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At Least One Promise Kept

April 24, 2017 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

David Frum: “Obamacare remains the law of the land. So does NAFTA. Tax reform exists only as pixels in a tweet. Infrastructure ain’t happening. Five months after the Republicans won united control of Congress and the presidency, it seems uncertain whether one-party Washington can avoid a government shutdown over a budget dispute.”

“Yet as Day 100 of his presidency nears, President Donald Trump can take credit for one huge accomplishment, an accomplishment more central to his election campaign than any of the unfulfilled pledges above. Illegal immigration into the United States has slowed dramatically. The Department of Homeland Security reports that illegal crossings across the southern border plunged 40 percent in the first month of the Trump presidency, the steepest decline in illegal migration since the recession of 2009. Illegal immigration by family groups with children has dropped by over 90 percent.”

Bonus Exchange of the Day

April 24, 2017 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump was interviewed by the Associated Press:

AP: Can I ask you, over your first 100 days — you’re not quite there yet — how do you feel like the office has changed you?

TRUMP: Well the one thing I would say — and I say this to people — I never realized how big it was. Everything’s so (unintelligible) like, you know the orders are so massive.

Democrats Head to Campaign School

April 24, 2017 at 10:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

NBC News: “If an anti-Donald Trump wave is coming, House Democrats want to be ready to catch it. So they’re sending hundreds of operatives to school in a massive training operation that they say is bigger and starting earlier than anything the party has attempted before. Over 1,300 aspiring campaign managers, field directors, and finance chiefs have so far enrolled in what the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is calling ‘DCCC-University.’”

“Sessions are scheduled in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, North Carolina in coming weeks, as well as online, open to anyone who applies.”


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GOP Worried Trump Will Drag Down 2018 Ticket

April 24, 2017 at 9:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Republicans say President Donald Trump needs to turn things around fast — or the GOP could pay dearly in 2018,” Politico reports.

“With the party preparing to defend its congressional majorities in next year’s midterms, senior Republicans are expressing early concern about Trump’s lack of legislative accomplishments, his record-low approval ratings, and the overall dysfunction that’s gripped his administration.”

Most Americans Want Government to Do More

April 24, 2017 at 8:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

First Read: “This is another striking finding from the NBC/WSJ poll: 57% of the public says that the government should do more to solve problems and meet the needs of Americans, versus 39% who said the government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals. That’s the highest share yearning for a more active government since the poll began asking voters about the role of government in 1995. And it’s a significant shift even since 2015, when 50% said that the government should do more while 46% complained that it was too active.”

Quote of the Day

April 24, 2017 at 8:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A lot of the people have said that, some people said it was the single best speech ever made in that chamber.”

— President Trump, talking with the Associated Press about his speech before a joint session of Congress.

The French Election Polls Nailed It

April 24, 2017 at 8:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Exchange of the Day

April 24, 2017 at 7:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump was interviewed by the Associated Press:

TRUMP: I don’t watch CNN anymore.

AP: You just said you did.

TRUMP: No. No, I, if I’m passing it, what did I just say (inaudible)?

AP: You just said —

TRUMP: Where? Where?

AP: Two minutes ago.

TRUMP: No, they treat me so badly. No, I just said that. No, I, what’d I say, I stopped watching them. But I don’t watch CNN anymore. I don’t watch MSNBC. I don’t watch it. Now I heard yesterday that MSNBC, you know, they tell me what’s going on.

AP: Right.

Duterte Says He’ll Eat Terrorists

April 24, 2017 at 7:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that he can be “50 times” more brutal than extremists and Muslim militants who’ve staged beheadings and warned that he would even “eat” terrorists if they were captured alive, Bloomberg reports.

Said Duterte: “Just give me vinegar and salt, I’ll eat his liver.”

Messina Now Working for Theresa May

April 24, 2017 at 7:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has hired President Obama’s former deputy chief of staff Jim Messina for her election campaign, reuniting the winning team behind David Cameron’s unexpected victory two years ago,” Bloomberg reports.

“Messina and his colleagues arrived in London on Monday to begin work on May’s bid to secure a bigger majority for her Conservative Party and a fresh mandate for her vision of Brexit, a person working on the campaign said.”

