By Robert Romano “[I]t’s strange to have a counter intelligence investigation of a President but I’m not — I just don’t know what the predicate is and if I’m confirmed I assume I’ll find out.” That was Attorney General nominee William Barr’s answer to a question from Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) […]

By Robert Romano Getting the southern border wall approved by Congress may have just gotten slightly harder from a negotiating standpoint. On Jan. 10, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation with no roll call , S. 24 , that guarantees that all furloughed, “non-essential” federal employees will ultimately be paid after partial government […]

By Robert Romano In his national address on Jan. 8 , President Donald Trump made the case that the cost of not building the southern border wall will be the human lives lost by not stemming the flow of illegal immigration and the crime that is brought as a result. “In the last two […]

By Robert Romano “I think we might work a deal and if we don’t, I may go that route. I have the absolute right to do [a] national emergency if I want.” That was President Donald Trump’s response to a reporter asking why he has not declared a national emergency at […]

By Robert Romano Good news from the trade war front. As high-level talks continue between U.S. and Chinese trade officials, on Jan. 8, President Donald Trump tweeted , “Talks with China are going very well!” Similarly, a Chinese official told the Wall Street Journal that the talks have been “constructive.” Certainly, that’s news I think everyone […]

By Robert Romano The Trump administration is pursuing a plan to control prescription drug prices under Medicare via what can only be called price controls. In October, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a plan for an “international pricing index” that would determine how much Medicare pays […]

  By Robert Romano “We’re going to impeach the mother-f**ker!” That was newly elected U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) speaking to her supporters on Jan. 3 after being sworn into Congress , laying out for them what the rest of the country already knows. The new Democrat-controlled House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is going to waste […]

By Robert Romano At the end of the month, food stamp benefits will run out for 38.6 million recipients on account of the partial government shutdown. Right now, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program is being funded with previously appropriated dollars, but in February that will change as […]

By Robert Romano If Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is not running for President in 2020, his oped in the Washington Post was certainly a trial balloon to test the waters. In it, he says that President Donald Trump “has not risen to the mantle of the office.” Mostly, Romney’s evaluation of Trump […]

By Robert Romano Tomorrow, on Jan. 3, the new Congress will be sworn in — and that’s when the government shutdown is bound to get really interesting. Lacking a majority in the House, with Nancy Pelosi now returning as Speaker, Republicans will be unable to block a […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump is threatening to not sign the government spending bill if it does not include $5 billion for the southern border wall. Upon signing the farm bill, the President made a brief statement about the wall, saying , “I’ve made my position very clear: Any measure that funds the government must include […]

  By Robert Romano Congress apparently cares more about securing Syria than securing the U.S. southern border by building the wall. That’s about all that can be taken away from some of the Congressional outcry against President Donald Trump who has announced the U.S. will be withdrawing troops from Syria — something Congress never authorized in […]

By Robert Romano Click here to urge Congress to build the wall! There won’t be any vote on wall funding this year or any year at the rate we’re going — because nobody in Congressional leadership is apparently willing to stick it in a bill and simply vote on it. Even to defeat it. Until the […]

By Robert Romano The Federal Reserve has dumped an eye-popping $343 billion of U.S. treasuries and mortgage-backed securities since it began its policy normalization program in Sept. 2017 . $116 billion of that, or more than a third, has been since Sept. 2018 as the nation’s central bank has begun to accelerate its program. At the same time, the Fed […]

By Robert Romano The FBI set former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn up. That is about all we can make of the latest revelation that the FBI made serious breaches of protocol when it set up the Jan. 24, 2017 meeting with Flynn to ask him about his Dec. 2016 conversations with Russian ambassador […]