No tweet this time but White House spokesperson Sean Spicer just stated: "Trump is in favor of negotiating pharma prices"... and the reaction was quick...
“He’s for it, yes,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer says in response to reporter’s question about whether President Trump supports Medicare drug price negotiations.
Still a long way to go to retrace the previous Trump comment dip...
Another month, another all time high in Americans' confidence in the US economy.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has defied Benjamin Netanyahu by vowing support for Iran’s nuclear deal. After Iran test-fired a ballistic missile the Israeli Prime Minister said ‘responsible’ nations should follow President Trump’s lead to head of Iranian aggression. Despite pressure from Netanyahu who met with May at Downing Street yesterday to discuss fresh sanctions on Tehran, the prime minister stood firm in her commitment to the Iranian nuclear deal.
As previewed earlier, in a vote that many had expected would end up deadlocked 50/50 in the Senate, moments ago the confirmation vote for Trump's Education Secretary candidate Besty DeVos was indeed tied in the Senate after two Republicans - Collins and Murkowski voted against - which then prompted Vice President Mike Pence to cast the first ever tie-breaking vote for a cabinet nominee in Senate history, in the process confirming DeVos as America's new Secretary of Education.
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday’ that President Trump was “right” in his decision to put Iran “on notice.” The Daily Caller reports: Host Chris Wallace first asked the California Democrat if “President Trump is right to say that enough is enough and to put the rulers in Iran on notice?” “I think that he is right in this,” Feinstein responded. “I think that Iran is wrong in this.