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GOP Spending Spree Is Coming

November 15, 2016 at 7:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “For eight years, Republicans hammered President Barack Obama for exploding the national debt. But now a GOP-led spending spree is coming, with Donald Trump riding to the White House on trillion-dollar promises and a Republican Congress that looks likely to do his bidding. It’s a potential echo of the last time Republicans ran Washington, when then-Vice President Dick Cheney memorably remarked, ‘Deficits don’t matter.'”

“Trump campaigned heartily on a spending splurge and nothing he’s said since his shocking election suggests he will reverse course. Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, meanwhile, are papering over divisions with the man who frequently tossed party orthodoxy aside on the trail.”

Obama Insists Election Wasn’t About Him

November 15, 2016 at 6:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “If Obama has done any second-guessing since President-elect Donald Trump’s shocking victory last week, he didn’t betray any of it during his most extensive set of comments since the election.”

“In a press conference and in two separate conference calls with supporters, Obama rejected the idea of a bigger meaning in the election results. His policies? Helped millions and maybe even billions. His personal popularity? Still sky-high. His party? Well, he was busy with Syria and the economy – you can’t expect him to do everything.”

With Resignation Trump Can Now Reshape Wall Street

November 15, 2016 at 6:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Mary Jo White, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, on Monday announced that she would step down two years before the end of her term, clearing the way for President-elect Donald Trump to reshape the way Wall Street is regulated,” the Washington Post reports.

“The resignation creates a massive opportunity for Trump early in his term to make changes to investor protections and other Wall Street regulations, part of what is widely expected to be a broad effort by the new administration to scale back what Republicans consider cumbersome federal rules that slow economic growth.”


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Giuliani Says Defeating ISIS Is Trump’s Focus

November 15, 2016 at 6:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Rudy Giuliani said Monday that President-elect Donald Trump would likely focus much of his initial foreign-policy strategy on destroying Islamic State, setting aside more vexing problems in the Middle East and elsewhere,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Giuliani: “ISIS, short-term I believe, is the greatest danger and not because ISIS is in Iraq and in Syria, but because ISIS did something al Qaeda never did—ISIS was able to spread itself around the world.”

Sessions Seen As Likely Secretary of Defense

November 14, 2016 at 9:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) “is the leading contender for Donald Trump’s secretary of defense, sources close to the transition say — a choice that would reward the president-elect’s most outspoken congressional loyalist but offer few olive branches to a Trump-wary Republican national security establishment,” Politico reports.

“The two men haven’t seen eye to eye on everything: Session is a budget hawk who favors caps on defense spending, while Trump has called for an arms and troops buildup that could cost $55 billion or more per year. But sources say the three-term Alabama Republican senator has still emerged as the top candidate for Pentagon leader, perhaps the most important post in the upcoming Trump Cabinet.”

Trump and Putin Agree to Improve Relations

November 14, 2016 at 9:16 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in a telephone conversation Monday that relations between their countries were ‘unsatisfactory’ and vowed to work together to improve them, the Kremlin said in a statement,” the Washington Post reports.

“The statement said the two leaders discussed combining efforts in the fight against terrorism, talked about ‘a settlement for the crisis in Syria’ and agreed their aides would begin working toward a face-to-face meeting between them.”

From the Fringe to the White House

November 14, 2016 at 9:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In naming Stephen K. Bannon to a senior White House post, President-elect Donald J. Trump has elevated the hard-right nationalist movement that Mr. Bannon has nurtured for years from the fringes of American politics to its very heart, a remarkable shift that has further intensified concern about the new administration’s direction,” the New York Times reports.

Short List Develops for New RNC Chief

November 14, 2016 at 9:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “People close to Priebus say he would not have left the RNC – which he helmed for a record six years – if it risked falling into the hands of someone he opposed, such as former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.”

“Among the names most under discussion for party chairman are David Bossie, who served as Trump’s deputy campaign manager and is an RNC member; Priebus ally Matt Pinnell, the RNC’s liaison to state parties; and Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chair of the Michigan Republican Party and niece of 2012 nominee Mitt Romney.”

Trump Focuses on Giuliani or Bolton for State Department

November 14, 2016 at 6:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Aides to President-elect Donald Trump are focusing on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton as the leading candidates to be the next secretary of state,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The choice between the two would force Mr. Trump to choose between Mr. Giuliani, a longtime friend and ally in New York, and Mr. Bolton, a hawkish conservative diplomat who called last year for the U.S. to bomb Iran.”

