By Robert Romano President Donald Trump has voiced his support for a continuing resolution that will fund the government through Sept. 30, 2025, effectively freezing discretionary spending for this fiscal year, after Congress failed to enact any appropriations bills in the last Congress for the current fiscal year. In a post on Truth Social on March 10 , Trump […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump has maintained a positive approval rating through his first month in office, with average approval of 49 percent, while 47.5 percent disapprove, according to the latest average of national polls compiled by RealClearPolling.com , following Trump’s joint address to Congress on March 4.   The support continues despite an onslaught of negative media coverage and very […]

By Robert Romano Bad news. Unemployment increased in the U.S. by 203,000 in February as 588,000 fewer people reported having jobs, according to the latest data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) household survey . That means the economy is slowing down, as has been expected after overheating from high inflation for four years as a result of global production […]

By Robert Romano Ukraine is ready to come back to the negotiating table a day after President Donald Trump froze military aid to the country, Trump reported in his joint address to Congress on March 4 . Trump read from a March 4 letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that was posted to X aloud to Congress, stating, “Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table […]

By Robert Romano The Atlanta Federal Reserve on March 3 has again issued its GDP Now projection , finding the U.S. economy could be contracting at an inflation-adjusted, annualized 2.8 percent rate for the first quarter of 2025. That is down further from its Feb. 28 projection of negative 1.5 […]

By Robert Romano “What kind of diplomacy, J.D., [are you] speaking about?” That was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky interrupting the question-and-answer portion of a Feb. 28 Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior officials that was to precede Zelensky signing a […]

By Robert Romano Don’t look now, but the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GPDNow estimate for the first quarter of 2025 shows the U.S. economy potentially contracting 1.5 percent annualized. Coupled with initial jobless claims peaking up to 242,000 the past week, a good question to ask is whether President Donald Trump inherited a recession from the […]

By Robert Romano U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Feb. 26 temporarily reinstituted President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 freeze of foreign aid pending a hearing of the case by the Supreme Court, lifting a U.S. District Court order that the payments continue in spite of Trump’s freeze. At issue are […]

By Robert Romano On Feb. 25, U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Loren AliKhan placed another injunction on President Donald Trump and the White House Office of Management and Budget from pausing any federal funding to departments and agencies pending review of federal contracts and other financial […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump in a Feb. 21 proclamation entitled “America First Investment Policy” that seeks to assert American dominance particularly in advanced technology sectors including artificial intelligence (AI), by incentivizing investment in the U.S., restricting it from the People’s Republic China (PRC) and restricting investment by China and […]

By Robert Romano 72 percent Americans say they support there being a U.S. government agency devoted to efficiency efforts and 60 percent say that President Donald Trump’s White House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is making major cuts to expenditures, according to the latest Harvard-Harris poll take Feb. 19 and Feb. 20 . That includes 67 percent of independents, […]

By Robert Romano “[P]olitically that would be great for us, you know, it gives everybody a check. But if you think about our core principles, right, fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservatives. That’s our brand. And we have a $36 trillion federal debt, we have […]

By Robert Romano The election of President Donald Trump already appears to be having a significant impact on illegal immigrant flows into the U.S., with southwest land border encounters reported by U.S. Border Patrol down to 61,465 in January, the lowest levels seen since Sept. 2020 , when it was 57,674 in the middle of the Covid pandemic. When there’s a deterrent, there […]

By Robert Romano The Department of Education is going to enforce the Civil Rights Act not just one colleges and universities’ admissions decisions, but also very broadly to public and private elementary and high schools across the country to end unconstitutional and illegal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion […]

By Robert Romano “It’s going to mean tremendous amounts of jobs and ultimately prices will stay the same, go down but we’re going to have a very dynamic country.” That was President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Feb. 13 taking questions from reporters, outlining his belief that one […]