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Trump Has Glossed Over High Prices

March 2, 2025 at 10:54 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump promised during the campaign to lower prices on day one of his presidency. But with costs still high, Republicans are worried the same economic factors that helped Trump win the election could come back to bite him if inflation remains stubborn,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“In his frequent public appearances and social-media posts, Trump is more likely to talk about federal workers, diversity programs and foreign policy than the price of eggs. That is a contrast from last year’s presidential campaign, when Trump, urged by his advisers, made high costs a centerpiece of his bid to retake the White House.”

“Republicans, who still pin the blame on Trump’s predecessor, say voters have been willing to give Trump some leeway to enact his agenda—but they warn that goodwill might not last.”

Filed Under: Economy

Barrage of Executive Orders Overwhelms Opponents

March 2, 2025 at 8:45 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump has signed more than 75 executive orders to start his second term, spurring about 100 lawsuits so far. For now, most of the orders have survived,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The flood has overwhelmed opponents and forced courts to work overtime to try to keep up. That was by design.”

“Trump’s closest advisers, including deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, spent years crafting a playbook to avoid a repeat of the infighting and disorganization that defined the early months of Trump’s first term.”

Matteo Wong: It feels like it’s chaotic on purpose.

Filed Under: White House

Kremlin Says U.S. Now ‘Largely Aligns’ with Moscow

March 2, 2025 at 8:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration’s rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia, laid bare in the Oval Office confrontation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is bringing Washington into alignment with Moscow, the Kremlin said Sunday — a shift that could upend the geopolitics that have governed international relations since World War II,” the Washington Post reports.

“Moscow’s vision, which has focused on a push to reclaim influence over much or all of the former Soviet Union and defeat liberal democracy, has made Russia a pariah to the West.”

Axios: Russia gloats about shift in U.S. relations with Ukraine.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs


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RFK Jr. Urges Vaccinations for Measles

March 2, 2025 at 8:36 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advocated for the MMR vaccine on Sunday in response to a growing measles outbreak in Texas,” Axios reports.

“Kennedy has a long record of sowing skepticism about vaccines and last week appeared to downplay the situation in Texas when he described such outbreaks as ‘not unusual.’”

Filed Under: Health Care

Democrats Invite Fired Workers to Trump’s Address

March 2, 2025 at 8:35 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Rather than boycott President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, some Democratic lawmakers are inviting former federal workers to the speech on Tuesday as a way to protest the mass firings and funding cuts that have defined Mr. Trump’s first month back in office,” the New York Times reports.

Filed Under: Democracy, White House

How Trump Is Crushing U.S. Climate Policy

March 2, 2025 at 8:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In a few short weeks, President Trump has severely damaged the government’s ability to fight climate change, upending American environmental policy with moves that could have lasting implications for the country, and the planet,” the New York Times reports.

“With a flurry of actions that have stretched the limits of presidential power, Mr. Trump has gutted federal climate efforts, rolled back regulations aimed at limiting pollution and given a major boost to the fossil fuel industry.”

“He is abandoning efforts to reduce global warming, even as the world has reached record levels of heat that scientists say is driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels. Every corner of the world is now experiencing the effects of these rising temperatures in the form of deadlier hurricanes, floods, wildfires and droughts, as well as species extinction.”

Filed Under: Environment

Zelensky Would Meet With Trump If Invited Back

March 2, 2025 at 8:29 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he’s willing to meet Donald Trump if the US president invites him again “to solve real problems,” adding his country is ready to accept a minerals deal that was put on hold last week, Bloomberg reports.

Said Zelensky: “We are worthy of an equal dialog.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Trump No Longer Considers Russia a Cyber Threat

March 2, 2025 at 2:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration has publicly and privately signaled that it does not believe Russia represents a cyber threat against US national security or critical infrastructure, marking a radical departure from longstanding intelligence assessments,” The Guardian reports.

Gizmodo: “It appears that the U.S. no longer considers Russia a significant cyber threat, according to multiple new reports on a drastic policy reversal that has taken hold under the new Trump administration.”

