is a vast understatement to describe the possible firing of Mueller, whose accelerating investigation into Russian interference in last year's election has already produced two indictments against former Trump aides and a guilty plea from a third.
I wasn't terribly surprised when we reported a few weeks ago that Mississippi Senate candidate Roy Moore is tied to the 'League of the South', the pro-Southern secession/slavery apologism group that wants to lead the South in a second rebellion against the federal government in order to found a 'white Christian republic.' But I confess I was a bit surprised that Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who is currently the leading Republican candidate to succeed Sen. Bob Corker, does too.
Top U.S. national security officials have warned congressional Republicans and Democrats demanding a new war authorization that existing laws governing combat operations against terrorist groups are legally sufficient and that repealing them prematurely could signal the United States is backing away from the fight. During testimony Monday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged Congress to tread carefully.
The best hope for passing new laws on health care, tax reform or infrastructure is for President Donald Trump to get out of the way. This odd reality is a direct result of the poisonous political environment in which our country now operates.
As President Donald Trump and Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., continue their public feud, both have seen an increase in their disapproval rating among Tennessee voters, according to a poll out of Middle Tennessee State University. Corker's disapproval rocketed to 41 percent, a 14-point increase from polling last spring.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., talks to reporters as he heads to the floor for a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., talks to reporters as he heads to the floor for a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017.