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 […]

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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 Bill Wilson While it may not be top news around much of the country, in the Washington, D.C. area the staffing cuts in various federal government offices are all consuming. This is neither surprising nor without merit. With 375,000 federal workers in the D.C. Metro […]

By Manzanita Miller   Activist judges are working overtime this week to block President Donald Trump’s America First priorities and stop the president from curbing government spending and putting a pause on refugee resettlement. In a significant blow to President Trump’s agenda, a Seattle-based federal judge blocked the […]

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 Manzanita Miller In a catastrophic blow to an already crumbling industry, a new poll released this week finds that more Americans trust the Trump Administration to state the facts fairly and accurately than trust the media to do so. The poll, released by YouGov, finds that […]

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 […]