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By Robert Romano Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced his intention for the Justice Department to no longer defend the Obamacare law’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance in court , in a June 7 letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan. “In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius [in 2012], a majority of the Supreme Court concluded that this requirement […]

By Robert Romano 2026. That is when the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund will be depleted, according to the Board of Trustees for the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds. That is down from 2029. After that, the share of benefits paid for by revenues will drop until 2039, […]

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By Robert Romano Italian President Sergio Mattarella has ended the impasse in Rome and has allowed a new government to be seated , with Giuseppe Conte being sworn in as Prime Minister, the Five-Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio being named Deputy Prime Minister and Labor Minister and the League’s Matteo Salvini being named to […]

By Robert Romano The U.S. economy added 293,000 jobs in May, according to the household survey published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics , bringing the total to nearly 3.4 million more Americans reporting they have jobs since President Donald Trump took office in Jan. 2017. That averages about 212,000 new jobs every month, to a total of 155.47 […]

By Robert Romano He did it. In his continued push for “fair and reciprocal” trade, President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to impose a 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum from Canada, Mexico and the European Union. The three had been temporarily excluded from […]

By Printus LeBlanc Last week an unknown Chinese phone company, ZTE, was thrust into the spotlight because of ongoing trade negations and sanctions talk. Members of the Senate and House were up in arms because President Trump was in discussions to lift or modify the […]

By Robert Romano Depending on your perspective, Italian President Sergio Mattarella has either saved Italy, or sealed its fate. After Italy’s elections resulted in the anti-euro Five-Star Movement and the League banding together with Giuseppe Conte being nominated for Prime Minister by the parties, and Paolo Savona […]

By Natalia Castro Venezuela is a country destroyed by socialism and the most recent election is evidence of the country’s crumbling institutions. Despite growing destitution, hunger, and political unrest, Nicolas Maduro has been re-elected to serve as President of Venezuela. Maduro has extended the reign […]