The following article by Paul Kane was posted on the Washington Post website February 2, 2017:
It’s not often that the Australian media pepper House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) with questions at his weekly news briefing.
But that’s where things stood Thursday morning after Ryan ducked several queries about President Trump’s confrontational phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Continue reading “Hill Republicans’ new role: Playing cleanup with the world for President Trump”
The following article by Franco Ordonez, Anita Kumar and Kevin G. Hall of the Tribune Content Agency was posted on the National Memo website February 3, 2017:
WASHINGTON — The Trump White House has loosened financial sanctions against Russia’s powerful security agency that the Obama administration had imposed as punishment for Russia’s meddling in November’s presidential election and for Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
The administration downplayed the importance of the action, but the decision drew fire from Democrats and raised eyebrows among Republicans who oppose lifting any sanctions against the Russians.
“U.S. intelligence agencies have thoroughly detailed the Russian security services’ brazen assault on American democracy in support of candidate Donald Trump,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “Less than two weeks after walking into the White House, President Trump lifts sanctions on the Russian Security Service. Vladimir Putin’s thugs meddle with an American election, and President Trump gives them a thank you present.” Continue reading “Trump Administration Relaxes Sanctions Against Russia’s Security Agency”
The following article by David Nakamura and Abby Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website February 3, 2017:
In his first two weeks, Donald Trump has sought to project the image of a new president moving quickly to enact his agenda.
He has surrounded himself in a series of photo ops with his most trusted senior aides as he signs a flurry of executive orders, visits government agencies and calls world leaders from the Oval Office. Continue reading “Trump’s administration isn’t very diverse. Photo ops make it glaringly obvious.”
The following article by Meg Benner and Rebecca Ullrich was posted on the Center for American Progress website February 2, 2017:
Introduction and summaryThere is something that supporters of school vouchers—such as Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary—will not admit: Children with disabilities can and will be harmed under voucher programs.
Consider Trinity Fitzer: In the spring of 2012 when Trinity was a 6-year-old kindergartener, she was kicked out of the private school she attended using a voucher provided by the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.1 Over the course of the year, Trinity’s mother had been called several times to pick her up early because of behavioral problems, with school officials calling Trinity “out of control.” According to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, Trinity suffered from gastrointestinal problems and anxiety, which led to challenging behaviors that her private school was not prepared—or required—to manage. Continue reading “Betsy DeVos’ Threat to Children with Disabilities”
The following article by Chris Cilliza was posted on the Washington Post website February 2, 2017:
Here are a few leaks that have come out of the Trump administration in just the last 24 hours:
* President Trump abruptly ended a phone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull after condemning a refugee deal with the country and telling Turnbull “this was the worst call by far” he has had with a world leader.
* Trump threatened — his administration insisted it was “light-hearted” — Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto with sending American troops into his country. Continue reading “The leaks coming out of the Trump White House right now are totally bananas”
The following article by Alanna Vaglanos was posted on the Huffington Post website February 3 2017:
According to a recent report from Axios, a new media company created by the co-founder of Politico, President Donald Trump wants the women who work for him to “dress like women.”
Axios’ Mike Allen and Jonathan Swan spoke to a source who worked on Trump’s campaign who reported that the president is very particular about what his staffers wear. This goes for both women and men.
“If you’re going to be a public person for him, whether it’s a lawyer or representing him in meetings, then you need to have a certain look,” one source told Axios. “That look ― at least for any male ― you have to be sharply dressed.”
Continue reading “21 Women Respond To Trump Telling Female Staff To ‘Dress Like Women’”
The following article by Chris Cillizza was posted on the Washington Post website February 2, 2017:
Donald Trump spoke at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday. It was, um, unorthodox. Using Genius, I annotated it. You can too! Sign up for Genius and annotate alongside me! To see an annotation, click or tap the highlighted part of the transcript.
TRUMP: Thank you, Mark. So nice.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you very much, thank you. (APPLAUSE)
Thank you very much, it’s a great honor to be here this morning. And so many faith leaders — very, very important people to me — from across our magnificent nation, and so many leaders from all across the globe. Today we continue a tradition begun by President Eisenhower some 64 years ago. Continue reading “Donald Trump gave a doozy of a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast”
The following article by Steven White was posted on the Washington Post website February 2, 2017:
On Jan. 27, President Trump signed an executive order temporarily prohibiting visa holders and immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, as well as halting the admission of refugees. Many critics describe the order as effectively a partial Muslim ban, and the American Civil Liberties Union argues it is likely unconstitutional.
Recent polling, however, indicates that at least a plurality of Americans see no problem with it. A Reuters/Ipsos survey found that 49 percent of Americans agreed with Trump’s executive order, while 41 percent disagreed and 10 percent offered no opinion. Continue reading “Many Americans support Trump’s immigration order. Many Americans backed Japanese internment camps, too.”
In North Dakota, motorists who run down demonstrators on public streets could be exempt from prosecution, even if someone is injured or killed, as long as the motorist did not purposely hit the victim.
In Minnesota, demonstrators who break the law could be billed for the cost of law enforcement.
And in Iowa, blocking traffic on a highway could be a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Continue reading “Free speech targeted in bills nationwide, critics say”
The following column by Dana Milbank was posted on the Washington Post website February 1, 2017:
President Trump is capable of many a miracle. On Wednesday, after just 12 days on the job, he raised the dead.
Addressing a small group of African American aides and supporters to kick off Black History Month, the new president not only offered pro forma praise for the usual suspects — Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr. — but also singled out somebody who recently caught his attention. Continue reading “In which Trump discovers some guy named Frederick Douglass”
