By: Douglas Carr – nationalreview.com – December 30, 2024 And what Republicans should be cautious to avoid. Kamala Harris’s campaign did not get a boost from superficially positive economic statistics. Beneath the headlines, many Americans are experiencing financial distress. Under Bidenomics, the percentage of Americans whose finances worsened in the last year is near record levels previously seen only in severe recessions,...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 31, 2024 He wants the Supreme Court to treat him as if he’s already President. That’s the essence of Mr. Trump’s amicus brief filed Friday in TikTok v. Garland, which the Supreme Court will hear on Jan. 10. The President-elect implores the Justices to give him a chance to apply his “dealmaking”...

By: Audrey Fahlberg – nationalreview.com – January 1, 2025 Republicans enter 2025 with a D.C. trifecta, but the narrow House majority means that enacting at least some of the president-elect’s ambitious agenda items will be difficult. Congressional Republican leaders spent the post-election period before Christmas strategizing how to push Donald Trump’s immigration, tax-, energy-, and defense-related agenda items across the finish line...

When the Electoral College met on Dec. 17 and confirmed Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, most commentators concluded that congressional certification of the results would be a mere formality.

President Biden is spending the holidays with his family this year in a beautiful mansion in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 30, 2024 Will Republicans re-elect Mike Johnson, or melt down again? Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Mike Johnson for another term as Speaker when the House votes to convene the 119th Congress on Friday, and that’s the smart move. The vote will test whether House Republicans are serious about governing or whether...

Everyone knows that the Biden family’s influence peddling scheme depended heavily on leveraging the “Big Guy’s” contacts in communist China. But we recently learned just how high up those contacts went.

For the past few days, certain highly visible elements of the MAGA coalition have been sparring with one another. Specifically, X users have been privy to an extensive immigration policy flame war between two competing MAGA coalition camps: the pro-immigration “tech bros,” on the one hand, and the nationalist-populist immigration restrictionists, on the other hand.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 29, 2024 Enlightened nationalism understands the need for immigrant talent. The debate broke out late last week on social media as Mr. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy defended the legal, high-skill H-1B visa program from critics who want to sharply reduce even legal immigration. “I have many H-1B visas on my properties,” Mr....

By: David Zimmermann – nationalreview.com – December 29, 2024 Trump called the judge’s ruling a ‘major, crucial WIN for America’ and its national security. A federal judge in Texas blocked the Biden administration from selling parts of the border wall on Friday, preventing the outgoing president from disposing any further construction materials over the next 30 days. President Joe Biden’s...