“A final decision could be several weeks away.”

Trump Surprised to Learn What President Actually Did

November 14, 2016 at 7:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “During their private White House meeting on Thursday, Mr. Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and Mr. Trump seemed surprised by the scope, said people familiar with the meeting. Trump aides were described by those people as unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. Obama’s term.”

“After meeting with Mr. Trump, the only person to be elected president without having held a government or military position, Mr. Obama realized the Republican needs more guidance. He plans to spend more time with his successor than presidents typically do, people familiar with the matter said.”

Trump As President Is Not Normal

November 14, 2016 at 7:32 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

John Oliver took issue with pundits calling for the public to give Donald Trump a chance, noting that “optimism is nice,” but warning that such attitudes could “feed into the normalization of Donald Trump.”

Trump Is Still Winging It

November 14, 2016 at 7:27 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Glenn Thrush: “This is what winging it looks like, America. Donald Trump is compulsively improvisational, and ran the most successful back-of-the-napkin operation in American political history, but the challenge confronting him is, by his own admission, nothing like anything anybody has ever faced. Like practically everybody else in the country, Trump (despite his statements to the contrary) really didn’t think he’d be spending this weekend trying to staff the upper management of the world’s sole remaining superpower.”

“It’s been five days since the reality TV star became the reality president and judging from his public pronouncements and a slightly dizzy 60 Minutes appearance, he still seems to be grappling with the vast implications of his stunning and unexpected victory. But in the past few days — amid protests in several major cities and a massive case of the national frights about his fitness to govern — Trump has made a handful of moves that offer the first hints of what kind of president he will be.”

Trump Will Take $1 As Salary

November 14, 2016 at 7:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President-elect Donald Trump will take $1 a year as his presidential salary, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year. But it’s a — I don’t even know what it is. Do you know what the salary is?”

When informed him that it’s $400,000, he added: “No, I’m not going to take the salary. I’m not taking it.”

Trump Draws Rebuke Over Appointing Bannon

November 14, 2016 at 7:03 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the White House has drawn a sharp rebuke from political strategists who see in Bannon a controversial figure too closely associated with the ‘alt-right’ movement, which white nationalists have embraced,” the Washington Post reports.

“The announcement has produced intense hand-wringing in Washington and sharp denunciations from political observers and strategists critical of Breitbart News’s close association with the alt-right, a fringe conservative movement saturated with racially insensitive rhetoric and elements of outright white nationalism.”

GOP strategist John Weaver on Twitter: “The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office. Be very vigilant America.”

Trump Thought He’d Drop Out and Endorse Christie

November 14, 2016 at 6:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

According to a new book, Unprecedented: The Election that Changed Everything, Donald Trump told Gov. Chris Christie in 2015 that he “didn’t expect to make it past October — at which point he would endorse Christie,” CNN reports.

Back to the Economy, Stupid

November 14, 2016 at 6:48 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Democrats’ stunning defeat in the presidential race and continued struggles in lower-level contests have jolted party leaders into concluding that their emphasis on cultural issues has all but crippled them by diverting voters’ attention from the core Democratic message of economic fairness,” the New York Times reports.

“But even as Democrats agree about the need to promote their agenda more aggressively for the middle class and voters of modest means, especially in parts of the country where the party has suffered grievous losses, they are divided over how aggressively to position themselves on the economic left, with battle lines already forming over the lightning-rod issue of foreign trade.”

Trump Has a Busy First Day Planned

November 14, 2016 at 6:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “On Day 1, Mr. Trump has promised, he will redirect immigration enforcement, alter trade relations with China and other nations, relax restrictions on energy production, impose new rules on lobbyists, halt efforts to combat global warming, lift curbs on guns, push for congressional term limits and demand a new strategy for defeating the Islamic State. He may face some legal and procedural hurdles, but most of his Day 1 pledges involve issuing presidential directives, executive orders or memorandums that do not need legislative approval.”

Trump Hasn’t Decided on Investigating Clinton

November 13, 2016 at 7:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump told 60 Minutes that he hasn’t decided yet on whether he’ll appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton.

Said Trump: “I’m going to think about it.”

However, he that Clinton “did some bad things,” but that ultimately the Clintons are “good people. I don’t want to hurt them, I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people. I don’t want to hurt them.

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