Trump and Pence Allies Clean Up as Lobbyists

April 24, 2017 at 7:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former campaign aides, fundraisers and others with ties to President Trump and Vice President Pence have attracted dozens of new lobbying clients in Washington, raking in more than $2.2 million in lobbying fees in the first months of the administration,” a USA Today analysis shows.

The Giant Contradiction of Trump

April 24, 2017 at 6:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rick Klein and Shushannah Walshe: “Few modern presidents have accomplished so little in the opening months of their time in office. And yet few modern presidents have done more.”

“Trump has so far failed to deliver on most of the cornerstone commitments of his candidacy. His legislative agenda is stalled; his foreign-policy evolutions have brought more tensions, not fewer; and his travel ban and border wall have been effectively blocked by the other branches of government. In terms of basic governance, Trump may even struggle to avoid a government shutdown right around the mark of Day 100.”

“Yet while the ‘swamp’ has not been drained, Trump can claim credit for delivering on a more basic promise to the voters who supported him during the campaign. He has redefined the office of president. He has shaken government institutions to their core with a freewheeling, hard-charging style that can only be labeled Trumpian.”

Quote of the Day

April 23, 2017 at 10:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I’m not firing Sean Spicer. That guy gets great ratings. Everyone tunes in.”

— President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post.

Trump Plans Executive Order Spree

April 23, 2017 at 9:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump is going on an executive order frenzy in the final week of his first 100 days,” Axios reports.

“By Friday, Trump will have signed at least 32 executive orders — the most signed in the first 100 days of a new administration since World War II.”

“Trump, used to getting his own way in his business career, is frustrated that Congress won’t bend to his will. And he isn’t the only one who feels like that. Trump’s filled his administration with guys like Gary Cohn and Wilbur Ross who are used to having their orders followed. They, like Trump, regard Washington and the folks who’ve spent their careers here as hacks. Team Trump is learning to love the executive order — the tool that gives them instant gratification.”

French Voters Buck the Establishment

April 23, 2017 at 9:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In France’s most consequential election in recent history, voters on Sunday chose Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen to go to a runoff to determine the next president, official returns showed. One is a political novice, the other a far-right firebrand — both outsiders, but with starkly different visions for the country,” the New York Times reports.

“The result was a full-throated rebuke of France’s traditional mainstream parties, setting the country on an uncertain path in an election that could also decide the future of the European Union.”

Politico: “If polls conducted before the first round of voting Sunday prove true, Macron will likely be the next president, an outcome that would come as a relief to both bureaucrats in Brussels and international investors.”

Does Trump Consider a Government Shutdown a Win?

April 23, 2017 at 10:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Stan Collender: “Unless the House Freedom Caucus decides to blow up the process, Congress is most likely to send Trump a funding bill for the rest of fiscal 2017 that doesn’t include any of the major policy changes he’s suggested: no money for the wall, no defunding of Planned Parenthood, no additional appropriations for the Pentagon, nothing on sanctuary cities, no enhanced border enforcement, continued funding for Affordable Care Act subsidies, etc. Congressional leaders are very likely to make promises about dealing with all those issues in the future — in a soon-to-come standalone supplemental appropriation for military spending, for example — but exclude them all from the 2017 funding bill.”

“The question is whether Trump will sign that bill and keep the government open, or veto it and shut Washington down?”

“Trump could decide that preventing the government from shutting its doors would be a win because it’s something several of his predecessors — including Obama — couldn’t do.”

Majority of Americans Disapprove of Trump

April 23, 2017 at 10:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds Americans “have become increasingly dissatisfied with President Trump as he nears his 100th day in office, with views of his effectiveness and ability to shake up Washington slipping.”

“More than half of Americans — some 54% — disapprove of the job Mr. Trump is doing as president, compared with 40% who approve, a 14-point gap.”

A Hundred Days of Trump

April 23, 2017 at 8:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

David Remnick: “The hundred-day marker is never an entirely reliable indicator of a four-year term, but it’s worth remembering that Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama were among those who came to office at a moment of national crisis and had the discipline, the preparation, and the rigor to set an entirely new course. Impulsive, egocentric, and mendacious, Trump has, in the same span, set fire to the integrity of his office.”

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