By Robert Romano Texas Democrats got more voters to the polls for their Senate primary than Republicans did, 2.22 million to 2.07 million with Democrat James Talarico defeating U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett 1.17 million to 1.02 million, while incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn garnered about 865,000 votes […]

By Robert Romano Light sweet crude oil surged to a high of $78 before slipping back to $73, and Brent crude oil to $81 before dropping back to $78, in trading on March 3, as markets attempted to price in supply shocks from the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran. The price volatility comes as Tehran has used drones, fighter jets and missiles to target oil and gas facilities and other targets in the region . […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump on Feb. 28 directed the U.S. military to use force against targets in Iran to further degrade its nuclear and missile capabilities, to defeat its forces and to prevent them from once again projecting power against U.S. interests in the region, exporting their revolution and threatening national security. Iran at this very […]

By Robert Romano About 32.6 million Americans tuned into President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address in his second term on Feb. 24, more than 5 million fewer than former President Joe Biden’s 2022 State of the Union Address of 38.2 million, according to the Nielsen ratings released after the speech . Like Biden, […]

Senate Republicans Should Let The Talking Filibuster Play Out On The SAVE America Act. If Thune Is Right, It Won’t Last Very Long. By Robert Romano “The talking filibuster issue is on which there is not certainly a unified Republican Conference and there would have to be. […]

By Robert Romano 64 percent of Americans said the policies proposed by President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Feb. 24 would move the country in the right direction, compared to 54 percent who said the same thing prior to watching the speech, according a CNN poll taken before and after the speech among speech watchers . That included 56 percent of independents who said […]

By Robert Romano Voters have been clear about what they want most: a country that feels affordable again. The previous administration treated prices like numbers on a chart. President Donald Trump has instead tackled the issue head-on, with sweeping reforms aimed at the everyday costs squeezing family […]

By Robert Romano “BEA estimates that this reduction in services provided by the federal government subtracted about 1.0 percentage point from real GDP growth in the fourth quarter.” That was the Bureau of Economic Analysis noting that the slowdown in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2025 to 1.4 percent was largely attributable to the federal government shutdown that occurred from Oct. 1, 2025 to Nov. 12, 2025, the […]

By Robert Romano “To show you how ridiculous the opinion is, however, the court said that I’m not allowed to charge even one dollar… under IEEPA. Not one dollar. I assume to protect other countries. This must have been done to protect those other countries. Certainly not […]

By Robert Romano It looks like President Donald Trump will just have to “check the [right] statutory box” and reimpose the reciprocal tariffs following the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the President’s emergency tariffs from April 2025, effectively overturning Yoshida v. United States that had upheld President Richard Nixon’s across the board tariffs from 1971 […]

By Robert Romano Now that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was successfully separated from all the other funding bills, the latter departments of which are now fully funded through Sept. 30, another partial government shutdown is underway as Senate Democrats again refuse to vote for the […]

By Robert Romano “The reason that we couldn’t prosecute and wouldn’t was that, if we did… [Radford] could expose these highly confidential exchanges we were having to bring the war in Vietnam to a conclusion, and particularly the exchange in China… Yeoman Radford had all of this […]

By Robert Romano Consumer prices grew 2.4 percent the past 12 months in January and average weekly earnings grew 4.3 percent , according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics . Last month, it was inflation at 2.7 percent and earnings at 3.7 percent. That’s a significant improvement and certainly great news for the U.S. economy and households that are still struggling to break even from the inflation that began in […]

By Robert Romano For decades, Washington promised to fix health care and delivered nothing but higher prices, more paperwork, and a maze of middlemen getting rich while patients paid the bill. President Trump is doing what career politicians like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris never would: cutting out the middlemen and putting patients […]

By Robert Romano The unemployment rate dipped downward again in January to 4.3 percent and the unemployment level down to 7.36 million, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics . That’s the second month in a row, when the most recent peak was in November 2025 at 4.5 percent or 7.78 million after rising from its prior low of 3.4 […]