“The policy shift represents a complete 180-degree turn from America’s posture over the past decade, which has consistently considered Russia one of the top cybersecurity threats. Credible reporting and government investigations have shown that Russia has hacked into U.S. systems countless times.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workers

March 2, 2025 at 12:43 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off at least 7,000 people from its workforce of 60,000,” the AP reports.

“The workforce reduction, according to a second person who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, could be as high as 50%.”

Filed Under: White House

Quote of the Day

March 2, 2025 at 12:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.”

— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), on CNN.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

GOP Piles on Trump’s Zelensky Hostility

March 2, 2025 at 12:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and others in the GOP chided Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday following a heated Oval Office meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance on Friday, Axios reports.

Johnson said that Zelensky needs to “come to his senses” and return to the negotiating table “in gratitude, or someone else needs to lead the country to do that.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Israel Signals Hardened Stance Toward Hamas

March 2, 2025 at 12:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Israel’s decision to cut off humanitarian aid to Gaza for the first time in more than a year signals a renewed zero-tolerance attitude toward Hamas after the group rejected a US-led proposal to extend a ceasefire,” Bloomberg reports.

Said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “If Hamas thinks the ceasefire can continue without our hostages being released, they are very wrong. There will be no free lunches.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Anonymous Again

March 2, 2025 at 11:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Miles Taylor was famously ‘Anonymous’ in the New York Times. Now he’s anonymous at his former position at the Department of Homeland Security,” Politico reports.

“A plate commemorating Taylor’s service as chief of staff at DHS has been removed from a plaque that shows each successive chief of staff for DHS and their term of service since its 2002 founding.”

Filed Under: White House

Ron and Casey DeSantis Have Breakfast with Trump

March 2, 2025 at 11:37 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife, Casey — who is rumored to be eyeing a run for governor — were spotted having breakfast with President Trump at his golf club this morning, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Trump has already endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds.

Filed Under: 2026 Campaign, White House Tagged With: FL-Gov

Americans Evenly Divided on Trump

March 2, 2025 at 11:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new CNN poll finds President Trump slightly underwater, with 48% of the country approving of his job performance and 52% disapproving.

By a 6-point margin, Americans (especially young people) say his policies are moving the country in the wrong direction, and by a 12-point margin, they say he hasn’t had the right priorities.

A new CBS poll has some better numbers for Trump, 51% approval vs. 49% disapproval.

Filed Under: White House

Democrats Rage at Their Own Party

March 2, 2025 at 11:27 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Furious Democrats filled Republican town halls across America last week to protest President Donald Trump’s power grab in Washington,” the AP reports.

“But in recent days, the activists behind those protests have turned their anger toward elected officials in their own party, who they believe are not fighting the Republican president and billionaire adviser Elon Musk with the urgency, aggression or creativity that the moment deserves.”

Filed Under: Democrats

The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky

March 2, 2025 at 11:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jonathan Chait: “In recent years, the kinship between Trump and Putin has become somewhat unfashionable to point out. After Robert Mueller disappointed liberals by failing to prove a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, conventional wisdom on much of the center and left of the political spectrum came to treat the scandal as overblown.”

“But even the facts Mueller was able to produce, despite noncooperation from Trump’s top lieutenants, were astonishing. Putin dangled a Moscow building deal in front of the Trump Organization worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and Trump lied about it, giving Putin leverage over him…. The pattern of cooperation between Trump and Putin may not have been provably criminal, but it was extraordinarily damning…”

“Zelensky had no good options at the White House. He walked into an ambush with a president who empathizes with the dictator who wants to seize Ukraine’s territory. Everyone who spent years warning about Trump’s unseemly affinity for Putin had exactly this kind of disastrous outcome in mind.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Only Half of Americans Back Ukraine

March 2, 2025 at 10:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new CBS News poll finds 52% of Americans back Ukraine in the war with Russia, while 4% back Russia and 44% are neutral.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

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