Economists Line Up To Trash The Trump Administration’s New Anti-Immigrant Proposal
“Those experts broadly agreed that immigration improves the economy for the native population, even on the per-person level.”
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
“Those experts broadly agreed that immigration improves the economy for the native population, even on the per-person level.”
“It’s like a guy built a house and sold it to someone, and that person walked in and turned the lights on is like, ‘Look at the house I built.'”
“I suggest they put one in the press podium right there. The place would light up like a disco.”
It was a nice photo-op for the West Virginia governor, but there seems to be more to the story than a simple change of heart.
The Democratic push to protect veterans and non-violent, undocumented immigrants comes as the president puts forward some of the most anti-immigrant policies the country has ever seen.
The president lashed out like a tired third grader during a campaign rally in West Virginia as the investigation into his ties to Russia continues to escalate.
Just today, Gallup clocked Trump’s approval rating at a dismal 36 percent.
Once again, the realities of governing a country and making sound policy have collided with the empty and ill-informed rhetoric Trump spewed on the campaign trail.
Donald Trump spent the entire campaign playing the tough guy card, but after six months in the White House, there is not a soul on the planet who takes him seriously.
“There’s a likelihood that there will be a confrontation. And if there’s a confrontation and if there’s a threat to fire Bob Mueller, there will be a firestorm of opposition on both sides of the aisle here in Congress.”
Not only are Trump’s numbers continuing to fall, even with his favorite pollster, but the passion and energy are clearly with his opposition.
“The stilted nature of the text alone was sort of a tell that President Unindicted Co-conspirator was involved,” Rick Wilson said before unloading on Trump.
“They thought we colluded, but we couldn’t even collude with our local offices,” Kushner said during a private meeting.
The new development “adds to a series of actions that Trump has taken that some advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy.”
“We created him, and now we’re rationalizing him. When will it stop?” Republican Sen. Jeff Flake wrote in an op-ed published in Politico on Monday.
Six months into the Trump administration, the GOP tune is changing as the president’s incompetence, corruption, and unfitness has thrown the entire Republican agenda into a dumpster and set it ablaze.
This week’s epic failure to pass any repeal and replace legislation won’t be the last effort by Donald Trump and Republicans to dismantle former President Obama’s signature achievement.
Trump repeated the lie that the Affordable Care Act is “imploding” and issued a threat to end payments that keep health care costs down.
In an interview on MSNBC, Franken was asked if he took Kushner at his word. His simple response: “No.”
“In one week, Donald Trump got rebuked by the boy scouts, by the Pentagon, by the International Association of Police Chiefs.”
“One of the failures was the president never laid out a plan or his core principles and never sold them to the American people,” the Republican said.
“Trump has been talking privately about how he might replace Sessions and possibly sidestep Senate oversight, four people familiar with the issue said.”
Outside of the White House and the halls of Congress, it’s clear that people of all political persuasions recognize how devastating this repeal plan would be to millions of Americans.
Once again, Donald Trump has shown that he is on the wrong side of history, but the thousands of brave transgender members of the U.S. military aren’t likely to go down without a fight.
The “skinny” repeal that is gaining steam may have a cute name, but it would cause a humanitarian crisis and leave millions of Americans without the care they need.
Republicans are admitting that they don’t know what they’re voting on – and the legislation could still pass.
Every American wished Sen. McCain well when the sad news of his cancer diagnosis broke last week. When he returns to Washington on Tuesday, he should vote to return the favor.
The MSNBC host warned that Trump could replace Jeff Sessions without needing confirmation if he made the appointment while the Senate is on vacation.
In the past, Cruz said that he didn’t think it was necessary to appoint a special counsel to look into Trump’s ties to Russia.
The president’s decision to give such a disturbing rant in front of preteen boys would be shocking if anybody but Trump was delivering the ramble.
“It’s clear that Robert Mueller is getting closer. We don’t have just smoke now, we’ve got fire in this Russia investigation.”
