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President Donald Trump arrives via Air Force One at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. He stopped for a visit to the headquarters for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command before returning to Washington.
Once more, the Congressional Budget Office has warned that federal deficits will continue to rise until current laws are changed. But so far, President Donald Trump shows no signs of making the deficit a priority or of undertaking the hard bipartisan work that will be required to make the necessary changes.
Donald Trump is president in part because many Americans disliked his predecessor's habit of refusing to recognize the exceptional nature of our government and the American people. Too often, former President Barack Obama cited our nation's challenges - and there are many - in equating us with other, much more deeply flawed countries.
In Illinois, Lincoln's essential premise of "government of the people, by the people and for the people" has been corrupted into "government of the casinos, by the casinos, and for the casinos"-as exemplified by the new casino legislation in Senate Bill 7. In 2015, U.S. Congressional hearings highlighted that much of the Illinois bankruptcy was precipitated by $35 billion to $100 billion in giveaways since 1990 to gambling interests - diverting funds particularly away from essential education funding. For example, the original 10 Illinois casino licenses worth $5 billion were given away for only $25,000 each to political insiders, including one insider who thereafter went to prison.
This past weekend, we all saw massive public outrage in major cities throughout the country. It was directed at the Jan. 27 issuance of an executive order, signed by President Donald Trump, addressing immigration.
Judge Neil Gorsuch speaks as his wife Louise and President Donald Trump stand with him on stage in East Room of the White House in Washington after the president announced Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. People for the American Way claims he's an ideologue "far outside of the judicial mainstream who has a record of warping the law to serve the powerful over the interests and constitutional rights of ordinary Americans."
Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill at her Jan. 17 confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. DeVos's bid to become education secretary could be in trouble.
By any conventional measure, the Trump White House has been a train wreck from the moment it left the station. It's already put more than half the country, and world, on a war footing.
As regularly as the seasons of the harvest, the state Senate blocks New York's 100,000 field hands - the people whose backbreaking toil feed us - from having the same labor rights as everyone else. She is a freshman, in office barely a month.
If he didn't understand it previously, Trump certainly has learned his most dangerous political foes are not Democrats in Congress, but the vast federal bureaucracy. Among the new president's first actions was to order a freeze on hiring in the government, with the exception of the military.
Many Americans disagree with some or even all of President Donald Trump's policies and actions. Some of them have pulled out all the stops in their opposition, even to the point of making ethnic slurs against the first lady, Melania Trump.
I write to express vehement opposition and outright disgust of President Donald Trump's misguided executive order banning Muslims from seven countries in Africa and the Middle East. First, Republicans made a big deal that former President Barack Obama had an imperial presidency because he issued executive orders, bypassing Congress.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer holds up paperwork highlighting and comparing language about the National Security Council from the Trump administration and previous administrations, at the White House on Jan. 30. The Trump administration has launched a raft of ill-considered, reckless and wrongheaded foreign policy initiatives in its first two weeks, from banning entry by citizens of a country that is its partner in war to needlessly alienating the leaders of two of the closest U.S. allies . One thing Trump has decidedly not done, however, is downgrade the participation of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the deliberations of the National Security Council.
Do you think a diverse group of Americans could agree on one or two ideals if it searched for a unifying common principle? I'm afraid the answer is no. For millions of people to find solidarity on even one topic seems to be nearly impossible.
And with the defeat of many expansion opponents in last year's elections, there is a good chance a revenue-neutral bill could clear both chambers. But even if that happens, expansion still faces tough odds.
President Donald Trump's second week was more tumultuous than his first. His executive order halting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries caught travelers by surprise, as the president intended, and set off protests around the nation.
Americans are unhappy with the United States Congress. In fact, a 2015 Pew Research Center survey reported that only 27 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of congress.