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I was working there only recently and found more traffic, more tension and everything was a lot more expensive.
The short stay was trying to clean up a mess two years in the making. Nobody cared to follow the rules, so I was the fireman to the rescue.
Miami's cost of living now tops New York City's despite Florida's tax advantages. Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach cost of living is 5 percent higher than NYC metro area.
Do you remember the US Mexico Wall? What about draining the swamp? There's no single agreed-upon number and trackers differ by scope and method, but PolitiFact's MAGA-Meter, the most systematic of the bunch, is tracking 75 specific second-term pledges. As of early 2026, roughly 20 percent were rated kept, about 45 percent in the works, nearly 30 percent stalled, with a small remainder broken or compromised. A slightly later read from Poynter, citing the same tracker, put "kept" closer to 19 percent, with about a third stalled by inaction in Congress or the courts, including the Supreme Court.
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Other outlets tell a similar story with different math. Factually's research summary notes there's no single authoritative broken-promises count — estimates range from a handful of high-profile broken pledges to dozens, depending on whether you're counting Day-1 promises, first-100-days promises, or the full 2024 campaign menu. AllSides is running its own tracker mapped against Project 2025, and a independent site called Trump Tracker rates items Kept/Partial/Broken/Pending against Project 2025, the 2024 campaign platform, executive orders, CBO data, and the Federal Register, reviewed monthly.
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Bottom line for a broadcast: "about 1 in 5 kept, roughly 1 in 3 stalled, most of the rest still in progress" is a defensible, sourced summary line.
Immigration — the clearest "kept" case, good for a script
Trump entered his second term with one of the most expansive sets of campaign promises in modern presidential history. Immigration is the area with the most measurable follow-through: mass deportations ran into the hundreds of thousands, and border crossings fell from over 200,000 a month to roughly 8,000 by spring 2025 (per DHS figures I cited earlier). That gives you a clean, factual segment. LegalClarity
An investigation is ongoing, and FIFA has not yet determined whether any players, coaches or the Argentine federation will face disciplinary action. Futbol superstar Lionel Messi sent a message to his fans, a day after the defending champions fell to Spain 1-0 in extra time at the World Cup final. Messi was left in tears and with his international future uncertain after he was unable to conjure up one more piece of magic to save Argentina. FIFA has now launched an investigation into Argentina for actions during and after their World Cup loss.
Beyond the blackouts, the run-up to this year's anniversary has been unusually tense. In February, a firefight broke out between Cuba's Border Guard and a U.S.-registered speedboat off Villa Clara province, Cuban authorities said the boat's occupants opened fire first, and five people were killed in the exchange, part of a broader pattern of friction Havana has tied to what it calls U.S.-backed infiltration attempts. That came weeks after the U.S. moved militarily against Venezuela and took custody of then-president Nicolás Maduro, a strike that also cut off Cuba's main lifeline of subsidized oil and deepened the fuel shortages.
Despite the hostility, Díaz-Canel has publicly acknowledged direct talks with Washington aimed at addressing the energy blockade, and Cuba has released more than 2,000 prisoners this year as part of that opening — though the fuel and power crisis has only worsened since, with the energy ministry confirming in May that the country had run out of oil and diesel entirely. Trump, for his part, has invoked the Monroe Doctrine directly regarding Cuba, and members of his administration have openly floated the idea of new leadership on the island.
So the Moncada anniversary this week isn't just ceremonial nostalgia — it's landing in the middle of live negotiations, a shooting incident with U.S. citizens killed, and the worst blackouts of the post-Soviet era, with real questions in Washington and Havana about whether the 67-year Castro-line government survives this round intact.
The year 1974 was chock full of breaking news, archeological findings and more than enough entertainment including music and deeply layered storytelling and brilliant pacing of a movie that combines themes of family, loyalty, power, and corruption make it undoubtedly one of the most influential pieces of cinema ever put to screen, redefining the gangster genre.
The saga, in some ways, is all about the transformation of Michael Corleone, and it’s something that is almost invisible the first time you watch The Godfather, with Al Pacino selling the whole thing expertly. The Godfather is almost a family drama disguised as a gangster film in some ways, and its timelessness is astonishing.
He claimed he would get tired of winning. Perhaps he mean whining instead. He sued 30 states and DC to seize our private voter files, birthdate, address, Social Security number, and it keeps getting thrown out of court. Trump’s own Judge Kari Dooley slammed the door in Connecticut, and the information stayed exactly where it belongs.
Congress was granted many powers under Article I of the Constitution. Recently, lawmakers under current GOP majorities have ceded much of their authority to the president, while Washington is plagued by gridlock, and Congress is marginalized. The US House and Senate are for the most part failing to address many problems facing Americans, and whether they are optimistic that Congress beset by partisanship, gerrymandering, and the president's pressures to do his bidding – could one day find its way again.