“President Trump, I will tell you, you will get it, don’t worry about it,” Trump told the crowd aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford.
“He may not even know that he is an asset under your control until you pull that string, and then suddenly you need him to do things for you – and they do.”
This is a President of the United States who is unwilling or unable to accept criticism or responsibility for his own failures.
The recent actions by Trump suggest that he is running scared as Robert Mueller’s investigation zeroes in on the White House.
It’s no surprise that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is currently investigating the Trump family finances in relation to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
The Speaker said more Americans will be without insurance because it’s what they want, not because the GOP health care plan is bad.
It appears the Trump himself has given up pretending to care about American workers – even during “Made in America Week.”
The former president reminded us of that, sometimes, we should put politics aside. In doing so, Obama made the country miss him even more than we already did.
“Mr. Trump said Mr. Mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned that investigators would cross a red line if they delve into Trump family finances…”
According to CNN, the cancer is the same kind the late Sen. Ted Kennedy had.
“If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president.”
“This affinity for Russia is a very curious thing,” Clapper said. “Bear in mind, Russia is an existential threat to this country.”
The president and his GOP allies in Congress just can’t accept the fact that America isn’t buying what they’re selling.
“These protests have been relentless,” Maddow said. “They’ve had a huge victory just tonight.”
The American people rate Trump’s performance on health care worse than any other issue facing the country.
This is a huge loss for the president and a monumental victory for the vast majority of Americans who believe health care shouldn’t be a privilege for the healthy and the wealthy, but a right for all.
“If this is the strategy that they’re going to go to … then we have got a crisis in national security going on.”
You know things are going bad in Trumpworld when the unpopular New Jersey governor tries to distance himself from the president’s team.
The best way to get under Donald Trump’s very thin skin is to mock and ridicule him, and it appears Democrats have no problem doing just that.
Unable to defend the content of the actual meeting, the analyst just repeatedly held up funny pictures of Rob Goldstone, the man who arranged the meeting.
Republicans are finding it increasingly hard to defend the Trump team’s conduct with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
If Sandoval is against the revised legislation, it’s likely that Sen. Dean Heller will also oppose it, which could spell the end of Trumpcare once and for all.
The idea that Trump’s own lawyers would know about the explosive emails and the president himself would be left out of the loop is almost impossible to believe.
As the Russia scandal continues to hang over the White House, Trump and his staff would be smart to take it more seriously.
A handful of Democratic Senators were fuming on Thursday as Donald Trump and the White House strongly consider giving back two compounds to Russia that were shut down by the Obama administration.
“I think it’s very difficult when you have this overwhelming barrage of new information that unfolds every few days. I think it’s obvious.”
Trump may be far away, but the stench of scandal and controversy that has plagued his presidency since day one will follow him to France.
In an interview with Reuters, Donald Trump said, “I think many people would have held that meeting.”
“This meeting, purportedly in June, in July the Russians start dumping documents helpful to Donald Trump, hurtful to Hillary Clinton.”
Donald Trump Jr. was told in an email that the damaging info on Hillary Clinton that he sought during his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer “was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy.”
Each day brings another “drip” of information that increases the likelihood that there was collusion between the president’s campaign and Moscow.
The fight to stop Republicans from repealing the Affordable Care Act is far from over – and millions of Americans are still at risk of losing insurance and benefits that the current law provides.
“Do I think it’s appropriate? I think I probably would’ve done the same thing. I mean, it’s opposition research.”
Trump can pretend to be a strongman all he wants, but in his first real opportunity to put America first and show strong leadership, he backed down bigly.
“I’m questioning the patriotism of all of those Republicans who are allowing this president to side with Putin, to wrap his arms around Putin.”
His behavior may play well to his shrinking group of supporters back home, but the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership is becoming a laughingstock on the world stage.
