They also want to end the debt forgiveness program for those who go into public service. This is going to spark new campus protests, for sure.
The Associated Press reports:
Trump Wants to End Subsidized Student Loans
The Trump administration is proposing to eliminate subsidized student loans and end student debt forgiveness for those...
Back when Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) still claimed to be a Republican, she came up with the idea of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
That idea, however, morphed into a partisan Democrat operation under Obama, with a structure that sought to exclude itself from Executive or Congressional oversight. The constitutionality of...
I was a guest on the Crane Durham Nothing But Truth radio show on Wednesday night, May 10, 2017, talking about the firing of James Comey the prior Tuesday.
My interview is almost 30 minutes, and is embedded at the bottom of this post. In the day since the interview there have been...
MSNBC has wasted no time in drawing parallels between Watergate/Richard Nixon and President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Hosting the network’s special coverage this afternoon,
Brian Williams said the firing “may become known as the
Tuesday Afternoon Massacre” at the FBI.
That, of course, was an allusion to the Saturday Night...
President Trump is doing a little spring cleaning, deciding to dismiss U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who had been appointed by his predecessor. Murthy had been asked to resign, but declined to do so according to his wife. The president then fired him.
Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders, including one that led to a complete halt in the hiring of federal workers with few exceptions.
There has been a slight melting in that freeze, as a more tailored approach is implemented.
Mick Mulvaney, the director...
President Donald Trump has decided not to release White House visitor records, breaking from former President Barack Obama. The Wall Street Journal reported:
Under President Donald Trump’s policy, formally announced on Friday, the U.S. Secret Service will maintain visitor logs only for certain executive branch offices, including the Office of Management...
According to a report by the Washington Post, the FBI obtained a FISA warrant last summer to monitor former Trump adviser, Carter Page. WaPo’s report is based on information provided by anonymous sources not at liberty to discuss the investigation.
The FBI and DOJ believed Page may have been acting as a...
Wednesday, the White House issued a memo outlining changes to the administration’s National Security Council. Steven Bannon, former Chief Executive of Breitbart News was removed from the NSC, which will now include former Texas Governor, Rick Perry.
From Houston local news:
WASHINGTON (TRIBUNE) – A new memorandum Wednesday revealed that U.S. Secretary...
A recent revamp of Trump’s National Security Council cut former Breitbart News Chief Executive Steve Bannon’s role entirely.
Bannon’s role as a National Security Advisor was controversial from the get-go.
Before being elected, Trump promised to donate his presidential salary. Monday, the White House announced $78,333.32, Trump’s salary since taking office will be donated to the National Park Service. The funds will be used to maintain historic battlefields.
From The Hill:
President Trump will donate his first three months of salary to the...
Dubbed the “gun salesman-in-chief,” Obama’s frequent gun-grabbing and gun-related regulation threats drove gun sales through the roof throughout his presidency.
Now that he is no longer in office and perceived as a threat to our Second Amendment rights, gun...
The election of President Donald Trump continues to have a profound influence on this country in nearly every area of government.
The upcoming census of the American people is a good example of a Trump-era change that is going mostly unnoticed.
In 2012, Legal Insurrection reported that the
The Environmental Protection Agency’s new chief is now on-the-record as declaring that the life-sustaining gas, carbon dioxide, is not responsible for “global warming“.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Thursday he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.
“I think that measuring with precision human activity on...
What a news cycle. The WaPo accused newly minted Attorney General Jeff Sessions of lying about his connections to Russia during confirmation hearings. The White House and President Trump are standing by Sessions.
Sessions held a press conference this afternoon, addressing questions from his confirmation hearing.
Trump’s first joint session congressional address was well received by viewers. A CNN poll found 78% of respondents viewed Trump’s speech favorably.
Political pundits from across the spectrum are weighing in and reactions didn’t fall cleanly down the party line, either.
The White House has drawn a significant amount of criticism for poor communication. In an interview with Fox and Friends, Trump took responsibility for the communication problems.
Trump, in an interview with “Fox & Friends,” specifically cited his immigration policy, and said that perhaps the roll...
