E uropean allies knew their relationship with the second Trump Administration would be challenging. Even so, the shocks they’ve received from Washington in recent days constitute a crisis. The warning, more or less: Shape up or the Americans are shipping out.
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CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
One year, he used the traditional presidential Super Bowl interview to say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “very bad for our country.” The next year, he used the same forum to say that she was “a very confused, very nervous woman” and to make fun of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s height. Sunday, Fox aired Donald Trump’s Super Bowl interview, conducted in advance with Bret Baier. The hits during the game could be less brutal than the president’s remarks.
Feb. 3 marked the official start of the 2025 legislative session, beginning with the governor’s annual State of the State Address. I was blessed to have Vicky join me for my 11th State of the State. Gov. Stitt shared his excitement for the upcoming session and outlined several of his executive priorities. I look forward to working alongside the governor and my colleagues to advance policy solutions to build a stronger, safer, and more prosperous Oklahoma. I’m also looking forward to collaborating with the Senate’s 14 new members throughout the process. They each bring a wide range of experience and expertise, and I’m eager to learn from their backgrounds and hear their ideas on how we can continue moving our state forward.
In 2017, when now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a senator from Florida, he posted this on social media about the United States Agency for International Development: “Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.”
CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
It’s a truism that it is extremely difficult to govern with a tiny majority in the House of Representatives. When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill. In practical terms, a majority party needs well over 218 seats to ensure it can win party-line votes. There will always be members who don’t show up or take the other side, and the majority needs enough to win the vote even while losing a few on its own side.
After nightfall on Jan. 24, President Trump summarily dismissed as many as 17 of the most important guardians of integrity in the federal government — the inspectors general who search for fraud and abuse in each major executive department, who assure taxpayers that their money is being properly spent, and whose rigor reduces the temptation of corruption. Mr. Trump’s action was in overt defiance of a law requiring that Congress get 30 days’ notice when an inspector general is fired, along with the detailed reasons for the termination, but it was very much in keeping with the president’s imperious resistance to any form of accountability, oversight or sharing of power.