By: Haley Byrd – weeklystandard.com – March 22, 2018 Lawmakers in the House, racing a government shutdown deadline, voted 256-167 to pass a $1.3-trillion omnibus spending bill on Thursday afternoon, less than 20 hours after its 2,232 pages of legislative text were first released. The spending bill will keep the government funded through the rest of the fiscal year. Included...

  Source: House Passes $1.3 Trillion Spending Deal, to Mixed Reviews from Republicans | The Weekly Standard

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – March 13, 2018 If President Donald Trump understood the balance of trade issue better, he’d be bragging about the rising trade deficit, because it’s correlated with a strong and growing economy. But he doesn’t, which creates the Trump Conundrum. The U.S. usually has a trade deficit in goods but a trade surplus in services....

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – March 21, 2018 President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on steel and aluminum by 25 percent and 10 percent, respectively, and he appears to be itching to raise or impose even more tariffs. Since the disastrous passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, in which Congress imposed high tariffs on goods across the...

By: Morgan Chalfant – thehill.com – March 18, 2018 Trump administration officials on Thursday accused the Russian government of staging a multi-year cyberattack campaign against the energy grid and other elements of critical infrastructure in the United States. The alert from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI coincided with the administration’s decision to unveil new sanctions on Russia...

By: Staff – newsmax.com – March 14, 2018 President Donald Trump has chosen Larry Kudlow to be his top economic aide, elevating the influence of a long-time fixture on the CNBC business news network who previously served in the Reagan administration and has emerged as a leading evangelist for tax cuts and a smaller government. Kudlow told The Associated Press...

Steel and aluminum may win in the short term, but steel-and-aluminum users and consumers lose. By: Larry Kudlow, Arthur B. Laffer & Stephen Moore – nationalreview.com – March 3, 2018 Steel and aluminum may win in the short term, but steel-and-aluminum users and consumers lose. One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that tariffs and import quotas are what...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – March 6, 2018 As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington. It was one of his biggest applause lines, so it’s remarkable that he is pushing a proposal that is the very essence of the swamp. “Draining the swamp” can mean different things to different people, but one...

By: Pat Buchanan – townhall.com – March 06, 2018 From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen. And, as the party of high tariffs through those seven decades, the GOP was rewarded by becoming America’s Party. Thirteen Republican presidents...

Trump: I’m Not Backing Down on Tariffs By: Katie Pavlich – townhall.com – March 05, 2018 Speaking at the White House Monday afternoon during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said he isn’t backing down on issuing tariffs for imported steel and aluminum. “We’re not backing down,” Trump said, adding tariffs can be negotiated through...