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Making scant secret of his own loyalties on the matter, Mnuchin said, “The general public when they elected President Trump made the decision to elect him without his tax returns being released.”
The debate about who makes decisions about those pregnancies should not be easy or simple either. “The only way I thought the men in that chamber would get it is was to personalize it,” she said.
While it would reduce the burden on taxpayers, a return-free system could not cover a substantial portion of filers without significant tax simplification, a solution to the IRS’s long-term issues, and
It’s a quality Democrats should be celebrating, not punishing, as they look for a candidate who can both defeat President Donald Trump in 2020 and, not incidentally, run the country after that.
Nobody thinks a president should be allowed to run the government alone or without the other two branches of government checking his work.
Should it be published? Should it be secret? Could it stay secret? Would it come at the end of the week? Would it come at the beginning of next week?” Sound familiar?
The ever-increasing national debt is an issue that everyone should care about.
Socialism is slowly making a comeback, a cultural shift that should concern political and business leaders of both parties.
We also need to make sure that effective pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is available without hassles for all who need it, along with recommended screenings and clinical care.
First, the federal government should reform how institutions are identified as being at risk of closure.
I first met him as a too-eager press secretary who (wrongly) thought my senator-boss should ask me before talking to Jamie in the Capitol elevators. What did I know?
OPINION — It goes without saying that the House passage of measures that would strengthen our nation’s background check system and expand background checks to every single gun purchase is a major step
Democrats should have a strong sense of those answers before they go into that hearing, not after. They should also know for themselves what their end game is.
Without such sources, the full story of what’s happening in our country can’t come out.
On stage, faithful Democrats vacillate between stubborn hope (“He should be here”) and fatalistic despair (“He didn’t say for sure that he would come”). In the end, they just wait, day after day.
So should every Democrat — presidential candidate or otherwise — before jumping on Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal and her “great leap forward” into socialism and central planning.
Taking time off without pay just isn’t an option — it means no rent, no heat, or no medications.
A country without a monarch craves a little pomp now and again, no matter the partisan sniping that precedes and follows it.
Without modern communications and with travel into and out of the capital difficult, the Founding Fathers correctly decided that the president should communicate regularly with the representatives of the
Intent on reducing federal spending, House Republicans refused to raise the debt limit without concessions from President Obama.