By Robert Romano “The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being ‘gouged.’ I have instructed the DOJ to immediately […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump cancelled a planned June 24 signing ceremony for the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act — which prohibits financial institutions from acquiring more than 350 properties, includes a $200 million innovation fund for municipalities that increase housing stock and a 5-year pilot program of grants and forgivable loans […]

By Robert Romano Democrats so far are unable to translate low approval for President Donald Trump into electoral gains , the latest polling from Economist-YouGov taken June 13 to June 15 shows , with Democrats only leading the generic Congressional ballot by just 2 points, 46 percent to 44 percent. That, even with President Trump’s approval at just 41 percent in […]

By Robert Romano “[I]t’s a memorandum of understanding. If it doesn’t get done in 60 days, it’s all right. We go back to bombing. You know, I don’t want to do that because it’s so good. But uh we might have to because we’re never going to […]

By Robert Romano Turns out, President Donald Trump was right. There really was a peace deal with Iran that was on the table that was being finalized. Both the U.S. and Iran have announced the deal, brokered by Pakistan, and, just as the President predicted, oil prices have crashed as […]

By Robert Romano In 1825, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Henry Lee that his influences in deriving the free and equal principle in the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 signed by the Founding Fathers in Liberty Hall in Philadelphia, Pa.: “We hold these truths to […]

By Robert Romano Consumer inflation once again outpaced average weekly earnings for the third straight month, with prices pushing upwards by 0.47 percent while earnings only grew 0.32 percent, according to the latest data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , amid higher energy and particularly oil, gasoline and electricity prices. Also, for the second month in a […]

By Robert Romano In 2008, the U.S. national debt crossed the $10 trillion threshold for the first time, and has continued expanding practically unabated, now topping a $38.4 trillion, a 284 percent increase during that time. Since 1980, it’s been growing by more than 8.7 percent a year. At that rate, […]

By Robert Romano On May 16, Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough blocked $1 billion for the Secret Service for additional security at the White House that included upgrades to the White House East Wing and construction of the White House Ballroom so that presidents have a secure location […]

By Robert Romano Since 2006, the White House incumbent party has overperformed in Congressional midterms compared to presidential approval ratings, with a string of unpopular presidents being sunk by issues including the Iraq War, the Great Recession, Russiagate and post-Covid inflation, and yet their political parties appearing […]

By Robert Romano The Congressional midterm elections of 2026 are just a few months away, and once they come and go, the 2028 presidential cycle to succeed President Donald Trump will begin almost immediately, with one of the biggest decision-makers being Vice President J.D. Vance. While Vance, […]

By Robert Romano Consumer inflation has once again begun outpacing average weekly earnings in April, 3.8 percent to 3.6 percent respectively over the past 12 months as oil and gasoline prices continue popping during the Iran War, according to the latest data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in what must be a worrying sign to […]

By Robert Romano “I think that we need an expanded playbook in a way that we invite all ideas that we have basically look that we say look this is a moment where there are no bad ideas. A no bad idea brainstorm is what I’d like […]

By Robert Romano The U.S. Supreme Court on May 15 shot down a last-ditch effort by Virginia Democrats to overturn a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that found Virginia’s redistricting to be unconstitutional, with the nation’s highest court refusing to even hear the case . As a result, instead of the new gerrymandered 10-1 Congressional District map Democrats were […]

By Robert Romano “Both countries agreed that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.” That was the White House’s readout of the May 13 meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, conveying at least the U.S. understanding of how the meeting shaped up on the question of the Iran war — and the all-important fate of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The U.S. readout of […]