After Donald Trump embarrassed himself on the world stage on Thursday by again suggesting that Russia wasn’t behind the 2016 election meddling, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff dismantled the president, saying he is “not putting America first.” Schiff, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump is putting his “personal best interest” ahead…
“One way to stab in the heart aggressive American reporting on that subject is to lay traps for American journalists who are reporting on it.”
James Clapper said the Russians will continue to collect intelligence and interfere in U.S. elections so long as the United States, led by Trump, refuses to “push back.”
“There is an appearance that [Trump’s] businesses are profiting from his occupying the presidency,” outgoing ethics head Walter Shaub said.
Just as Hillary Clinton warned the country during the campaign, Trump is turning out to be a Putin “puppet” who is delivering every last item on Russia’s wish list.
“How has [Putin] earned a face-to-face, full-scale, bilateral meeting with the U.S. president? What has he done to deserve that meeting and that respect?”
If there is an upside for Toomey, it’s that Trump’s constant social media outbursts are distracting from the disastrous piece of legislation he’s trying to push through the Senate.
From the start, Trump’s commission was a sham. It has since devolved into a complete embarrassment for the administration – one that appears to have violated federal law.
The fact that Republicans think they could pull one past the former Secretary of State on a complicated policy issue like health care shows just how lost they are.
From one-time presidential front-runner to a disgraced – soon-to-be former – Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie sure has come a long way.
Using taxpayer money to fund a commission based on an insane Trump conspiracy theory has never been a good use of resources to begin with.
After six months of failed policy proposals, unprecedented scandals, and a deteriorating mental state, the Trump train has gone completely off the rails.
Trump is showing that he isn’t just more interested in attacking his critics than doing his job, but also that there is nothing he won’t lie about.
“Attacking media does nothing for the troop in harm’s way, the hungry child in Appalachia or inner city, the unemployed factory worker.”
On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it without a replacement plan.
Republicans in Congress – emboldened by the bully in the White House – are no longer trying to disguise how they feel toward lower and middle-income Americans.
The challenge comes as the Trump administration tries to redefine the definition of family for the purpose of enforcing their unconstitutional ban.
This cowardice may help the GOP hold onto its base, but it’s doing great long-term damage to America’s political system.
It’s becoming increasingly hard to believe that Trump had no idea what some of his closest advisers were up to with respect to Russia.
The gap between what Trump says is in the GOP health care bill and what’s actually in it is incredibly wide, meaning Trump probably hasn’t even read the thing.
“It has now been more than 150 days of this new administration … and they have yet to pass a single substantive piece of legislation of any kind.”
“The longer that it’s out there the more it’s going to stink. People are going to figure out what they’re trying to do to the country.”
First, Trump said how important it is to pass the health care bill, and then he immediately said it’s “okay” if it fails.
The Vermont senator said, “Many thousands of our fellow Americans every single year will die, and many more will suffer and become much sicker than they should” because of Trumpcare.
Whether they’re from a red state or blue state, Democrats are not afraid to speak out against this disastrous piece of legislation because they are listening to the American public.
The legislation won’t just hurt millions of Americans who are covered under Medicaid or through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges.
To make sure Trump fully understands the intelligence he’s given, the CIA director has to meet with him every single day.
A Center for American Progress analysis found that the GOP health plan will lead to as many as 27,700 more deaths.
The president is desperately trying to distract from his massively unpopular health care plan, but the American people likely won’t buy it. The president and Republicans now own health care.
“Seventy-five million Americans all have the same health insurance, and the big health bill that the Republicans unveiled in the Senate today takes a meat ax to that health insurer.”
Despite the insecure president’s social media tantrums, the investigation into his presidential campaign’s ties to Russia isn’t going anywhere.
According to a recent poll, the GOP health care legislation is “the least popular major bill in decades.”
The spontaneous demonstrations by pro-ACA activists shows how politically toxic this issue has become for Republicans as they prepare to dismantle Obamacare.