In the betting world, a winning wager involves selecting the horse that you think will finish the race in first place. The Republicans won US Government control with a majority rule in Congress and The White House.
With a place bet, you win if your selected horse finishes the race in either first or second place. The GOP put all their money on what they thought would be a winning horse with a well-known name and a face.
As a nonprofit and academic administrator, I wonder if a nationwide academic movement finally shakes Congress out of its stupor? The USA appears incapable of solving a scourge that exists nowhere else on earth.
While The NRA stuffs millions into the pockets of our elected officials, why does America stan idle while many are slaughtered by criminals using assault weapons? How many more lives will be lost, leaving loved ones devastated and too many broken dreams before our so-called leadership put a stop to the madness?
@POTUS delivers prepared remarks on the tragedy in Parkland, Florida. The High School Shooting caused the deaths of too many, another 17. Was it a monologue on what happened when we already know what's going on. How many times did he mention guns in his response? 17: The number of kids murdered in a school shooting yesterday
What do you think is the problem? Will you opine? And what if anything is #Trump going to really do about it?
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President Trump's budget cuts necessary funding for Amtrak by half despite a string of deadly crashes. But it gets worse. Are you sitting down? Well, lay down for this one because there is a $554 billion cut in the US Medicare program in his released a $4.4 Trillion dollar budget.
Thos following are stories from the world's oldest news organizations and what they're reporting about the greatest and latest #Trump spending bill.
Trump's $4.4 trillion budget moves deficit sharply higher https://www.apnews.com/e50aec4820da4e30aed4bea9ff440e86
Trump budget cuts domestic programs, favors military and wall https://reut.rs/2G80m12
Trump says 'OK with me' if plan to rebuild roads founders https://www.apnews.com/d3ae66b59c8f461388d584a4bb33a322
Trump unveils infrastructure plan; uphill battle awaits in Congress https://reut.rs/2Bt54XU
Agency-by-agency highlights of Trump's 2019 budget https://www.apnews.com/56c0cf072a5446c295b179d069198e1b
Where does the buck really stop, folks? The Dow Jones industrials keep falling more than 1,150 points, making it the largest single-day point drop, erasing its gains for the year. What is @POTUS saying?
Is there one person, or any group responsible for creating chaos and confusion? @POTUS took credit when the market was up, so why is he not saying anything now? @realDonaldTrump regularly touts stock market gains. Why didn't he mention the sell-off at today's Ohio speech? Is he clueless?
As U.S. stocks plummet, Trump goes silent on role in markets http://reut.rs/2Ek05L3
Here's why markets and presidents have an uneasy relationship. http://bit.ly/2m7Gum9 pic.twitter.com/upHtn9SR8B Markets Right Now: Dow drops 1,175, biggest-ever point drop https://apnews.com/a3351cf3b8cc49bb8479e1b55803ed4a After bragging about Wall Street for more than a year, Trump has gone silent amid a plunging Dow http://trib.in/2GSzS4S
Meanwhile, how has the party of law and order become the party hostile to federal law enforcement Why is it attacking its own agencies and intelligence community? Will intelligence agencies stop confiding to Congress? https://www.apnews.com/c9b8a5b1f58f49baa14e815059ec18ec
Trump allows Putin and Russia off the hook, along with the large corporations and forgets all about the average American? Russia gets a pass in Trump's State of the Union speech: http://aol.it/2DMS5mm Trump choice for Russia ambassador: 'No question' Russia meddled https://reut.rs/2fxFe9q Senators urge Trump administration to resume Equifax probe https://reut.rs/2GPpI57
And what is the purpose of creating chaos and confusion? 'They certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much,' Trump says of Democrats' reactions during his State of the Union speech. http://apne.ws/6tjvXCV ' Trump needs to study the Constitution if he thinks Dems not applauding him is treason http://hill.cm/Jrd3MFF
Reporter: Trump health agency threatened to ban me from press calls because I wouldn't alter a story http://hill.cm/xOdSjUw
Congress Is Sleepwalking Toward Its Next Crisis http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/congress-is-sleepwalking-t…
Can anyone recall a US President ever addressing a Joint Session of Congress at a more perilous time? Has the past year been a great roadmap to make America great? Have all US taxpayers been served by a self-described stable genius who really works for every one of us? Has he set a good example for all the children?
With dismal approval numbers, the pressure of the Russia investigation will @POTUS look to a reset button with his first State of the Union address, arguing that his tax cut and economic policies will translate to peace justice and prosperity for all?
Could it be that a self-described #VSG very stable genius and great negotiator is more like an instigator and the builder is more like a destroyer? Where is the #MAGA TrumpPence endgame headed?
In US politics, a government shutdown happens when Congress and the President fail to pass appropriations legislation funding government operations and agencies. This is the first time under one-party rule.
Competitors, allies and creditor nations are pointing fingers and mocking our GOP controlled Whitehouse and Congress' inability to govern.
Could this Whitehouse and Congressional act be walking back into the future? Who controls the White House and both chambers of Congress? What's really going on here?
In just one year, who's managed to shut down the most powerful government on earth? Could it be President Donald Trump and his Republican-controlled Congress, which failed to find the art of a deal on funding federal agencies, or taking the heat for the country’s deep political divisions? Where is that Bill of Love the deal maker proposed?
US Senator Jeff Flake Condemns President Trump's "Fake News" Attacks on the Media. The Arizona Republican is one of many lawmakers who is retiring at the end of his current term.
He took to the Senate floor to condemn President Trump's attacks on the media, and he called on his colleagues to stand up for truth, saying that a “president who cannot take criticism, who must constantly deflect, distort and distract, who must find someone else to blame, is charting a very dangerous path.
Guantánamo prison celebrates its 16th anniversary. The US detention camp is a military prison located at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as #GTMO in Cuba.
Since the inmates have been detained indefinitely without trial and several inmates were allegedly severely tortured, the operations of this camp are considered to be a major breach of human rights by Amnesty International.