Why China left Trump with little choice but to slap on the 25 percent tariffs on $200 billion of goods: http://dailytorch.com/2019/05/why-china-left-trump-with-little-choice-but-to-slap-on-the-25-percent-tariffs-on-200-billion-of-goods/

President Donald Trump said he would do it. After China blew up months’ worth of negotiations on currency, intellectual property and forced technology transfer, reneging on the deal, and the negotiations were the only thing heading off Trump’s promised tariff, Trump has followed through and increased tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent on $200 billion of Chinese goods. Trump had offered another week after a 5-month delay, but that was it, no deal could be reached, and so Trump hit them with the tariff. Do you think the tariff is large enough?

Border apprehensions top 109,000 in April as House Democrats move to defund wall, refuse to provide enough beds for those apprehended: http://dailytorch.com/2019/05/border-apprehensions-top-109000-in-april-as-house-democrats-move-to-defund-wall-refuse-to-provide-enough-beds-for-those-apprehended/

Apprehensions on the southern border hit 109,144 in April, the highest in a decade, according to data compiled by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. It’s already larger than last year. Seven months into fiscal year 2019, with 531,711 apprehensions it has already topped the amount of apprehensions in all of fiscal year 2018, which was 521,090. This year could top 1 million if it continues accelerating. In the meantime, House Democrats move to defund building the wall and refuse to provide enough beds for everyone being apprehended. What is it going to take for Congress to take this crisis seriously?

North Korea’s missile test happened just as trade talks with China broke down. It is no coincidence.: dailytorch.com/2019/05/north-koreas-missile-test-just-as-trade-talks-with-china-broke-down-is-no-coincidence/

It is no coincidence that just as U.S. trade talks with China were breaking down last week, North Korea on May 4 conducted its first missile test since Nov. 2017. North Korea has long been a satellite state and ally of China. For those who are thinking President Trump should just trade away his trade sanctions on Beijing in return for promises of concessions from North Korea that might never materialize, that is the fool’s path of desperation. It would virtually guarantee a nuclear North Korea, and no resolution to the trade issues. The U.S. must never be subjected to nuclear blackmail. Is North Korea China’s nuclear deterrent against trade sanctions?

Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning responds to President Donald Trump’s 2019 State of the Union Address.

The once well-intentioned Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been hijacked by environmental radicals and the far left to impose an agenda rather than save animals, the Executive Director of the House Western Caucus, Jeff Smalls, is warning and a bill by U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) would change that.
“This bill requires the science to be published on the internet so it can be available to the public. It can be peer reviewed. And it also requires agencies no longer just ignore states, tribal governments, and local governments. That has been a big problem that we have seen in the past,” Small explained in an interview on Conservative Commandos with Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning.

On the Conservative Commandos Radio Show, Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning sat down with President of the Frontiers of Freedom Institute George Landrith to discuss multiemployer pension plans being underfunded by $36 billion.

Jan. 19, 2018, Washington D.C.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today presented House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes with the 2017 Congressman of the Year award.

Why haven’t Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray and Federal Housing Finance Agency director Mel Watt been fired yet?

Sept. 1, 2017 pro-Trump rally in Allentown, Pa. to protest Tuesday Group co-chair U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) for obstructing the Trump agenda.