Tom Homan, the White House “border czar,” told Fox News that the Trump administration would defy any federal judge who tries to block the deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members. “We’re not stopping,” Homan said. “I don’t care what the judges think.”
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There are a lot of questions these days about poll numbers, both President Donald Trump’s and those of his Democratic opponents. First, job approval. The president’s rating has tipped slightly underwater, by 0.4%, in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. But what is striking about Trump polls is the wide variation in approval between the different polls. The current Real-ClearPolitics average contains a Quinnipiac poll, from March 10, that showed Trump 11 points underwater. It also contains an RMG Research poll, from March 13, that showed Trump 10 points above the water. A 21-point spread is a pretty broad range. Better to look at the average.
WASHINGTON – “Good morning. I’m Kathryn, what’s your name?” It was a natural enough question – at that awkward part of a meeting where we knew the vaguest things about one another.
Donald Trump is a singular figure in United States political history – an elitist at war with the country’s elite, a beneficiary of the American commercial system who is resentful of the institutions that created the nation’s economic power, a president who is reshaping American history despite his vast ignorance of it.
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Polls have repeatedly shown that majorities of voters support the work President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is doing to cut waste and fraud in federal spending. A recent poll by CBS News found that 51% of those surveyed believe there is a lot of wasteful spending in federal government agencies, while an additional 36% believe there is some wasteful spending, for a total of 87% who believe there is waste in government.
These days, political parody is next to impossible, because politics is so absurd. Case in point: This quote, “Amy Coney Barrett was a DEI appointee,” is from a post from someone on the right side of the political spectrum. Barrett had just weighed in on the wrong side of a Supreme Court decision, according to this non-lawyer. That was far from the only social media backlash that came Barrett’s way. This one just had the classlessness to use a photo of Barrett’s family – including her two adopted children from Haiti as supposed evidence of the “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” point. Presumably, Barrett being a woman might be another DEI box-check. Considering Barrett has shown a commitment to excellence in her profession, that does suggest a little misogyny. Is that what unites us now?
BROWNVILLE, Maine – “See you in court.” Those four mumbled words have set in motion more than 100 legal challenges that have been issued to fight the initiatives of the president’s first eight weeks in office.
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